What did he say?’ ‘Ah, I’m allergic to the medication. Back to square one.’ ‘We’ll keep trying. I want a child, too. We’ll keep trying.�...� I took my shower, and put my best suit on. As I looped tie under and over, I heard Aliana talking to herself. I peeked out of the bathroom door and witnessed Aliana trying in vain to insert beige-colored half-crescent inserts into her strapless bra. In frustration, she yanked them out and threw them on the bed. ‘Damn it to hell anyway.’ I knew but asked. For a few seconds — whilst I sized the bugger up - he said nothing. During those seconds I chose his right knee as the prospective target for my gas pipe. That should at least have cut the bugger down to my size.Yeah look, besides the little teenage shits who hung around the sand dunes. Sometimes there was the odd weirdo. You know, the sort who seek out places where the little children like to play hide and seek and the like; do I really have to spell out why? And of course to spy on the. ‘Billy! We are not going to have babies.’ Then in a hissing voice, she turned to James, ‘What are you doing? He’ll tell his mother and then, well, then ……’, her voice trailed off at the smile on his face. ‘Mrs. Preston knows that I’m not your cousin and she told Billy that. He asked me why I fibbed and I told him that it was to protect you, but that I liked you alot. He’s promised to help protect you too. Then HE asked me why I didn’t kiss you, if I liked you. He reminded me that he kisses you. When they were leaving, I saw, to thedelight of my still pissed head, Mahesh unhooked mywife’s bra from the open zipper.I tried to see them dance but it was too dark. Anyway Igot busy talking to the barman who was this nice blackman from Bahamas. The dude was working part-time as abartender at private parties like the one we were at topay for his education. He said he was 25 but I thoughthe was a hell lot older than that. He was just wearinga pair of Bermudas and a singlet and his biceps.