Be my life

Chapter 1

- divine blooms -

"hey wait for me , you psycho " I cried running behind Sylvia while both of us made our way to catch the 9am bus to work .
She as usual occupied my bathroom till eight-thirty and made me late for my regular routine .

"Try keeping up with me Miss nice  , I didn't tell you to wake up after me".. she made a face and shouted back over the crowd waiting at the bus stop

As we reached 'the divine blooms ' a dainty little flower shop which was owned by by Sylvia's parents , we were squabbling non-stop..

'Oh the pair of you , please stop it now ' said Mrs Porter watering the shelf of new saplings in the corner as we entered .

'Riana , dear I think you and Miranda would throw her out soon too as we did ' Sylvia's mom said cheekily and which earned a eye roll from my friend ..

To say we were best friends was the least as she was my only friend in the city since my father left my mom and me to fend for ourselves when I was 12 after which my mom worked 2 jobs to keep up the expenses and to help me graduate in accounts.
Me and Syl became friends when I was around 8 and mom and I used to visit the flower shop on a regular basis .

Mrs Porter has been equally kind and loving towards us
Mr Porter was an accountant with a firm and they are a lovable small family .

Me and mom live in our one bedroom apartment a mile away from the shop and Sylvia and me have our rounds of night sleepovers quite too often .

We have plans to have our place once we find stable jobs which should be soon as I have been applying to many assistant and accountant jobs at different places . But yet to receive a call from any ..

The porters were kind enough to offer me one as their arrangement designer when Mrs Porter saw me arranging flowers just randomly at her shop

' oh honey, Riana .. your calling is in flower decoration and designing I tell you.. it's the new 'it' thing you know .You would be really good at that , why don't you try your hand at it here '.. she admiringly said seeing my bouquets and basket arrangements of Lillies , orchids and roses.

Though initially I thought she was just being nice and wanted to push me to start working at the shop instead of waiting endlessly for calls and interviews , it was when my arrangements started selling more than the average ones did I notice the actual potential .

Slowly and steadily people started calling us at parties and weddings for flower designing orders

One such wedding was to take place by the cobbled beach a little away from the hustle bustle of the city and me and Sylvia were quite excited about being there for it .
It was after all Julia from high school getting married , the quintessential diva slash cheerleader and our good friend at that

"Look who is here again ' Sylvia called out as Julia walked in with her assistant dresser for the third time in 4 days
She wanted us to do her wedding bouquet and tiara too along with the remaining arrangements

Now Julia being Julia had to see that everything matched up perfectly well to her gorgeous light green gown she had chosen for the big day which matched the colour of her eyes.. the colour of her cheeks was a different story altogether *wink*

' Hey my bees .. I have got Sam along so that you people could match up my dress and flowers and the make up and the shoes , it should be super exotic and out of this world ' julia finished dreamily

I and syl shared and look and got about choosing the right shades of flowers which were available and the noted down about the remaining ones which were to be ordered

Atleast an hour later ; it was all done and set
and Julia couldn't be more happy or nervous or nervously happy if that is even a word !

It was almost 6 in the evening and after Atleast 26 bouquets and 8 of my special flower arrangements were off the shelves and Sylvia managing the cash and receipts and after letting off Mrs Porter at around 2 hours ago we were finally able to start winding up for the day when the bell rang

A tall middle aged man walked in wearing what looked like a gloomy uptight suit and spoke rather in a robot like voice

' Miss, I would like to buy the flowers in yellow kept on display '

'Sorry sir it is not for sale as it is a preorder , we are just about to drop it off at the wanted venue' I explained .

"Miss , Mr. Carter can pay you double the amount for it"

"I'm sorry, whoever you and Mr Carter are but rules are rules and our word is what matters "
It's too late to design a similar one , it took me an hour to do that and the delivery time is 6.30 , so If you would excuse me, we are running late already "

"Ma'am we could triple the amount"

This guy was making me angry now !

"I'm sorry I think you didn't hear me right the first time . You can come tomorrow and get one if it's really that important "

With thAt we moved out and switched off the lights signalling to the man that we are closed and he can go ..

The man walked to a black car standing a little away and that was the last We saw of him ...Atleast for the day.

-authors note-
The story is majorly unedited , please ignore the grammar mistakes and you share it in your comments.
Let me know any ideas on who you want to cast as the main leads !
All ideas are welcome !
I will introduce more characters in the coming chapters ... for now we can settle for the main leads ( Riana & Mr . Carter for now ) , Sylvia ( her bff) ,Mr and Mrs porter (Sylvia's parents ) , Riana's mom (Miranda ) .

Thanks for reading ❤️