“After the divorce, we had to sell the family home, that’s how I found this place. The developer was about to go bust so I made him an offer. He k...ocked fifteen grand off the asking price and I used it to put in this kitchen rather than a bog-standard one.”“Clever,” Carol replied.“It's better than that, I have a mate who works in finance. I have no idea what he does but he got me a mortgage that allowed me to buy this flat and the one below it. That is my retirement fund. Hopefully, it will. Now come the second year, I finally gathered the courage to propose that girl, who by the way will be named sonu, for rest of my story and to my astonishment, she took her own sweet time and agreed. We had normal ‘fun’ time like hanging out with friends, going out to dinner, hugging, kissing and making out on the bike and stuff like this.Later we planned to go on a trip as it was a long weekend and we were frustrated with college stuff too, we planned to go to goa with our group.My friend had a. Amy started to say something when she saw Candi coming down the hall so she simply said "Here comes mom and she is smiling."Candi walked in and gave me a kiss then pulled back and gave me a strange look, then looked at the three setting on the couch. " Mom is going to be fine and will be able to come home by the end of next week. They are moving her to a regular room this evening and then she has to go through a bunch of test the next couple of days." Lynn then said "Great news sis. We were. Ali- “Oh thank you :) thats sweet. And I knew it was for Sara dude ;) im not stupid.”Relief washed over me and I finally relaxed. I took off my shoes and socks and changed into a new pair of boxers and a t-shirt. As I got under the covers and plugged in my phone to charge it buzzed again. Another text from Ali. I slid under my blankets and turned off my lamp and my room became orange from the streetlight that cast raindrop shadows on my walls. I opened the message.Ali- “so why did you even take.