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.

parked the car when she arrived home, and when she got out of the car, she found Gus sitting idly in front of his house, eating

out of the red car,

“New car, Tricia?”

with them as well. If there ever was an emergency, they were

janky car broke down. My friend doesn’t drive this car often, so

must be rich. It’s not Mr. Selwyn,

heart, and they thought God was still rather nice to this single mother even though it wasn’t easy for her to raise

Appleby, and if Patricia could marry one of them, she’d

head. “No, it’s another

curiosity, Gus returned to his chair and continued what

her home, and with that, she

you said the other day, the one that you can get the money the

interested, he spat out the peanut shell in his mouth and said, “Tricia, we’ve been neighbors for about two to three years, haven’t we? Do I look like a

but he isn’t dishonorable, Patricia thought, and he would be more than willing to help whenever anyone comes to him. Surely, he won’t

of times, making sure there was no one else around, before whispering, “I want to loan half a million. How many days

that it was interest-free.

by

if Tricia borrowed half a million. For someone who never had a proper job, Gus never experienced what it was like to have tens of thousands in his