What's going to happen to them?" If it works the way I hope it will," Kathy replied, "they will have the happiness that they both deserve and for whic... Andy has suffered so much. Do you know that woman is still in terrible pain?" As a matter of fact," Hank replied thoughtfully, "I do. Little Kathy was telling me about looking into Andy's beautiful eyes and seeing her love and goodness — and something else, back deep. Kathy, that 'something else' is constant pain. I'm sure of it. But what's. The other day, for example, we’d met in town for a morning coffee followed by a relatively brief wander around the shops so that I could point out to him all the various lovely things that my heart might desire when his monthly salary happened to arrive in his bank account. With our window shopping complete … Okay, I’ll be honest; I was so very well behaved that Stephen did buy me this divine off-white, lightweight cotton, shirt-come-minidress that was a real bargain. It is just about sheer. Suddenly the conversation hadbecome interesting. "Who said some stuff? What stuff?Austin shuffled his feet. I tried to read his face but he looked away."What stuff?" I repeated shoving his shoulder with my hand. "Tell me." I can't," he said. "I promised I wouldn't." You know what," I said, "I went out of my way not to lose you as afriend. I really cared about you Austin. But you're a fucking asshole.Don't call me again. I'm blocking your number."I pulled my phone out of my jeans and punched. He loved me dearly and indulged my every wish. My father was a senior official in the local government. We had a neighbor Mr. Sharma a colleague of my father.Mr. Sharma and his wife were good friends of my parents. I used to call them uncle and aunty. They had no children. Although Mrs. Sharma was quite capable of conceiving but because of some other problem the doctors had advised her to avoid pregnancy as childbirth could be fatal to her. Being childless, they loved me very dearly. I also.