‘I told him I can’t Mama …’ Now it was her turn to hold the phone. A couple of minutes passed before I heard the click of a cigarette lighter....And when I heard her take the first few puffs of her cigarette I just knew I was in for it. ‘What about his … boy-f … I mean … what about that other…’ I had never heard my mother struggle for words. Normally nothing phases her, but Malichai’s ‘bisexual curiosity had her squirming. ‘They are finished Mama.’ I said with more certainty than I actually felt.. When Joe came in several minutes later he knew. He had seen the Yamaha, still smoking, but with the center stand down. When he came through the door, he saw the fright and terror in his wife's face as she was now sitting on his lap.When Marcel had come in, he tossed his helmet to one of his friends, and sat down in a large oak captain's chair next to Jenny. He reached over, grabbed her hand and yanked her up and into his lap.When Joe came in he could see the despair in her eyes. "How could you. That someone had been following us throughout the mall, but I had been putting it out of my mind. We made our way back to my uncle's white Mercedes Jeep that was parked on level six of the multi-story car park and packed it full with all the wonderful purchases he had bought for me. As we closed the trunk, a black Mercedes with black tinted windows passed us by very slowly before speeding off once it had passed. Another strange occurrence, on an already bizarre day that was about to get a lot. ”“What do you mean, ‘at this point’?”“Neither you nor I know how things are going to end up. I’m going to Sweden for a year. And I’ll be going to college. If you and I sort things out and get to a point where we’re a couple, and we stay a couple, then ‘at this point’ means never. But what if you and I don’t work out as a couple? Should I preclude a relationship with a twenty-five-year-old Becky if we somehow find ourselves together at that point?”“No, I guess not. So you’re not telling her she.