I wanted to ask him something, but before I could speak, he stopped me. "Let's talk about it later. Eat!"
No talking when eating and sleeping.
He had always been like this.
I said 'Okay', and then drank my soup.
After breakfast, I was a little slow. I was sitting at the entrance, wearing my shoes. Hendrix went to the garage to get the car. My phone rang. It was Sonia's mother, so I answered the phone, "How are you?"
I felt the tension even before she spoke. Sonia's mother took a deep breath and said, "Mrs. Roberts, Rita passed away yesterday. She said that she wanted to go back to her mother. We brought her back to Jarold City today. We have no friends or relatives. The person who was closest to her was you. If you have time, Rita's grandpa and I would like to have you over to send her off."
There was a buzzing noise in my head. I looked at Hendrix's car outside the gate and couldn't say a word for a long time.
Hendrix saw my blank expression. He got down from the car and walked towards me with a puzzled look on his face. "What's wrong?"
At the same time, Sonia's mother's voice came over the phone again. "Mrs. Roberts, are you listening?"
"I am!" I opened my mouth, my voice coming out choked. Hendrix saw that my mood had changed, so he lifted me up with a slight frown.
"She's going to be buried at Sandall Mount. Rita said that she wanted to lie next to Sonia, next to her mom." Sonia's mother's voice was a little hoarse. She must have been crying for a few days now.
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