Homemade Pie
Some years later…
Anastasia walked down the busy streets holding about as many packages as her arms could carry, tried from all the shopping she sat down next to a familiar looking man on a bench who was talking on a cell phone. She looked over and smiled before catching her breath and continuing on her way to her apartment.
Nick looked over at the place where the lady once sat and noticed a dime on the ground bending over to pick it he noticed a brown purse laying next to it. “That lady must have forgotten her purse…” he said looking into the endless sea of Christmas shoppers hoping to find her.
“What?” the voice from the other end of the phone asked
“Oh yeah, Bri can I call you back?”
“Sure, talk to ya later.”
“Bye.”
Searching through the purse he
found her driver licenses: Anastasia
Miller 123 Parker Place
‘That’s not too far from here I guess I could return it to her’ he thought picking up the one bag he had and began to walk.
“Darn it! Where’s my wallet?” She said searching through the contents of all her bags “Oh god…when did I last see it? In the boutique…I must have dropped it… oh shoot! It’s too late to go get it now, Adam’s coming over in a hour.” She scrambled around her bedroom talking to herself desperately trying to gather herself together for her date. Just as she was finishing up she heard a knock on the door. *Figures he’s early* “Coming!” she swung open the door to find the most amazing blue eyes staring into her green ones.
Nick’s jaw dropped to the ground seeing the most amazing sight he’s seen in years, the petite brunette was wearing a little dark green dress that seemed to be made for her. Her hair was pulled up in a French twist type style and tiny diamonds adorned her ears.
“Umm…hi.” He said finding his voice
“Hello, can I help you?” she racked her brain she knew the face but where…
“Actually yes,” he pulled out the purse, “Does this belong to you?”
“Oh thank god! I thought I had lost it, please come in.” She gestured inside
They made there way into her small apartment, “Come sit down I’ll make you some coffee.”
“Thanks.”
“Where did you find it?” she asked pouring some water into the teakettle
“Under the bench, you must have forgot it.”
She stared at him “What?” he asked fearing he’d been recognized
“Oh, sorry you just look so familiar…”
“I get that a lot.” He smiled
“Would you like some pumpkin pie, cause I’ve got some.” She said clearly forgetting about Adam
“Homemade?”
“Yup, courtesy of Mrs. Smith.” Then something clicked, “What did you say your name was.”
“umm…Nick.”
“Oh my god.” She covered her face with her hand, “Nick!” she ran to him giving him a hug
He was clearly taken aback, “So you figured out whom I am.”
“Oh yes! You knew it was me, why I’m surprised you remember.”
“Remember?”
She let go of him and stepped back, “Oh, you must think I’m a fan…well I am… but don’t you remember me? Anastasia?”
He shook his head and was beginning to think this lady was crazy. “Ummm…stay here.” She bounded out of the room and when she returned her hair was down and she was carrying a book of some kind. “Look…” she parted her hair with her hands and clutched the two halves to make pigtails, “Remember me…Piggy?”
Nick was silent for a moment before jumping up with realization “PIGGY!!” he jumped up and spun her around “Oh my god is that really you? I can’t believe I didn’t put it together. Jeez! How are you!” he said setting her back down she laughed, “I’m good, come on now lets have some pie we have a lot of catching up to do.”
They sat back down and she set a piece of pie in front of them both.
“So, Nick, I hear you’ve made quite a name for yourself.”
“Yeah…at first I thought you were a psycho fan or something.”
She giggled, “Sorry about that I was just so excited!”
“You must know all about me…what about you? What are you up to these days? And your brothers?”
“Well I’m finishing college, I’m going to be a teacher. Right now I’m interning with a Kindergarten teacher, next year I get my own class because a teacher from that school is retiring.”
“What grade?”
“2nd”
“I always knew you’d be a teacher ever since we were little and you’d yell at me for chasing the ducks.”
She laughed, “So how’s your family?” she asked
“Oh no, I asked you first how are your brothers?”
“Well…Jessee married this wonderful girl named Caitlin and they are expecting their fifth child.”
“Fifth?! He’s not too older than us!”
“Yeah well they were high school sweet hearts and 3 of them all came at once.”
“Triplets!”
“Yup.”
“Wow…and what about Joe.”
“He opened up his own law firm and is presently ‘not involved’ Now what about you guys?”
“Well everyone’s doing great, Mom had twins. Aaron and Angel, Aaron’s getting involved in the music biz too.”
“Following your footsteps…how sweet.”
“Yup.” He turned and suddenly his face turned white as if he’d seen a ghost and whispered “Madame Dupree?”
Anastasia followed his gaze, “Ohh that’s just Jinx, that would be Madame Dupree’s grandson.”
“He looks just like her.” Nick said in awe
“Yeah except for the whole gender thing.” He looked up and laughed
“I don’t know why I thought it was Madame Dupree…what ever happened to that old lady?”
“She died a while ago 9 years ago I believe. This is Blacky’s son, she died about 4 years ago.”
“Yeah, old Rooster up and ran away awhile ago.”
“Oh I almost forgot.” She opened the book that turned out to be a photo album she had first brought in; “Look” she said pointing to a page
“That’s us… I remember that when we fell asleep in the boat boy did I get a whippn’ for that.”
She laughed, “and the fourth of July…”
“Yeah, Piggy, you started crying cause you thought the hot dogs were real dogs.”
“Shut up! I’m not the one who thought the sky was exploding.”
“Well I thought it was” Nick said defensively before smirking
“Yeah well-“ she was cut off by the knocking at the door
“Oh Adam!” She raced to answer it
“Huh?” Nick wandered out to see who it was
She opened the door and a rather good-looking man came in and gave her a deep kiss. Nick just stood there feeling rather awkward.
“Sorry I’m late, sweets.”
“That’s ok, I had an unexpected visitor, Nick this is Adam…my boyfriend.”
“Nice to meet you, Nick, you’re a friend of my Annie?”
“Umm…yeah,” he cleared hi throat, “well I better be going.”
“Oh Nick, we must get together, will you be in town?” Anastasia moved towards him
“All week.” He smiled
“That’s great! How about going out for lunch? Here’s my number.” She said jotting it down on a piece of paper “Now give me yours.”
He wrote it down “Thanks.” She smiled, “We can’t loose touch.”
He nodded, “I’ll call you later tonight and we can set up a time.”
“OK”
“See ya later, Piggy” Nick walked out
“Piggy?” Adam asked
“Long story, come on let’s go.”
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