Chapter 114

“A greenhouse.”

“For the bees to visit?”

“For us. See, I could have gone with a dozen roses, but I wanted you to have more, like two dozen, ten dozen.”

“I think I only own one vase.”

Patrick chuckled. “We’ll get a pottery wheel and make some more with Calvin and Jefferson.”

I sang a bit of “Unchained Melody” and imagined shirtless Calvin, Jefferson, and Patrick taking turns sitting behind me while I worked in clay. “Nice.”

“Actually, the rose thing isn’t even my idea. I stole it from Calvin. I want to plant a rosebush for us out in the yard, one for every year we’re together. I put in a bid on the neighbor’s, the one who hated my serenade.”

“You did?”

“Uh-huh. We’ll have room for an entire rose garden, a hundred years’ worth of bushes. I’m hoping we can propagate them…hybrids, that are only ours. I assume it’s pretty hard, but we’ll try. The…the Gatrick Rose, or the Poose.”

The way I scrunched my face was a dead giveaway as to what I thought of Poose.