” With that I hung up the phone I drove around for another 10 minutes to make sure she had enough time then I finally pulled into the drive way, the...bikers pulled up there were at least 10 of them now. I stood there and waited until some fat old guy spoke up, “so you’re the prick who messed with our friends?” I gave him a sorrowful look then said, “Yes they were messing with some friends of mine.” There was some laughter around the pricks then he said again, “yeah so you’re the Mr. Hero. On the other hand male vanity was just too boring to countenance. Steve would cut a conversation dead if he suddenly encountered some inflated ego.However, it was that peculiar brand of female vanity that left Steve really baffled. It had that extra dimension that took any relationship into a different realm; a realm he preferred to avoid, a realm of sex andemotion. He'd had some bad experiences at high school and now he stuck to a rigid philosophy; once bitten twice shy. What had begun, as a. Every time I come near you run a mile. You cringe, Reshma. You think I can’t notice that?’ ‘NO!!’ I was conscious of a vague feeling that this was a dream, I must have fell asleep after I had that Coke…me and him could not possibly be having a conversation like this. ‘What are you talking about, Anthony?’ Unknowingly, I used his Christian name for the first time. In India, employers had all the right to call their juniors anything, but the employees usually called them sir or ma’am. ‘Nothing. .eventually, he stopped his door closing and stood staring at me. i smiled all pretty & said hi (all sweet & high, like i do in the vids) and he rather politely said hi & asked if there was any water available in the building... i told him where... he thanked me... he was uncomfortable... i went outside for a smoke...it was still fukin' chilly... a city truck started slowly driving by me... those city bois can be curious... i went back in...in the back of the booth area, the homeless guy was.