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She wouldn’t share any of that with anyone. Not unless he said it was okay to do it and she wouldn’t ask either.
“I wish I didn’t pay attention to gossip as much. It would have saved a lot of hurt feelings in my life.”
“I get that. We all learn,” she said. “When it was done we were laughing in the parking lot. He joked about needing a big meat-filled pizza to be more manly and grow hair on his chest.” No reason to say anything more than that.
“That is funny,” Poppy agreed.
“After two hours we could tell they wanted us out to make room for other customers. In the parking lot I decided to give him a better goodnight kiss.”
“Good for you!”
“Oh yeah. Then I left it in his hands again to reach out this time. He took a bit longer, but he did text me yesterday afternoon. We are going to try to get dinner one day this week. He’ll let me know as his schedule could hold him up. I said I was pretty open to anything.”
Poppy wiggled her eyebrows. “I’m so happy for you now.”
“Me too,” she said.
“Are you keeping this a secret?” Poppy asked.
She knew that Poppy had a hard time doing that but would if asked. “No,” she said. “But I’d like to tell Violet myself. She’d be hurt if she heard it from anyone else.”
“I will leave you to it,” Poppy said. “When you’re done sharing your good news, why don’t you come in and meet with Rose and me? We’ve got an idea we wanted to run by you.”
“I’ll be down soon,” she said. “It won’t take me long to tell Violet.”
They didn’t pay her to sit around and talk.
When Poppy left, she grabbed her laptop and went to see Violet and then would go over to meet with the sisters afterward.
“Hi,” Violet said when she was in the flower shop. Violet was walking around and watering the plants and pruning them like she did daily. She’d take some out and either re-pot them or mark them down.
“Do you have a minute to talk before you open?”
“Always for you,” Violet said.
“I went on a date Friday night. And Saturday.”
“Oh,” Violet said. “Two dates in a row. I need to hear this.”
She filled her sister-in-law in with everything that Poppy knew. No way she was leaving that out.
“He’s so nice,” she said.
“Good,” Violet said. “You need a nice guy after Henry.”
She sighed. “You’re the only one here that knows what happened. I don’t really want others to know, but Poppy suspected that I had a bad breakup.”
“More like an asshole dickless man,” Violet said. “Do you know that Trace and your father were going to knock on his door and give him a piece of their minds when they found out the reason he moved.”
Her shoulders slumped. “I’m glad they didn’t,” she said.
Her father was the one who found Henry. He’d just up and quit his job. The place where they worked together. He hadn’t even told her he was thinking of moving. Nothing. Just said he was leaving and broke up with her.
She’d been stunned speechless. She was already in the firestorm trying to salvage her reputation. When he went and did that it was as if he poured more gasoline on wood and tossed a few more matches her way leaving her to clean up the ashes when the fire was finally extinguished.
The meaning of heartache was something brand new to her. Piling on humiliation was a weight she struggled to carry.
Then came the need for revenge when her father discovered what he had.
