She developed some new friends at work and two of them convinced her to take up long distance running for recreation. In typical fashion, she threw he...self into this new challenge with all her energy and attention and was able to work herself up to a regimen of running 30 miles a week. After two years, she ran in her first half-marathon and a year after that, participated in her first marathon event. Her speed was certainly nothing to write home about, but the intensity of the activity and the. Here goes the actual incident. I did my graduation in Chennai and my class didn’t have many girls to look for. I didn’t have any good friend in girls except for a ‘Hi’ and ‘Bye’. When I was in my final year, I get to interact with this girl Suba very often. Gradually by the time we finished our college we were best pals. Even after college our friendship continued through phone calls, late night chats and few personal meets. During this period we became so close that we nearly shared all. Both her mother and father, still naked, crawled into bed with her. Neither one them did more than cuddle her and their presence comforted her. She still didn’t tell them about the rape and soon she fell back to sleep.Sometime after she had fallen asleep her parents returned to their room because she woke up alone. When she got up the next morning she didn’t bother putting on anything fancy, she would just have to take it off again when she got to school. She wore a button up blouse, a almost. The room was silent, lit only by the bright arc lamp which shone its beam onto one side, that of April. Her body naked knelt upon the bed with her long brown hair cascading over her shoulders and back, her head bent forward, in hiding from the light. Then the music began, a slow soft drumbeat at first getting louder and rising in tempo with it her head began to raise in time to the rhythm. Then the music reached a crescendo and April flicked her head, sending the veil of soft flowing hair.