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Shiloh was walking down the hall to get some stuff from Micah’s room. She walked past the Dome.
”Wait what.”
Shiloh had to do a double take and shuffle back to the Dome. Why was there a giant black ship docked in the loading bay?
”Whatcha looking at?”
Shiloh yelped hearing Michelle’s voice so close to her and nearly slapped the other. Michelle giggled before looking out. “Why is there a ship docked at the loading bay?”
”I don’t know…” Shiloh mumbled, trying to think of any possible reason. “That emblem on the ship looks familiar.”
”I say we get a couple blasters and scare them.” Michelle snickered.
Shiloh looked like she was going to object. “Ah- actually not a bad idea.”
The two girls giggled before slipping off to grab some of the big guns. They soon made their way to the loading bay where a weird-looking alien approached, looking a bit frazzled.
”Hey, who are you?” Shiloh shouted, adding a serious tone to her voice. Michelle adjusted a few dials on the blaster to look more menacing.
The alien seemed completely unfazed to the posed threat the girls showed as he started to talk. “Are you Mary and Daniel Nelson?”
Shiloh, a bit startled by the sudden name drops, cleared her throat. “Uh- Y-Yes! I’m Mary, and this is my sister Daniel!”
Michelle looked confused as she leaned over in a hiss. ”But Daniel’s a-.”
”He doesn’t know about gendered names.” Shiloh hissed back, elbowing her friend. “Play along.”
Michelle rolled her eyes and cleared her throat. “Yep, Daniel, that’s me.”
The alien chirped happily before scribbling down something on his glowing clipboard. He then handed the clipboard to Shiloh. “My name is Calkate. We are the Inter-Raelo Delivery Service! IRDS!”
Michelle gasped. “Hey I know a guy that works for this service!”
The Nelson in purple raised an eyebrow. “I-I’m sorry, what did he- I order?”
Calkate cackled and hit his head with his hand. “Yes! Humans can forget! Hah!” He quickly pulled out another glowing clipboard. “Right, you ordered a ton of butter and robotic parts.”
Shiloh stared at the alien with a concerned smile on her face. “I-I’m sorry, a ton of butter?”
Calkate gave a sharp nod. “We did not understand what you meant by just ‘a ton of butter’, so we brought you this!”
Michelle and Shiloh’s jaws dropped as they looked up to see the sight. There was a giant pallet that just was stacked with giant bricks of butter. A small drone whirred silently as it held the giant pallet barely above the ground. There was a medium box that rolled up to the two, most likely the robotic parts.
”Do we have to return the drone?” Michelle asked, pointing at the drone.
“Nope! Complementary!” Calkate chirped. He then tapped the clipboard that Shiloh was still holding on. “Please sign!”
Shiloh absentmindedly signed the clipboard. She gave a small yelp as the alien swiped it out of her hands. Calkate hesitated and muttered something, signaling for the two girls to stay put as he ran to grab something. Calkate then ran back with a bundle of gorgeous looking flowers. “This is another delivery for Mary Nelson! Malkate Stardrop Lilies! Someone sent to her!”
Michelle was about to say something when she was nearly toppled over by Daniel and Mary running in.
”Did the butter come?!” Daniel yelled.
”Uh- yes?” Michelle was unsure how to answer.
”It actually came?!” Mary exclaimed, eyes wide and jaw dropped.
”Why did you order a buttload of butter exactly?” Shiloh asked.
The two older Nelsons froze. “Baking.”
Mary then noticed the flowers in Shiloh’s hand and gasped. “Malkate Stardrop Lilies?! Ooooo! Who’s the secret admirer?”
Shiloh raised an eyebrow. “Secret admirer? These flowers are for you.”
Mary’s mouth instantly shut close while Daniel started wheezing and doubling over. Michelle gasped as she realized what the flowers meant. Soon both Daniel and Michelle started to tease the blonde, chanting over and over. “Oooooo Mary! Secret admirer! Secret crush! Secret admirer!”
Shiloh, still not knowing what the flowers meant, spoke up. “Uhh, what do these mean?”
Mary swiped the frosty flowers, the cold mist emitted from the flowers flowing all over the place. “Nun ya business!”
”Nuh uh!” Daniel snickered, wagging a finger around. “It means secret love!”
Shiloh gasped and a wide grin grew on her face. Mary groaned and went to her room while the other three continued to giggle and tease.
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Mary found a small vase and dropped the frosty flowers in. She hummed as she rested her head on her hand, watching the cold mist slowly descend to the desk. She managed to see a note that was tied to the bundle.
”Sending my good wishes - W… Oh. Why would you send this…?” Mary mumbled to herself.
Malkate Stardrop Lilies were quite rare to find. And like what Daniel said, the flowers were often given to people as a message of secret love, though it could also be meant as an apology depending on the situation. Mary already could guess who gave it to her the moment she realized those were for her.
Man, dealing with feelings was hard.