Chapter 100 - 100: Don’t You Want To Keep Him?

Watson drove Mitch to Sophia's the next night. Sophia went downstairs and picked Mitch up. 

Mitch had not come to Sophia's for a long time, and as soon as he entered the door, he ran around excitedly and could not calm down at all.

Sophia took a picture of Mitch and posted it on her blog and announced, "Mitch's back!"

Within minutes, there were hundreds of comments.

"Grandpa's back as a ball!"

"Now that he's here don't let him go again… Think about it; keep Grandpa here and don't give him back."

"I hope you'll always be the owner of Mitch and post adorable photos of him every day!"

"Grandpa looks so happy! Don't you want to keep him?"

***

In the comments, many netizens persuaded Sophia to keep Mitch and not send him back.

Sophia really wanted to do as they said.

But after all, Watson was Mitch's owner. No matter how much she liked Mitch, she won't take him from Watson.

What worried her was the figure problem of Mitch.

She didn't know whether Watson took her advice or not. Anyway, she didn't think Mitch had lost any weight.

She decided to help Mitch lose weight!

After dinner, Sophia walked Mitch around the neighborhood for several circles until he lay on the ground and refused to walk anymore, then took him home.

She ignored his pathetic "begging for food" look cruelly, settled him in his doghouse, and then went to bed.

The next day, Sophia gave Mitch very limited dog food, and he ate them up in a few mouthfuls. Obviously, he was not full. He chased Sophia and asked for food.

Sophia didn't care about him. She couldn't be soft at this time. He was so fat that he was like a ball. It was not bad if he was at a young age. Since he was old, it was very harmful to him to gain weight.

Mitch acted shamelessly. He bit Sophia's shoes and wouldn't let her go.

Sophia patted his head and said, "Honey, you'll get sick if you eat too much. Understand?"

Mitch whimpered a few times, finally, let go of her shoes, ran to the corner squatting, and looked disappointed.

Sophia was surprised by the dog's smartness.

***

On Friday afternoon, Director Bull handed over the pass of Glinton University to Sophia. Sophia took it. With it, she could enter Glinton University at any time.

When she got home from school, she weighed Mitch and found that he had lost two hundred grams.

That was very good.

"Sophia, look at this!" Kate came back from work, with a piece of paper in her hand, "Our neighborhood seems to be about to be demolished!"

Sophia took over the paper, looked at it, and said, "A real estate developer is going to build a high-rise house here… It's a good deal to tear down a house and make up for three apartments."

The old community where she lived had been rumored to be demolished. And a number of nearby communities had already been demolished. So, she was not surprised by the news.

"Several families in the community are talking about whether to delay for some time and require the developer to give more compensation. It is said that some communities got four apartments!" said Kate.

Sophia shook her head and said, "I don't think the developer will agree to raise the price. There aren't many real estate developments recently. Our community isn't in a very superior location. Three apartments' compensation is quite reasonable. They will not give us four apartments. If we delay deliberately and make the development difficult, the developer may directly give up developing this community. There are several communities nearby, and they are waiting for the development."

"It says on the paper that the contract will be valid only if the whole neighborhood has been signed. If one person does not sign it, the contract will be void… They are afraid to come across some nail households who want to take advantage of them. We will have a meeting and discuss it in the evening. Do you think we should sign the contract or not?" Said Kate.

Sophia thought about it and said, "Our community is quite old as well as many facilities. It is good to demolish it. I think the price is quite reasonable. You can listen to what other people think. After all, we can't do anything if there is one person who is not willing to move."

Kate went to the meeting in the evening. When she got back, she told Sophia that they all agreed to remove it.

The developer would sign a contract with them in recent days and then decide the details.

"They said we could either have the apartments or the money. If we choose the apartments, we can choose three apartments in the same lot, and there are several properties to choose from. If we choose the money… It's about eight hundred dollars per square meter... It's not a good deal. The normal housing price now is at least three thousand dollars, over three times the given price." Kate said.

Sophia smiled, "Both choices are fine. You can choose the one you prefer."

Kate thought about it and said, "Let's choose the apartments. We can have a look at the apartments after signing the contract. I heard they are in charge of the decoration. It should be very nice. We can live in one apartment and rent out the remaining two. Thus, we will have a lot of money every month."

Sophia had been thinking about how to make money but did not expect that her family became rich overnight. 

In terms of the house pricing, three apartments worth a lot, and their lives were not easy a while ago, so it could be said that they became rich overnight.

Sophia knew Kate. Even if so, their lives would be as calm as they used to be. With Kate's character, she would still go to work normally and would not lead a luxury life just because she got rich. 

The wealth was nothing in Sophia's eyes and was not enough to excite her. She didn't value money. She had never been short of money in her previous life. If she needed it, she could make it at any time. Sometimes when she saw someone in trouble, she donated the money.

Even when she tried to make money, she just wanted to give her mother a better life. She had never thought about making a lot of money. Sometimes even she considered herself to lack ambition.

Compared with the removal, she cared more about Mitch's health.

*** 

On Saturday morning, Sophia had breakfast, fed Mitch, and then went to the park with him. She planned to walk a little longer. Mitch had got a lot better in strength these days, but his body was still like a ball. So, they still had a long way to go to lose weight.

There were a lot of people in the park on Saturday. Sophia walked around slowly with Mitch. Mitch ran happily at first, then he walked, and he walked slower and slower. Sophia sometimes had to pull him a few times before he could barely keep up.

As they walked, Mitch suddenly stopped and barked twice.

"Come on!" Sophia was used to Mitch's laziness and tugged at the rope.

But Mitch still didn't catch up, and he barked twice again.

Sophia turned her head and noticed that Mitch was barking at a man sitting on the bench.

Did he know this man?