Chapter 113

“Yes. It’s nice we both love pancakes.”

“I love you.”

“I love you, too.” My Patrick was stationed at the foot of his bed, its burgundy duvet dotted with more pancakes on plates. Honestly, I’d been expecting to find him buck naked. Instead, he was standing there in cupid boxer shorts and a white undershirt. One more plate he held at crotch level had yet another pancake on it, one shaped like a camel. “It’s supposed to be a heart,” he said. “Looks more like a…”

“Camel,” we stated together.

“It’s awesome.” The pancake had a honey heart with a Ginside of it. Writing letters over ours had already become a tradition. “I brought you something, too.” I set down Wilbur and moved the small ladder Patrick had bought to make it easier for little dog legs to get up onto a rather high bed. “Stay down here for now.” That was something we didn’t want to make easy at the moment.

“Can I get on the bed?” Patrick asked.