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There was a decorative sign placed on the front counter stating that the cashier would be back in ten minutes. Towards the back, Todd had Laura sit on the counter where they cut and prepared their plants for showing. It had been cleaned off and the metal felt cool through her jeans. He opened the first aid kit with a click and muttered about them needing to refill the damned thing. Laura was still quite shaken from it all. She had called her roommate Angie and she didn't have to say much before the girl insisted that she come over to the shop. What would she do here? She couldn't seriously be thinking that she would convince her to go home and miss work. She was already there! Besides, she needed something to distract her from what happened. It all seemed like a blur. All she could remember was hearing her sneakers slap against the sidewalk and the wild thunder of her heart slamming into her chest.
Without much warning, she felt rubbing alcohol burning on her open cuts. She yelped and flailed so much that Todd cursed stepping back enough to avoid getting hit. "Watch it Jackie Chan!" He griped before grabbing her left arm and turning it to get a good view of her scrapes. "If you're gonna space out on me, try not to hit me sheesh!" The guy grumbled. Laura apologized and tried to focus on breathing. She never was good at tolerating pain. He was almost done when he looked up into her face. "Will talking about it help?"
"What's there to talk about?"
"I dunno, just thought.." He began awkwardly only to have Laura shrug. 
"It's ok. It's over now" She stated dismissively. 

Todd nodded putting a couple more band aids on her arms and closing the kit. She thanked him for cleaning her up and he waved it off saying it was nothing. She had worked with Todd for a little over a year now and she found him to be quiet enjoyable to work with. He did his share of the work and didn't mind helping out when they were short handed. He had dropped out of College due to some financial struggles and took more hours in the flower shop. He also worked a second job at a coffee shop in the heart of the down town business district. He seemed to be a pretty calm guy and gained the attention of Laura's roommates. Her other roommate Kate always got flustered around him. The guy's laid back appearance and gentle tone of voice always made her a bit weak in the knees for some reason. Laura always found it highly amusing and so did Angie. 

Laura didn't work for about half an hour, so she sat in the back and did a little prep work. Normally she would have just sat somewhere, but she wanted to keep herself busy. To keep her mind busy. She had already swept the back part of the store and was working on straightening up the different scissors and decorative ribbons. 
That was when she heard Todd call her to the front. "You need to hear this!" he said with his back facing her. She had walked in to see that he had been playing with the radio and turning up the volume. It was a news reporting of a buss filled with college students crashed into the river. Several students had drowned in the accident. The news went on to explain how the police and paramedics were already on the scene to help those who had survived the crash. "That's awful.." Laura frowned looking down at the counter. The only thing Todd could do was nod. Then the door slammed open with another obnoxious clang from the bell. It was Angie and she was pale with her jaw set straight. "Come here!" She ordered with her voice slightly higher than usual, grabbing hold of Laura's shoulders. Angie looked her over for a couple seconds asking a series of annoying motherly questions before pulling her friend into a rib crushing hug.

She had expected a lecture from her, about taking the back roads to get to work, but she had said nothing like that. Other than making sure she wasn't too badly hurt, all Angie could actually string together was how happy she was that Laura was safe. She sounded terrified for a while. It was like she took the event harder than Laura, but that was probably because she was still numb to it all. Surely enough, the over protective friend tried to talk Laura into leaving and taking the day off, but she refused no matter how many times she asked. "I need to stay busy and put this behind me!" she finally snapped after Angie tried to convince her for the fifth time. Laura could be passive for a time, but now wasn't one of those times. Her limbs hurt and she just wanted to forget about it. The room was so tense that a woman stepped into the shop, looked at the three of them and stepped out. Seeing that she was getting no where with Laura and that her trip to her work was almost completely worthless, she decided to talk to Todd about what they had heard on the radio about the crash. No longer wanting to hear more upsetting news, Laura tromped off to the back to rearrange some hyacinths.
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