Two days before we were to leave I checked out the contents of what she was planning on bringing. More than half of it went onto the “don’t need p...le” I did all I could to reduce the contents of her back back and finally got it down under 20lbs. Making sure she had the necessities and nothing extra we haggled over a few items deemed essential. I showed her how to pack everything in so the weight was distributed and would increase her stability as we hiked uneven terrain. We each carried our. The auctioneer, once she composed herself, started going from $100,000 on up.I won't bore you with all of the bidding. Suffice it to say, that agent on the phone, in contact with the head of a corporation you use everyday, bid $250,000 and won. Hilda was triumphant, though I wondered what she had volunteered for.As for my mom, she was thunderstruck. She could've tried the same thing; I never saw my mom in a bikini or anything, but I could tell she was incredibly hot for a woman almost forty.. Dawn is paid fifteen hundred a month to do the cleaning and counter work and I do the maintenance and repairs. The place is really not that hard to take care of since eleven of the units are really small apartments that are rented by the month and Dawn is not required to clean them. The other fourteen are usually full on Friday and Saturday, but during the week we usually don't have more than six or seven overnights. With free rent and paid utilities we are able to live off my wages and bank. Pooja stayed in a PG, and it was about 20 km away from the office.Then our conversation was.Me: How will you go? Have you booked the company’s cab?Pooja: No, I forgot to book the cab as I was busy. I’ll take a cab from Uber or Ola.Me: Have you gone mad? It’s too late at night, and it’s not safe for a girl to go alone in a random cab.Pooja: I have no options. What else can I do?Me: Any of your friends live nearby?Pooja: No.Me: You can come to my place. My roommate has gone out on a trip with his.