Sherry's worried about you but I'm here now and you're going to be all right." Fat chance. I'm a fat old broad and I'm all fucked up." She mumbled. Mo...e to herself than to me, I think.Fat? That little pot belly looked more like the start of malnutrition than gluttony. "Have you eaten anything today, Vicky?" Coffee. Lousy. Instant. Just got up, y'know." Vicky, it's 7:30 at night. You just got up?" Yeah, so what? Nobody cares if I'm awake or asleep." Sherry does, and I do. Let me get you. Today was the day where the whole family would head up north for a whole week. And when I say the whole family I mean the whole family. Everyone from, grandparents to cousins. We where going to leave in exactly 10 hours. Personally I did not want to go. Last time I when up there I got so sick I had to spend the rest of my rare vacations from school in a hospital bed. This year I had a plan. My plan was to fake an injury, so that I would not go. This year I had a plan. My plan was to fake an. Unse kuch baat hui to pta chala ki wo ek teacher hai. Unki umar takriban 47 years thi. 10 saal pehle unke husband ki ek car accident me death ho gayi thi. Unka ek beta hai.Ghar aane me kaafi waqt tha. Maine unse kaha, “Muskil hoti hogi akele ghar chalane me?”. Wo boli, “So to hai. But maine apne bete ki parvarish me koi kami nahi rakkhi”. Unhone mujhe kuch old photographs dikhaye jisme wo thi, unke husband the aur unka beta Shiv tha. Maine kaha, “Shiv to bilkul apne dad ki copy lagta hai”. Wo. She had blown him a kiss and he had waved back.He finished the front yard and had gone into the house for some water when the police car arrived. As it happened, the officer was an old friend of his and for one moment John had thought he was just stopping by for a visit. But the look on Bob's face said everything. Without a word being spoken, John knew something awful had happened.The worst thing about the accident was that he couldn't even hate the other driver. A one in a million freak hose.