Black Wolf of The Guardian Stone

Chapter 6

Three years later-

Tony walked along the side walk in front of the town church alone with his hands in his pockets. Walking back home he wore a grey buttoned shirt which was not fixed under his belt, and black pants. His face had a dull and bored expression and his eye's showed not a single care for much of anyone or anything. He was heading back home from a meeting with a company that wanted the lumber mill that he had inherited from his father. After his father had died Tony became the new owner of the mill. It was the only thing he had left from his parents, and some rich A-hole wanted to buy it from him.

"think about it this way" the man had said to him in the meeting.

"I'll buy it for 10,000,000, that way you can relax and not have to be burdened by the memory of it" he had said.

That had really angered Tony. To the point where he had cursed at the man for calling what his parents had built a burden and then kicked him out.

Probably was not the best way of ending the meeting but he would never allow anyone to call what his parents had left him a burden.

"besides" he thought to himself.

"there was no way he would let someone like that have the lumber mill, when they might take advantage of the people in the town"

"Hey there Little Gray how are you" someone calls out to him.

He looks around to find Christa happily waving at him with a smile from the flower shop across the street. He smiles and waves back.

"I'm doing great what about you" he replied.

He turned and waited for the traffic light to turn red, when it did he crossed the street to where Christa was standing at the front of the shop. He got to the flower shop on the other side of the street. She was wearing a brown short sleeved shirt with a checkered red and black flannel and pale brown cargo pants. She was wearing hiking boots that were covered with dust and dirt, on her hands she had on gardening gloves. The fingers of the gloves seemed to almost worn completely through and covered in dirt. The flannel and brown shirt she had on also had fresh dirt stains.

This came as no surprise to Tony for he knew that as a tomboy, Christa didn't care much for how her clothes got dirty doing her work. "If your not getting dirty then your not getting it done" was one of the things she would say when people asked her when she was covered in dirt.

"I take it the meeting didn't go well" She asked him as he walked up to her flower shop.

"H-How did you know?" Tony asked with a surprised look on his face.

"seriously Little Gray, you can try to hide it with a smile" Christa replied.

"But there is no way that you can hide that kind of stuff from me" she said with a smile.

She crouched down grabbed hold of one of the boxes and then lifted the heavy container with her legs. She then turned around and took it into her shop.

"oh can you help me out and bring that other box in here to" she called from the inside of the flower shop.

"yeah sure thing" he called back as he when and picked up the other box and took it inside the shop.