**Author’s Note:** *First finished story! Let me know what works and what doesn’t work. I’ll probably go for a female perspective next time as that seems to be more popular.*
It had been just over an hour since Tanya’s last text; “just got home, come over?”
We’d met in college, and bonded over the fact that we lived just two towns away from each other. We’d finished our second year, but over the summer, she had developed a fairly serious kidney stone. When it became clear that it was too serious for her to pass on her own, she had to have it surgically removed.
Just over an hour ago, she had finally gotten home and I’d run a couple of empty back-road red lights on my way here. I pulled into the driveway of her parent’s home and knocked softly at the door. Her mother answered. Mrs. Deckland was the spitting image of her daughter. Tall and slim, with mousey hair and some light freckling that brought a youthful life to her.
“Hi, you must be Eric, I’m Sharon. Come in, Tany was trying to wait up for you, but the pain meds made her a little loopy.