"Layla, I've watched you grow up, and I know that you are a great young woman. This is just an accident, and you only got unlucky. You didn't mean for any of this to happen, so we don't blame you for it. Don't apologize to me. Stay and share lunch with us. I will start cooking now."
"I can help," Layla said.
"It's fine. My husband can help. Just rest. You've just been discharged yourself, haven't you? Have you recovered?"
"Yeah, or my parents would have never let me out," Layla said.
"That's good... If you ended up like Eric, we would be even more devastated," Mrs. Santos said, feeling slightly better. "Why don't you watch some television while you wait?"
Layla did not want to watch television and said, "Can I stay in Eric's room for a while?"
"Sure!" Mrs. Santos said.
Eric had brought Layla here before, so she knew exactly which room belonged to him.
Layla was the only female apart from Mrs. Santos who had entered Eric's room as he rarely invited any woman over.
Since he had other properties, he would often invite his friends there instead, and the ones he invited to his home were extremely close friends.
While Mr. and Mrs. Santos headed into the kitchen, Layla walked toward Eric's room.
Eric would live with his parents from time to time every other month, but Mrs. Santos cleaned his room every single day regardless.
Layla pushed the door open and noticed that everything inside the room remained exactly the same as she remembered.
Feeling as though she had seen the iPad before, she picked it up to turn it on, only for the screen to light up immediately.
Surprised that the iPad was not locked, she went to the menu and realized that the iPad had been launched quite a few years back.
She opened the album and saw her photos.
As she scrolled through the photos, a blush colored her cheeks. She was the one who had taken the photos, and she had even forced Eric to take them with her.
She then came across some of the videos of her, and memories came flashing back to her.
Eric had been the one to hire specialists to teach her how to sing and dance.
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