so itās the one where adam has the garden supply store and noah has the skate shop next door and every day on his way to work noah passes the sign outside adamās store offering a free rose to anyone with a certain name. every day adam puts it out on the sidewalk and picks a different name and every day noah erases the name and writes noah and every day he goes in and heās like well the sign says my name so iām like PRETTY sure i get a free rose
adam hates it and also he thinks noah is deeply lovely so he just gives him a rose every time. itās the longest conversation they ever have and adam looks forward to it every morning when he wakes up. adam sometimes thinks maybe he refuses to write noahās name just so noah will have a reason to scribble his stupid name on the stupid board instead and come inside and talk to him
next door noah saves all the roses. he dries them in bunches hanging over the register at his shop or he presses them in his stacks of old saved issues of kerrang and punk planet magazine so when you open them and rifle through thereās a rose stuck in every other page. thatās how many he has, how long heās been trying to bring himself to say anything else at all
one day noah doesnāt come in on his way to work and adam watches him walk by and not make eye contact and open his shop and go inside. all day adam wonders what happened until 5pm when the lights go dark in the skate shop and adam hears someone scratching on the board outside. he sees noah writing adamās name and then noah toes open the door of the flower shop, walks in with a rose already in his hand and heās like āi thought it was probably time your name came upā and hands adam the flower for once instead of the other way around
adam almost hits the floor his head spins so hard but the next morning noah skates up to his door before he opens, knocks, smiles, says hi, says maybe i donāt need the rose as an excuse anymore and would you want to get a cup of coffee later with someone who has a lot of dried roses and needs some ideas about what to do with them











