I call to my parents every weekend just so I can keep in touch with them. I am their only son so my mom worries a lot about me. My father owns his own...business there and he is doing really well. They have no desire to live with me here in Surat. They have come and visited me once about two years ago. When they were here, my mom mentioned a friend of hers from College time who came here after her wedding. Her name was Nita. She came to surat about twenty years ago and she lives in near my place.. I actually SNUFFLED, like I was still some little kid wiping my nose on my sleeve. I hate to snuffle. Gross. I reached for the tissues."Have you talked to Maria?" Saturday I called her 'cause I got another one of those 'kill the program' calls. I left a message on her voice mail, but she hasn't called back. She always calls back as soon as she can." After that raid she's probably pretty busy."I shook my head woefully. "She'd call. I know she'd call. She hates me. I know she hates me." Why don't. His bond with Gabrain was if anything stronger than ever, Gabrain viewing Scott as his own personal talisman.Scott also now shared with Gabrain his intention to introduce gunpowder. The young King found it difficult to grasp the concept however, but Scott assured him he would understand once he had mastered the mix and could lay on a demonstration. He explained to Gabrain his plan to personally make the gunpowder and to order a variety of chemicals prepared for his use, some of them false. There were three different knots, top, middle and bottom. Ruiz dropped to her knees and started tearing at the thin rope, pulling at the knots, frenzied now, knowing it was impossible but not wanting to give up, not wanting to give him the satisfaction.Lauren looked at Peter and whispered, "bastard." He just nodded.Ruiz knew she had lost long before Peter called "three minutes." She looked at him but didn't say anything. "Get back to the quiet room."---By the time Lauren got back to the quiet.