It was a sunny Friday and flight timings were 5:30 p.m. I came back from office early that day, took a shower and got ready to go to the airport. I bo...ked a cab, reached the airport at 5 p.m. and waited for his arrival. Unfortunately, flight got delayed by more than 2 hrs and landed at around 7:45 p.m.I met my hubby friend Mahesh who is tall, slightly fatty by tummy wearing a t-shirt and formal pants. We introduced ourselves and he gave a gentle hug (nice perfume fragrance was emanating from. ’ The couple looked to be in their sixties or seventies. ‘Did you get very wet?’ Emma Green asked. ‘No, not really. It just started raining, as we approached your cottage. Besides, with swim suites, we’re not worried about it. What we are worried about is my sister and Frank’s brother stranded over on the other side of the lake.’ ‘How did that happen?’ Bernie Green inquired. Sally recounted the story of the broken paddle. ‘You only had two paddles with you?’ Bernie said more as a rebuke than a. She had big wet red eyes; I knew she’d been crying. She took a seat too.Mom spoke to me first, “I don’t know son. After today I don’t know if you’ll ever be able to forgive us.”I was looking from my mom to my dad, “OK, what is it?”Dad spoke, “It’s about your brother. He can’t come. In fact he never could.”“Why? What’s the matter?”“Chris has been in prison son. He’s been there for years, and son, he’ll never get out.”My stomach! Oh no not now!Dad proceeded, “About two years ago he sent me and. It was now Friday,mom had called and said she was going to happy hour with Aunt Jill after work so I would have to make my own dinner. I whipped up some mac and cheese for dinner and settle down on the couch to watch a college basketball game. It was about 8 o'clock when I heard aa car pull up out side. A few minutes later the door opened and in staggered mom. She was giggling and stumbing around like a drunken sailor. She staggered to the couch and collasped. She was trying to tell me how much.