.. something I didn’t plan on. I have to go, Mamma.”Something in her voice set of alarms in Marian’s head.“What happened,” she asked, her st...mach doing flip-flops.“Curtis Lee came with Nathan last time,” said Bernadette nervously.“No he didn’t,” said Marian. “He stayed here, with us. He came alone.”“He didn’t come alone,” said Bernadette miserably. “We couldn’t tell you. You’d have forbidden me to see him. I had to see him, Mamma.”“What did you do?!” asked her distressed mother.“I have to go to. I’ve lived here for almost twenty years, since I was eighteen, and thought I knew everyone in my little corner of paradise. But I had never seen her before she just appeared one day – and every day after that.Since I work from home, I always dress in a white linen jacket and tan slacks with an open-neck blue shirt on work days. I find it helps me take my work more seriously than if I dressed in pj’s or a sweat suit. Not that I ever wear sweats anyway, but still.She always appeared from the. When we reached the hall the section wise names of the students where being called out as only two sections were to be made I had high chances that Simran would join me as my name was called out I was given section C even ashu was there in mine section .Now my heart beat was rising as after the series of names in K it was soon L,M,O,P,Q,R and ultimately S and soon her name was also called in the c section which made me feel like now it was as easy to take her to bed as blowing a whistle but it. “Hmm, OK, but I can’t be out late, I have to be at the orphanage at eight tomorrow morning.”“Again? You’re always over there”“What do you mean? I haven’t been there for about ten days, ever since Reading Period started.” She looked straight ahead, dropping his hand.“I don’t know, just seems that way” he said, dejected.“I tell you what. Take me home and I’ll put a budget together for our trip. We can discuss it tonight,” she said with as much cheer as possible.He dropped her off with a standard.