’ I giggled. ‘Well… thank you very much… Tease.’ ‘Actually, not far off. Teresa.’ ‘Ah. I am Anya. Nice to meet you, Teresa.’ We chat...ed away for a little while—giggling at the boys and their flat footed approach to chatting up girls, the terrible state of popular music, this and that. Then, apropos of nothing, Teresa said, ‘I want you.’ ‘Pardon?’ ‘You heard. I didn’t mumble.’ She hadn’t mumbled, and I had heard. My heart was in my throat, and she had me in her gaze. Then, as if it was Anya. En saman fulla ulle pochu. Rajesh un samanai meduva velia yethu pin ulle vidu. Fulla veliya edikkathe. Nan mami sonna madhiri en samanai konjam velua eduthu pin ulle vitten.Rajes fasta pannu. Nan ippo mamimai fasta okka arambchan. En kaiai mami mulaiyil vaithu kasakinen. Mami munaka arambithal. Rajesh immm fasta pannuda. Fulla ulle vittu kuthuda. Rumba jollya irukku. Nee nall okkare. Mama indha madhini ennai othathe illai. Nee nalla pannere. Innumkonjam fasta pannuda.Nalla fast veliya yeduthu. "If not mama, then I have two friends in the pups. They like to come and play, but sometimes they will put their teeth to me. They aren't big enough to hurt me though," he said."No, and they aren't trying to either. You are right. They just want to play now," I said.He showed me then that the pups would come to him when he urged them too, and he was right. They scampered right over and would even let him pick them up. He grabbed one, petted it a little and then scratched its belly, then he. "What? And ruin the surprise? Shit, that wouldn't be any fun. Besides, they wouldn't have believed me," Joey said."I wish Stan would have come with me... " Sarah said. "I want them to meet him." They will. But you know why he didn't come," Joey said."Oh shit... here we are... Shit... Oh shit, there's daddy!... I think I'm gonna start crying... " Shit. You could at least wait until they see you too. Then we can all have a good cry," Joey said sniffing and wiping his eye."I think we better just.