She, too, seemed confused for a moment; then she smiled at me and propped herself up on one elbow. The covers fell back, exposing one pink- tipped bre...st, but she showed no embarrassment."Good morning, lover," she said, and leaned forward to kiss me. I put my arm around her and hugged her against me."Did you sleep well?" I asked."Like a log," she said. "You?" Yes. I thought... I'm not used to sleeping with someone else." Me neither," Laura said. "I've never been able to spend the night,. Initially I let go everything and behaved like before, went out with him, but when I kissed him, it didn’t felt like before, I felt uneasy and insecure, I felt eyes of other 4 of our group watching me, I felt my dignity and respect lost and it haunted me big time. So I thought of calling it quits, but Arman was such a psycho, he cried, acted like depressed and stuff and I was pestered to be by his side!Then one day Sameer and Neha bunked college, if ever she did, she used to tell me but this. Well, that got the guy to down shots like he was drinking water. He was plastered in no time. Every once in a while he would chase me around the house or the yard. But he was so drunk that he could never catch me. Finally, around midnight he passed out on the couch. I curled up on another couch and set my portable alarm for 6am so that i could wake and leave before his parents came back home. I woke up just before the alarm went off. I was so horny - like i am every morning. I looked over to. ‘… Yeah. In self defence, when they attacked me and Darren on the street.’ I sat in silence to try and process that. It was too much to take in. Trying to think about these things happening, not only before my existence, but going on after I was born. They’d certainly sheltered me from it. Sometimes I found it hard to think about normal stories involving my parents or uncles, to imagine they’d ever once been something else other than happily married adults, and this was something else. It just.