Her cooking was definitely far superior to mine, so I was eating pretty darned well. It was impressive what she could do with canned food and pasta.Fo... sleeping arrangements, I insisted she take the bed and I used one of her sleeping bags. She made a big fuss about it but that was one of the few disputes that went my way. Truth be told, I actually slept better on the floor than in the bed because it sagged in the middle.Daily ablutions required a little cooperative planning since we didn't have. “I have guests to attend to.”“What about me?” I called out as she slid the door open.“Don’t worry,” she assured, stepping outside. “I’ll be back.”I laid there stunned as I heard the glass door slide shut. I was fullyexpecting Sonya to walk back in with a ‘just k**ding,’ but as twominutes turned to ten, my expectations began to wane. In fact, it wasabout twenty minutes later when I finally heard the door slide open again. I was actually feeling a bit irritated, until the whimsical sound. I had been working there for few months. So it was natural that my friends used to visit from different places whenever they came to the city and stayed at my place. Once one of my friend Priya (name changed), texted me on WhatsApp and said she got a job in Bangalore and was coming there within the week. She asked me if she could stay at my place until she found a suitable pg and I said yes.So the day finally came when she landed in the city and I was instantly amazed to see her. She was clad. ” “Billy, I hope you know if we could have stayed we would have, but they took you to that army post, what could we do, a rescue would have been suicide. As far back as when they killed McSween, I knew it was gonna be a battle forever. So after your capture, we had to move on. You understand, don’t you? No hard feelings?” “Well Jere, I have always known it was every man for himself so I have no issues with you, except one. The Jones sisters about two miles out of town. They are friends of mine.