She had her hand wrapped around mine and rested her head on my shoulder. She was broken by the news of her elder sister’s demise but that was not al.... Her family members had withheld this news from her for a month. A series of question flooded my mind. ‘Why now? What do they expect from her that they called her back home?’ I kissed my fiancé’s forehead before shifting my gaze outside the window. The pale blue sky, the green bushes of tea plantation and the workers working, the faraway mountain. I followed her with my eyes and saw her walk up to a stranger and kiss him, as his arm went around her midriff and fall onto her bum, where he fondled and squeezed her cheeks.They both had frustratingly sat down out of my line of sight, and I struggled to see what they were doing, was this stranger a lover, was my mother fucking strangers on holiday.I got up and went inside, dropped my towel and pulled on a t-shirt, that fell down mid-thigh, and went next door, to mum and dads room.The room. Rajput smiled at me from behind the register, his bright white teeth bursting from his dark brown face, while his graying moustache curled to match his beaming grin. I waved, slightly embarrassed and returned to my ice water. After several minutes of clanging pots and banging pans, I heard Mrs. Rajput talking excitedly, and this time a woman’s voice answered. I heard footsteps approaching the swinging doors, which flung open wildly, nearly slamming into my sad little table for one in the. Thanks. It was a beautiful spring day, in a small town in texas on May 4th 1846. It was a sunday and all the families were making their way to the local church. Samuel trudged along next to his parents, while absent mindedly playing with his susspender strap,then he looked up when he heard the familier voice of his childhood friend Beth, who was rushing over to greet him. She stopped short of running into him and smiled, saying hello, she was a beautiful fourteen year old girl, Sam wished she.