I told her no one. Then I asked her if Gertie had mentioned anything to her the day before. That brought her up short. She had known the answer all al...ng."Oh, dearest Lawrence, we must win! Gertie said she was meeting with some scientists in town and that the president was seeing them later in the week."Good old Gertie. She always seemed to know everything. I asked Nicole, "So. Who are they?"She looked at me as if I was a stupid child."Does it matter? We must win!"Well, excuuuuse me!We slipped. My mom and Jagdesh did not talk to each other face to face but they talked via the secret phone which Jagdesh gave to my mom. Mom also told Jagdesh not to come near our home since my dad was around.My dad was expected to be here in Jaipur with us for about 1 week before he went back to Coimbatore. My dad was a very hardworking person but he did not know that when he was away, my mom’s body was being used sexually by Jagdesh.One morning, dad and mom were preparing to go for a walk. They asked me. 3 The show commenced, title cards falling away to reveal the Plot, carefully constructed skeleton centering it all, marrow linking conduits delivering marching orders to every worker bee beholding. Even the larvae’s default weeping petered like leaky faucets ran dry, bright inquisitive eyes not yet crushed by system programming as enamored with the Technicolored vistas as their elders, mesmerized. At first near Shakespearean splotches of candy colored chaos, flung indiscriminately onto a felt. Then she felt a movement in her mind. The guard had turned East. This was her chance, she thought. She quietly climbed the ladder. The wood made cracking sound for every step she made, but the singing around the campfire had begun, concealing her noisy approach. Just when she was halfway to the top, she felt the guard moved again. This time he moved to her position!She could see the guard at the top of the tower. He was a big man, all right. She stood still on the ladder, hoping that he would.