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"Thanks for now. I'll be calling in a few days."

Mom gives Janokovic a hug, Ann gives him her hand, and soon thereafter they are
out in front of the block again. Lissi looks absently at her phone.

"Wow, that was really stuffy up there," Ann says, taking a deep breath into her

lungs.
"Well, he was alright, and that’s the most important thing. We have to walk the

exact same way back from where we came from. We’ll have to hurry home, Anny.

I’ve got to go to work in in four hours time, and we’ve spent too long up there,”
says Lissi as they begin their return to the bus stop.

“Well, you seemed to have a great time up there,” says Ann with a witty tone in
her voice.

Ten minutes later they arrive at the bus stop. They stand under the little bus-

stop-roof, which is a kind of round plastic structure, shaped like a bubble, and
there’s sculpted a seat with the same grey colour as the bubble. It starts to pour.

“Of course, it has to rain when we are out again. Let's sit on the bench."

"I hop you didn’t get wet, Mommy," Ann says, pulling the zipper down into her
purple UCLA-hoodie, while pressing the kitten tightly in to her stomach.

“We have to buy a bag for the cat, Mom. Do you know what I speak of?"
“Yes, yes. But now we first have to bring the cat safely home, and I have just

spent my money on litter box and cat food. You have to save up yourself for such

a bag,” says Mom.
" I think he was weird," Ann continues without responding to Lissi’s last words.

"Didn't you see all the scars he had on his arm and face? It looked kinda scary, I

think."
"Stop talking about him like that. He was sweet to us. I saw he had scars, yes,

but that could also come from a disease as well, not necessarily anything wicked.

He probably had a tough life, and by the way, your father also had scars,” says
Lissi, trying to paint Jano in a better light.

"You said yourself that Father was quick in instigate a fight if he felt threatened,

and he beat you as well, which is why you didn't want to be with him anymore."
Ann looks defiantly at Lissi; she always gets angry when they talk about Dad.

She has been crying every night for long periods of time, because Dad never
came to visit them. She stopped, the day Mother chose to tell her the truth; he