Love Burned, She Rose Unscathed

Chapter 817

As she spoke, she was already rolling up her sleeves, eager to get started.

"Professor, let's forget the snowball fight-let's build a snowman! Please?"

Owen Reynolds paused, caught off guard.

"Haven't you said you can do anything? Come on, let's make a snowman-even bigger than this one..." Roseanne didn't wait to see his reaction. She started scooping up snow, recalling how the two kids earlier had done it and mimicking their moves.

When she realized Owen hadn't said a word for a while, Roseanne stopped and glanced up at him.

"Professor?"

"...A snowman?"

"Yes!" Her eyes sparkled with excitement.

"...Alright." He crouched down beside her.

Things weren't going quite how he'd imagined, but there was no harm in giving it a try.

As for the result...

Roseanne stared at the two lopsided lumps of snow in front of her. They were awkwardly stacked, neither round nor square, the top smaller than the base. Forget about a carrot nose or button eyes-even calling it a "snowman" was a stretch.

Honestly, it just looked like... two sad piles of snow.

She looked at Owen, her expression somewhere between baffled and speechless.

He rubbed his nose, clearly embarrassed. "Um... I guess I'm not as consistent as

I thought."

"It's fine," Roseanne said, trying to reassure him.

But the more she covered for him, the more mortified he felt.

and freezing out here. How

Owen agreed,

little boast, and now he'd be shy for

the stairs and went to their own

into her living room

She just couldn't hold it in

onto his sofa, and

He opened his messenger

didn't you ever teach me how

you

Stoddard: [???]

[Teach me how to build a snowman

[Are you

whole vacation, is that

[Sure, and you're okay giving up your

Stoddard: [shocked emoji]

Owen: [Great, it's settled.]

teach you to build

phone aside, flopped onto his bed, and rolled around with

Hahaha, double the

morning, he got up

everything for the net

to the

discover...

The snow had melted?

Melted?!

and Owen, who'd also arrived

it's not that I don't want

Owen said nothing.

about that

"It's gone."