I became immediately offended.The waitress came over, and she also gave us a disapproving look, before taking our orders.There was a long permeating s...lence as we studied each other.She looked old, but I knew that her dirty face and ragged hair would make her look older than she was.Her hair, though unkept didn’t seem brittle, unlike some of the drug addicts I’d had the misfortune to meet.Though she seemed shy and pensive, she wasn’t jumpy or jittery at all. She didn’t appear to have been. He still checked on Gran at least once a week or stayed the odd weekend with her when she did need his help, and he didn’t have an assignment due.He was putting all his efforts into getting the degrees finished. He had even signed up for extra units in Metallurgy as it helped with the jewellery making, he did with Gran.Things went well for the first couple of months.In early August, he got hit with the next whammy.The Ubobo brothers and sisters turned up on his doorstep. Each of them had a. She loved her father dearly but he like so many other father figures in her circle of friends was much attuned to the use of the strap to correct her mistakes however well-intended they might be. Even now at the age of 22, he did not hesitate to sternly address her with the dreaded words,"Upstairs, young lady, and get those knickers lowered out of the way. I want you face down on the bed in the correction position immediately."Poor Suzy was still a technical virgin more because she was afraid. Ava thaanga mudiyam aah…sss …ah nu en thala mudiya pudichu amukki ava pundaiyla en mugatha theicha…adha puringikittu nalla vaipottu avala kadhara vachen….Athula ava utcha kaatam adanchu.. Ennanga ah..Medhuva enaku thanni varapogudhu…amma aah …. Enakku vanthuruchu vaanga…sekkiram unga thambiya ulla vittu velaya arambinganna…..En thambiya eduthen endi en thambi innum rediyae aakalayae ..Inga vandhu en vayila vainga nu sonna… en sunniya eduthu ava vaila vachen … en thambiya pidichu vaipoottu vita.