“Oh.” She muffled into Alice‘s neck. “I have another surprise for you.”

“Really? What is it?”

“Now Alice, if I told you it wouldn’t be a surprise.” She pulled away from Alice. “Wait right here.” Dana ran out the door and came back in a couple of seconds with a glass case in her hands with the words “Hand Made For Alice Pieszecki” on it.

“Wow! It’s beautiful, Dana.”

“Hold on.” She handed the glass case to Alice. “Here’s the first part of the surprise. Go ahead, open it.”

Alice took the glass case and opened it slowly. “Oh God, Dana. It’s so beautiful.” Inside the glass case was a brand new, shiny gold guitar pick with signature of the best pick maker, Rendold Travis. It was in the shape of a heart.

“Turn it around.”

Alice slowly picked it up and turned it around. In the back there were words that looked like a child wrote them but you could tell they were carefully written like that on purpose. It said “Alice + Dana = Love”. Alice just looked at, wondering when Dana had this made.

“Do you like it?” After waiting a few minutes of waiting and no answer, Dana looked sadly at the ground. Tears were threatening to come out when Dana felt Alice put her hand under her chin and brought her head up. Alice looked Dana in the eyes, with tears in hers, and said, “I love it.” And she wrapped herself around Dana and Dana responded immediately and held on to her, never wanting to let go.

“I love it, Dana. Besides you, it’s the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen in my life.”

“So, I guess you want the other half of the surprise?”

“Yes I do! The suspense is killing me Dana.”

“Oh, we can’t have that, now can we? So I’ll be right back.” Dana left once again and this time it took her a little while to come back. She came back with an instrument case. “That damn thing is heavy.” She muttered to herself when she put it down. “Okay Alice. Here it is.”

Alice walked over to the case. On the top it said, just like the pick case, “Hand Made For Alice Pieszecki”. She carefully opened it. When she opened it, she saw the most beautiful guitar. It was gold and matched the pick. It was in the shape of an “A” In the middle was a picture of her and Dana together and above it, it said “Together Forever”. She took it out of the case and put the strap over her shoulder.