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.

freezing out here. How

let's go," Owen

and now he'd be shy

and went to their

living

laughing. She just

sank onto his sofa, and immediately pulled

his

ever teach me how

say you could do

Stoddard: [???]

[Teach me how to build a

[Are you

my whole vacation, is that what

giving up your

Stoddard: [shocked emoji]

Owen: [Great, it's settled.]

you to build a snow elephant if

onto his

Hahaha, double the

he got up

everything for the net

to

discover...

The snow had melted?

Melted?!

arrived early, looked at

that I

Owen said nothing.

about that double

"It's gone."