Don't Eat Flowers

Chapter Twenty-Seven: Fall Flowers

"You've got two months now..."

I stood there perplexed as Takakura stated that under his breath as he quickly walked right by me and coughed; his words sounding like a quiet threat towards me.

Disturbed, my eye twitched.

WHAT THE HECK DOES HE MEAN BY THAT?! IS THIS ABOUT ME GETTING MARRIED AGAIN?!

A sigh escaped my lips as I continued on with collecting both Trick Blue and Sagesoil flowers by the Turtle Pond; the only flowers that are available during the fall.

Autumn is here. The fall flowers are here.

Nami's birthday is... here.

I felt my heart shake of uneasiness. I haven't seen Nami since last night, after that whole dramatic ordeal with Skye. I woke up a little late today by accident since I was still struggling to fall asleep; but ever since I awoke from my slumber around 10:00am this morning, I've been collecting these fall flowers like mad for Nami's birthday. It's around noon right now and I've collected probably about fifty flowers while roaming all around the valley. This whole time I've been collecting, I've been debating what to do with these flowers, on how to exactly make them into gifts for her, and-NAMI!

My heart leapt when I suddenly saw her approaching from the distance, her possessing a rather cold-looking demeanor as usual while she walked with her hands in her pockets and I swiftly stuffed more fall flowers into my rucksack. She hadn't seen me quite yet, but it appeared she was heading towards the beach.

In a panic, I jumped into a pile of fall-colored leaves so she wouldn't see me. I don't want Nami to see I've been collecting these flowers and ruin the surprise for her!

I cringed feeling all the leaves on me, my nose taking in that familiar aroma from them. I started to shudder at the very thought of any bugs crawling on me as I lied there hidden in the pile for a few minutes. I really, really hate being on the ground because of getting dirty or because of my fear of bugs, but Nami is worth it to me! I-AHHHH!

It felt as if a bug was crawling on me and as I silently screamed in my mind, my body began to roll out of the leaves, and I instinctively began to sprint towards the the villa so Nami wouldn't see me. I know bugs usually start to go away around in the fall time, but still... I've got my trauma.

Hands on my knees, I panted as I now stood on the path that lead to the villa. From the distance, I saw Rock talking with Lumina, well...more like hitting on her.

"And that's how I miraculously saved the day yesterday!" I heard Rock pompously tell her as he was flexing his arm-muscles at her and he smirked while flipping his blond hair. "Well, then again, it's only natural for THE ROCK to save the day! So, are you gonna go on a date with me now or what, Lumina? The Rock is very busy you know, in the next hour or so, I'm scheduled to watch the clouds while lying down at the beach! My time is very precious since I don't work, you know!"

I rolled my eyes in annoyance at his idiotic ways as I brushed off some remaining leaves on me and checked my outfit for any bugs. He must be talking about that whole Skye incident yesterday... I swear Rock is always delusional.

Soon enough, Lumina spotted me from the distance, and brunette immediately ran up to me, Rock following suit.

Lumina's cheeks grew scarlet red as soon as she locked eyes with me and she shyly played with her hair. "Kayla, hi! Were you perhaps planning on visiting the villa today...? I can teach you how to play piano, and I-"