”“Will you answer a question for me? Truthfully?”“I’ll do my best. If I can’t, I’ll tell you so.”“You were with so many other girls ...t NIKA. What was wrong with me?”“It broke the rules,” I said. “And yes, I know I’ve broken that rule, but you made the mistake of propositioning me in public. I can’t tell you what would have happened had you done it privately, but they way you did it, people noticed. And that meant it could never happen. Again, I have no idea what would have happened, but once. He grabbed her left breast and squeezed with a grin on his wrinkled face as he blasted the hose of water at the girl’s large breasts moving it down her stomach towards her waist. There was the sudden sound of knocking on the door of the funeral home which startled Mr. Slater. He turned the water off and left the hose resting on Brooke’s torso, her dead clouded green eyes staring down the metal slab at her body. Mr. Slater was surprised at who was visiting, it was Sam, Brooke’s older brother who. But then I said, “Let’s do it… without a condom.”I simply rested on the bed, waiting for him to return. Suddenly I heard someone shouting,“Sneha! What is this?!”That someone was my mother. Apparently, my parents somehow managed to return home that night. She caught me lying naked in their bed.“Get dressed and get out!” she shouted.Out of the two parents, my father is hot-headed. Fortunately, though, he was heavily drunk and half-asleep on the couch when my mother caught me. She was disgusted to. I felt her presence on the bed once more, my breath catching in my throat at the feel of nails teasing my belly, then combing through the down of my pubes. “This will have to go. Perhaps next time we’ll take care of shaving you clean. Would you like that?” She sounded very business-like, like I imagined she would at work. Swallowing, I nodded as if somehow the illusion that I had any say in the matter might give me a little comfort. The truth was, she would do anything she wanted to me, and I.