I Can Hold Your Flowers For You!

Painting by AK

I Can Hold Your Flowers For You!

There is a strange girl in the park known as the Flower Girl (nobody knows her real name). Each day she holds a different flower, and the people remark that lost flowers are her specialty: from a rose gone missing to a sunflower gone rogue. I never understood it myself, but it was nice to know that there was a flower heroine among us. 

People say that she can "hold" your flowers for you, but I never really understood it myself until I came to the park one day with a Gardenia in hand. She stared at me from a distance, a rose held in her right hand, and I uncomfortably made my way to her. 

"I see you have a Gardenia. Did you know in the language of flowers, it means 'I love you in secret'?"

I respond that I didn't, before she smiled once more. As though I were controlled, I automatically handed her the flower, and a breeze picked up. Surrounded by various petals that circled us, coming from who-knows-where, there was something oddly surreal about it.

And before I could blink, she was already gone.

Your flower will appear when the right time comes...