While leaving, he told me, “Aunty is scared to live alone for the whole month. Will it be okay if you can stay here for the month?”I agreed withou... any hesitation as I had got about two months’ time till the admissions start. After all the goodbyes and wishing him a happy journey, I asked him if I could drive him to the airport. I asked his permission to use the car so that I can roam in the city and also take aunty with me to show me all the new places. He readily agreed.We all left to go to. Besides you should really see your neck now. You’ll be wearing turtle-necks for the next two weeks.”Her eyes went wide and she asked, “My neck, why? What does it look like?”He laughed again, “Like a sloppy vampire got a hold of you and then there is that bruise from last night across the back. Here see for yourself,” he said as he reached up on the headboard and handed her a mirror.She took it and looked at her neck and then in a startled tone she said, “Oh my god Michael. Holy shit, it looks. Joseph appeared very distracted, and I watched to see how the women in his life would respond to it. They took his lack of social interaction in stride and concentrated on talking with me.Eventually Joseph had worked through whatever was on his mind and joined the mundane conversation."So, David, you like our house? It's a good house. You will be healthy here. Back in Moldova, we never saw such a house or even imagined such a thing to exist. My mother raised all five of us in two rooms and one. We had some sunny days since school started, but with the colder temperatures starting in late September, it wasn't smart to go out in summer clothes or bathing suits. One could freeze ones extremities off doing stupid things like that.Anyway, Sharon was kind of taken with the boy who treated her like an angel; he carried her books, even opened doors for her, and generally fawned all over her. She lapped it up, and except for a brief period in eleventh grade, when she got mad at him and went.