Dan was waiting with the cab when Carrie came out. He helped her in and the cab cruised off in the pouring rain. Carrie sat close to Dan laying her he...d on his shoulder. The water from her hair was running down his neck but he didn’t care. Her head and body against his felt wonderful. When she turned his head to look at her she put her hand gently on his cheek pulling him toward her lips. She kissed him gently at first, then passionately. Her tongue pushed past his lips and swirled in his. He had already lived through those horrors in his younger years and didn’t want Layla to experience it. Instead, he became her sole guardian at sixteen, finished his senior year in high school and started college right after. Now, at twenty-four, Kai had successfully opened his own business and was managing a bar downtown called the Grove Grill. He was extremely resilient, smart, charming, handsome… and dangerous. What Layla didn’t know was that her brother had been keeping a secret from her. She always had men ogling and haplessly staring greedily at her butt. I used to feel proud and jealous at the same time. Her pleated hair, bounced from one to the other, as she walked. Our tryst with the most beautiful day came, when I invited Ravi for breakfast the next morning. Revathi, my mom, had just finished bathing. With semi-wet black blouse and fragrance of her warm, fresh body had already made Ravi very hard, and I stroked it under the table as a token of encouragement. While she. “It just hit me harder than I expected it to. Everyone ... everyone has their own problems and I didn’t know where else to go. I didn’t know who else I could turn to. You were always ... you always were there for me. God, I am so sorry, Phil. I hate myself for hurting you. I can’t believe I caused you so much pain when you’ve been nothing but great to me.”“It’s over,” Phil said. “Let’s move on to how to fix this.”“We can’t fix this,” Tiffany said sadly.“You can stay with me during the summer,”.