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“I got out a little early today. I finished what I had planned and didn’t have enough time to start something else. I was in the mood for burgers and they are easy enough to make.”
She was standing on one leg, her crutches under her armpits while she flipped the burgers.
“They are,” Daisy said. “And I can finish them up.”
“I don’t need everyone to keep babying me,” she said. “Next week I think I can ditch at least one crutch because I’ll be able to start to put weight on my foot.”
“Are you nervous about that?”
“A little. But once I see the x-ray I’ll know if the bones are healed. Nothing can happen where the plate is, but there was more than one bone broken.”
“Don’t remind me,” Daisy said. “I wish you never showed me those x-rays. So yeah, just sit and let me finish up.”
“Don’t you want to go change? You might get grease on your clothes.”
“Fine,” Daisy said. “But don’t do any more than stand there and flip the burgers.”
“I don’t remember you being this bossy before. But that is all I planned on doing anyway.”
Daisy came out a minute later in shorts and had their burgers on a plate. Heather set the rolls on the island while Daisy got the rest of everything out.
There was macaroni salad left over from the day before and that would go well.
“How was your day?” she asked.
“It was good. Busy. I love it in the summertime. It makes the days go by so fast. How was your day?”
“Fine,” she said. “I shouldn’t tell you this, but Lily said I could and you won’t say anything and I wanted to give you a heads up, as Ivy might be running around excited tomorrow.”
“What’s going on?” Daisy asked.
“Lily stopped to see me to get aloe for Ryder. She’d said it was a long day and started to talk. She said Sidney’s husband is being transferred with his job. She’ll be gone in four weeks.”
“Oh, that stinks. I like Sidney. Lily has to be heartbroken. She was one of the first employees hired.”
“I know. I think she’s sad.”
“You mentioned Ivy. Why? Oh. Do you think Ivy will want Dahlia to apply? I get the impression Dahlia might be way overqualified for what Sidney does.”
“I think so too.” She explained the rest of the conversation.
“How funny would that be if Dahlia moved here? Another flower name.”
Heather assembled her burger and scooped out some salad, then started to eat.
“I don’t know,” she said around a mouthful. “I want to say it almost seems like fate that things happen to those girls, but they had a hard life.”
“A lot of us did,” Daisy said. “Not like them, but you know what I mean. Look at Jasmine and Ivy. They’ve never had a home they could call their own. Violet came from money that no one knew about because she had to hide who she was for years. You might have the most normal upbringing of us all.”
She frowned. “That makes me sound boring, but I understand what you’re saying.”
It did make her think of Luke though. She didn’t know much about him other than he’d said he was from the wrong side of Baltimore. It’d never come up again, but she wanted to know more.
He didn’t ask too much about her family and she wondered if it was because he didn’t want her prying into his.
But now that they were dating, she did want to know more about him and had to figure out a way to bring it up.
It was obvious whatever family he had, he didn’t have any communication with them and didn’t seem to want it. He’d said before when she met him at Lily’s wedding that he spent his leave traveling. That there was no one to visit other than Zane.
