** Eli **
In the dimming blue light of dusk, they found a small clearing among the shrubs and rolled out their picnic blanket. Eli unpacked the simple meal he had assembled on the last-minute whim — bubbling lemonade, roasted corn, lobster rolls that thankfully stayed fresh and chilled in the cooling compartment of his backpack — and set it out in a family-style arrangement.
"What, no wine and cheese this time?" Harper teased him as she reached for the supplies to make her sandwich. "Oh how I miss Hawaii."
"No seagulls either to steal your lobsters though," Eli reminded her with a smirk.
"That was not a seagull. There are no seagulls in Hawaii, I looked up the animal facts after you told me chickens are not their state bird."
"…" Eli almost did a spit-take on his lemonade.
I think we all know what Eli has in his pocket :)
With the biggest surprise coming, our naughty lessons would also be drawing near an end. I’ll miss these two, but if everything goes to plan, their story should be completed sometime around or just before mid-November (bearing a potential added bonus for Tyler/Chelsea, which I still haven’t made up my mind on yet). So if you have any requests on what else you’d like to see in the upcoming chapters, do take your last chance and let me know! Or if you have any questions or concerns regarding privilege purchases for next month, feel free to leave me a comment as well and I’ll keep you updated with the latest date estimates.
Thank you all for staying with me, and I’ll see you at the wedding <3
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