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List fell to the floor.   Hastily picking it up, she stuffed it back within the confines of the spiral notebook and did not give it another thought.    
    This time she knocked.   She had learned a lesson, and what a lesson it was.   To tell the truth, it was a lesson that she would have liked to repeat – over and over again.
     
    The door flew open and a hand came out and grabbed her, pulling her into the room and straight into his arms.   He picked her up and kissed her like there was no tomorrow.   She giggled with delight, “You didn’t look to see who you were grabbing.   What if it had been someone else?”
    “Good thing it was you, I would have hated to kiss one of my brother’s like that.”   He picked her up in his arms and carried her to the desk.   Sitting down in the swivel chair, he held her on his lap.   “Now, what do you need to look up?”
    “Cake and icing recipes and to check and see what size tips I need to make the roses and hydrangeas.”   She quickly accessed a folder that she kept in her e-mail account.   “Can I print this page?”
    “Sure.”   He was busy planting soft, little kisses on the exposed skin at her neck.   Reaching around her, he deftly hit send.   “When you get ready to go pick up this stuff, I’ll take you.”
    Turning to look him in the face, she checked his expression carefully.   “Seriously, you don’t have to go.   Just map-quest me the street the stores are on and I’ll be fine.”
    “I want to spend the day with you.   Come on.”   Gladly following, she grabbed the print-out, but left the notebook where it lay.
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    She juggled the numbers in her head.   It was going to be close.   The items that she would need to buy today would come close to costing two hundred dollars.   Before checking out, Scarlet asked Alex to hold her buggy while she made a quick trip to the restroom.   While in the privacy of the stall, she cancelled the hotel reservations that she had made for the week following the wedding.   Without hesitations, she forgot about the Alamo, Enchanted rock and all of the other places that she had hoped to mark off of her bucket list.   These changes would free up enough funds to purchase the ingredients, the pans and the decorating items.  
    Annalise hadn’t thought twice about Scarlet paying for the cakes, after all she knew that Scarlet had two full-time jobs.   What Annalise didn’t know was that the medicine that Scarlet took ate up almost all of her salary.   Scarlet had also paid for the material for both dresses.   And, honest to God, she didn’t mind.   This was possibly the last thing that she would be able to do for her sister and she was glad to do it.   Tradition dictated that the bride’s family pays for the wedding and she was the only family that Annalise had.   Except for their mother, and frankly, she didn’t count.  
    Returning to Alex, who had been waiting patiently, she headed to the check-out counter.   Thankfully, the charges went through on her card and they loaded up.   “What else do you want to do while we’re in Austin?”  
    She looked at him her eyes twinkling.   “Annie’s ice cream?”
    There were five Annie’s Ice cream shops in Austin, so Alex had no trouble finding one.   “What flavor, babe?”
    “The darkest chocolaty chocolate you can find.”   He laughed at her request, but did his best to fulfill it.   “Now what?”   He was being so sweet.
    “Will you drive by the capitol building?”   She knew that there would be no overnight trip to Austin after the wedding, so this would have to do.  
    “Do you want to park and take a tour?”
    “No, driving by will do.”   He did, and Scarlet got up on her knees, so she could see as much of the beautiful building as she could.   “It’s gorgeous.”   Alex enjoyed seeing his hometown through her eyes.   He drove by the beloved University’s forty-acres, pointing out the infamous