Chapter 33: Saving an old friend.
After all that stocking, it was time to save some old friends. Sunshine had called Nimo and told her to take a leave from the military base. Her friend had done as she said and she was back in the city already, at her family’s home.
As soon as she walked into the gate of the medium family sized home, a delicious smell of food wafted through the air, coming from the open kitchen window.
"Smells delicious." Sunshine stomach rumbled in anticipation at the lost taste of the memory of Maya Fawk’s sea food boil. No one did it better than her best friend’s mother.
It had been so long since she last had it. Two months in the current timeline but if she counted the apocalypse years, it had been four years and eleven months.
She was intimately familiar with the house, so she made her way to the backyard, no sooner had she come into sight when little children run up to her. Luckily, she was ready, armed with a packet of lollipops.
"Auntie Suni! hug, I want a hug. Candy_candy_candy!" They squealed with excitement as they grabbed a candy each.
When the kids left after robbing her clean of all the lollipops, she made her way into the house and met the adults. Nimo’s family was a close-knit family, parents, grandparents and two of her uncles and their wives and children also lived there.
This was because most of them were currently serving as soldiers or they had done so at one point. Whenever they were on active duty, they would leave the children with their parents.
In the end, the three brothers pulled together money, bought one house and moved in together. So far, the arrangement was working out nicely. Nevertheless, the house was a little overcrowded sometimes.