2. Red

But one day, she overheard two people in her class talking about roses! One of them asked the other where he had gotten the red roses he gave to his girlfriend. Turns out that he had bought them from a rose gardener who lived a few miles away from their little town. And what luck! He asked the other for the address, and he told him. She secretly copied down the address as he said it.

Sheila was determined to have a rose for herself.

That night, she took her parents' car keys and slipped out while they were asleep. She drove and drove and drove.

By morning, she had arrived at the rose gardener's. A high fence surrounded the gardens, but she could peek through a slit in the gate. Oh! Oh! Oh! There were red roses everywhere! But the gate was locked, and she was too shy to yell and see if anyone would come and open it.