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“No party and no cake” I step in front of the couch, blocking her view of the pink box I shoved underneath it I still won’t share it unless she’s staying A o

“I’ood at this, Tank”

“Good at what?”

“At being happy At being used to this and everything that comes with it I don’t kno to be a wife”

“You’re being you, Bea That’s all I ever wanted I’ll take the good and the bad and we’ll learn the rest together”

“There’s a lot of things I’ and takes out the bears I’d given her right after we got ues and one in a wedding dress I hadn’t noticed they were gone when she left, butshe took our bears with her

“We have tiure that out”

“I’m not ready for babies, but I do want to build a family with you”

We take steps closer to each other The bears get squished between us and I hold her in ht be ready and it’s a baby we hold between us I don’t tell her that because I knoill freak her out, but I do search her face to confirm the possibility It’s there I kneould be, but sometimes you just need to know

“Is that cake I suely familiar pink box?” Her neck strains a she tries to see, and I swing her around, blocking her view

“Oh, I don’t know I guess it depends on a few things”

“Like?”

“If you’re staying or leaving” My sto a bite of the cake, but I need my wife more Cake can alhen she’s in my arms

“I never wanted to go in the first place”

“But you did, and there’s nothing stopping you froain”