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"Ha! Alex, you better start teaching her, or that lovely sketch isn’t going to belong to you anymore"

"Fine" He leaned forward and pointed at the menu "This is the word for stuffed What do you think would be good stuffed?" His eyes twinkled atI’d like to stuff, all right And who I’d like to do the stuffing

"Chicken? Lah it was hard to do

"Chicken So, this is the word for chicken, this is stuffed, and see how these words are in the front? They tell you what the chicken is stuffed with Here" He turned the ure out any of the other dishes with these words"

"What is this? Advanced classes? What happened to starting with the alphabet?" I let my eyes run over the menu and tried to pick out words that seeh school French class

"Go over there and help her! She’s starving and Luca will be back any minute" Cathy shoved his shoulder

He looked at me and I could see the hesitation in his eyes, but he slid out of the booth and in besideclose, he pointed out some of the words that would help reat and ere ready to order Luca ca Alex’s exit fro wine

"This is one ofho a sip I wasn’t e or not It also struck me as odd every time someone welcomed me home I understood why they said it, but horown up

"To the Rousseau falass

"To Salass of wine

The food was delicious and I was coht several bowls of chocolate roaned

"Make roo" Cathy dove into her boith relish and I looked at Alex He had finally relaxed next to h the dinner His ars stretched out under the table

"Where does she put it all?"

"No idea, but if you want to try it, you better do it before she finishes hers"

"You only live once, Saer and I realized that was the first time she had called me by my nickname A little piece of me relaxed and I picked up my spoon

The dessert melted in my mouth and it was like I had sed a little piece of heaven I closed my eyes and just enjoyed the flavors There was a hint of raspberry fro the rest of the bowl in et the spoon When I opened ree my mouth with a stony expression