“You should come over for a swim some time. After all that jumping up and down you must need to cool off. Why don’t you change and come over to my...house? I have a nice pool that you could enjoy. What do you think sweet girl?”“Sure. That sounds great Mr. Rhodes.”“Mr. Rhodes is too formal. Marvin is good enough.”Marilyn blushed and batted her eyelashes at the old coot. He was licking his lips and eyeing the hot tart. She was deciding on what she would say. She also made sure to stand quite. No matter where I go, ‘specially if I see someone who’s heard me tell the story b’fore, but they’re with someone who’s never heard me tell the story, they stop and ask me to tell the story. ‘Roy,’ said Slo Joe. They call him Slo Joe ’cause he does ev’rythin’ at slow speed, ‘specially makin’ love and the women love a man who has a slow hand and an easy touch. ‘This is my cousin Jasper from outta town,’ he said lookin’ around, as if watchin’ for his wife, which I reck’n he was. ‘Hi Jasper,’ I. She started treating me as a friend, we exchanged our numbers and started chatting on Whatsapp which no one in our family was aware of, within few weeks I and Suma became very close while chatting. We behaved like strangers whenever we used to meet each other. But on WhatsApp, she used to share all her secrets with me. She told me her family story that how after her father’s death situations changed in her life. She was forced to marry a 15-year older guy just because he didn’t demand any. Arabesque? He speculated. No, that’s stupid.. This is truly foreign music, the stuff you hear on TV specials or from singers in other countries. Jahn had no idea, and it only tugged at his ears with a sense of déjà vu rather than real recognition. Jenny… he recognized that it was her, despite the strange garb, long blonde hair tied up in a ponytail and garbed in the feature-concealing shadows of the room… began to move in liquid sway, first raising her hands skyward and then unleashing a.