"For real! I get it, though."

He would finally get the last of the tape off and open the box, revealing the REAL prize....a thick layer of bubble wrap!

His inner child came out immediately and he started popping the bubble wrap, snickering. Pop pop pop.

Sometimes I'll fall so deep into the pit that it feels impossible to recover from. No matter what, I will continue to learn and grow and improve. I will continue to love and trust myself and lift myself up, because if I don't, who will.

It's not over. I shall keep moving regardless.

"Heh! I'd hope you'd have better equipment than /that/ at home. I haven't used any of that stuff in years!"

Once he'd sat his box down, Luke excitedly began to rip the seemingly neverending supply of tape off of it.

"Jesus, there's so much freaking tape on this..."

"...What?"

treadmill, a bench press, and some dumbbells over in a corner.

"Here we are! Sit em anywhere that those aren't!"

"Oh really, you gotta show me your place as well sometime! Lemme show you down to the basement."

Leading him through the house, he'd head towards a stairway, one side leading up, the other side leading down, and he'd lead him downstairs. Then he'd turn the light on to reveal a room with an old -

a chandelier, and a flatscreen.

"Here we are!"