Never Mine To Love
Noah said, shifting the weight of his duffel bag, “before we head out to the gate, you wanna go gift shopping? Something for my mom. She’s been bugging me about a new robe or those face masks she likes.”
I blinked. “Face masks?”
Noah laughed. “Yeah, the kind that smell like coconut and feel like slime.”
I shrugged, stuffing my phone into my pocket. “Sure. Sounds like a good excuse to delay gate boredom.”
We dropped our bags at luggage check, cleared security quickly, and took a short Uber ride to a nearby shopping strip that was still just opening. The morning was chilly, but not painfully so, and the shops were slowly flipping their signs to “open.”
“Mom likes things that feel like effort,”
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