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Lucy cliled up as close as she could to Piper

"How uys?" I followed Brody to the door

"More than all the stars in the sky and the waves in the sea," they sang together

"And howin close to , "Listen to this"

"More than all the zeros in your new contract" Piper giggled

I sht it to the to your mom Pretty awesoirls"

"Night, Twinkies!" he called over me

"Night, Mo onto the couch in the faonna lay there and fall asleep" Brody grabbed ive you your present Co?"

"Outside"

"Outside? Can’t you bring it here? I’hed

"Who’s the pain in the ass now?" he teased, leading o"

We walked out the front door and he grabbed ht, around the side of the house

"Uh, last tiain trying not to step on anything

He turned back to ot to the back of the house and started our way down the hill when a light up ahead caught h the darkness and realized it wasn’t a light, but a row of lanterns on the pier

Our pier

"What did you do?" I squeezed his hand and grinned at hie of the sand

"You’ll see"

We stepped onto the creaky wood and I stopped walking for ait was Little silver lanterns lined both sides of the pier, lighting the whole thing up just beautifully

"Coot closer to the end of the pier, I finally noticed the white box with a perfectly tied red bow sitting at the end

"What’s that?" I cooed

He bent over and picked it up, handing it to ed on one end of the bow and it unraveled s my hand around it so it didn’t drop in the water, I lifted the lid of the box and moved the tissue paper to the side

Confused, I frowned up at Brody "My View-Master?"