Cuspid Cupid

Here's one thing you should know about April: she does not give a flying bleep about anything or anyone in her life but her plants. (Sorry, children.)

So, when she comes home to her pea-sized apartment after a long day at work to find her beloved daughter Pia, the Bamboo Palm Plant, on the brink of death; she is hysterical.

Desperate for help, she rushes to her local flower shop, with said plant in tow, hoping they'd be better equipped to save Pia's life just like they saved Toni, the Polka dot Plant, and Bubba, the Madagascar Dragon Tree's lives.

But as luck would have it, the shop is packed with the very keen love-day-celebrators she despised standing in the way of Pia's emergent health care.

All the more reason to loathe Valentine's Day.

Andrew was a nervous wreck. He was also among the so-called keen love-day-celebrators crowding the flower shop. The hopeless romantic was unusually jumpy as he waited for his special bouquet to be ready for pickup.

April strikes up a not so small-talk with the scrumptiously chiseled man with a bun to die for-both kinds of buns-as they wait in the queue; her to have her plant (sorry, baby) revived in time and him to have it slaughtered and served.

But their conversation takes a turn for the worst when April tells Andrew to go bleep himself when he points out her unhealthy attachment with plants to distract himself from thinking about his big night ahead.

Here's another thing you should know about April: she does not do well with criticisms-especially if they're directed at the way she raises her plants. (Sorry, kids.)

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