My dearest Anya

A trip down memory lane

Anya's POV
It's the evening and the twin are playing in their bedroom. Damian is cleaning the dishes. He insisted that I just relax and that he'll do it. I tried to get him to let me do it because he did it last night and I felt bad but he insisted. I go to the bookshelf to pull one of the books off to read it. Then something catches my eye. It's a bright blue binder. Damian come sun just as I stand on my tippy toes to try to get it. "Whoa hey let me get that for you" he says. I put my feet flat on the floor and smile at him. He hands it to me. "Thank you" I say. "Of course" he says.

He leans down and kisses me and I kiss him back. We pull apart and I go and sit down on the couch. He sits next to me and puts his arm over my shoulders. I gasp as I open it. "It's the pictures I kept from our school days!!" I say excitedly. He smiles. "Wow! I didn't even know we had them" he replies. "I knew I just forgot about them I guess" I say. He nods. We begin flipping through the pictures. We saw a picture of us being made to hold hands as six year olds. "Oh I remember that" he says. "Yeah we did not get along back then. We got in trouble didn't we and our punishment was to hold hands the rest of the day if I remember correctly" I say. He nods in agreement. We keep flipping through the pictures.

We laugh at some and recall memories at others. We get disrupted by two pairs of feet running down the stairs. Leo stops behind the couch first. He peers over the couch at us. "Mama what's that?" He asks. I turn around and see my 8 year old standing there. "Hey Leo come here" I say. He rounds the couch and comes over to me. I let him sit on my lap. "This is a book of pictures from mine and your dads school days" I say. His eyes light up. "Can I see them?" He asks. I smile at him. I look at Damian and he nods.

"Sure" I say. Elizabeth then comes running from the kitchen. "Elizabeth please don't run in the house" I say. She stops running. "Sorry Mama" she says. I smile at her. "It's alright I just don't want you getting hurt that's all" I say. She nods and smiles. "Come here" Damian says. She walks around the couch and sits on Damian's lap. "What's that Dad?" She asks. "That is a book full of our pictures when we were still in school" he says. She looks at me and I nod. "Let's look at them please!!" She shouts. We laugh. "Of course" I say. The twins look so excited.

Damian's POV
The twins are so excited but I'm not sure why. Anya begins slowly flipping the pages and we start looking at the pictures. "Mama what happened in that one?" Leo asks pointing at a picture. I look at the picture. It's 13 year old me on the ground with a skinned knee and Damian beside me helping me out. "Ah that one.." Anya says with a slight smile. "In that one your Mama had been playing..what was it volleyball?" I ask. "Yeah I think i was just trying it out because a lot of my friends were playing it" she says. "But they were playing it outside and she ran to get the ball and.." I stop for a moment. "And I tripped and fell" She says. "Yeah and then she looked at her knee and she had skinned it" I say.

"Yeah oh I remember how much that hurt I mean at first I was like it's not too bad but then I felt the pain and it hurt it was mild compared to some other things but you know it still hurt" Anya says. I slightly laugh. "Yeah I was also outside playing basketball with some of the guys and I saw the thing play out and me and her were like acquaintances? Friends? I don't know we got along but we weren't like the best of friends or anything...anyway yeah I had run over to her to help her I ended up carrying her to the nurse to get her knees treated" I say. "Yeah and he wouldn't let me walk there because I had said that it hurt a little to walk" she says laughing.

The kids are smiling so widely. "Mama, Dad are you flirting or something?" Elizabeth says. Anya shakes her head. "My dear you are just like me when I was a kid" she says. I smile. Anya turns the page and it's our high school years. "Hey Dad?" Leo asks. "Yeah what's up?" I ask. "That picture why do you have a folder there?" He asks. "Ah that one" I say. I think about how to tell this story for a minute. Our kids wait for me to start talking. "Well it was sophomore year I think and it was probably a month or so before we started dating..." I start. "Yeah it was" Anya confirms. "And the teacher had asked Anya your Mama to come up to the board and write the answer" I say. "Why?" Leo asks.

"Oh as a kid I was in an orphanage and so I wasn't the smartest I remember answering 5 to an English question and that teacher didn't like me very much so he still thought I was a little dumb so he called me up to the board in hopes to make an example out of me when I got it wrong" she explained. "Oooohhh" the twins say in unison. "Yeah and the teacher sat at his desk and some of the kids in class were snickering because Anya has tried to jump up to finish writing her answer because there was no more room at her height level and I didn't like that kids were making fun of her especially since her skirt was so short" I say. I pause for a moment. "I grabbed my folder and held it there so that the other kids couldn't see and so they would stop making fun of her and I took the chalk from her and wrote her answer there for her needless to say our teacher wasn't too happy with me" I say chuckling.

"Wow!! That's so cool!!" Leo exclaimed. "How is it cool?" I ask. "Well you saved Mama" he says with a cute little smile. We smile at them. Anya checks the time. "It's time for bed kids" Anya says. "Aww" the twins say in disappointment. "It's okay guys if you want we can look at more tomorrow" I say. "Yay!!" They exclaim. Anya smiles at them as they run up to their room to get ready for bed. I put the book back on the shelf. I walk up to her and put my arms around her waist and she puts her arms around my neck. "I love you my love" Anya says. "I love you too Darling" I say. We share a short kiss.

Hey everyone!! This is the only chapter I'm posting this month. In December I will post 2 chapters and end the book. I hope you all are doing well!! Take care of yourselves okay? I love y'all!!! Have a good day/night!!
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