As he entered, he heard the auctioneer; "Okay,Folks. This is the last pet we have today. It is a genuine talking galah (from Australia). Can we start ...he bidding at $2?"Thinking it would be a different sort of pet to have, Pastor Jones called out; "2".There was an immediate response of "3".So Pastor Jones called "4"."5"."6"."7"."8"."9"."10".There was silence through-out the room ... The auctioneer quickly closed the auction and it was all done. Pastor Jones had bought himself a talking bird.As. .."A couple of weeks of that, and the girls at school were green with envy and increasingly eager to be part of Julia's lifestyle. You know how Julia works by now, so the girls getting closer to Julia somehow included getting closer to me too. They generally accepted that without much protest, as I was a nice guy. We did discover the occasional closet-bigot, but they were easily discarded or played mind-games with, depending mostly on whether the size of their bigotry exceeded that of their. One fine day I had to buy some t-shirts so I went to a nearby mall which was 7 story building. I went around 10 am but saw that the mall is closed till now. It had stairs at one corner of the building to the top floor and the other corner had lift. I went towards the stairs area, it’s generally alone , hardly anyone comes from here. It’s somewhat dark here too and I have heard that this place is used by couples to have fun. At the second floor I saw a girl sitting down on the stairs, and to my. “What did you do?” she asked, her tone of voice indicating that she didn’t believe me.“You heard Uncle Don last night, I killed a man,” I replied as I again felt the emotional roiling in my gut.“But you did it to protect Kristen,” she protested.“That’s what I told myself to be able to do it,” I replied. “I believed it until an instant after pulling the trigger.”“What happened then to change your mind?” she queried.“Reality happened. I saw what the bullet did to his body. I heard the impact and.