“hello mrs sharma, I brought this month’s rent” I said“uh okay”. She was still a little overwhelmed and was trying desperately to hide it. S...e took the money from me and as she did our hands touched. I felt her trembling hand as she withdrew. A lock of her hair had slipped down her head to the corner of her eye, along her tear stained cheeks. Damn she looked beautiful.I just kept looking at her shamelessly and unaware that she was probably embarrassed.“Mrs Sharma, are you okay?” I asked.She was. Maybe I needed something like Hugo to take my mind off it.I had to show him the shower next morning, but he figured it out pretty quick. I took the bandage off him before, and tried to let him know I’d put it back on when he was done. He came out in the same pants, but without his vest.After I re-bandaged him I gave him a pair of my dad’s old slacks and a shirt. I didn’t have any skivvies, but I didn’t think he’d been wearing any, either; he’d have to go commando. He understood the buttons OK,. As the students file out, I make my move. “Mala, could I see you for a moment?”She hesitates then comes over as the last student leaves. “Yes mar. Nikunj? What is it?”“Empty your purse please.” She hesitated, but then sighed and dumped her purse out, where I quickly found the cheat sheet she had made. “Young lady, you do realize that this test was 50% of your grade, and that if I fail you, as I should, you will fail this class.” She started to speak then but I stopped her. “No, don’t try &. I would have noticed you!”John reminded him, “You told me you didn’t notice things around you, Gastro. This may be one of them.”Sistera also said, “I haven’t met such a hairy merchant before, either. I still think I know you from somewhere.”John intervened, “Enough of this banter. He is here now and wants to trade his soaps. Are they all samples to try, Hairy, or do you have a batch to sell?”“I have both, derived from a clever tribe that I dealt with. John is from that tribe, so he knows the.