Suzie woke up with a start to bright sun rays filtering through the curtains . She had slept past her alarm time , courtesy of a lot of merriment the previous night . Together with Dan and Max , they had celebrated her first ever car into very late at night . She smiled on remembering that the night had been full of many firsts . Foremost , she had discovered that Max and her came from the same locality . Their homes were only separated by a ridge and he professed to have known her parents . He even went further to say that he had sympathized with her situation when he had heard about her mistreatment by her uncles . According to him , it was the most absurd thing to hear that a girl could not inherit her parents' estate . It was the first time that anyone had concurred with her on the an

