Given a premise, an initial context, an original ending, and a counterfactual context, the task is to generate a new story ending aligned with the counterfactual context and as close to the original ending as possible. Each instance consists of a five-sentence story. The premise is the first sentence of a story, and the second sentence, which is the initial context, provides more information about the story's context and the story's general plot. The original ending is the last three sentences of the story. Also, a counterfactual context is a slight modification to the initial context. You should write a new story ending that edits the original story ending as little as possible to regain coherence with the counterfactual context. To sum up, you should write the last three sentences of a story based on the premise(first sentence) and the counterfactual context(second sentence) of the story.
Q: Premise: To try and make his professor like him, John had bought him a gift. 
 Initial Context: John took the gift to class the next day. 
 Original Ending: After class, John went up to the professor. He gave the professor the gift, and waited to see what he said. The professor simply nodded and walked away. 
 Counterfactual Context: The professor loved it.
A: 
After class, John went up to the professor. He asked the professor what he thought of the gift, and waited to see what he said. The professor smiled and said he appreciated the gift. 