Chapter Thirteen:
Go made his way to the garden, pausing now and then to look up at the light blue sky. Spotting a nearby bench, he sat down. “Where’s Ken?” he wondered. “I’m bored…” He was about to go searching for his best friend when he heard someone singing. A girl. Stopping in mid-stride, Go listened to her song. “Her voice is…angelic” he thought, and set out to discover the owner of that voice.
Angel was planting some roses, just singing a little song she and her sisters had come up with. As she patted the soil around the rose plant, she stopped singing to smell the dainty fragrance of the flowers.
Go stood there, entranced by the sight. When she bent to smell the flowers, his heart seemed to jump. Content to stay there and watch the beautiful girl, he made no move to make his presence known to her.
Suddenly, a couple of kids playing a game tore past Go, through the flower beds, and kept on running. Angel quickly stood up. “My flowers!” She tragically looked at the poor roses, torn from their flower beds and mutilated by the shoes of the children. She turned, yelling, “Hey! You! Stop right there!” As she yelled, she began to run after them. However the kids kept on running, afraid of what she would do to them. “COME BACK HERE!” Angel screamed. Realizing that she probably would not catch up to them, she decided to stop running.
All of a sudden, a young man rushed past her, and yelled out, “Oi! Stop right there!” Immediately, the group of kids came to a halt. “That’s better. Now come over here.” The kids came back, exchanging guilty glances. “Apologize to this lady.”
“We’re sorry,” they chorused. Angel, who had been astonished by the man’s sudden appearance snapped out of it. “Don’t apologize to me!” The children and Go looked at her, surprised. “Apologize to the flowers! You trampled over them with no regard for their feelings!”
The children looked mutely at Go. He was trying to hold back his laughter; he really liked this girl’s spunk. “Well, you heard her. Apologize to the flowers!”
The children apologized and Go sent them off with a jerk of his head. He then turned to look at Angel, who was picking up the torn flowers with a look of consternation on her face. “Now I have to find some new flowers,” she moaned. “Where am I going to find them?”
Go kneeled beside her. “Come on.” He held out his hand.
Angel looked at him suspiciously. “Who are you?”
“My name’s Go. I know where you can get some flowers. So let’s go.”
A little disbelieving, Angel thought to herself, “If he does anything, I can probably take him with the training I’ve had.” Aloud she said, “Okay, let’s go.”
They had been walking for awhile and Angel was starting to get irritated. “Where are you taking me?” Go didn’t respond. Annoyed, Angel stopped walking. “I’m not going any further until you tell me where we’re going,” she announced.
He stopped, turned, and looked at her. Still looking at her, he walked closer and closer…Angel held her breath. Looking closer, she realized just how cute he was. And when he took her hand and said, “It’s close by,” she numbly followed him.
“His eyes are so intense,” she thought to herself. “Why do I feel like I want to kiss him so much?” Still immersed in her thoughts, she didn’t realize the building that appeared in front of them. When Go stopped walking, she looked up and saw an immense greenhouse. She stopped, amazed. “Wow…” she breathed. Go only glanced at her and smiled.
“Wasn’t this worth the walk?” he teased as he opened the door for her.
Angel gasped as she stepped into the greenhouse. It was filled with the most lovely flowers in colours she never thought existed. “It’s so beautiful,” she said to herself.
“Just like you,” Go replied.
“What?” Distracted, Angel turned to look at him.
“Nothing.” He smiled innocently at her. “So what’s your name?”
“Angel,” she replied, wondering what he had just said before asking for her name.
“Angel…that’s a perfect name for such an angelic girl,” he said as he smiled at her again.
Angel found herself smiling back at him. “So is this greenhouse yours?”
“Yes. It’s my secret place. Nobody knows about it except for my brothers…and now you.”
“Wow.” Angel circled among the flowers, stopping now and then to sniff them. She then stopped in front of the roses. “You don’t mind me taking some?” she asked Go.
He came up closer to her and looked deeply into her eyes. “I’d give you all of the flowers in this greenhouse if it would make you smile.”
Angel smiled at him. “Like this?”
Go wanted to kiss her so much. “Yeah…like that exactly.” He tore his eyes away from hers regretfully. “So, should we bring some of these flowers back to the garden?”
“Sure.” Angel started to get the roses. Go watched her for a bit, and then began to grin foolishly. This day was looking better and better already.