C192 The Beach

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Three months later....

"Mom! Mom! Let's go out to the beach, I heard it's way cool at the beach!" Fred tried to pull Valeria off the bed, but she wasn't going to get up, not even if the world came crashing at that very moment.

"Not today, please. Let me be Fred, I promise I'll take you there some other time."

"But mom...that's what you said last month, and the last two weeks