She invited the person he cheated with to their table and basically trapped him in a lie and outed them in front of everyone.”Steph was studying him...like an insect under glass. “You really like her,” she whispered in wonder.“Of course I like her,” Josh huffed. “Can we just drop this?”“No,” Gillian said with a serious expression on her face. “Are you gonna see her again?”“I don’t know. She hasn’t called me since I dropped her off.” Josh tried to hide the anxiety it had raised in him, but Steph’s. I get it,but......but......."I started to cry."It's okay," Jo comforted me. "It's okay. We've got you." I just want to go home........."Claire held me."You're safe now, Lauren."EIGHTThey drove me home and I thanked them. Asked them to leave me alone.But they came in with me and I didn't fight them."We're not going anywhere," Claire promised me.They helped me undress and I showered while they left me upstairs. Iscrubbed and scrubbed, washing what had happened away, naked in thesteaming water.I. He had decided now to be brave. He would take his fate like a man, even though it would be his last opportunity to ever do so. Chaing stepped into back of the jeep and took one last glance over at his parents, parents who had spent a good portion of their lives trying to give him the proper guidance to grow into a man. The same guidance that would be lost on whomever would bear his body after today, a guidance that somehow had failed and precipitated his new fate. And while they felt the guilt,. ” Asha, “Sorry, ab se nahi hoga.” Main, “Dekh tu chahe jisse chudwae, main tujhe kabhi nahi rokunga par mujhse mat chhupana.” Asha, “Ok.”Asha meri goad mein mere kamar ke charon or pair bandhe baithi thi. Uska masoom chehra meri ankhon ke saamne tha. Hum dono ne waise hi ek doosron ko bahon mein bhar liya or waise hi kuch der tak baithe rahe. Kuch der baad maine apni pakad dheeli ki.Uska chehra upar uthaya, uske gulabi hoton ko chooma aur kaha, “Ashu tum yahaan baitho, main tumhare liye chai.