32: Friendship

“Do I have to go?”

“No, you don’t, but it would mean so much to me if you came along.”

Lyon had informed me about the anniversary of the Biggs industry nationwide last week and invited me to the party hosted at the company, but I forgot about it. It wasn’t my fault; I had a lot in my head. Without the constant reminder, I was bound to forget.

The clinical training at the hospital was extended by two extra weeks at the request of the university, which had pushed their resumption to the next three weeks. The reasons were yet unknown, but after a little research and asking a few coursemates at the university, I learnt there was an ongoing outbreak of cold flu at Oxford, and the university was holding off resumption until they could determine containment or vaccines for the flu. It was just two weeks, and I didn’t complain much about the change. We were in the eighth week, and with the added weeks, it would be ten weeks of training in total. We were days into the ninth week already, and