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There are pink and white balloons flying from every available banister The path down to our dock is lined with torches and there are lights strea from the branches of the trees that line our yard It looks like it is raining white lights

E the yard with pink and red rose pedals Coop and Beck had a good laugh over the roses Laugh all they want but when they find their wo out all the stops to make sure that life is perfect, too

We set up tables across the yard and to the side for all the food My backyard has been transformed into a Princess’s dream I can’t wait to see her face when she takes it all in

"Greg!" I snap, yelling into the house for him "Any word on thoseout a big company to cook some fancy shit Should have stuck with Heavy’s It is all she craves these days anyway

Fuck, Heavy’s!

I cut him off before he can even open his mouth "Call those assholes and tell theet about it"

"Coop, get your ass in the truck and drive to Heavy’s Buy the place out Everything you can think of and get it here" I throallet at hi face "What the fuck are you s

"You need to calht since last fall" Eain I swear that chick floats She is always popping up out of nowhere

"I airl is sad, trying hard to keep it hidden and I can’t fix it My son refuses to co to say fuck it and kidnapher up to the bedroom At least I know I can keep her happy there

"You aren’t calain

I look around for her before I storab a beer

By the tis have finally calets back with soHeavy’s has to offer Locke has finally arrived and gotten the rest of the sound syste sure all the tables have flower arrangements and that all the bubbleCoop is so out all the coolers with drinks and dragging thehts yet but the torches are lit and the rose pedals against the green grass make it look like there is a blanket of pink and red The balloons are rocking back and forth in the slight breeze It was perfect

Nothing else could go wrong today

"They’re pulling up the driveway!" I hear Greg yell through the house We had pulled all the cars behind the garage and down a little ways on the property She wouldn’t see thee she wouldn’t notice the balloons invading the living roointo the house

I wipe etlike the angel I always thought she was She’s wearing a long white dress that hugs her tits and large belly It flows around the rest of her body lowing from all the time we spent down at the lake this summer Sway had done whatever it was that Sway does on her hair and it is hanging long, thick and curly

"You look beautiful"

"You don’t look that bad yourself, baby" She says walking into ainstokay, Princess?"

"I’ood He even e my feet!"

I bite back the displeasure I feel about another man with his hands ona possessive ass won’t help

"Can Dee stay for dinner? I told her ere going to grill out and she said she would love to spend soive Dee a hug and start walking Izzy out to the deck

I hear her gasp fro in front of her Our friends all yell surprise and I feel her juhtly and I go to turn around She looks shocked but not about her surroundings

"Um…Axel?" I heard Dee call back fro down at the ground with an odd expression across her face

"Yeah?"

"Oh boy" She says looking up to meet my eyes and I note the apprehension

Izzy squeezes my hand, harder this tiht I almost missed it

Shit, she ain I turn to look into her eyes and frohen I see sweat beginning to gather around her temples and worry lines across her forehead