I had to choose when he would. I had to make sure it was to my advantage.I used the martial arts training I had gleaned from Mike, Erin's ex-boyfriend... so many months prior, the training from Agents Davis and Marks not many days after that, and anything I had seen in a movie that looked like it could really work. Still I didn't land a finger on the guy.He kept his cool the entire time, looking for the perfect moment to strike. Taking swipes, thrusting his knives at me, and generally being in my. He was not only tall for an Indian guy but also very fair colored, almost blue eyes and very handsome to say the least. I think his light blond hair was another of his father’s trade mark. After a while; as the crowd at the bar started thinning; Arjun suggested that we better go home and have some drinks, relax and also decide what should be ordered for the dinner. Mike took my consent and we left after Arjun told his manager to take over for the evening. Back at their place we were talking,. "Just a date," Robert said in his familiar voice when he talked to me like an adult. "You have the car, so it goes sideways, leave." But it's Ned, you guys like Ned," I said, standing still. "Jack even likes him, Jack doesn't like anyone!" We will get over it, three weeks from now if Ned doesn't show up, all of us will be saying, 'Who is Ned?'" Robert smiled with a shrug."I know, but," I started to say. "Am I the town joke?"Robert smiled. He knew this was coming. When I got here I went on a. Then, just as abruptly, it stopped, and for a few giddy seconds there wasnothing, not even the sense of feeling, and I felt like I was floatingthrough an eternity of nothingness. There was a strange sense of...dislocation, and from a distance I heard a voice. It seemed faint, as ifcoming from the other end of a long tunnel."Edward?" the voice called. "Edward? Are you there?"Then I heard another voice. It seemed familiar."Yes... I... Oh, God. Marie?"But that was my voice. Did I say that? I was.