A surprising encounter
A few minutes later they are in his car on their way to her house. The whole ride home they are talking nonstop and before they know it they are already in Ruth’s neighborhood again. When Happy sees Ruth’s house from a distance, he starts wagging his tail and sticks his head out of the window. “I know Happy”, “I’m also really glad to be home again”, says Ruth with a big smile on her face. When they get out of the car, Ruth has to promise Kevin that she will call him when she needs something or when she feels lonely. And that’s what she did.
A few days after the incident Ruth calls him to thank him again for the iPad because she had already been using it to video call with her grandson. Except she didn’t tell Dave the story of how she got it and she said she won it at some sort of lottery instead. Kevin laughs and after talking for a while, he says: “You know what, I’m going for a walk with my grandfather right now, do you want to join? I think you two will get on well”. At first, Ruth is a bit hesitant but at the insistence of Kevin, she eventually says yes. And guess what? Kevin wasn’t wrong at all! From that moment on, there was much more excitement in Ruth’s life again. And there was also something really big going on that was even better…