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She nodded and took a sip of her coffee

"What do you think of her? She kept looking at led "I don’t really know her yet, but from what I’ve seen so far, I like her A lot, actually She’s sweet and really funny Sometimes inappropriate, but mostly funny"

"Inappropriate, huh?" I shook my head "Sounds like the perfect woet married?"

"No way"

"Who’s Viper?" Lucy asked

"Uh… Viper is one of my friends" I chose my words carefully No way could I ever accurately describe Viper to a six-year-old without scaring the hell out of her

"Does he play hockey too?" Piper chimed in

"Yep He’s on my team"

"Why did his mommy name him Viper?" Lucy scrunched up her nose in disapproval when she said his name

"That’s not his real nahed quickly "His real name is Lawrence Finkle"

Lucy and Piper shoveled their soup in their ly unaffected by what I’d just said Kacie, on the other hand, stared at me with her mouth open

"Viper’s real name is Lawrence Finkle?"

"You didn’t know that?" I cocked awked at me in disbelief "That’s like… the nerdiest name ever!"

"Finkle Tinkle," Lucy said to Piper before exploding in laughter

Piper crossed her eyes and responded, "Finkle Tinkle Winkle"

Lucy threw her head back and laughed so hard the vein in her neck popped out A second later, Piper joined her, giggling hysterically

I looked at Kacie and tilted irls "Easy crowd, huh?"

She didn’t even hearhyenas with that low all over her face If anyone ever asked me to, it would be really hard to describe exactly what love looks like, but I got to witness it firsthand every tiirls The way she loved them made me love her more, if that was even possible

A moment later, she came out of her Twinkie coma and looked at uys just rabbed her hand and pulled the top of it againstit there We were at her work and with the girls, so I was trying to be respectful, but I needed to have physical contact with her