Chapter 28--Choices

"You're blushing," Rachel says and I jerk, phone nearly falling out of my grasp. Heat creeps up my neck when I find her warm brown gaze darting between me and my phone. Ryan and I have been texting the entire day. Nothing bad. He just keeps dropping random sentences on how he is doing. He took a day off work to help get Ash enrolled in school. I would be there with them if I wasn't clearing out the store. I have yet to get a new place but I can work from home, like I used to before I got the bakery. It means going back to countless home deliveries and doors getting slammed in my face but I have no choice. Not yet, at least. "No...I...uhm...you have packed up the...ah... pans," I stutter, unable to keep the flush off my face. This is Ryan's fault. Or his picture's. I can't really say, but he's got me distracted and thinking about him. "Yes," Rachel says, eyes bright with laughter. "You could call him to come over, just so you can look at him. Zooming isn't nearly as good as the