School flew by as I checked out every female in sight. I was drunk on power I didn't even believe was true. That vial was in my mind all day.Dinner wa... silent as well, similar to that morning. Dad gave mom a hug and I drove him to the airport. A repair signal was blinking on the dashboard and dad told me to get it checked. I decided next week wasgood. We said goodbye and I came back. Mom was asleep by the time I came back so I went to my room. I found the vial and looked at it again. It felt. That alone convinced me that John was not the thief.It was going to be a few weeks until the next party, and I started to get desperate.I may have been desperate, but I still had a job to do. I figured out how the money transfers were being hidden in the accounting system, but I still couldn't figure out where the money was going. I decided to lock myself at a computer and hack away until I figured it out.I love and hate when I get so wrapped up in a project that I lose track of everything. She smiled further and said “nice to meet you (let’s say) Veer, as you can see, I’m just dumb”. Now I am REALLY REALLY used to seeing pretty girls sitting by themselves in coffee shops but never have I interacted with someone being FUNNY so I was drawn towards the conversation and I gestured her to sit with me with questioning eyebrows so that I don’t seem dominating.I laughed at the comment and asked her what her name was and she said “Tanvi”.“So why does Tanvi sit in a coffee shop and take. I stared at the top drawer of the nightstand for several minutes. I had spent the past few weeks getting into the role of Lucy. I was trying to understand what made her tick. I dug into her past, quizzing her acquaintances, this was merely all intellectual. Simultaneously, I had studiously avoided the physical aspects of her womanhood. I did this mostly because it more than anything else reminded me of how upside down my world had become. I was beginning to understand that part of my avoidance.