I quickly knelt down next to Gregory and pacified him, saying, “Silly boy, Mommy only left for a while. How could I have left you behind? Didn’t we agree that we’d stick together?”

However, Gregory could not be so easily appeased. He frowned in deep thought. After a moment, his eyes lit up. Extending his tiny pinky towards me he claimed, “We didn’t make a pinky promise last time, so it didn’t count. Now we have to!”

I put on an unsmiling face and hooked my pinky with Gregory’s. He cheered up considerably afterward.

Looking down at Gregory clad smartly in a tuxedo, I guessed that the three of them were heading out to dinner. In a friendly manner, I asked, “Are you going out to dinner tonight, Gregory?”

Before Gregory could reply, Ashton cut in with a low voice, “We’re going to meet my parents. You have to come too.”

We’re going to meet the Hall family? I thought, amused. I guess today isn’t a wasted trip after all.

I smiled cheerfully at Ashton, then replied, “Sure! Let me go back and change. Wait here for me.”

“It’s alright,” Ashton commanded, halting me in my tracks. “You can come as you are. There’s no need to be so formal.”

the

him, holding tightly onto Gregory’s hand. At

the Hall family. They must be a callous bunch who attempted to wipe out their own son and

in the front. We seemed

to see me and naturally chattered on endlessly, filling me in with all the news from

with the younger children at school, do you? Do you find them dull? If you have a younger sister who’s very childish, would you dislike

won’t!” Gregory declared stoutly. “I’ll stay with my sister always and protect her. I won’t

amusing contrast with his still-babyish voice. A picture of Gregory and Audrey holding onto each other suddenly surfaced in

Gregory’s hair. I looked at him fondly, commending, “You’ve

away from the mirror the instant

me with another look of utter

he had full assurance that

flew by as I was thus occupied in thought. It seemed as

and me forward while holding onto Gregory’s hand,

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