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“Where did you even find this?” Lucas groans as Eliott opens the box and dumps all the pieces on the table.
“My mom gave it to me,” Eliott says excitedly as he rummages through the puzzle and starts separating out the edge pieces. He gasps. “I found a corner! Now which one is it…” He trails off as he picks up the lid of the puzzle box and tries to match the piece to the picture.
Lucas gingerly picks up a piece and twists it through his fingers peeking over Eliott’s shoulder at the image they’re supposed to be creating. He groans again. It’s a picture of some sort of carnival, which means every piece has at least four different colors on it, swirled together to create chaos. Not only that, but the pieces are tiny and… “Eliott! That’s a 1,000 piece puzzle!”
Eliott looks up from where he’s trying to force two pieces together that definitely do not fit. “So?” he asks innocently.
“That’ll take us forever,” Lucas whines.
“We’ve got time, baby,” Eliott says sweetly, pulling Lucas down in the chair next to him. And Lucas can’t help but go with him.