At first she felt trapped, embarrassed that her plot had been discovered. Then, slowly, it dawned on her. Her first objective had been accomplished. S...e had been noticed. She had an audience. It was time to perform.Sitting as she was, her bare lap seemed like a beacon to uninhibited male eyes. Allowing herself a slight smile, Christen let her knees relax, just a little, enough to encourage the hopeful to keep looking.The young teen ran her palms over her bare thighs. A moment later she crossed. He left but then about 10 minutes later, according to our plan, he was at the front door, telling Joyce that his car had broken down at the end of our housing plan. Joyce came back upstairs and tried to wake me to tell me about it, but I still pretended to be out cold, so she went back down stairs to Leon. When I didn’t hear anything for a while, I got up and snuck down the dark hall to peer in at them. They were sitting on the living room couch. I saw that Leon’s arm was around Joyce’s. ..asMother would say she was put together on purpose. The older woman seemedto be a ward of some type for the younger girl. She might have been tooold to be the mother, but not old enough to be the grandmother....anolder auntie maybe.After a short wait my name was called and a nurse ushered Mother and Iinto a room more clinical than the office. There was a scary lookingtable with arms or legs sticking up out of one side (learned they werecalled stirrups). Mother and I each sat in the chairs. Unko le jaake maine bahar lage charpai pe baithaya aur gale se lagaye bola – “Ab nahin hoga aisa, Chachi. Maaf kardo.”“Kuch khaayega, kitna dubla ho gaya hai. Itni mehnat karwaate hain kya sab.”“Ek ghante so jaata hoon, fir uthunga to aap nashta de dena. Aur jo dil kare khila dena.”“Ja upar wale kamre main sojaa, parson ek guruji aaye to unhi ke liye saaf kiya tha. Wahi so jaa.”Chachi ke rasbhari chuchi mere munh ke paas the. Aur unmain se bahut hi pyaari khusbhoo aa rahi thi. Mera badhan ek.