They did recommend a bookseller that might ― if anybody did ― have maps.The bookseller ― if one could call someone who had a half-dozen moth-eat...n old volumes in a shop otherwise filled with dubious home remedies a bookseller ― had plenty of information about the mountains and the monsters that inhabited them, but no maps. Nil was both disappointed and not. It would have been nice to have a reasonably reliable map of the region but from the way Lavender kept scrunching up her mouth ― he assumed. At first I never told you because I thought you'd laugh at me, and then when we became freinds, I thought that it was too good to lose....Stranger: *bites my bottom lip*You: I thought you'd just laught at me, your pathetic nerdy friendStranger: *smiles slighty* nerds arent usually as strong as you areYou: I mean, you've been out with atheletes and whatever. What could I offer you, exept free programs and stuffStranger: *rolls my eyes*You: thanks, don't know where the strength came from...You:. She looked at me, averted her eyes for a while and looked back at me and made a face.“Why keep me waiting, take me, know!”(kyon sata rahe ho, lo na!)I smiled broadly at her, pulled her close to me, put my right around her waist, held her chin with my left hand and kissed her deep and hard. She too melted into me and I hugged her with both my hands.“Close the windows, know!’ (khidki bandh karo na!), she whispered when I was smothering her with kisses. I broke our kiss. “I asked in what year did the space shuttle as we know it today lift off for the first time?” I sighed, “1981.” He smiled at me. “Very good. I see you have been reading like I have assigned. But please pay attention Jay.” And then he continued his lecture about the space program. I was about to drift off again when I heard someone giggle behind me. I looked back to see the girl I have known since kindergarten…Amanda. I smiled at her and she smiled back. As I was about to do something else.