“Oh, no. I’m being a jerk,” she said, then suddenly flung herself into my arms. “Okay, enough of that,” she said, pulling away. “You’re early, damnit. You said three. It is only one-thirty.”
“I sped a bit,” I admitted. “Wanted to get home to see my woman. Only to find home abandoned.”
“I know! You ruined the surprise.”
“So the surprise isn’t the land?”
“Well, it is. Sort of. But, obviously, I don’t plan on camping until the house is built. I mean, can you imagine?” she asked, shaking her head.
“No, not really.”
“Hey!” she hissed, slapping my chest. “You’re not supposed to agree with me.”
“Then you would need to be willing to give up the luxuries like running water and a flushing toilet.”
“Yeah, no. That’s not going to happen. Anyway… it should be here in like ten minutes, so we can just wait.”
“What will be here?”
“I’m not spoiling the surprise any more than it already is.”
“Alright. Then where are all the dogs?”
“Levee and Cato were here earlier to help me tap in a temporary fence. They’re out there living their best dog life,” she said, gesturing further in the distance.
“How big is this lot?”
“Eight acres! Can you believe it? We can build a big ol’ house and still have tons of room to put in a pool for the dogs. And maybe an obstacle course. And one of those flag toy systems to really run high-energy dogs out before bed.”
“That all sounds fucking amazing, babe,” I told her.
Because it did.
It was the dream, after all, wasn’t it?
The girl, the house, the dogs?
It was everything.
And Lark could afford to do this on her own if that was what she wanted. She was making bank with her new job, but had the freedom to mostly work from home.
Myles was off, being the charming face of the company, and loving it. When he dropped into town, he crashed on our couch for a week or so. It would be nice to eventually have a spare room for him when he wanted it.
Both of them were bringing in great salaries.
Lark was making more than enough to make both our dreams for the future come true.
That being said, she was going to have to let me pay for something. The driveway, the pool, something. If not half of everything.
Though, I had a rock in the storage space under my bike seat that said pretty soon, we’d be sharing everything.
“Oh, here it comes,” she said, smiling huge as she looked past me.
Turning, I saw what she was so excited about.
A massive fucking RV.
The kind that was a house on the road.