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Ana tilted her head to the side slightly as she thought about how to answer the question. "He's struggling. He'd never say it but I can tell. When Iacov was alive everything was fine. Or at least, mostly fine. Now though..." Ana trailed off with a sigh, thinking about how tired Sasha had looked the last time they'd spoken. They're good kids. Even I adore them, but being a single parent wasn't in the plan. Sasha was barely coping for a while there. He's better now, much better and the kids help with that. I think they remind him that despite all the death there's still light in the world and people that need him. And they do need him. Seeing them interact it's clear that the adoration goes both ways. But then he's been a parental figure to them for most of their lives. The majority of the struggle I think comes from him trying to balance a demanding work schedule with raising them," she told Kenzie, a slightly sad smile marring her features. Her heart still ached for Sasha whenever he sent her pictures of him with the children, wrote letters or had time to actually talk.
"How are the twins?" Ana asked, figuring that they should move on to a slightly more happy topic. If not for the fact that she and Kenzie were friends she wouldn't even care about the answer, as it was she did care and she knew how much her friend adored her younger siblings. She also knew how much she was dying to meet the twins she'd only heard about for the first time.
"Kenzie," Ana gasped in mock outrage, biting her lip to stop herself from smiling. She mostly found it amusing that Kenzie found Mitya attractive, knowing that nothing would ever come of it. "He's much too old for you. Besides, he has a girlfriend now. Apparently. Or at least I think she's his girlfriend? Might just be a friend. But if she is an actual girlfriend she might not appreciate you ogling him to death." Not that Mitya had minded. He'd always been kind to Kenzie when she'd come over to meet with Ana and Ana truthfully figured that he was more amused and flattered by it than anything else.
"He definitely is. I haven't seen him since we got to go to Hogsmeade," Ana recalled with a pout. Even her correspondence with her boyfriend had been infrequent what with him having to focus on his internships and Ana having to focus on passing her NEWTs. Now that she'd graduated it would also be time to talk to him about the future. Not any conversations that were too serious, but she did need to speak to him about her plans for the future. The fact that she also intended to stay in the UK was something she knew he'd be happy to hear since the last time they'd spoken about it Ana had been undecided.
Adults? Ana felt like she'd been making adult decisions since she'd turned seventeen last year. She'd already been living by herself, having decided to move into the house her father had left her, and been seeing to her funds. Not that they needed much seeing to if she was being honest. Bottom line was she had enough money to never have to work a day in her life and that would only be added to as time went on.
"I'm looking for places at the moment. Not sure what choices I'm going to make though. I want to maybe talk it over with Terry, and I also don't think I want to live by myself." All the years of boarding school and the fact that she had a large and close family meant that while Ana sometimes craved solitude she'd never actually had to be on her own.
"I'm so psyched for it. Did I tell you my brothers friend Tima is going to be playing? He's like brilliant and everyone is going to try and be there to support him!"
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