Chapter 2. Nature's Bounty

I have finally found it! Oh wow!! What a unique name. The store is called 'Nature's Bounty'. Immediately I go in to take a peek to see what they have. There are so many neat things in here. There's paintings of all kinds of wildlife. I think I even see a picture that looks like it has a fairy in it. I also see small and big figurines of all kinds of animals. There's birds, cats, dogs, deer, fox, etc. I even see soft plushies of various animals. Oh I see books!! Anyway, I got a bit distracted again. Please forgive me. I keep strolling through the store and what do you know? Right there in the corner is the and I mean THE perfect gift. It is a clock and the clock is a full moon with two wolves howling at the moon at the sides of the clock. When my bestie sees this, she's gonna flip. Tee-hee!! I can't wait to give it to her. She's gonna be so surprised. I quickly grab it and start looking for where to pay for it. What I truly find to be quite interesting is that it doesn't seem to look like anyone else is in here shopping. Oh well I'm glad I'm not having to be bumped and pushed about. I finally found a register. There's a sweet little old lady there. She smiles at me and asked "Did you find what you wanted my dear?" I reply "Yes ma'am I sure did. This is truly a beautiful store." Her smile gets bigger as she says "Thank you sweetie." I then hand her the clock to find out the price. She straight away puts it in a bag with tissue paper. It's almost like she knew that it is supposed to be a gift.

"Here you go young lady. There's no charge." I look at her and ask " Are you sure ma'am?" She looks back at me and says "As long as you wait to wind it up with your friend tonight when the moon is full." My mind is literally blown right now. How did she know? As soon as I was getting ready to turn around and ask she wasn't even there! Oh my goodness!! I rub my eyes. Surely I know that the lady was just there. In fact it doesn't even look like I'm in that store any longer!! WHAT JUST HAPPENED! Somebody please tell me that I'm not crazy. Seriously, please??

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