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sofa. They talked about their annual Halloween costume party, which was coming up in a few weeks. Keeping their costumes a secret until the night of the party was a matter of pride and they did their best to trick each other into letting it slip. It wasn’t as easy as it sounded, keeping secrets from each other, considering they worked together, shopped together, lived down the street from one another, and spent every spare second of their free time together. At the moment, Breezy was trying to fool Susan into telling her what her costume was going to be, yet again.
    “Honestly, Breezy, you are incorrigible…absolutely incorrigible!” Susan shrieked, smacking her on the arm.
    “Yes, I know. I learned from the best…you!” Breezy smirked.
    “Well, I was a damn good teacher, wasn’t I?” Susan admitted, tapping her chin with her index finger.
    “Yes, you were. Speaking of incorrigible people, when is that husband of yours getting home?”
    “He was supposed to get in last night, but he called to tell me his meeting ran too late to catch his flight. It’s rescheduled for this morning so he should be arriving at the airport this afternoon. He probably won’t be home till after two,” Susan explained, just as the doorbell rang. “I’ll get it. You stay put, young lady.”
    “Yes, Mother Sue,” she replied too sweetly. Susan just hated it when she did that.
    A few moments later, Susan returned with five large, rectangular, florist boxes, each bound with a different colored wide silk ribbon and enormous bow.
    “Hey, Breezy! Somebody sent you flowers…lots and lots of flowers!” Susan put the boxes down on the coffee table in front of Breezy.
    “Good Lord! Who’d be sending me flowers at all, let alone five boxes of them?” Breezy exclaimed in shock. No one had ever sent her flowers.
    “Well, open them and find out, silly!”
    Breezy opened the first box to reveal one dozen long stemmed red roses, complete with delicate white baby’s breath and lacy fern leaves for greenery, all tied together by a huge red silk bow that matched the color of the bow on the box.
    “They’re beautiful,” Susan whispered in awe. She found a card and handed it to Breezy who looked at it with a puzzled expression. “What does it say? Who sent them?”
    Breezy opened the tiny envelope and read the card out loud.
    “I wasn’t sure what your favorite color was, so I sent you all the colors I could find. Sorry I missed you at the hospital. Hope you feel better soon.
    Your friend,
    S.D.”
    “How sweet of him. Open the rest of them, Breezy.”
    Breezy was so astounded she couldn’t even speak. She just opened the boxes one by one. The next box contained white roses, pink, yellow, and finally peach roses, all with matching colored bows.
    “Susan, I’m not sure I like the idea of a strange man sending me flowers and knowing where I live. After all, I don’t even know his name.”
    “Oh, don’t be ridiculous! If he intended you any harm he wouldn’t have helped you in the first place. The man saved your life and now he’s just being considerate. It isn’t the first time anybody sent flowers to someone who’d been in hospital, you know.”
    “But five dozen roses?” Breezy exclaimed. “He doesn’t know me well enough to send me flowers at all, but sending this many is just insane.”
    “Geez, get a grip, why don’t ya? Look, I’ll admit I don’t know his name and I didn’t spend that much time with him but I can tell you this; when you were unconscious, you scared the living daylights out of him. You could see, as plain as day, that he was just as anxious and worried about you as I was. He even told me he thought you were beautiful and I feel like I know him at least well enough to know that he meant it.
    “Besides, you have that effect on people, Breezy. You always have. They take one look at you and want to protect you. Even old Mrs. Princeton, who does well to take care herself, tries to watch out for you.”