Chapter 144 Hope

(Ruby)

I was in my room, preparing one of the pieces for the boutique I had hopes of opening soon when there was a knock on my door.

“Come in!” I shouted. The door opened to reveal Lydia with a look in her eyes that I did not quite catch.

“What is it?” I asked her, returning back to my work because I should have been starting on another piece today but yesterday we had spent lazing off and now I was behind my set time of finishing the piece.

“You’re not too busy are you?” Lydia asked sheepishly as she came to sit on the bed beside me.

“No,” I told her, then looked at her suspiciously, “Why have you suddenly started to grin so weirdly?”

“I have something to show you,” she whispered, darting her eyes to the door. I know mother had come back from her chemo and was resting in her bed, so what had Lydia almost vibrating?

“Did Thomas ask you to be his again?” I asked teasingly and received a smack on my head in return.

“No!” Lydia said almost in a panic.

“Chill, I was only joking,” I told h