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“That’s not fair!” I shout as Em hits me again with the water gun. She continues until I surrender and throw her over my shoulder as she laughs at me.

“Kingston put me down.”

“What, baby?”

She starts pinching my behind and I can’t reach her hand to slap it away.

“Stop that.”

“Well put me down now.”

I throw her in the water.

She breaks the surface and her stern gazes meets mine.

“Not like that.”

“You asked for it.”

“I said put me down not toss me in the lake.”

We are up at Miles’ vacation home in Cape Cod we have come the past two years as one big massive family. It has enough beds for everyone. We play games, cook together, laugh, have fun, it’s a tradition I don’t see us breaking anytime soon.

This is sort of our last hoorah. All together. After this we all go our separate ways. Yeah we’ll stay in touch but it won’t be the same. Unless we all live near each other again.

When we leave here tomorrow we will be making the journey to New York. Sin