After we finished off the food, I got up to help take plates to the sink, with all of the ladies looking at me like I was something from a pod!“I’... just doing my part in this family, stepping up, as it were.”“A guy that cleans up after himself, you don’t see that much these days,” Emma said.“You must be looking in the wrong places, my dear sister. Tiff, are we still on for our movie date tomorrow?”Sammi looked at her with a tinge of green. “What are you going to see, you two?”“AVATAR 3,” she. Lee had been trying to get me to answer for quite a while now…“I am so sorry, what did you need me for?” I was trying to play it off…“I was asking you… If you knew the answer to this question on the board, but seems like you haven’t been paying attention…?”I had no idea what was going on, although I never gave attention to the things we do in class, but I would know how to solve problems and do the work (at least in math and science) as soon as I saw it. I guess it was the things my mother had. ‘No, no, I mean yes, I am pleased to see you, it was a bit of a shock that’s all.’ She smiled. ‘What are you doing here?’ ‘I live here. Have done for fifteen years. Very surprised to see you though. I could ask the same question. What are you doing here?’ She shrugged her shoulders. ‘Well actually, I live here too. Not as long as you though. Just five years. How’s Rob these days?’ Hell! Now that’s a question with a very short answer. ‘Didn’t you know? He died about four years ago.’ I had never. Later I came to know about all this by my Meena atha as after I went to her house, Prathima aunt came to meet Meena atha as usually and started to weep her family n financial problems to her and how she misses her sex life as her husband also a drunkard n beets her too and she want some space from her problems, for that Meena atha said that she is unable to solve her problem as she has her own problems. Then Prathima aunt “there’s no need to worry Meena akka (sis), but you can suggest Raj to.