Just missed talking to him. Missed his voice. His stories. His hugs..."Stop it!"That got a laugh out of her, as she pretended it was Dad scolding her....He'd be right, too. Mourning only got you so far in life. Besides ... it wasn't like a wife hadn't been thrown at her in her hour of need.Potential wife.Lover.Friend.Now she really had to stop. Any more thought in that direction, and Cynthia would be reduced to vague acquaintance.Violet's feet had carried her to the shelter entrance. Apart from. "Maybe!" Hayley gave her the stink-eye. "...Yes." It is filled with carbon monoxide!" Hayley reached up, but Bee wasbeyond her reach. The crowd was getting noisy again, and everyone elsewas too busy peppering Alan and each other with questions and panicsituations to care what one little girl did, but I could see Alan andhe kept one eye on Bee. "You will suffocate, and you will die! C'mon,get off! Get!"Bee quietly groaned, then let go and dropped into Hayley's waitingarms. Hayley made a. “That’s quite an outfit,” she said, laughing.“It might not be sexy,” Eva replied. “Do you know how much it hurts to get hot olive oil spattered on your bare thighs?” She regarded what Janet held. “Is that him?”“It is.” She removed the cover from the coffee cup. Inside it was packed with ice and in the center was a pill bottle. “Fresh from the source.” Janet set it in the refrigerator.“That’s a detail I’d be happier not knowing. You’re still not saying who he is.”“My lips are permanently and. We sat like this for sometime while the full hardcore action underwent. Eyes on the screen, mausmi's hand on my wrist, god knows neelam's hands where, and all of us breathing heavily. The tension was so thick that it could counterbalance a black hole. Well 2 blackholes to be precise. Then suddenly a thin wail rose and developed into a full scale baby cry. Mausmi's daughter had woken and was crying hard. It broke our reverie and we all stirred up, but avoiding each others eyes if we could help.