Sarah & Daphne

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Sarah is watching T.V when she hears the moving truck outside. It's loud, annoyingly so. She didn't know the neighbours were moving.

It goes on for five or ten minutes, that loud, annoying moving truck. Then it sounds a little too close. It sounds like it's her driveway, not the neighbours.

Sarah gets up off the couch, leaving Peter to watch Daphne play. She opens the door.

A man is walking up to the door, and he smiles as he sees her. There's a moving truck in her driveway, unloading something massive.

"Are you Sarah Howard?" the man asks.

Sarah looks at the truck. "Yes."

"If you could just sign here for this delivery—"

"I didn't order anything."

"I believe you did. If you could just sign, the item is already paid for."

Sarah steps by him. Walks down the sidewalk to the driveway. She peers into the back of the moving van.

It's a piano. Not a baby grand or a keyboard, but a grand piano. Not any grand piano, but a one-point-two-million-dollar custom painted Steinway. Along the body, down the legs, are the stunning depictions of the planets.

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