. 4 kilometer walk?... 2 hour boat ride ... walk ... ride ... the ferry is right next door ... Ride!The boss was waiting for me to step off the ferry....��At the beck and call of the government my ass.”“Immigration called?”“YES! Sorry. I had no idea. Mike is pissed. Get your young ass to work.”I didn’t even stop to apologize. I hoofed it.I dressed for it and made for the finishing room door. Mike was in a paint suit spraying lacquer on a series of dish lockers. I never said a word ... just stepped. This indifference. No, not indifference, she seemed interested,but decidedly not in the way I was hoping.I held the notebook out in front of me, hoping to snap her out ofwhatever it was she was noodling over. "I brought you your notebook. Youleft it on the table when you, uh, ran away."My gambit seemed to work. "Hey, I didn't run away! I was trying toprotect you." She didn't elaborate on that last point. "But thanks forbringing that back, I guess."She snatched the notebook out of my hands, the. Apparently, his entrance essay, and his 2100 score on the sat’s had made the difference. His joy was to be short-lived. Late that night, too excited to sleep, while he was digging through his secret stash between the floor joists of his room, an argument between his parents drifted up through the floor grate. ‘Well, aren’t you going to tell him yourself,’ he heard his mothers voice, full of scorn and disdain. ‘I suppose you’re going to leave it to me to tell him the bad news. I’ve been after. Raja also admired about your beauty we are waiting for the chance. Yesterday postman came and gave one post in the name of you to deliver that I came to your flat and door was in open, your daughter is watching the TV I asked her where is your mom? She said mom in bathroom he was taking a bath I glanced your bedroom it was in open and I was thinking it was the golden opportunity to see you privates parts so I planned and said to daughter your friends are waiting in ground floor they are calling.