Few minutes later Lila and Faiza came pushing two trolleys laden with tea and snacks. "Oh you shouldn't have gone to all this trouble," I said."No tro...ble at all. This is the best we could do at short notice," Rosie ma'am said."The pretty girl in green salwaar kameez is Faiza and other one is Lila," Suman said completing the introductions."Are you enjoying your college trip?" Ramu asked biting into a biscuit."Oh yes, we are having a rollicking time," Nisha replied."The hotel and its gardens are. “Right,” said Rachel after we’d dumped the gear in the living room, “I think we need to set some ground rules for the week, don’t you?”We looked at each other and shrugged our shoulders. “Guess so,” said Richard.“Rule one,” Rachel began, “we ladies pick a bedroom each and we choose who we’re sharing the night with in there. Rule two, no adult play between eight in the morning and six in the evening.”I frowned. All day with no hanky panky? But I didn’t say anything.“Rule three, no threesomes. He loved the vibe of the town and the free spirit and enjoyed the attention he received from all manner of men while he was there. He had been retired for just a couple of weeks and after taking a vacation was home again for the summer with not much to do. Hi hair now greyed and a little bit of paunch hid the fact that in his younger days Fred had been an athlete and had worked most of his life in manual labour jobs, his arms wiry with muscle and vein. He had spent most of his nights recently. Before long, no subject off limits; we talked about anything and everything, though the conversations almost always veered to sex at some point..***Two days ago was Bryan’s birthday. I was getting dressed to take Bryan to school, but was delayed as I searched around for my favorite pair of shoes (a set of black-and-teal ballet flats) but could only find one. I brushed it off, though, and walked out into the hallway barefooted to make breakfast.It took me a moment to realize that my door was.