Next morning I asked my mom to sent the breakfast to my room. I was working on my laptop and chitti entered the room with breakfast plate. I asked whe...her she had breakfast and she said she has work and will have later. She asked me to finish the breakfast and till that time she will sit here so that she can take the plates with her. I started eating and chitti said thanks to me. I said for what and she said for refusing that guy in the marriage and also promising to look for some educated and. Eventually, you won’t want to ever leave me.”He was insane. Heather had no doubt about that now. She was in the hands of a true madman. She had to think. If she was going to survive, she would have to calm down and think. That was the important thing. Survive. Survive to go home to her husband and daughter. Somehow, someway, she had to survive.Slyguy123 let his eyes travel over Heather’s nearly naked body as he slowly smoked his cigarette. She saw the madness in his eyes and felt as if she were. He held the red watch box, remembering the longest summer of his life. The silvery watch with its black face and three sub-dials was as perfect as the day he'd taken it off.He put the cheap runner's watch he'd been wearing to one side and pulled the stem on the Speedmaster. People didn't appreciate great mechanical watches anymore. Everything was battery driven or 'perpetual' motion. He understood their convenience, but a hand-wound watch was a thing of beauty. Scott set the time and tried to. I am not pretty. I am just another lost soul suffering the consequences of their own actions.For the next two hours I am caught in an endless cycle of repetition; abed shaking and foetal, bile rising unwelcome and unbidden, desperate for sleep but unable, the eventual inevitable stagger across well-worn carpet to heave emptily over the toilet bowl before taking a few delicate sips of water to cleanse my mouth of the bitter, acrid aftertaste and then crawling back to the soft, warm comforting.