You Are My One and Only

Elizabeth nearly spat out the oatmeal in her mouth upon hearing Adeline’s words. No, that’s not what I mean! I’m clearly saying you don’t need to keep me company if you have other plans!

But who’d have thought this girl got the wrong idea? Alas, she seems to have a little trouble with reading the room.

“Old Mrs. Arnold, why don’t we go shopping later?” Adeline suggested after checking the time. She thought any woman had a natural liking to shopping, even older women, right?

Seeing how enthusiastic the young woman was, Elizabeth didn’t have the heart to turn her down.

Since Isaac threw this problem to her, Elizabeth would help him handle it for now.

“Sure!”

…

Patricia enjoyed driving her new ride home as it had a good speed and was automatic at that. There wasn’t a single problem with it!

She loved the red car, feeling like she had gotten it with nothing.

She couldn’t figure out why Isaac would say something was wrong with this car. Surely, it was he who was being finicky.

got out of the car, she found Gus sitting idly in

out of the red car,

“New car, Tricia?”

and was quite familiar with them as well. If there ever was an emergency, they were happy to

my janky car broke down. My friend doesn’t drive

this friend must be rich.

was trying to win Patricia’s heart,

family in Appleby, and if Patricia could marry one of them, she’d turn from rags

shook her head. “No, it’s another

returned to his chair and continued what he was doing

at Gus before entering her home, and with

day, the one that you can get

been neighbors for about two to three years, haven’t we? Do I look

be more than willing to help whenever anyone comes

couple of times, making sure there was no one else around, before whispering, “I

mainly because Gus told her that it was interest-free. They only charged ten percent for the handling

transferred to you by

borrowed half a million. For someone who never had a proper job,