#avery vatore

🎨: Jack and I got the visit we were waiting for. When I went to San Myshuno to see Avery, I asked her to help us find a lawyer to handle the adoption.

Samara (Avery's wife) has a vet tech who went to Buttercup vet school in Brindelton Bay named Nora York. Nora's instructor, the famous Heather Gordon, gave her the name of a close friend. Apparently, Nora overheard our conversation and started asking around. She got the lawyer's name when she attended the wedding of a friend.

Felix Psyded was...well, for lack of a better term, charming. He and Jack hit it off immediately. Felix told us a little about his life, his wife and kids, and his family court history, leaving out confidential information. His name seemed so familiar. I asked Avery if she recognized it from anywhere, but she seemed as unsure as I was.

Finally, we got down to business. We really wanted a "private" adoption. In other words, we wanted to keep the media out of our business. Felix said he would start by immediately finding Drew’s father and serving him with the paperwork to sign away his rights to ensure he couldn't make trouble for us in the future. He was a hard man to pin down, but I had faith in Felix. The other part of the job was to find Eliza and have her served with paperwork to either pay child support and abide by the court-ordered visitation or sign away her rights. We were praying for the latter. We didn't need her child support, but we figured it might sway her if she thought she would have to pay for a child she didn't want.

At the end, Jack and I signed a couple of contracts and forms, and then Felix told us he would see us soon. His confidence that he could get this done with minimal court visits gave me hope. Thank the watcher of Felix.

🎨: It was official. We were Britechester graduates! Dad, Nana and Grandpa would have been so proud…..Jack too.

* I didn’t bring up Jack Kennedy, did I? She has a want to chat with her crush, who happens to be Jack. No time seemed like a good one with everything happening, but she’s moving to San Myshuno soon, and that’s where Jack is from. He’s not back from the Military yet (he hasn’t completed his 4 years), but will she reach out before he returns, or will she run into him first? And how will he react to all the changes in her life?

🪖: Avery came over to babysit Lizbeth and deliver a very important gift while Jaxon and Quinn watched Lane. Neddy and I had a gym date. She hadn’t actually called it that when she asked me to go with her but that wasn’t important. What was important was that she had a gym in the common area of her apartment, so why did she need to come all the way to my neighborhood to work out? (Kennedy lives in the spice district while Jack lives in the Fashion district. Ngl this sentence immediately made me think of hungry games)

I had some ideas, but I wasn’t sure it was the appropriate time to act on them. Instead I let her drag me to this fancy gym that had rock climbing walls. She was pumped, and I was cocky. You would think that having military training would make me an excellent rock climber. Wrong. There’s a huge difference between rock climbing and this😑. Let’s just say she wiped the gym floor with me in every sense of the word.

My back was going to hurt for days, but the exhilarated look on her face as she climbed the wall was worth it. It took me back to high school; back then, she was a high flyer and top of the pyramid as well as cheer team captain. When I got home after dropping off the rocking climbing champ, Avery was in the living room reading a book while Lizbeth slept in her arms. She smirked at me, and I just smiled back. I put Liz to bed as she gathered her things. As she was closing the front door, I heard her call out

Avery: She crossed a bridge to go to a gym! With YOU! I’m Just saying!

My neighbors would savor that bit of information, considering I didn’t have many interactions with them, but I didn’t care because, as always, Avery had a point, but was she right? I’d find out soon enough.

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The interaction/ animation for Avery and Lizbeth reading is another of @simkatu mods “lap reading for infants & reading while infants nap on laps”

🎨: I couldn’t go home for Harvestfest. It was the day before finals, and driving triggered my morning sickness. Avery and I luckily had no class on Tuesdays and Thursdays, so we were free to set up a small dinner for 4. After dinner, I pulled Drew into my bedroom and broke the news. His reaction was not what I expected. He was overjoyed. He’s an only child who was raised by his father, and he always dreamed of a big family. I figured this was a good time to talk about our relationship. Drew assured me during the time we’d been dating that he hadn’t been seeing anyone else. He said he wanted to ask me to be his girlfriend officially, but he didn’t want to pressure me, so he was waiting for me to make the first move. At that moment, I felt like I could fall for him. That night, we made our relationship official.

*Yes! Avery is sick again!