Chamomile Only Blooms for Seven Days

Wu You walked into the small shop and brought a bunch of chamomile. Lu Mingxia said "no need to bring flowers", but inserted it into a glass bottle and placed it on the windowsill. She said chamomile is easy to grow and can bloom for several days when put in water. Later the bouquet withered. He tucked it into the book instead of throwing it away. The summer they met, she was nineteen and he was twenty-five. She found a place where she didn't have to talk in a lavender-scented shop. He learned to write a person's name in his diary. The chamomile bloomed for seven days and then withered. Their time together is a little longer than a bouquet of flowers. But only a little longer.