The room was small, with seats for three elders facing into the mosaiccircle at the center of which the girl now stood. She had shed hertunic earlier,...and was now wearing only her robe, as instructed. Shelooked up at Rhone, who gave her a quick, reassuring smile."Welcome, child." The words came from the center chair, the voice arustle of old parchment. She recognized the speaker as the one who hadasked her the questions the night before. She must be the highpriestess, she thought. "Last night. All others were sleeping bare chest. i thought i maid may not come at this time and i might have come in a wrong time.While sweeping the 2nd bedroom accidentally the broom hit the cot and woke up one guy. he got up and asked what iam doing. i said i am relative of maid and as she is not well, i came here. hearing this he just lied down again and slept. i continued to completed sweeping and then not knowing what to do waited in kitchen. The guy who woke up in 2nd bedroom came out and on seeing. She crossed her arms. Maybe it was a mistake to leave the house so exposed, but now that she’d seen men’s reactions, she was dying to see Patty’s.That is, if Patty ever showed up. She said she’d here at a quarter to two, after Good Friday prayers, and it was almost two-thirty. Kristen was hungry. The metal bench was starting to hurt her butt. She’d let three buses go by, and she worried the next guy who tried to pick her up wouldn’t take no for an answer. She looked expectantly at the shops. Vincent College, and the house seemed to be in order like the olden days except for the absence of Dad who had passed after losing a fight to Prostate Cancer in Two Thousand Seven.I was lying on moms bed in her room watching my favorite Christmas movie, "It's a Wonderful Life," when Danny came in with two bright red Starbucks cups and sat down beside me on the bed."Here Kid," she softly whispered over the movie."What's this Danny?" I asked."It's a peppermint latte. I wasn't sure if you still.