The Loverboy
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picked up her towel, book list and cell phone and headed towards
the apartment. On her way she dropped the newspaper in a trash
can not giving the article another thought.
When she got to the apartment she saw Ally and her mom
marvel at the apartment. Ally was bouncing around it like a
little kid and her mom was quizzing the lawyer for information.
Surely there must be a mistake. Who would offer something like
this and why them? The lawyer shrugged and kept quiet. None of
them noticed Kim standing by the sliding door. Then Ally noticed
a picture in a frame on a shelf.
“Look Mom” she yelled pointing at the picture, “that"s us.”
Her mom looked closer. The picture was smudged, old and
crumpled but it indeed was the two of them. Now she was really
confused and demanded answers from the lawyer and he just told
her that they had to wait for Gabriella, Ally"s roommate, to
find out what it was about. Kim swallowed hard and opened the
sliding door and stepped in. Ally and her mom looked up clearly
confused by the situation and all Kim could say with a lump in
her throat was “Hi Mom.”