I knew she wasn'tavoiding talking to me- Thursdays were always like this for her- full ofmeetings. I always had to call and wait a while for her to g...t back to meunless it was an emergency. But, I was still worried. It wasn't justwhat they would say and think, but what I was thinking about myself.I decided to not let it get me to paranoid. I went upstairs, and gotundressed. I got a pair of panties, and a matching bra. I then got asimple sundress. I took a shower, but washed down with the. ”“So it’s ‘Wes’, now?” Cal asked himself.The three men sat in an uncomfortable silence. George had begun the meeting. He looked like he was waiting for someone else to speak. For his part, Cal didn’t know what to say.“The floor’s all yours, Wes,” George said with a shrug of the shoulders and a smile.Ingram shifted in his chair. He scratched his forehead.“Well—um,” he mumbled.“Yes, Wes,” George said in a soft voice.He leaned forward, as though he couldn’t wait to hear a gurgle from the fountain. Nedeem said“Mai unko lekar aata hun”. Nadeem came around 3 pm with Prem and bantu. Nadeem introduced me to Prem and Bantu as his old friend to whom they don’t know. Bantu asked me “Aap kaha kam karte ho?” I told him about my company I am working for. He insisted me to get some insurance work from my company. I promised him and ask him whenever he is coming to Delhi he can call me. On this Prem smiled and said “Sir ek bahut important kam hai jo hum dono ko Delhi ja kar karna hai”. Nadeem guessed. Titus threw the top sheet back.“You sleep next to the wall. You don’t need nearly as much room as I do.”They got settled in and Titus turned off the light. Curtis was asleep in merely minutes. Titus took a little longer. The silence of the desert night was occasionally broken by an eighteen-wheeler pulling in to the truck stop.One of those intruded on Titus’ sleep and he awoke. He looked at the clock and rolled over so that he was facing in the opposite direction, Curtis’ back in front of him..