They both turned back to the truck, which was only half
 
 full, but the old adage applied. It was also half finished. Cassia
 
 didn’t actually mind getting all hot and sweaty and dirty. She
 
 didn’t mind how Adalynn had run with her idea to get the
 
 goats and chickens either. They had lots of room for them, and
 
 they’d become a huge part of their messy, sometimes chaotic
 
 life. A part of their house which was slowly moving toward
 
 becoming complete, with the one huge turret.
 
 It was a perfect time to think about a family. The yard might
 
 be getting full, but the house was big and sprawling and empty
 
 with just the two of them. Not that it wasn’t perfect already,
 
 but it could be more perfect as their love grew, as the years
 
 passed, as they changed together, as they grew old together, as
 
 they did life and all that good stuff with one another.
 
 Cassia paused, bale in hand. “Why did you come over and
 
 talk to me that night in the lounge? I mean, I know what
 
 you’ve told me, but did you sense that we’d be here now?
 
 Talking about kids and being goat moms and chicken moms?
 
 Here in this little town, in the wonky and amazing house,
 
 photographing local weddings and graduations and families
 
 and babies together?”
 
 “Yes,” Adalynn joked. “I saw all of that coming down the
 
 line for us.”
 
 Cassia rolled her eyes. “You did not. You just wanted to talk
 
 to me because you thought I was pretty and intriguing and
 
 lonely.”
 
 “And so much more. I sensed that you were more. I couldn’t
 
 put my finger on it, and no, I didn’t see us doing all those
 
 things, especially not doing the kind of photography I vowed
 
 I’d never do, but I did know that you were special.”