"Let's go," Adam said excitedly.
"Wait, fix yourself first," Elizabeth reminded.
He has an image in the company after all.
He looked down and realized his current look.
His tie was still loosened and two buttons of his shirt were unbuttoned. Touching his hair, he realized that it was also in a mess.
He could only look at Elizabeth, who shook her head in defeath before pulling her to the sofa.
"No matter how excited you are. You understand that you still have an image you need to keep up. This is the company and your people are all here. Even if you showed sloppiness, you know you can't go overboard about it," she nagged at him while she took a wax in his drawer and she helped him apply it.
She wass younger than him but at times she felt that she was older.
Adam, on the other hand, seated there like an obedient student waiting for his teacher to finish what she was doing.
He didn't even rebuke at the way she nagged at him.
With the years that they had been together, not just as childhood friends but as business coworkers, he was already well aware that she wasn't nagging because she found things unpleasant.
But because it is her way of protecting him and their other companions.
Since they grew up in a village where most stayed close with nature instead of seeing the world as a whole, there are things that they are lack when they go to the city.
Elizabeth took it as her responsibility to watch over them.
She has no problem with the other one because he loves staying inside and playing with his experiments and works rather than stepping out to meet the rest of the society.
Her only problem now was Adam, he was a thirty year old man, very presentable when needed to be but he still has his own quirks he couldn't let go even after staying in the city for five years or so.
"There you go. But I will remind you as well, you don't need to keep up your image. You can be sloppy and no one will stop you. Moderation, that's all you have to remember."
Adam smiled reaching the depths of his eyes, "I do understand."
Elizabeth nodded, nudged her glasses up and walked out of the office ahead of him.
Soon the two of them were descending using the elevator.
It was a good thing that it was already time for lunch.
"Off for lunch sir?" the security ask.
The company was in harmony that no one really feared them or sees them in a negative way.
"Yes, good work," Adam replied with his usual smile before he and Elizabeth walked to the opposite building.
The condominium has a coffee shop on the first floor.
In order to get in, they need to enter the condominium building.
The employees were used at seeing the two of them have their lunch on that particular place.
And since it was not a secret that they know each other for a long time, no one finds it weird to see them together.
Some even speculated that they are dating but there was no proof.
When they enter, the entrance to the coffee shop was to their right while the elevator leading to the residential on the higher floors was on the left.
Both of them turned left and entered the elevator before pressing the button for the twentieth floor.
"Ah we didn't call for Wesley," Adam remembered.
"It is fine, since we are not sure of the reason, it is better for him to not know that she had visited," Elizabeth answered.
Wesley was the top scientist of Lishter Artillery, the one who modifies most of the weapons that they sell.
And he was the most disappointed for the past two years.
Upon getting to the twentieth floor.
They walked over to one of the doors and pressed the password.
Heather, who was resting after some cleaning up, smiled when she heard someone unlocking the door.
She stood up and walked in front of it.
When it was opened she bowed down, "I am sorry."
Adam and Elizabeth was taken a back when that was the first thing they saw and heard when the door was opened.
"He- Heather, wait, let us come in first," Elizabeth stuttered.
If the employees were to see her, they would once again be shock.
Elizabeth was always in control of her facial expressions and voice.
They never heard her stutter or be flustered before.
"Tha- That's right Heather, calm down. Let's talk inside," Adam followed.
Once again the employess would be shock to see their dignified president being all flustered.
Both of them entered and closed the door behind them.
Heather stood straight and smiled but her eyes turned red upon seeing the two of them.
If for them it was just a year, for her it was already seven years.
And the last time they talked in her first life, which was a year from now was of Adam showing hatred towards her, Elizabeth showing anger and Wesley showing disappointment and pain.
She can clearly remember it that she couldn't stop herself from being emotional.
The two had just removed their shoes when they heard her sniff.
They turned and was stunned when she suddenly hugged them both.
"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have distanced myself."
She kept apologizing while crying over and over again.
She missed them dearly.
While being away from her family, they were her family.
But because of her stupidity, she threw them away.
She abandoned them, leaving them when it was her who pulled them out of their comfort zones, when the company started.
She had lost so many important things in her first life and they were one of those.
The two looked at one another and smiled helplessly before hugging her back.
The one year of disappointment disappeared with her tears.
Because Heather always smiles and rarely shows this side.
Only when she was truly guilty or truly in pain.
Nope she wasn't the type to hold it in but the length of time that they were together, she was simply at peace.
They did saw her being down and all but she didn't cry, she simply looked lost.
Then very slowly she became better and better and the company was started.
But they saw her cry for the first time just as the company was taking its first steps.
All of them were saddened but she was the most affected.
They thought she would be devastated to the point of stopping all operations but she stood back up.
'There is no point being sad, while we still can, we will continue,' were her words.
And just as she said, they were able to go on.
But then she got married and she became focused on her marriage that they lost the time they could meet with her.
No, they didn't blame her for anything.
Because the years that they were together? She never promised them anything, she simply do as she said and nothing more.
So when she said that she had vowed for the first time and she wanted to do it, they knew they really couldn't do anything about it.
"It's fine now, you are back and we can continue like this, president."
Adam was the one who spoke.
The whole country knew him as the president but in reality the real president was this 23 year old young lady in their arms.
She started it when she was just 17 years old.
"Please, I am currently unacceptable as the president. I left my post for a year. And mind you I didn't simply left, I literally stopped doing anything," Heather said as she wiped her tears.
She really missed them, so much that she couldn't even stop her tears no matter how many times she wiped them.
They have already seated in the sofa but she was still crying, Elizabeth and Adam were helpless.
Soon Elizabeth left for a bit and by the time she returned, she was already holding some cups and breads.
"Would coffee calm you down?" she asked Heather handing her a cup of latte.
Heather cried harder as she held the cup.
It has been so long since someone had treated her so kindly after she had pushed everyone away.
It has been so long that she couldn't stop crying even more.
"I guess the coffee caused her more tears," Adam was even more helpless seeing her like this.
It took her half an hour of crying before she finally calmed down.
Elizabeth had no choice but to reheat the cups of coffee in the microwave.
"I feel so refreshed now," Heather sniffed before grinning.
"I would be shock if you aren't," Adam handed her some tissue paper.
Heather laughed before she started drinking the now once again hot coffee.
"I really miss this," she commented.
Elizabeth extended her hand and placed it on her forehead, "You don't seem sick, but what is wrong?"
Heather shook her head, "I just realized how stupid I was that I couldn't help but to feel regret. I am just grateful that you still came after I had opened the window."