My black pencil skirt seemed to suck heat into it, and I felt sweat trickling down my skin beneath the blouse.We looked at each other uncertainly befo...re heading for the entrance. Jenny was positive some of the girls would be able to recommend somebody that could do my piercing, and I was equally sure I could convince the manager to reinstate her as a waitress. Both of us hoped the other was right.The Bad Hoss was dark and cool and noisy. The lunch crowd was less boisterous than the evening. Der Sand des Strandes hatte sich aufgeheizt und gab die Wärme nun wieder ab.Auf einem flachen Felsen, am Rand der Wasserlinie sass ein Mädchen, die Beine an die Brust gezogen und Sie mit den Armen umschliessend. Man hätte meinen können Ihr währe kalt.Das stimmte zwar, aber es war eine innere Kälte.Ihr Name war Jackelyn, meist Jacky genannt. Innerlich war Ihr eiskalt, denn Sie hatte Angst.Eine Krankheit hatte dafür gesorgt das Sie bis zum 20. Lebensjahr isoliert aufwachsen musste. Sie hatte zwar. Gayatri followed him.“Welcome back! Hey, who’s this? Your girlfriend?” Bashir asked in Urdu, to which Adnan also replied in Urdu.“Oh, no, she’s an old friend. Hey, can she also get a room here today? She’ll be leaving at about 8.00 pm?”Bashir went from funny to serious in a moment.“Look,” he slowly said, bending a little forward.“I’m already risking my neck trying to let you stay here for free. I can’t extend that to another woman unless you both stay in the same room.”“Uhh, what do I do now?”. I walk toward it in every direction until I can hear it getting closer. My clothes are sticking to my body in the heat. I can finally hear the water getting closer as I continue to walk, after about another couple of miles I’m rewarded with an amazing site of a large waterfall, I stare at it from across the way, it drops down about 500 feet. I am mesmerized by the falling water and the pool of pure blue at the bottom. The water looks so inviting as I stand there dripping with sweat. I start to.