p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"I ducked into the small opening behind Jack. We sat down on the ground and laughed. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""I love first years." He grinned/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"span class="mceItemHidden"I nodded "Me too, they have no idea where they're getting into. Cranberry pie bake offs, house rivalry, and the scavenger hunt span class="mceItemHidden"span class="hiddenSpellError" style="border-bottom: 2px solid red; cursor: default;"lead/span/span by the Thunderbird."/span/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"span class="mceItemHidden""I can't wait to go on more adventures with you and whoever tags along. Those are my favorite things to do. I love you so much." Jack wraps his arm around my waist and takes a deep breath. "We're gonna get married someday. Just you watch, Violet Rosaline Winter, just you wait. What houses do you think our kids will be in? I'm gonna say one is a Wampus, the other two are Thunderbird. I bet we'll have twins!" /span/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"span class="mceItemHidden"I laugh "Jack, I don't really think we span class="mceItemHidden"span class="hiddenGrammarError" style="border-bottom: 2px solid green; cursor: default;"should be/span/span planning this far ahead! What if we can't have kids for some reason? What if we break up? What if span class="hiddenSpellError" style="border-bottom: 2px solid red; cursor: default;"Ilvermorny/span doesn't exist and we have to teach our hypothetical children ourselves?" /span/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Jack shakes his head. "Nope. I have our entire lives planned and if it doesn't play out. I'll jump off a building." /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"I giggle, resting my head on his shoulder. "What was the gossip?" /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"He turns to me "You cannot tell anyone! I mean anyone! Not even Juliet or Vincent!"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"I roll my eyes "Who else would I tell? You again?" /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"He shakes his head "Vi, I'm trusting you! No one!"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""I won't tell anyone! I promise. I swear on anything and everything!" /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"span class="mceItemHidden"He takes a deep breath and hesitates. "My parents are span class="mceItemHidden"span class="hiddenSpellError" style="border-bottom: 2px solid red; cursor: default;"swingers/span/span."/span/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"I crack up "That's it? That's the big secret?"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"He looks down "Yeah… I guess I'm just scared how it will impact Julia's life…" He put his head in his hands. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"span class="mceItemHidden"Julia is his little sister. She's a second year Horned Serpent, and damn is that little girl smart. She excels at almost everything (besides charms, she can't span class="mceItemHidden"span class="hiddenSuggestion" style="border-bottom: 2px solid blue; cursor: default;"quite/span/span get charms), and is the top of her class. She's gorgeous too. Jack's same curly mocha colored hair and hazel eyes. She really is great. I think if Jack broke up with me, I'd be more upset over losing Julia. Does that make me a bad girlfriend?/span/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""It won't bother Julia in the slightest." I say, gently rubbing his back. "She doesn't need to find out." /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"span class="mceItemHidden"He slowly looks up. "Wanna go on an adventure with me this weekend? You, me, Juliet, Vincent? Maybe span class="mceItemHidden"a couple of others/span?" He smiles/span/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"span class="mceItemHidden"I span class="mceItemHidden"uncrossed/span my legs. "Sure, where to though?"/span/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"span class="mceItemHidden""The forest?" he shrugs "I mean, we didn't get very far in span class="mceItemHidden"span class="hiddenGrammarError" style="border-bottom: 2px solid green; cursor: default;"there/span/span last year. We can try again!"/span/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"I sit there for a second. "Okay. Yeah, of course! We have to make a plan and a list of what to bring." /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"span class="mceItemHidden""Duh. We can do that tomorrow in the library with everyone." He looked down at his watch "Oh wow! It's already 10! We need to get to bed. Classes start and we have to make our plans!" He stands up and held his hand out to help me up. I grab it and stand up. He walks me up to the Wampus dorms./span/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""I'll see you tomorrow, doll." He kisses me/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""I love you, Jack. I'll see you tomorrow."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""I love you too." He called as he started walking away./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""I love first years." He grinned/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"span class="mceItemHidden"I nodded "Me too, they have no idea where they're getting into. Cranberry pie bake offs, house rivalry, and the scavenger hunt span class="mceItemHidden"span class="hiddenSpellError" style="border-bottom: 2px solid red; cursor: default;"lead/span/span by the Thunderbird."/span/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"span class="mceItemHidden""I can't wait to go on more adventures with you and whoever tags along. Those are my favorite things to do. I love you so much." Jack wraps his arm around my waist and takes a deep breath. "We're gonna get married someday. Just you watch, Violet Rosaline Winter, just you wait. What houses do you think our kids will be in? I'm gonna say one is a Wampus, the other two are Thunderbird. I bet we'll have twins!" /span/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"span class="mceItemHidden"I laugh "Jack, I don't really think we span class="mceItemHidden"span class="hiddenGrammarError" style="border-bottom: 2px solid green; cursor: default;"should be/span/span planning this far ahead! What if we can't have kids for some reason? What if we break up? What if span class="hiddenSpellError" style="border-bottom: 2px solid red; cursor: default;"Ilvermorny/span doesn't exist and we have to teach our hypothetical children ourselves?" /span/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Jack shakes his head. "Nope. I have our entire lives planned and if it doesn't play out. I'll jump off a building." /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"I giggle, resting my head on his shoulder. "What was the gossip?" /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"He turns to me "You cannot tell anyone! I mean anyone! Not even Juliet or Vincent!"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"I roll my eyes "Who else would I tell? You again?" /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"He shakes his head "Vi, I'm trusting you! No one!"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""I won't tell anyone! I promise. I swear on anything and everything!" /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"span class="mceItemHidden"He takes a deep breath and hesitates. "My parents are span class="mceItemHidden"span class="hiddenSpellError" style="border-bottom: 2px solid red; cursor: default;"swingers/span/span."/span/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"I crack up "That's it? That's the big secret?"/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"He looks down "Yeah… I guess I'm just scared how it will impact Julia's life…" He put his head in his hands. /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"span class="mceItemHidden"Julia is his little sister. She's a second year Horned Serpent, and damn is that little girl smart. She excels at almost everything (besides charms, she can't span class="mceItemHidden"span class="hiddenSuggestion" style="border-bottom: 2px solid blue; cursor: default;"quite/span/span get charms), and is the top of her class. She's gorgeous too. Jack's same curly mocha colored hair and hazel eyes. She really is great. I think if Jack broke up with me, I'd be more upset over losing Julia. Does that make me a bad girlfriend?/span/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""It won't bother Julia in the slightest." I say, gently rubbing his back. "She doesn't need to find out." /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"span class="mceItemHidden"He slowly looks up. "Wanna go on an adventure with me this weekend? You, me, Juliet, Vincent? Maybe span class="mceItemHidden"a couple of others/span?" He smiles/span/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"span class="mceItemHidden"I span class="mceItemHidden"uncrossed/span my legs. "Sure, where to though?"/span/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"span class="mceItemHidden""The forest?" he shrugs "I mean, we didn't get very far in span class="mceItemHidden"span class="hiddenGrammarError" style="border-bottom: 2px solid green; cursor: default;"there/span/span last year. We can try again!"/span/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"I sit there for a second. "Okay. Yeah, of course! We have to make a plan and a list of what to bring." /span/p
p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"span class="mceItemHidden""Duh. We can do that tomorrow in the library with everyone." He looked down at his watch "Oh wow! It's already 10! We need to get to bed. Classes start and we have to make our plans!" He stands up and held his hand out to help me up. I grab it and stand up. He walks me up to the Wampus dorms./span/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""I'll see you tomorrow, doll." He kisses me/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""I love you, Jack. I'll see you tomorrow."/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;" /p
p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;""I love you too." He called as he started walking away./span/p