They’d gotten seats away from most of the others in the place. Football games showed on about twenty TV monitors around the large room and bar area,...but the place wasn’t crowded.“So, who goes first?” Alice asked after they’d ordered.Dave gestured to her. Pam just gestured at Alice.Alice said, “OK, I’ll start and we’ll go back and forth. Next week, one of you start. My first question has to do with Pam. David, are you happy she’s with us and for Pam, are you happy to be with us?”Dave smiled.. . and then I saw red. Or actually lilac, since she jabbed her finger an inch from my eye, when I suddenly lost it. I grabbed her by the shoulders and slammed her up against the wall hard enough to knock the breath from her lungs in a puff of wintergreen scented air. Shock and pain widened her eyes to large, chocolate brown saucers, and finally (finally!) shut her mouth with a sharp clacking of teeth. Then it filled me, that perverse satisfaction that came with her obvious fear. I was instantly. I could not find a thing. This was not good. Maybe she is waiting until the kids are in bed and her mother leaves. Yea, that's it. I know it's coming. I am going to get a major, nasty fucking tonight.The rest of the evening went well just like it always does. Her, bitching at me or the kids, the kids bitching and yelling back, the Mother-in-law is passed out on the couch, and not going home. Just your typical day in paradise. Nine o'clock rolls around and I make the kids go to bed. I tell the. " Barkha encouraged her. Her face had that worried look of an organzer who has dozens of things on her mind "Even if all goes well we will have only one lakh. If somehow another two lakhs could be arranged we could supply the school with everything we have wanted to. "Barkha said wistfully. Since there was nothing to be said all of them remained quiet. It was now that the actual auction was to start. The audience had seen the girls. In all 40, 000 had been distributed to the girls @ 4000 per.