---- their shoes. Grandpa was the one who raised me. If I had one shot at saving him, I would seize it. The room was quiet aside from the sounds of my clothes brushing against the floor, and they had recorded meas I did. They were all guffawing as they left, not before throwing a couple of hundred -dollar bills on the floor. "Why don't you look in the mirror next time before you hover around Ms. Lewis?!" "Yeah! Your love for her is only worth this much!" Therefore, I was left with no other recourse than to borrow from loan sharks, but it was already too late for Grandpa. After arranging his funeral, the loan sharks were already hounding me to pay them back. I called Stella for help, only for her to snap at them impatiently, before snapping at me too and telling me to apologize. ---- And with that, she hung up.