one day.

“One day,” he said as they passed a puddle, “I’m going to buy a nice coat just so I can put it down over a puddle and you can walk on it.”

She looked up at him, head tilted to the side and a small smile crossing her face. He nodded, “And you’ll say, ‘Hey, couldn’t I have just as easily walked around that? That was a nice coat I bought you.’”

“I thought you were buying the coat,” she laughed, putting her hands in her pockets and her smile growing wider. He liked to see her smile so big.

He shrugged and said, “Just one day, I’m going to do that.”