N – Oh! What was your expectation from ‘Nirmala’?A – Okay, no offense. But when I got to know from my relatives that some Nirmala is coming al...ng, I felt it would be some aunty. (I giggled)N – What the hell! (she softly smacked me) Okay, that’s rude (and chuckled)A – C’mon agree with it. Nirmala is such an outdated name, and you look so young.N – What do you mean by look? I am young. No offense, you look elder to me. (she laughed)A – Girl, you have just finished your degree. You are younger. He was pushy andinsecure. He was interested in her because she was with Ashley, nothingmore."Maybe you need to show that more." Yeah right. I'm always being nice to people, always helping out peoplewith their research... I even put in extra TA hours. But what do theycare? Its all about Ashley." Its wrong to expect people to like you just because you helped them.Its the wrong way to look at things." Maybe. But I was here as an undergrad, and still I only really knowthe people in my lab... and. I was standing in the middle of the park wool-gathering and just soaking up the atmosphere when a woman of indeterminable age approached me. She stood in front of me and glared at me. Her hate pulsed off her like flames.I looked down and met her eyes. Fuck, they were scary eyes. I was wondering if she was insane. Oddly, I didn’t fear her. My medallion wasn’t warm. I felt sadness that she was a twisted soul. I didn’t think our encounter boded well for her.“Can I help you?” I asked her. Fortunately, Big Papi was up to bat, and they were all concentrating on him and cheering for him to hit a home run. Each man was slumped in his chair or on the sofa, so I just pushed a man to the floor as I came to him and strapped his hands together with the plastic tie. I did make a point of crushing each of the butts, since I did not want to be interrupted by a fire.I suspected that the man closest to the beer cooler was the leader, so I chose to question him first. I had him lying on his.