“This is Bro, Belle’s brother. I couldn’t leave him at the pound, could I?” Dee said.
“Nooo,” I replied rubbing the backs of both the quivering dogs. “Siblings have to be together.” As I said the words, I looked up at my sister and burst into tears. “You’re moving across the street.”
She plopped down beside me and cried. “I am. I’m so happy.”
“I am too,” I blubbered.
“Brooke swears she’s not leaving Millennium Towers,” Dee said.
“We’ll get her over here yet.”
We threw our arms around each other while crying and laughing.”
“I’m starving,” I confessed while drying my tears with the hem of my shirt. “Busy afternoon…if you know what I mean.”
Dee howled with laughter. “Let’s send the guys for pizza. What do you think?”
“I think that sounds perfect,” I said.
I smiled as I saw my future full of family meals and rowdy dogs. Children? Who knew? But whatever came my way, I knew Zack and the rest of my family would always be there, and there was nothing more I could ever want.
“C’mon, Belle. I’ll race you and Bro to the back fence.” I took off in a run, both dogs barking and racing past me.
My sister’s laughter floated down from my deck.
I’m thinking that maybe Carmichael Gardens should be renamed Carmichael Heaven because I was surely in FHeaven on Earth.