"Let's switch," Rafe said coming over to Iz and handing her the stroller. He then held out his hands for the boys. "I am not as easy to pull," he told her with a wink.
They waited in line for about 30 minutes. The boys grew more and more excited as time went on. Finally it was there turn. They decided to save time and have all three boys in the picture.
"Look familiar?" Iz asked looking at the three talking to Santa.
"Yeah it does," Rafe answered with a small smile.
The boys talked to Santa for several minutes, you could hear Rafe saying hammer hammer over the crowd. After the picture was taken they went to finish the rest of the shopping.
"I hate to do this to you Iz, but I left something at the counter." He handed her the two boys and walked away.
"Come on you guys," Iz said. "I have to get something." Moving over to another counter she bought the gift for Evelyn. She had just enough time to hide it another bag when Rafe came back.
He handed her a small piece of paper with a list on it. He gave her a wink as they walked over to the toy department and he let the boys run around.
"Santa get harder to bribe ever year."
"Rafe you are a riot." She pushed the stroller after the two boys glancing at the shelves for gifts from Santa. "Is this all he asked for?" She asked holding up the list only two items written down.
"That is all that he said," Rafe looked on as she reread the list. Knowing he was lying to her. He had asked for one other thing. For his daddy to come back and mommy to be happy again. He watched as she went running after the boys. He had never thought she was unhappy. He knew she missed David but he thought she was happy. Shaking himself out of his thoughts he moved to catch up with the group knowing that he was going to make this Christmas a happy one.
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