I ran hard and reached his house, fully drenched. He greeted me and said, Oh! Reshma you are fully drenched! You will get fever and cold, if u don’t...change your dress and wipe yourself. Saying this he gave me a towel and a T-shirt and a midi (which his wife uses) and told me“Reshma, you change to this dress and keep your dress under the fan. It will dry off by the time the tuition is over.”There are about four of my friends who are coming for tuition. My tuition teacher was Mr. Anil who was 30. We played cards. I made reservations at Cafe Davis in Santa Rosa for all of us for dinner.New Years Eve was a party at the James' house. It was sort of bittersweet. Soon after the party we would all be going to our homes on Bangalore and Felandia. Sushi, Beth Spio, and I would stay until the interviews at the end of January. Sushi, Beth and Mira Spio and I still had to visit Paul and his set at Mendocino. We planned on spending two days at Little River and three days at the ranch at Mendocino.. Michele stopped in front of the mirror, pulled her lipstick out of her regulation black handbag and fixed her lipstick and then brushed her hair.“I told you we have plenty of time to get to know each other,” Michele winked at him and skittered out the door.“Fuck me I’m head over A-bracket for a Wren! A fucking transvestite Wren at that!” Spike smiled, sat down, put up his feet up and lit a cigarette remembering Michele’s soft embrace.Michele met up with her three charges, Doris had finished in. Her eyes were the same - red, placid, calm, her face unchanged, but there was something about her breathing.Breath in- out - out. Breath in - out - out.It was slight, but Ryan could detect a pattern, a pattern he knew well. Instead of drawing away, his fingers gently pressed against Rain’s breast. Her nipple swelled against his palm, and he could feel the smallest of tremors from her skin. Shudder-pause-pause. It pulsed against his hand. He looked at his watch - the H-waves were still on, and.