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“He fixed my bathroom and now it’s Little Mermaid.”
“Wow. Little Mermaid, huh?” Ashley was responding to Luna, but her eyes hadn’t stopped boring a hole in the side of my face.
“Yep! And he built me a dollhouse just like the one at Mrs. Birch’s house.”
It was exactly the same actually. After Luna talked about how much she loved playing with Mrs. Birch’s, Hank showed up the next day with one that was identical. When I’d asked him how he’d done that he explained that he made the one at Mrs. Birch’s and he said he still had the plans and extra materials for it.
As we pulled onto the long dirt road that led to the back of the property where the blue house sat my heart was pounding wildly in my chest. I hadn’t seen Hank since we kissed and now he was going to meet my sister. Those both felt like monumental events and they were happening simultaneously.
I was so caught up in nerves, I didn’t notice that there were cars parked along the entire drive.
“Is someone having a party?” Ashley asked.
“Um, I don’t know.”
“Look!” Luna yelled from the back seat as she pointed at a large stork bouncy house.
“It looks like a baby shower,” Ashley commented.
She was right. Well, half right.
“It’s a birthday baby shower, look Luna.” I pointed as we drove up to the house where there was a banner that read: Happy 5th Birthday Luna.
Before I stopped the car, Luna had hopped out and ran full steam toward Hank who was standing on the porch with his brothers, sister, Reagan, Isabella, and Mrs. Birch. But they weren’t the only people there. It looked like he’d invited half the town.
“Did you know about this?” Ashley asked, sounding as shocked as I was.
“No.” I shook my head as I looked over at her.
She just stared at me, her mouth opened then closed, then opened again. “I don’t even know what to say.”
That made two of us. Hank had done the impossible, he’d thrown my baby girl a surprise dream birthday party and rendered my sister speechless.
If I didn’t already think I was falling in love, this would have definitely tipped the scales in that direction.
