" You've caught a chill," she said, when his footsteps had receded, stillsitting on the edge of the bed. She wore a skirt suit whose hem hadridden up ...o expose her knees criss-crossed with a fine, nylon weave. Abrown net kept her dark hair in a tidy bun, small hoops glittered in herears and her smile glistened with subdued lipstick. Sudden anger at allof her contrasting with all of me made clubs of my fists."I'm not a boy." More a challenge, that statement came easier the secondtime, for the. Keerthana told him that she did not have any close friends as she was always restricted by her father in keeping any friends. Raj told her that he can help her in that respect.Keerthana asked him, “But you are not married, how will you help?” Cunning Raj told her that even though he was not married he knew all about it as he had friends who were married.He told her that recently before moving to this house, he had helped 2 girls to learn how to satisfy their husbands.Keerthana got excited not. It wasn't that he didn't have a great looking wife, he did. She looked and acted classy at all times and would be a great practice builder when he finished med school. The problem was that even at the best of times, her sex drive was much lower than his. And for the last few weeks, it had been the worst of times as she booked for her finals in interior design.Then the day after finals, she left town to visit her family. They made love the night before, but that seemed to make things worse, as. I’d helped her when she was struggling with her groceries yesterday. Hey, it was just the gentlemanly thing to do.She was holding a plate of cookies and asked in heavily accented English, “You like cookies?” I nodded and invited her in.I asked her if she would like some tea or coffee or soda and she selected soda so I took her to my refrigerator to pick out the kind she liked. This is my first friend in my new neighborhood, if you could call a multi-story urban apartment building a.