Chapter 161

Bri

“It's beautiful,” I said, urging tears to not fall, I’d stay strong, I wouldn’t cry.

“I made them so you can take them with you,” Lou said, “But I made this one so we can keep it here,” he said, reaching into his pocket and pulling out the figure of a dancing woman holding a moon above her head. “I wanted you to put it up somewhere we can keep it,” he said, his shoe tracing a line into the dirt as he looked down.

I wrapped my arms around Louis, and let my broken hoarse voice tell him, “It's perfect Lou, I love it,” we clung together longer than necessary, and I held in a sob. “I’m going to miss you so much kid,” I let him know. I swiped at my tears. “I’m gonna miss you too,” He mumbled quietly into my ear, his voice strained. As we pulled away I looked around at my options for the placement of the beautiful gift and found my eyes gazing up, into the branches of the lowest cypress trees. I snatched Wyatt’s hand and he didn’t complain as I urged him to follow me. When I pointed up a