She felt a flutter in her stomach as he walked towards her. "Hey. I'm Robert." He said with a smile. He held his hand out, waiting. "Oh...uh..I'm Ali...ce." She stuttered, shaking his hand. "So...how old are you?" He asked bluntly. Alice realized at once that this was a bit strange, but she answered him anyway. There was a strange aura about Robert that made it difficult to think clearly, and she was already becoming attracted to him. "I'm 22. How old are you?" Alice said, looking down at her. We decided to meet and go out one evening away from home or any regular place that we went, but the location was not fixed. It was a friday evening in juiy, I picked her up by 4:30 pm and we drove on the ring road and things started getting better in no time and we planned for a night out. We decided to go a place where we hadn’t been so far and mainly not to inform our friends about our night out. We picked some booze and reached a reputed resort on bannerghatta road by 5:30 pm. Checked in. ”Through teary eyes, Sue had just started reading the first few things that Brandon had planned for her when the man himself entered the little office. Seeing Sue’s tears, the freeze-framed monitor and the piece of paper with ‘copy’ written in his own handwriting he immediately knew he was in trouble.“I can explain,” he said with a shaky voice.I don’t know where it came from, but I summoned up a calm that was very different from how I felt inside and stepped in front of him.“It’s okay, Brandon.. The scent of acrid, waxy firelighters reminded Amy of home. A pang of guilt, anxiety and homesickness flared. Home … She couldn’t go home. To take her mind off her woes, Amy asked: ‘So why were you on the station at this time of night?’ Billy, on hands and knees, blew on the infant fire, cajoling it to glow brighter. He turned his head to regard the girl. ‘I get lonely in here. All my working life I’ve been used to be being around people, and this time of year … Christmas coming … It gets dark.