Adopting a cat, I need some (strange) advice.

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Hi friends, my mom & uncle are going to FL on Valentine’s Day and will not be returning until end of March. My Dad and I are excited beyond words. Happy Valentine’s Day to us both Ok, because Timmy’s whole family has passed on, he’s extremely lonely. But also depressed. He’s going behind the bathroom door now and sleeping there, like he just wants to hide away from the world and give up on life. (He is not sick.) I was on Petfinder looking for a white kitten, was gonna name him Frosty. Instead, I came across a cat that resembles one of his sisters. As soon as I locked eyes on this Angel, my search completely stopped. I could not see past her, I could not look beyond her, all I saw was her. She’s an older cat, very quiet, and basically just likes to lay around. And that’s exactly what Timmy needs. Another cat body near him. My mom’s cat, Sonny, is always hanging out with us, but if I’m not around, he plays too rough with Tim (Timmy is 17) and Sonny’s only 10. I have a 3-part plan for Feb. and March. It all begins once my mom & uncle get outta here. 1.) Fix up my room exactly like a studio apartment. No more looking for apartments, the only truly safe one is in New Baltimore, back home. My Dad and I are on a waitlist for this particular place, but it’s longggg. Like 2-4 years long. We’ve been on the waitlist for 1.5 years. So we wait it out. Let’s practice patience here. In the meantime, do a complete room makeover, and maybe get a hotel room back home a couple times a month. I can shower with CITY water again, hit up all my old grocery stores, and then still return back to this stupid house. Until we get the big call. 2.) Install a catio, here. Temporarily. My Dad will help me with this, he promised. It was either that, or get my ex-fiancé to do it, which he’s great at. He’s awesome at building and construction. But the issue with that is, he might hang around for months & months, and I don’t want that. It’s bad enough here. So my Dad is gonna help me secure the catio, and I can do the rest. 3.) And this is the BIGGIE! Adopt the cat I saw on Petfinder. The problem is, it has to look like I “found” the cat somewhere. My mom will kill me if she finds out I adopted one, just for Timmy. But if it kinda just strolled into my life, that would be ok. Like I rescued the cat from outside. (She’s weird like that.) But there are no stray cats around here. And for good reason. We have the kind of woods that have large, cat-eating creatures living back there. Telling her a cat just showed up at the front door is not believable. I ran into an old buddy of mine back home yesterday while I was at the New Baltimore post office getting yet another refund for an apartment app money order that went south. Told him the whole situation, he said whatever story I come up with, he’d back me up. He offered to say HE got me the cat, but I don’t want to put that on him. He’s just too nice of a guy and he doesn’t deserve it. But I love the idea of him going along with it, just in case I need backup. How can I adopt this cat while making it look like I didn’t really adopt her? It has to be more like a rescue. NOT an adoption from a shelter. All suggestions are welcome. And I mean ALL suggestions, I don’t care if you think it’s a stupid suggestion, still hit me with it. I’m open to all different ideas and storylines. Thanks guys! Lunch break over, back to work. Happy Weekend, watch SNL, and I’ll be back to see if anyone comes up with a believable story I can use.