I ran to gym at five and to my disappointment, she had not come. Next four days it happened. She had disappeared and did not come at all leaving me hi...h and dry. However, on fifth day, I was lucky and she came few minutes after I had started my gym exercises.She looked at me and smiled. I was grim and she realized that I was angry. When no one were nearly she came near my and whispered, “Please understand I was on monthly cycle” and went off with a big smile. Few minutes when she again passed. It was a typical village house massive. With a entrance a big hall and than a kitchen and then a verandah and than another house with the door at the backside. After the usual pleasantries my father in law sixty yo told he has to go for a wedding and left. By 6 pm. In the house at the backside lived a couple of around 35 husband and 25 wife they were the servants in the house. By around 9 pm I watched TV and went to sleep in the bedroom adjacent to the hall. While my mother in law slept in the. Then she asked me naughtily that what did I mean by “I am ready for ‘hard work'”. I knew she wanted to break the ice and start so I just said with a eyebrow raised that I thought she must have known the meaning of hard by now. She blushed and asked me what about work. I replied with a question that why else would I ask her when her daughter will be back.We both knew we were ready and she just came and kissed me. A small pack on my lips.After parting she started staring down and told me if I. Her brother was two years older and by then they never held hands any more. That just left her parents ... but holding hands with some­one your own size was always easier than with someone twice or three-times as big.It would be silly to say that it was 'love at first sight' between two five year olds ... but there was something ... some bond, that was established that day, which had persisted until this. And whether going to school, coming home, or just sometimes when they were together, she.