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“On you,” he said around a loud yawn, confusing her a little bit

“Like a toy?” Marybeth found herself asking as she risked a glance to her right toSince herat her, she assumed that her mother hadn’t seen him yet

“I’ bored as he drew her attention back to find his as he continued to watch her

“I can’teven as she wondered if he’d be willing to teach her how to do that without falling on her head

“Why not?’ he asked with a frown of his own

“Because I don’t even know your nah it should have been more than obvious

He laughed at that “I’m Darrin and you’re Marybeth,” he said before she could tell him

She considered asking him how he knew her name, but then realized that he’d probably heard her lanced back over at her mother and brother before she looked back up at Darrin She worried her bottom lip, not sure if she should ask, but……

She had to know

“You didn’t call dibs on my mother?”

He squished his face up in disgust “No!”

“What about your brothers?”

He snorted at that “No, but I had to give Reese my dessert so that I could keep you”

“Who’s Reese?”

“My twin brother”

“Oh,” she said, because she’d never met anyone that had a twin before

“How old are you?”

“Seven,” she said, returning her attention back to her stick

“I’m seven, too”

“You don’t look seven,” she said, not bothering to look up from her stick

“I know, but I am”

Pursing her lips up in thought, she looked up at hi or not He said that he was seven, but he lookedto be seven, she decided as she considered him She really liked his short black hair and the way that his green eyes twinkled when he s why that mattered, but it did

“Are you sure?” she asked, returning her attention back to her stick

“That I’m seven?”

“Yes,” she said, stripping a piece of bark off her stick and flicking it away

“Yeah, do you want to play tag?”

“I can’t Besides, I’ to you,” she explained, risking another glance to the right to see what her brother was doing He was done with his ice crea with his army soldiers on the front lawn