She came on the train with her mother and a kid in her lap. She came and sat beside me with the kid still in her lap. Her mother was sitting on the op...osite seat of ours. Now I was getting bored so i started talking to her 3 years old kid and in very less time we became good friends.As the train moved the crowd increased. It was around 10 o clock in the night and the lights were all switched off. Sudha took a blanket out of her bag and rolled it around her and her kid who was still in her lap.. All day, she’d been getting wet just at the idea of getting felt up by a college boy, but now as she looked at herself and pictured it happening, it wasn’t nearly as appealing ... maybe it was just nerves, or maybe ... Did she even want to go?Yes, she told herself. I’ve been looking forward to this all day. I can’t let a few butterflies stop me from my ... from my first time. Lily paused, confused. Her first time? She’d had her first time a few years ago - it had been with ... well, she. I knew the two couples were from up north.One of the old guys said, "Son, right now home has two feet of snow and they're expecting another foot tonight. This is positively balmy!"I laughed. "Yessir! I guess all things are relative."His wife said, "Miss Cindy tells us you're quite a Cajun cook. Would you be interested in doing ... what was it, Miss Cindy?" Gumbo!" Cindy grinned. "I told 'em about you and Jerry's gumbo." Ah, yes!" the trim little grey-haired lady said. "Gumbo. You know you can't. She closed her teeth and lips tightly and turned her head away.The native grabbed her pink hair, a move that brought ooohs of worry from some of the men watching. He held her head tightly and kissed her again, preven- ting her from shifting aside. Still, her lips and teeth remained tightly closed.He cursed and backhanded her, knocking her head to one side. The Bantu did not tolerate defiance in women and certainly not in captured slaves, which was what Kristen was for the moment. He slapped her.