After he left I was on the last cabinet when my drill slipped out my hand fell and broke the top I called Bobby told him what happen told him I left t...e check and I will be back later to work out an agreement with him. Five hours later I return told him there would be no charge for the job and I will try to find the same counter top and buy it and install it. He then told me that he ordered that top from overseas and it cost $ 45,000 he handed me the receipt to show me my heart skipped a beat.. I had always been happy to be alone. Before everyone got sick and died, I had never realized the "punishment" of solitary confinement. Now, I understood.The world as I knew it ended in early 2020. Nobody had been sure what exactly went wrong. People began getting sick. It started with flu-like symptoms. After a couple of weeks, people lost consciousness and never woke up.Now, ten years later, my world was empty.Right before things went to hell, my wife and I had been looking to move. The kids. ”There was silence for a moment. “Grace, my poppet, that’s brilliant! Well done! I know you thought you were doing quite well but ... Whoopee!“Belle!”“Yes?”“Grace has been graded ‘Outstanding’ in her annual report.”“What?” came a shriek and she grabbed the phone.“Grace, darling, that’s brilliant. Aren’t you proud?”“Well, I suppose so now you mention it...”“I am” said Terry as he hugged her shoulders.She looked up at him with an ecstatic smile.“So you should be, young lady! Good for you, Terry!. He said, “mom, you don’t seem to grow old at all!” I smiled in return and asked how Nisha was. He hired a taxi and we left for home. In the taxi, though our shoulders brushed a couple of times, he didn’t do any thing more. I was more eager to visit my daughter and see how she looked after nine months pregnancy. We reached home. It was a two bedroom flat in a high rise building in a posh locality of Mumbai. Nisha was waiting for us. She hugged me. She was looking really beautiful with the grown.