Baat meri behan sarita ke pass bhi pahunchi aur woh mujhe leke sidha jitu jo us waqt canteen mein hi baitha tha pahunch gayi. Meine apni behan ko baho... samajhaya ki jitu bahot bada gunda hai uske paas nahi jana chahiye lekin usne meri baat nahi suni.Mein appko ye bhi bata deta hun ki meri badi behan apni slim figure aur sundarata par bahot ghamand karti thi aur sabse tari mein hi baat karti thi. Uski image ek arrogant ladki ki thi ghar mein bhi aur bahar bhi…Jab hum wahan pahunche to jit apne. I didn’t care about her one damn yesterday, but now I just wanted her to cooperate. She sat on her hunches and nibbles on her bread, like us all, she had trouble sleeping the previous night and the angry welts from the whipping yesterday showed.I realized that this was the first time since I had been thrown together with these girls that I could look them over. The last girl in line, the one that had caused our little group so much trouble was a dirty blond girl; her eyes were a honey brown. .'her'? Looking to the floor, I beganto wonder about my supposed significance in...what did they call it...existence.Had I just represented, redirected, and then taken sole responsibilityfor not only my actions, but for other's without blinking an eye orconscious thought? Why would I not be severely punished for what mommaand I had done- for what we truthfully admitted to?That woman...she was the first to speak from the gallery- the first toshow disinterest in the inquiry as if it should have. Tom had gone to bed half an hour ago. Lynn said she would do the dishes then be up to bed. Steve said "Don't worry about those Lynn, you've done more than enough for one day, leave the dishes to Jane and i". "Yes mum, Steve and i will do the dishes and tidy up, it won't take long and i've got a full day at college tomorrow, so i won't stay up late ". "Come on darling, you can't turn down an offer like that, let's go to bed before they change their minds ". Said Mark, as he took Lynn by the arm.