On the sofa she gradually gravitated against me. Eventually I put a friendly arm around her as we stared at the screen; but her soft chatter continued...as she shared stuff normally bottled up; but now shared intimately with her ‘Uncle Brad’.Some of it was normal teen anxiety like her impending schools exams and her impending onset of menstruation but in amongst it were other concerns from which I gleaned sensitive details about Linda and Robert.Like how her Dad always got too carried away when. And yet, when you have too much, it drags its feet like an intoxicated tramp going round in circles. I certainly wasn’t drunk. I felt sure, however, that my mind had completed far too many circles as I glanced at my watch yet again.Victoria allowed her fluffy white bath towel to drop to the floor as she stepped towards her bed. She sat naked on its edge, briefly studying the parcel before picking it up. Although it wasn’t very wide, it must have been about two and a half feet in length. . As she neared him, her wings seemed to shimmer and reform as arms. She grabbed the wire mesh and held on tightly as she rebounded off the wire mesh roof of the carrier.The roar of the propellers seemed deafening after the silence of drifting in free fall. Jeff watched his naked goddess hanging on, riding on the outside roof as the carrier changed direction. The wind was blowing her hair wildly around, making her appear untamed and free. She turned her head away from the black dot that was their. Took a wash and cooked breakfast. Shubhi woke up after some time and I fed her breakfast sharing each morsel and drank one sip of tea from the same cup alternately. I broached the topic of her boyfriend to which Shubhi replied that he was two timing her and was seeing a common friend. She had fallen for me from the first time we met in office and madly in love with me since she joined office. She had already broken up with her guy before New Year’s Eve hence joined me to celebrate and had.