“This is…Thanksgiving!” she said as she stepped into the room with him and spread her arms wide to emphasize the whole room.
Jamie quietly walked around the room, poking the currently unlit sconces. He was surprised that they were real and attached to the wall. Then, he made it to the first of the pictures. Seeing him and Akiko in all the times they’d spent together the last few months along with their friends sent a flame through his chest that settled around his heart as if a small Kitsune was nuzzled around it, lending him its warmth. He looked back at the woman he loved and truly had no words. He couldn’t believe she had done all of this without him even suspecting a thing.
He turned on Leif, smiling widely, “You know about all of this!”
“I… helped,” he said, his hand cupping the
