I used to spend a lot of time there, reading, doing my homework and--yes, I might as well admit it--masturbating.I had just turned 17 a few weeks befo...e, and my junior year in high school had just ended. I was still a virgin, a shy bookish sort of kid, not bad looking and fairly popular. I was not a nerd, and nobody ever called me that or treated me that way. But I was too bashful to have dated much at all. I was horny as hell most of the time, and the only means I had for assuaging the itch. We talked for some time in which Manju told uncle what all I had taught her in the past year. Sometimes I feel pity on manas Uncle. He doesn’t get much free time & can’t spend some quality time with his beautiful wife. After a few more minutes Uncle took his regular medicine & went to sleep. A few minutes later we decided to call it a night & went to our respective beds. The light stayed on as Manju was afraid of darkness.Since I am not used to sleep with the light on, I couldn’t sleep. I sat. Parker had promised to pay for a party for a group of union workers at one of the businesses he represented in exchange for their support for his company getting a contract from theirs. He had left making the arrangements of the party up to the foreman at the other company. But things had come up and he had quit angry over how the deal had come down. It was another worker from the company who had called up Parker just minutes before the block party to make sure he had everything ready for the. “Well, next time you can just walk then.”“Hey, I didn’t say I didn’t like it. I just don’t think it’s the sort of thing you could do a road trip around Europe in.”“True. But if I were going on a trip around Europe I’d swap it for something bigger, wouldn’t I?”We both laughed at the absurdity of the conversation. As if either of us would be travelling around the world any time soon.“Better bring your bag in with you.”“But it’s only school books. No one would want to steal it, would they?“You.