"Let's take our time. It’s not New Year's just yet!"
"Sure. Are you going to the company's New Year's dinner?" Avery asked. "My vice president told me that the employees would like to see you during the dinner since you are one of our biggest shareholders."
"I'll go if you want me to, otherwise I will just stay home." Elliot did not like crowds and was not particularly interested in the New Year's dinners for either his or Avery's company.
"That's pretty much like saying you don't want to go! I'll just take the kids with me, then."
He immediately changed his response once he saw her reaction, "Take me too if you are taking the kids to dinner!" "Sure. We’ll see how it goes in a few days! I haven't even mentioned it to the kids!" Avery rubbed at her stomach and said, "I still prefer summer. The sky won't turn dark this early during summer! It's not just cold during winter, but the days just seem so much shorter, and the days just fly by me so quickly."
"Every day of the year flies by quickly. Sometimes when I look like Hayden and Layla, I can’t even believe that these are my children." Elliot felt emotional. "Have you recorded them growing up?"
"What kind of record? Photos or like diaries?"
"Both. I missed out on their early years so I'm quite curious to see what they were like before that."
Avery nodded. "I remember showing you photos from when they were born. I have an album at home with photos of them when they were younger. I will grab that for you."
"Sure."
Avery went into the room that Laura stayed in and took out the album to hand to Elliot.
"I’ve stopped printing out photos since I came back to Aryadelle. I should reorganize the photos on my phone and print them out for another album. I prefer having a physical copy. I used to upload the kids' photos to an online platform. There were a lot of them. I even had photos of my pregnancy, but at some point, I couldn't log into the account. I kept getting an error that said my password was incorrect and I can’t get them back."
Avery regretted it horribly. "Even if I want to look at the photos of Hayden ;c!;UNY= Layla when they were newly born, there are only a few of those on the album."
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