Well guys, here's the last chapter!! Hope you enjoy!! ;DChapter 43
Within an hour the shop was packed with customers. All of their friends had dropped by already to taste some goodies from the store, which were of course on the house. Abby had welcomed them with warm smiles, and they all told her how wonderful the place was (even Neela told her it was homey, even though it was pink.)
“Hannah!” Lily called as she ran to the door, where Hannah, her husband Tony, and son Michael were walking in.
Hannah bent down and picked up Lily, hugging her close. Abby handed over the cash register to Luka, and walked over to her oldest daughter. When she reached them, she bent over to the stroller where nine month old Michael was sitting. She smiled at the little boy, who was kicking his feet and chewing on his pudgy fingers.
“He’s gotten big,” Abby said as she stood. “He’s really beautiful, Hannah.” She told Hannah as she wrapped her arms around Hannah’s neck into a warm hug.
“Yeah, I know. He grows so quickly.” Hannah replied as she pulled out of the hug and smiled. “As has Lily here. She looks like she’s grown a whole foot or two!” Hannah joked as Lily began to laugh into her shoulder. “Where are the others?”
“Luke’s in the back making some more cookies, we are going through chocolate chip cookies like they were going out of style, and Lana is over there passing out flyers, and Lee is….” Abby paused, as her eyes scanned the room. “Oh no,” she muttered.
“MOM!” Lana’s voice screeched across the room. Abby’s eyes popped up to Lana where all of her flyers were scattered over the ground. Abby looked apologetically at the customers and rushed over to Lana’s side. Lee was under the table snickering. Luka quickly rushed over to the scene.
“Lee,” Luka said in a low voice, “what was all that?”
“What?” He questioned shrugging his shoulders. “I just thought that we needed some fun…. Lexy would have thought it was funny!” He said, and Abby nodded slowly.
“Yes, you’re right, she would have. But no more practical jokes in the bakery. Got it?” Abby told her young son.
“Fine, fine.”
“I’m sorry about that,” Abby told Hannah as they walked around the store.
“No problem,” she replied, “This place is wonderful; Lexy would have loved it.”
“I like to think so,” Abby responded, as she nodded slowly.
“Excuse me,” A lady said coming up to Abby. “Are you Dr. Abigail Kovac?” The lady was holding on to a young girl’s hand. The young girl looked around eleven or twelve. She looked like her mother with her light hair and dark eyes.
“Yes?” Abby said. Luka walked by and Abby took his hand, as if she knew that he needed to hear this too.
“Is this your husband, Dr. Luka Kovac?” The lady questioned her, when she saw Luka join them.
“Yes.”
“Well, I know that you don’t know me, but my name is Sarah and this is my daughter Denise, or Dennie, as we call her,” she explained.
Abby’s eyebrows went up slightly at the mention of the young girl’s name, but she smiled at them politely waiting for them to explain.
“Anyway, I about lost her,” Sarah told her nodding slowly, “She was born with a bad heart, we went years and years thinking that she wasn’t going to live past the age of eleven. But here she is today, twelve years old and healthy, because of your daughter, Lexy. If you hadn’t have donated her heart, Dennie wouldn’t be here today,” she said. “And, we just wanted to thank you two and your family, so much. I…I don’t know what I would do without my Dennie. She’s all I have.” Sarah said as her eyes filled with happy tears.
“Yes,” Dennie whispered, “thank you.”
Abby smiled with happy tears filling her eyes, and felt Luka squeeze her hand, and she knew that he was smiling too.
“Of course,” Abby answered, patting Dennie’s head. “That’s what Lexy would have wanted. Would you like something? On the house?”
Dennie looked to her mother for approval. Sarah nodded her head and smiled, thankfully at the Kovacs.
“Do you have chocolate-chocolate chip muffins? They’re my favourite,” Dennie confessed with a shy smile. Abby’s smile brightened and she nodded her head.
“Of course.”
THE END