"Oh, don't open them here." Feeling slightly shy about his gift, Robert said to Eric, "Open them inside your room."
Eric instantly realized that they might not be ordinary gifts and took them to his room.
Layla stared at Robert pointedly. "What did you get him? You never said anything about getting him gifts."
Robert cleared his throat and said, "I bought him a DVD." Concerned that she might get the wrong idea, he immediately added,
"Just a normal one. He needs to stay hand rest, right? I'm worried that he will get bored."
"You are the one who's bored. You can watch basically everything on the inte now, so why would you buy him a DVD? You don't
even know if he has a DVD player in his house." Layla kept getting the feeling that it was not an ordinary disc.
"Layla, | bought him a book about positive thinking," Ivy said.
Layla trusted Ivy with all her heart and nodded. "That's great. He has been reading ever since his retirement, and he enjoys
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Ivy blushed at thepliment.
"She is full of surprises. We just bought the wrapping paper in the store, and it was Ivy who wrapped them up," Robert said.
"Really?" Layla asked.
Ivy was flushing a deep shade of crimson at this point. "It's not that hard. If you need to wrap a gift in the future, just letknow."
Layla nodded. "Sure!"
Shortly after, Eric walked out of his room.
Ivy sighed a breath of relief and asked, "Uncle Eric, there's something | need to discuss with you."
"What is it? Go on!" Eric said gently.
"Well... I don't want to call you Uncle Eric anymore. You aren't that much older than Layla, anyway, so | want to address you by
your name," Ivy said.
Eric immediately turned to look at Layla.
Layla ignored him and said to Ivy, "Call him whatever you want. He doesn't mind."
"Oh..." vy went to help Eric to the couch and said, "Eric, | heard from Mom that you can't work at the moment and need to stay at
hto rest for the next six months, is that right?"
Indeed, work was forbidden to Eric, and his mother constantly fussed over him. She was even worried when he was walking around
inside the house.
When he was taking his gifts back to his room, Mrs. Santos kept her eyes trained on him the entire time, worried that something
might happen to him.
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In truth, he felt much better and could get out of bed from tto time.
"Yeah," he said. "How's school?"
"Great. Eric, do you need to take medicine every day?" Ivy continued.
"Yes, because my body will reject the heart, so | will need to take anti-rejection pills," he said, before looking at Robert. "Robert,
how's school."
"Pretty good, Eric. We are all doing great, and we just want you to be, too." Robert started calling Eric by his nas Ivy did.
"lI am fine now. | take my pills every day on time." Eric smiled. "Don't worry about me."
"Eric, will you be staying here the entire time?" Robert asked. "If you are going to stay here, Ivy and | wille by more often."
Eric was about to respond when Layla interrupted him and said, "He won't be staying long."
Eric turned and shot her a confused look as he had already promised his parents that he would be staying with them.