Elyse said she’d let anyone who came home before Connie and I got out of the sauna know what the deal was. I went up to my room and quickly undresse... and wrapped the towel around my waist and put on the robe, then went back to the basement.Connie and I went into the sauna and the stones were warm enough to add water right away. As the steam billowed up, we sat down on the bench. Once again, I was pleased to see that Connie was behaving very maturely, sitting a discreet distance from me, but not. One day we had some function in the house and party was going on late in the night we all were sipping beer and some hot drinks. Leela used to have a beer and was sitting next to Shankar….As we were high on alcohol no body was paying attention to what Shankar was upto….I (Vijay) noticed that Shankar was leaning on Leela and was cracking some joke and Leela was also jovial and was laughing. Some time went by and he was becoming bolder with his moves and was touching Leela on her lap and also put. She smiled tentatively as he approached. Neither of them was exactly sure what to say to each other past hello. Phillip reached for the bag Svetlana was still clutching tightly to her. She let him take it from her and took the flowers he’d brought. She looked up at him and shyly said, ‘Thank you.’ They stood and stared at each other for a long moment, then Phillip held out his arm. ‘Let’s go get the rest of your things and then we can go home.’ Home. The word struck somewhere deep inside. While I floated buoyantly inthe water, they attached some electrodes to my temples and then closedthe door. Before I could understand what was happening, I found myselfsitting behind the wheel of an Indy race car. I could feel the wheel inmy hands and see the glint of sunlight off the racing visor in front ofmy eyes. When the engines roared to life I could feel the rumbleeverywhere in my body and my ears actually hurt from the noise. Itdidn't take long for me to accept this as reality and.