“Do not touch me!” The young redhead whined in her baby voice.
“Want me to tell you a secret?” The young dark-haired boy countered, making her eyes go big and round before she nodded eagerly. “I will never hurt you, ever, ever.”
“Promise?” She asked with hopeful eyes.
“Promise.” He told her while patting her head affectionately.
Julie awoke peacefully at that, and remembered how close she and Henry had grown in the orphanage after the promise he had made to her on that day.
They had been so close, in fact, that when he had been adopted, he had all but been depressed at the separation. Admittedly, so had she been.
The Petersons had then decided to adopt her as well, thus reuniting the two inseparable kids who could only love the kind couple to no end for what they did.
Despite t
