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"Oh Jess! I’ushed

"Me too!" she squealed

"Me too!" Braden called out from the other room "The walls are really thin in here, by the way" Bruno yipped in agreeone back to DC to finish his last year of law school but Beth, who lived with her parents and worked at the artartistic had hit it off particularly well Beth was a painter and she was really talented Lily encouraged her to enter her work in various art shows and Beth encouraged Lily to do ht with all four of us on Sunday while the guys were doing Ga at that e a foro out It’s going to be in the Grand Ballroo a little queasy, which didn’t stopup a Triscuit with port wine cheese

"Wow that should be quite a guest list," Jess said "Senators and CEO’s" She popped the cork on a bottle of Chianti and filled all of our glasses

"You know, Braden and I are actually allowed to invite our friends too," I pointed out

"I’ll bet theon the floor, pointed out, popping a grape into herdown a flight of stairs orto do with no cat, no kid, and no laundry?

"Braden will ’s okay, Gabrielle He’s used to stuff like this" Beth was such a sweet person I was really going to like having her as a sister-in-law, and having grown up with Drew, I probably wouldn’t even eed a lot?" Lily joked

"No!" Beth laughed "My mother alht?" I asked nervously

"Of course! She was so thrilled that she called every hu on the planet who she knew and soh "Our ed by the end of the day"

"Well, Braden made my mom so happy that I think shea child after hi a baby carrot in some unidentified dip-like stuff

"So, everyone is happy, and nothing weird has happened lately, right?" Lily asked

"Well, no h, we do feel likeus, and I have to adet toit Nobody’s following you, Gab," Jess said reassuringly "It’s probably just nerves fro that’s happened in the past few ht – just nerves That’s probably all it is"

That week Senator and Mrs Tyler Pierce and Mr and Mrs Benjaement of their children, Braden Tyler, and Gabrielle Sarah Within days of the announcement, which was picked up in several national and local newspapers, and on various websites, the feeling of being followed and watched became more than occasional Noas alhty tired of it If the police couldn’t do anything then ould just have to try to figure it out ourselves Unfortunately, we didn’t have o on other than the possibility that our shadoas some kind of conspiracy theorist