Chapter Twenty-Four - Elsie

Elsie

Elsie smiled from ear to ear as she unlocked her front door. Oliver was next to her, his arms overflowing with takeout boxes from the Chinese restaurant. The smell of sesame chicken and fried rice filled her nostrils, making her stomach rumble.

“I still can't believe the expression on the restaurant owner's faces when they saw us pull up in the tractor,” Elsie said, as she stepped into her apartment and set her new teddy bear down on the chair near the front door. “They looked as us like we had come from another planet.”

“We definitely made an impression,” Oliver said. “They're pr