I took the list from the desk, looked at my watch, 1:30 and I needed to get everything picked up and back to her house by 6:00. No problem except tha... the mall was on the other side of town from where she lived and getting to her house, through Friday afternoon traffic was going to be tough. "See you at six" was all Crystal said as she handed me her credit card. I turned and walked out of the office, not even thinking about my clothes that were draped over the chair by her desk.The shopping. We weren't rich by any stretch of the imagination but we weren't poor either. We are some of the fortunate ones. In that the area of the city that we live in, it never got crowded or overpopulated with people creating slums. Of course we had poor people in the area but it wasn't a ghetto as some areas in Bombay. Overall it was a life of a modest family. My mom stayed home as a housewife and my dad worked a decent labour job on the very opposite of the city. His schedule was a bit gruelling. He. ..”“Mizz Patel is right. We don’t need drugs and trashy people,” I said. “I know people can change from that to something good and I’ve got a little sister to prove it, but it’s not the way to bet. Mizz Patel, we’ll ask you to sort of make the first contact for us, but you know that if YOU buy in, we’re buying in.”“I surmised that such would be the case,” Mizz Aneeta stated. “However, I did not want to assume. We shall proceed.”When the meeting broke up, I imagined that a few side conversations. Oh, she thought, this was so very different. She felt his hands on the front of the thin blouse, scrabbling slightly to release the buttons. God she thought, she was so nervous, all the worries about a stranger intruded on her thoughts. Would she even want to, and if she did, what would it do to her and Jonathan? She held her breath and glance over at Jon who was smiling softly, as if he knew her torment. What had he said? “Live in the moment doing what I have instructed you to do, but take.