Monday, September 19, 2011

Apologize

Apologize.
That is what Ranna had told him to do.
And that was one of the things he had a hard time with.
Aden sat at his table and moodily looked at his paper.
He didn't even know this girl, why should he apologize to her?
Because he really liked her and wanted to get to know her more.
Sighing, Aden went through the list of ways he could apologize.
He scratched nearly everything off of the list as boring, stupid, or cliche'.
Finally  he thought of something.

Nora walked into the coffee shop the next day and sat down at her table, not looking to where Aden normally sat. She didn't care. Right?
 Glaring at her bagel she ripped a bit off and began chewing.
"Nora?"
She turned around, faster than she meant to. She was supposed to be mad at him!
Aden was standing in front of her with a single flower. Her favorite. A Morning Glory. She didn't know how he had kept it alive and open for so long, but he had.
"I wanted to apologize to you. I am sorry I didn't believe you. You were right and I was wrong. If I had opened my eyes I would have seen that."
He set the flower on the table along with a sheet of paper.
On the paper was a 1" by 1" sketch of every person who regularly came into the coffee shop and next to their picture, what was special about them, or at least what he thought was special.
Some of the things on there even Nora didn't know.
Aden had spent the better part of yesterday working on this. He had gone up and asked everyone what made them special.
At the bottom of the paper was a slightly larger 2" by 2" picture of Nora. Underneath the picture it said.
"Has an Uncanny ability to bring out the best in people."

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