I also set the table in the kitchen.Weena had her question read as she came it: "Well?" Quite well, I think. But first, do you want to change?" Yes. I...see you thought about dinner." Salads and perhaps a bit of wine. I feel weighted down by this past week." Race you upstairs, then." And she started upstairs.I helped her out of her uniform, so it was half an hour later that we got back downstairs. We ended up with two green salads, potato salad and a glass each of the Viognier — which killed the. Again you gently pull me, but this time you continue to pull me until we reach a secluded alley. You look up at me with some trepidation in your eyes before you lean in for a kiss, it is hot scorching but I don't respond like I usually do, meeting your passion with all-consuming fire. Instead I return your kiss stiffly, mechanically. You pull back horrified at my response. Again you look up at me this time with tears in your eyes and ask 'Daddy, is something wrong, are you mad at me?', and it. How about we meet over a cup of coffee in Barista, Salt Lake tomorrow at 1 p.m?N: No actually, Pratik returns from school by 1.30…why don’t you come to my house by 1?A: But won’t your in-laws ask about me?N: nah, they are too old to come upstairs, that too when their son’s not there. We may live in the same Apartment Complex, but our flats are different..A: oh you mean to say you will be all alone? Kya karne ka irada hai? (jokingly)N: dhat! Its just that I will have to come & go by 1.30 for. That seemed to be all they ever did. When I finally turned 18 a few months ago they seemed to stop trying to hide these arguments from me and now my life is just watching them argue.“He doesn’t pay me enough! there’s nothing I can do!”“You can go down there and ask him for a raise! He knows you have a family he should be willing to give a little extra to provide! It’s not my fault you decided to take a job in a place where they won’t hire women!”The one saving grace to living on this island was.