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pre-paid debit card felt very small in her pocket.
    "Did I mention the glow-in-the-dark paint?"
    "No," he said.  "What did you do with it?"
    "It comes nearly transparent, so I painted it over the sun and put highlights where the moonbeams would hit so when the lights are off it’ll look like it’s nighttime in the mural as well."
    He smiled at her and cleaned some blue paint off of her cheek. "You are so amazing. Why don’t you let me thank you properly?"
    He put his arms around her and kissed her while the painted faces on the walls looked on. He lifted her easily, one arm around her waist, the other under her knees and carried her through the girls’ doorway. While he walked, he looked in her eyes and sang softly, "Il y a longtemps que je t'aime Jamais, jamais je ne t'oublierai."
    "That's beautiful. What does that mean?" she asked.
    He blushed and shook his head. "It's just an old Cajun song about a fountain. My mom sang it around the house when we were kids."
    "I didn't know you spoke French," she said as she put her head on his shoulder.
    He carried her  past the kitchen and into the bedroom, where the king size bed waited with its crisp sheets turned down for sleep.He had taken what he could from the furnishings in the home, including the bed in his old bedroom. Julie had gotten used to its pillow top and firm support after spending almost every night of the last few weeks in it with him.
    Jack had initially insisted he buy a new one out of concern she would be bothered by keeping his old marriage bed, but she had protested saying there was nothing wrong with it. As far as she was concerned, it was a good bed, no different than a hotel bed that might have a different couple every night, and not worth spending that kind of money pointlessly.
    She saw the candles burning on the dresser and night stands, open boxes still around on the floor, then hugged him tightly and whispered in his ear, "Oh, Jack, why’d you do all this? We still have so much to do."
    "I’m just sorry our first night in my own place has to be like this."
    "You don’t realize how rich you are."
    "I’m rich because of you." He kissed her. When they pulled back she laughed so hard he had to set her down.
    "What?" He asked, confusion written all over his face.
    "You have blue paint on your nose. :et’s go get cleaned up, I’m a mess." She pulled him into the bathroom as he glanced back at the bedroom with a wry smile on his face.
    They squeezed around in the bathroom to take off their dirty clothes. "I wish the bathroom was bigger," Jack said.
    "Beggars can’t be choosers. Besides, I can always reach you in this one." Julie wiggled a finger into his sweaty bellybutton.
    "Hey! Watch that." He tickled her back on her neck.
    "Actually, I do wish the toilet was bigger."
    "Why? You fit on it just fine."
    "Yeah, but you look like you are perching over a coffee cup. I have to shut the door or I get the giggles." He bumped into her on purpose with a laugh.
    "Why did you wear such nice clothes to move today?" she continued. "You’ve ruined the shirt with some kind of oily dirt here and here." She tickled his side and stomach to show where it was.
    "Well, your shirt is so old you have holes here and here." He tickled her back through the holes near her shoulder and sleeve making her laugh and jump. He watched her with a twinkle in his eye as she removed her shirt and shorts.
    "It’s a waste, Jack. You could have just worn an undershirt." The t-shirt she was scrubbing in the sink was so old it had holes just from being washed so many times, its black color faded to a dull gray, and the print unreadable. When she scrubbed the paint flecks off the shorts she remembered sewing them back in high school for a project. She just shook her head.
    "It’s actually the worst shirt I own. Anyway, the mall’s just up the road. No big deal." He took off the shirt and tossed it straight in the dirty clothes.
    Julie had felt a little shabby when they went out together