The Best Friends Diary

▻Chapter 15◅

Cara

"Cara!" Granny yelled as I entered the house. I immediately dropped my stuff and ran into the living room to check if she was fine.

"What happened?!" I looked around in fear, but she sat on the couch and laid out her Tarot Cards in front of her.

Curious, I sat down next to her and she raised her eyes. I nodded and she closed her eyes, letting her hand float above the Cards and stopped jerkily over the one right in the middle.

She lifted the Card and turned it to see which it was. Grinning in amusement she laid it down in front of me.

"Guess he will talk to you today and you'll forgive him." Frowning I looked at the Card, The Lovers, of course.

I raised my eyes back to meet hers, "You really think that's what it means?" I asked her skeptical, but she nodded assuring.

Her smile told me that she knew something more than the Card told her.

Tilting my head, I looked deep into her eyes, analyzing what was going on inside her.

"You should pick your own Card Granny, you're fooling yourself and me, I bet you had a conversation with him yesterday and he told you to keep me free today, so he could come over and clarify why the hell he lied and all the shit that lately happened."

Her eyes widened in surprise and a satisfied smile tugged at my lips when I hit the spot and read her expression just right.

I knew it would work, reading her wasn't hard, her expression and emotions always came in waves and were easy to read. Granny liked to call me an 'Observer' because I always kept my focus on emotions, facial expressions, gestures and the behavior of a person in different situations. That's why I immediately knew that Noel lied a hundred percent.

"Okay, fine. Yes, he came over and we talked, but he hasn't told me anything about the lie. And stop reading me like an open book. It's freaking me out," she grinned and shrugged her shoulders.

"Sorry, it just happens." I grinned in amusement and winked at her, "I'll stay here. I will be outside in the greenhouse if you need me." 

Granny nodded, so I went upstairs, grabbed Pride and Prejudice from Granny's bookshelf in the upper hallway and switched my jeans with grey sweatpants.

Minutes later I laid down in my hammock and lost myself in Darcy's and Elizabeth's story.

When I looked up from my book, I flinched, Granny stood in the door with a cup of tea in her hands.

"It looks like it's about to rain," she said softly and put down the cup next to me on an old stool that was high enough for me to reach from the hammock.

"Well, guess I have to stay here then," I winked and she nodded, "Maybe a thunderstorm if you're lucky." I gave her a hug before she smiled and left me.

I loved lying in my hammock and watching thunderstorms and rain through the glass ceiling of the greenhouse.

I took a sip of the green tea and watched the sky darken. It really did start raining, not much, but the sound that the light rain made on the glass was just so relaxing, I would have fallen asleep, if the knock against the wooden frame hadn't been. So I turned my head from the sky towards the door and there he was, I let my eyes wander over him as he stepped inside and closed the door behind him, trapping me with him in the glasshouse.

"Wow, you finally came to talk?" I asked while I sat up as elegant as possible, which wasn't as easy as I expected it to be, because the hammock swung a little more than usual. A small smile tugged at the corners of his lips as he watched me struggling sitting up.