. J... erm... Jon...athon... Jon.”Oh well, I think to myself, I know this is a set up but Jon is acting his part well so I will play along. I agree ...o meet him for a date, we have a drink while we arrange the details and then I return to my friends. My friends all talk at once, pretending to be surprised and wanting to know who he is. I play dumb, saying that he was asking about a lady that my mum once knew. I study each face to see if it reveals something that would confirm my suspicion that. With further thought they also realized that even though the back yard was of a good size and there were no houses to immediate left or right, the chances of being noticed were probably too high right next to the road. No, they needed to stick to the plan and find a rich man’s property, with land to hide on and trash to dig through. Preferably, this land would include or be near a stream, for drinking water.“And no guard dogs,” Paula added. “I like dogs, but a guard dog would bite. I hate paan chewing men. If there is any problem we tell our bosses accordingly and leave the place. Nobody forces us.” “But how you know that a man shall be disagreeable?” “With practice we can find out what type of person is there at the other end just by making a phone call.” “That you can judge from an e mail also.” “Of course.” She likes the food. No doubt it is five star food. I too continue to eat and at the same time sip the red wine. The food finished, she asks me too keep the empty. The silence stretched for so long, Elva thought her son wasn’t going to answer the question. Like before, though, just as she drew breath to ask the question again, he responded.“I feel so lost,” Yren said with a voice that was barely above a whisper. “I feel like the whole world is spinning around me and I just want to grab hold of something and hold on. Except, I don’t know what is real and what isn’t.”Yren’s head fell. “I miss him,” he whispered. “I feel lost and alone without him.”“We all.