"Oh, by the way, where are your parents," She said looking at her watch, "I don't want to keep you out too long." They are away on a business trip, an...d won't be back for a couple weeks." Okay, so we can stay out as late as we want without worry." Well, I'm still a minor. So it wouldn't be the best idea." Don't worry. I'll be driving you home at the end of this." A couple beers later she started rambling about her love life."Wow, drunken relationship talk, I should probably cut her off." It's. And we were running out of season.The sickening part of it was, the club's offense was still potent. We were scoring lots of runs -- leading the league in runs scored, in fact -- and both Josh and Zeke the Streak were in the top five among the league's hitters.In addition to his gaudy .332 average, fourth highest in the AL, Zeke had already hit thirty-six homers by only mid-August. He was "on pace," as they say, to hit about forty-five.Didn't matter. Our pattern was that Shiggie Nomura and the. Sometime in the past week Lily had dyed her naturally blonde hair an unnatural pink and taken to wearing it up in girlish pigtails. Like her hair, Lily’s dress was distinctively childish. Not at all fitting to a young woman of eighteen.Floyd thought nothing of the laminated cards the man in the hoody handed him and Lily outside the mall entrance. That was until his daughter asked, “Dad, what does your card say?”Glancing at the small laminated card Floyd was mildly surprised to see the words. Sab ke naseeb me sab kuchh nahi hota hai. Kya pata aaj jo admi aapko aise behave karta hai kal ko woh pura badal sakta hai bhi”“kab” woh boli, ” jab mein buddhi ho jaungi tab, ya jab meri dil ki sari arman khatam ho jayenge tab. Mujhe bhi pyas hoti hai, man me lehre ati hai, badan ki pyaas ko bujhana chahti hu, lekin woh…….” main kuch bol nahi paa raha tha. Tab unhone mere paas ake mujhse jo baat kahi usko sun ke mere paon tale se jameen khisk gayee.Main ek pal ke liye kaamp gaya. Badan se.