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Why do couples need names? But if they do need one, how about Chevrotina?

Cal_45

Vevy

BobToo

Cheval

SweetPea43

Cheval

BagelBytes

I don’t approve of the idea, but I really hate Cheval, so if I did vote—which I’m not—it would be for Vevy.

The_Real_Shell_E

Cheval!!!!!!!

WayneNGarthBrooks

Cheval

Chels

VEVY. Would YOU want your couple name to mean horse?

BagelBytes

I wouldn’t want a couple name to begin with.

Vanz

I guess Cheval is okay if no one else likes Chevrotina.

Neighborly Mod

The comments on this thread have been closed. But let the record show that Cheval earned more votes. Please remember to be kind and above all, Neighborly!

CHAPTER 26

Chevy

“You’re humming again.”

Blowing out a frustrated breath I drop my pen and glare at Grant, sitting one desk away, a similar stack of folders in front of him. “Yeah, and?”

“This paperwork doesn’t seem likely to inspire humming.”

It normally wouldn’t. A pretty riled up and boozed up farmer named Butch got a little rowdy while being brought in last night and knocked over a file cabinet. Today, Grant and I have the pleasure of going through and making sure all the paperwork is in the right folders. So, yeah—it sucks. But I’ll see Val later.

My fellow deputy is grinning. The kind of grin that says he knows why I’m grinning because he’s all caught up on Neighborly gossip. Which this week has largely centered around Val and me.

We’re suddenly the Brangelina of Sheet Cake—hopefully with a more promising future ahead. Our couple name is worse. In a Neighborly poll, the votes went in favor of Cheval, which sounds like a French perfume designer and is only slightly better than Vevy.

You’d think the family of football players moving to town and falling in love with Sheeters would garner more attention. And while the Grahams certainly have held their fair share of the small-town spotlight, the interest in Val and me is greater.

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