At 5 pm, I am woken by Jai kissing me. "It's time to wake up beautiful. We're going on the River Siene tonight."

Opening my eyes I look at him. "I don't want to go."

The door to the bedroom opens Nate and Aleysa walk into the room. Aleysa climbs onto the bed with me. "Please, sis. I want to see the Eiffel Tower at night. It looks beautiful from all the clips I've seen on YouTube."

I look at her. "Are you going to tell me what's going on with Jai and you?" I whisper to her.

She shakes her head. "It's nothing bad, Chloe. Please, trust us." She looks at Jai. "You know he would never do anything to hurt you."

I know, but I'm the type of person that hates surprises.

Jai has never done anything to me for me to doubt him, but seeing the name 'Candy' is making me think that I don't know the man that I love and I really hate this feeling.

Looking at everyone, I say. "Get out. I need to get changed."

Aleysa, Nate and Jai walk out of the room.

Climbing out of bed I walk over to the closet and pull out a pair of jeans and a t-shirt. The door to the room opens and Jai walks into the room.

He kisses my shoulder. "I know you're jealous of 'Candy,' but you shouldn't be. She's just an owner of a store that I..."

I don't want him to ruin whatever it is he has planned. I need to distract him from spilling whatever it is he wants to keep from me.

I pull him toward me and place my lips on his. I wrap my arms behind his neck.

He deepens the kiss.

When we pull apart I am panting from the kiss.

Jai opens the door and we walk through it. "The limo will be waiting out front for us. The driver has some drinks for us in the fridge."

Aleysa smiles. "Can I have some champagne?"

She's never going to have it, so I don't see why I shouldn't give her a little bit.

I climb into the limo and sit next to Jai. Aleysa sits on the other side of me. I pour four glasses of champagne. I fill Nate and Aleysa's glasses a quarter of the way.

A smile spreads across Aleysa's face. "You're the best big sister in the world."

I laugh. "I'm glad you think so."

"How many kids around my age would be able to try something like this."

Looking at her. "Mom and Dad let me have a bit of there drinks while I was growing up. When I turned twenty-one drinking wasn't a big deal to me. It's just a milestone that you won't make it to."

She hugs me. "At least you're giving me the experience of alcohol before I go."

"Don't expect this all the time."

Aleysa looks at me. "What are we doing for my birthday tomorrow?"

Jai leans forward. "How about I take you to a fancy restaurant to celebrate."

"That would be great." She at Jai. "I thought your parents would be here to celebrate with us."

"They are. They're staying somewhere else. They thought that we should be together as a family tonight. Mom wants to take you shopping tomorrow."

Aleysa looks at me. "Can I go?"

"Sure," I take a sip of wine. "I'm going to come with you. I need to buy a new dress for when we go out tomorrow."

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The limo pulls in front of the wharf and we climb out of the car.

Jai takes my hand and we walk over to the boat. "There's food and drinks on the boat. I ordered everything we needed for the night on the Siene River."

A woman walks over to us and she smiles. "Welcome, Mr Marshall. I'm Jenny. I will be one of the waiters tonight." She turns towards me and smiles. "Hi," she squeaks.

"Hi, I'm Chloe."

A boy walks out with a tray of drinks. "Hi, everyone. I am Simon and I will be your other waiter tonight. The table is set for you." He shows us to the table. He places the drinks in front of us. "If you need anything please let us know."

"We will."

They walk away.

The boat pulls away from the wharf and it takes us around. I look around and I see the Eiffel Tower and there are lights on it.

The waiters walk over to us and put the food on the table. "Dinner is ready." They take the lids off the silver tray.

Aleysa looks at the first tray and it has snails on it. She points to it. "What's that?"

Jai picks up the snail and he scoops it out with a toothpick and he puts it in his mouth. He begins to chew it.

Leaning over to Aleysa I whisper. "That's a snail."

"Eww, Jai that's disgusting. How can you eat that?" She shakes her head. "I'm not going to shove that in my mouth."

I might try something different. It might be the last time that I come to Paris.

I do what Jai did and I put it in my mouth and it's chewy. It takes me a while to finish it.

Aleysa starts gagging. "I'm going to be sick." She climbs to her feet and runs to the toilet.

I finish eating the snail and I drink some water. "I'm going to check on Aleysa." I rise and walk to the bathroom. I knock on the door. "Aleysa?"

The toilet flushes and she opens the door. "Can you make sure the snails aren't on the table when I return please?"

"Okay," I walk over to the table and I look at the waiters. "Could you please take away the snails? My sister doesn't like..." I cut myself off as they clear the table of that tray. I sit next to Jai and take his hand. "I can't believe we made her sick."

Jai laughs. "It's the first time I've ever seen that happen when it comes to French food. I'm glad we weren't in a fancy restaurant when that happened."

Yeah, that would be embarrassing.

Aleysa returns and she sits next to me. "Can we get some photos of the Eiffel Tower behind us, please?"

"Sure," I look at Jai and my brother. "Photo time." I look at the waitress. "Can you take a picture of us?"

She takes the camera from me and she takes a picture of us with the Eiffel Tower behind us."

I look at the picture and a smile spreads across my face. "It's perfect. Thank you so much." I show it to everyone and they like it as well. I save the picture as a screensaver.

I'll have to get that photo developed when we get home. I should put it on the mantelpiece. At least then everyone can look at one of the last pictures we have of Aleysa.

Aleysa lies her head on my shoulder. "Paris is a beautiful City. I'm glad that we got to come here for my Birthday."

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