“Obviously.” he replies with a quiet smile as the numbers blink on the wall. Soon they open and the cool night air greets them but it isn’t freezing, thankfully. It wasn’t even snowing, the skies open and bright, and the stars shining down from above.
Jack wheels her out to the section where people would normally sit and eat at when the cafe up on the roof was open. He sets her besides a table, and begins messing with the bag on his back.
Katelynn is busy looking up at the stars, admiring them quietly and humming in pleasure. How she loved watching the stars. They were just so beautiful, like fairy dust twinkling against a black stretch of cloth, providing some form of light and guidance to people.
“It’s so beautiful out tonight…” she whispers, her gaze never straying from the sky. Her eyes seek out constellations and the moon.
Jack pulls out two thin pieces of cardboard and sets them down on the table before also grabbing a pencil case. He sets it besides the other two things before he begins to open them.
“It really is,” he replies, pausing to glance up at the sky as well. “we’re really lucky. We’ll be able to see the fireworks from the park really easy tonight. But first, I want to do this with you.” Jack draws her attention to the object he pulls from the cardboard. A flat floating lantern. “We’re making lanterns, and we’re going to write on it what we want for the new year…! T-then, when it strikes midnight, we’ll let them go and they’ll fly into the sky.”
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