Flowers in the Heart Part 2

"Ooh, I love that one!" Fauna said, and then lost her smile. "Oh, but I kind of promised Jenna we'd hang out, and April too."

"Then why don't we all go to the mall?" Scott asked.

"You'd be okay with doing that?" Fauna asked, delighted.

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Scott wondered for the thousandth time why he had volunteered to take the three girls to the mall. He was now the designated coat carrier and the bag holder as the three friends dragged him from store to store.

He sat down on a bench while the three girls ran into a candle store to seek out the perfect scent. Jenna came out a moment later and joined him.

"Hey, um, Fauna's like my best friend in the whole wide world and I um, she really really likes you, a whole lot and if you ever hurt her, I swear to God I'll kill you," Jenna said.

"Uh huh, don't worry; I like her whole lot too," Scott assured the girl.

"Really?" Jenna said and hugged Scott's arm to herself. "That is so cool."

Scott sniffed the two candles that Fauna had bought and graciously accepted the 'Champagne' scented one she'd bought for him.



"Damn! Brrr!" Jenna complained as they trekked from the mall to the car. "Jeez it's cold out here!"

"January's kind of funny like that," Scott said as he put the assorted bags into the trunk. "I don't know if you noticed that or not but most of the time, its cold in January."

"Shut up; you're such an ass hole," Jenna complained as she and April, a bone thin very tall brunette clambered into the rear of the car.

"Uh huh, can't be that big an ass hole; you just spent all day with me," Scott said.

He drove them back to Bender, dropped Jenna and April off at their homes, and then drove Fauna to Hop Kim, a Chinese restaurant in Kimble, Louisiana.

"I figure, any girl likes horror movies has got to love Chinese," he joked and got himself both a slap on the arm and an affectionate kiss.