   Senior Kingston walked into the office building, Mr Ben followed him.
“Is he up there?” He questioned Ben, while stepping into the elevator.
“No, Mr Kingston”
Sr Kingston checked his watch,
“Where is he?”
“He is off to Europe for his friend’s wedding”
Sr Kingston sat in the couch in Henry’s office.
“Good, he has finally decided to go on a vacation, alright ask his secretary to bring the minutes file of the last two executive meetings”
“Sir, she has accompanied Kingston Junior on this trip” Ben replied him.
“Who?”
“Ms Juliet Rozana”
Sr Kingston raised his eyebrows and he recalled (refer chapter 45) Henry’s words when he asked him to go on a vacation with his business partner, Clara Wilson, he declared, “I wouldn’t take any woman on vacation, unless she is My Girl”
Ben said, “Sir, I can see him smile a lot these days and started being happy after all these years”
Sr Kingston nodded and left with a faint smile.
***
A week later
   Julie was working in her cabin when she received a call from Mrs. Eliza Ross(her ex boss wife).
“Hello, Mrs Ross, how is Lucas doing?”
Julie asked anxiously.
“Hello Julie he is fabulous, don’t you worry, dear”
“Oh!” Julie sighed relaxedly.
“I was planning to visit Lucas this weekend”
“Seriously? Then my job is already done”Eliza exclaimed.
“What’s the matter, Mrs Ross?”
“There is a celebration in Lucas school this Saturday, he wanted to invite you, but I said not to disturb you as you might be busy at work. Now that you have planned to come, let’s surprise him in the school”
“Oh sure I would love to see his surprised happy face, by the way what’s the celebration is about? “Julie asked.
“It’s.. Mother’s Day celebration” Eliza’s voice was feeble.
“I’ll be there” with that she disconnected the call. That has made her emotional. She was lost in thoughts when Harry walked out of the elevator and came to her cabin. She did not notice him.
“What’s disturbing the beautiful secretary of Mr Kingston?” he teased.
She smiled,
“I had been invited for Mother’s Day celebration in Lucas’ school by Mrs. Ross”
“Is that making you emotional or you don’t want to go?” He was doubtful at his second statement.
“I would love to go, but I don’t know how would Lucas react?”
“While he added you in his family picture, I guess he would be happy in seeing you at the celebration”
“If you say so “Julie was convinced a bit.
Saturday morning
   The event has started in Lucas school. He was nervously looking at the door. Every kid was called out to walk along with their mother to their respective seats. Lucas’ name was skipped as Eliza Ross has texted his teacher about the surprise. At last, when it was Lucas’ turn, he stood up with heavy heart, he looked at the door one last time. He saw someone standing with a bunch of balloons covering their face. His curiosity grown high, while Julie peeped out and shown her face, Lucas came running to her screaming her name. Julie gave the balloons to Eliza and rushed to pick him up in her arms. Both of them could not control their happy tears, she spinned him around and everyone in the room had a smile seeing their warm exchange. Henry and Eliza were watching them proudly. Smile never left Lucas’ lips until the very end. He had so much to say to Julie.
   Henry asked Mrs. Ross that, he would like to take Lucas with them for lunch. She happily agreed since both Lucas and Julie need to catch up a lot and looking at their happy faces she can never say no.
   Lucas was very polite and his manners had amazed Henry.
“Where did you learn to behave and eat with so much grace and etiquette for your age?”
“From Julie!” He looked at her.
“I just followed few trainers for the etiquette lesson to guide him. Because he was a clean slate then so I realised my responsibility as it would take him a long way to become a responsible human being”
“You did a great job” Henry gave her a thumbs up.
   After lunch, they took him to the 4K planetarium. It’s a full dome sky theatre, which gave a real time cosmic exploration. Lucas was literally starstruck and his face had a wow expression when they came out of the theatre. It was a great learning moment and answered his young and curious mind of how space would look with the planets on its orbits, the satellites and millions of stars in the galaxy, it was literally out of the world experience.
   Julie then took them to their usual park as she missed the time she had spent there. Lucas went playing, she sat with Henry and enjoyed the beautiful place in silence, holding his hands. She always had an ache whenever she came there but today she felt complete with Henry there. It’s again new to Henry because sitting idle in a park at five in the evening, had never occurred to him or he was not taught to spend his time like that. Lucas has called both of them for a soccer game. They laughed their heart out while playing with the kids. The simple joys in life add more meaning to the life.
***
   “I just love this picture that we took in Greece, it’s very pretty”
Julie was showing him a photo.
“Santorini is so blue”
“That’s the whole purpose of choosing the place” Henry hugged her.
“I think you should invite Nolan and Amanda for a dinner or something. It’s so rude to skip their wedding and spend our time holidaying in Greece”
“We did not deliberately miss their big day, actually we were busy…”
She shut his mouth with her hands, he tried to free himself and finish the sentence, so he bit her fingers lightly, but she quickly sealed his lips for a kiss to stop him from saying it.
***
   “Get ready, we are going to a… I have booked something for you, it will be an amazing and incredible experience, I guarantee that you will love it”
“You are building up my curiosity so much all through the day”
“It will be worth it”
Julie had put on a nice dress, did her hair and make up. She took her bag, checked again whether she had taken everything. It has been five months since their first date, still she could feel the butterflies whenever she specifically gets ready to go out on a date with him.
   Once they reached the spot, he asked her to close her eyes until he says, he led her carefully holding her hands. They came to a glass dome with flowers and plants all over. He mouthed the staff is it ready, he replied with a thumbs up.
   “Ready?” he murmured in her ears from behind, hugging her waist.
“Okay here we go” the staff had opened the lid of a large glass box, hundreds of ‘Blue morpho butterflies’ fluttered for the first time as their wings have fully grown going through the transition from an egg to an adult butterfly. The butterflies had been released out in the air and it was a mesmerising sight. Julie was awestruck at the countless butterflies moving around flapping their wings and it looked like a wonderland. The butterflies danced for their own rhythm, breathing the fresh air.
“Its incredible, thank you and I love you” She said choking out of emotion. He kissed her cheeks from behind. She extended her hand to touch the butterflies that came close by. He held her stretched left hand and slipped a shimmering shiny ring on her ring finger,
“I Love You too July”, he tightened his hug. It was a very gorgeous and stunning diamond studded butterfly ring, having a narrow gap in between both wings. Julie yelped in shock, after realising, her eyes glistened, she interlocked her right hand with his,
“I.. I can’t believe this, this is so very beautiful and perfect”
Just then, a butterfly sat on her extended hand. They both made no move.
   “Can you please get me a tissue from my bag?”
She said in hushed voice. Henry very carefully opened the bag hanging from her shoulder not disturbing the butterfly.
“There is no issue, except for a small box”
“It’s in the box”
Henry was confused as it looked nothing like a tissue box. Once he opened it, he found a pair of small baby socks and a pregnancy test device showing ‘Pregnant’ with a handwritten note ‘Hi Dad!’ on the device.
   Henry remained speechless for few seconds, his smile widened, Julie turned around to enjoy his priceless reaction to this amazing news. The emotions going through him was a treat to watch. She was immensely proud to bring such happiness in him. She herself was more happy now than she found it while taking the test, she believed in shared joy is double joy.
   He picked her up and twirled her around in happiness. He celebrated her for giving him everything he had never asked for.
“Congrats to the both of us, I am immeasurably happy. Thank you so much Love, you are my biggest treasure in life”
he kissed her with so much tenderness.
“My life has become meaningful since I met you”
“That’s exactly how I feel too” Julie stated.
   Life may be unfair to people, but it would turn out to be colourful and complete when you find the right person to spend it with. Love and respect are the foundation for any relationship to stand the test of time.
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