PUZZLE PIECE 30
AMELINA’S CHOCOLATES
Dare I open gifts?
From Aunt Karissa? No way!
I did it, oh dear,
Her presents are so crazy,
Verbal shenanigans, oops!
I wish I’d had a chance to reopen the beautiful box again, to tear its perfect wrapping, pull its silken ribbons apart, but I’d lost that opportunity when I was first given the box. I had offered a chocolate to Aunt Karissa, but she had refrained from taking one, citing one of her interminable diets. Toby had pressed his nose in for a sniff, but I’d pulled them away before he had an opportunity to sample them.
And yet, once again, when I lifted the lid, the sight of the most exquisite layer of chocolates greeted me. In the centre of the box, a dark chocolate heart surrounded a cluster of smaller heart-shaped white and milk chocol
