After school I really didnt feel like going home right away, but wanted to be near people, so decided to go to the field and watch the cheerleaders pr...ctice while I had time to myself. I saw Becky come out to the field and after talking to the other cheerleaders she left them to sit on the bleachers as I was. She looked nervous and upset, and while I didnt really know her well I decided to talk to her and see what was up. Wed talked more now that Mr. Font was tutoring us at her house twice the. She looked frazzled; when I asked her about the swap, she said a VIP up there had something against female flight attendants and insisted that only a man would do.Of course, first class is a treat any time, but this sounded absolutely scrumptious. VIP plus female plus unreasonable demands added up to a diva, and they're my favorite kind.As I worked my way through the stream of passengers like a salmon going up river to spawn (an apt metaphor, considering later events), I heard someone. We communicated often. She found herself up late at night just so we could chat. We decided that we should be really good friends, but probably should not tell many people about how close we got. We just had normal conversations over a few months, then it happened. I had an opportunity to visit India again in April of 2008. We started chatting even more. She asked if I could bring her a few things from the U.S.. She wanted a T-Shirt and a swimsuit. Since I had a girl friend, I had to make sure. "Lawrence was a dick," he said, "and he obviously took a personaldislike to you, probably because he recognised how much brighter youare than he is. I always saw that as a good thing, myself. Asensible manager is perfectly happy to have people working for him whoare cleverer than he is. He can claim the credit for their ideas."He grinned. I had really missed Harry."Look," he said, turning serious for a moment. "I know lots of peopledo what you did. Nobody cares if staff use their.