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37 Times You Called My Name 096
Mia POVRyder actually bought the notebook.He set it on the table before breakfast, brand new, spine still stiff, next to the folded grocery receipt like a promotion ceremony. My mother clapped once, delighted, and immediately claimed the first page for herself."Six weeks," she said, writing the date across the top in careful letters. "Now it's official. No more bananas.""The receipt served us well," Ryder said. "We should frame it.""We are not framing a grocery receipt.""We're framing the grocery receipt."I let them argue about it while I poured coffee, and by the time I sat down they'd compromised on tucking it inside the back cover of the notebook instead, which satisfied nobody completely and therefore counted as a fair deal.The morning moved quickly after that. A dress shop two towns over had a Tuesday opening, and my mother had already called ahead. Ryder drove us, dropped us at the door, and told us to take however long we needed, that he had errands of his own, which I
37 Times You Called My Name 096
Mia POVRyder actually bought the notebook.He set it on the table before breakfast, brand new, spine still stiff, next to the folded grocery receipt like a promotion ceremony. My mother clapped once, delighted, and immediately claimed the first page for herself."Six weeks," she said, writing the date across the top in careful letters. "Now it's official. No more bananas.""The receipt served us well," Ryder said. "We should frame it.""We are not framing a grocery receipt.""We're framing the grocery receipt."I let them argue about it while I poured coffee, and by the time I sat down they'd compromised on tucking it inside the back cover of the notebook instead, which satisfied nobody completely and therefore counted as a fair deal.The morning moved quickly after that. A dress shop two towns over had a Tuesday opening, and my mother had already called ahead. Ryder drove us, dropped us at the door, and told us to take however long we needed, that he had errands of his own, which I
37 Times You Called My Name 096
Mia POVRyder actually bought the notebook.He set it on the table before breakfast, brand new, spine still stiff, next to the folded grocery receipt like a promotion ceremony. My mother clapped once, delighted, and immediately claimed the first page for herself."Six weeks," she said, writing the date across the top in careful letters. "Now it's official. No more bananas.""The receipt served us well," Ryder said. "We should frame it.""We are not framing a grocery receipt.""We're framing the grocery receipt."I let them argue about it while I poured coffee, and by the time I sat down they'd compromised on tucking it inside the back cover of the notebook instead, which satisfied nobody completely and therefore counted as a fair deal.The morning moved quickly after that. A dress shop two towns over had a Tuesday opening, and my mother had already called ahead. Ryder drove us, dropped us at the door, and told us to take however long we needed, that he had errands of his own, which I
37 Times You Called My Name 095
Mia POVThe guest list started on the back of an old grocery receipt, because none of us wanted to touch the real notebook this early in the week.We sat at the kitchen table after breakfast, my mother between us. Ryder had a pen in one hand and his coffee in the other. He wrote his own name first, as a joke, then crossed it out and wrote it again under a heading he labeled family."That's not funny," I said."It's a little funny." He slid the receipt toward me so I could add mine.I wrote my mother's name first. After that the list got harder, not because there weren't people who mattered, but because most of the people who had mattered most this past year weren't the kind you'd find in an old address book."What about the team," I said.Ryder looked up. "Which part of it.""The part that's still here." I nodded toward the window, where the morning rotation was making its slow loop past the roses. "The two who stayed the longest. They ate dinner with us more nights this year than mos
37 Times You Called My Name 094
Mia POVThe first real decision about the wedding arrived without ceremony.I came downstairs on a clear midweek morning and found my mother already at the table with the notebook open and a second, smaller list begun beside it. Ryder stood at the counter pouring coffee. He glanced at me over his shoulder and gave a small, rueful smile.“She’s been very restrained,” he said. “Only three new lines.”My mother tapped the page with the pen. “Possible dates. Nothing locked. Just the next few weekends when the garden will still have light in the late afternoon and the weather is usually steady. I checked the old almanac. That’s all.”I sat down and read the short list. Three Saturdays, spaced two weeks apart. No pressure in the handwriting. No extra details. Just the quiet possibility of choosing one.Ryder set a mug in front of me and took the chair beside mine. “We don’t have to pick today. Or this week. But if one of them feels right, we can hold it.”I looked at the dates again. The mi
37 Times You Called My Name 093
Mia POVThe notebook stayed closed for another two days before any of us felt the need to open it again.On the morning of the third day I came downstairs and found Ryder already at the table with it open in front of him, pen resting beside the page. My mother stood at the counter pouring coffee. She glanced over her shoulder and gave me a small smile that said she had noticed the same thing.“He’s been staring at it for ten minutes,” she said. “I told him not to add anything without you.”Ryder looked up, a little caught. “I wasn’t adding. I was just… looking at the shape of it. Making sure it still feels right.”I sat beside him and read the short list again. *Garden. Small. People who matter. Coast after.* The words were still enough. They hadn’t grown heavier or more complicated overnight.“They still feel right,” I said.He nodded and closed the notebook. “Then we leave it there until something needs to be decided.”Breakfast was unhurried. The conversation stayed light—weather,
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