But whenever she looked at me i felt she had magnet in her eyes at that age too, no wonder she pulled dad towards her, later i came to know that this ...was her second marriage too..Dad had to go outstation for few days this he told me before leaving and asked me to take care of the house and not to fight with his wife, i did not even reply to him, but thought to myself that i should come home early in his absense, that night i was having my food which was in the dinning table, she came to serve. So I waited to see what kind of response I would get from my ad. After a couple of days I got the first call, it was from a coed at the local college. Almost as soon as she heard a male voice answer the phone she was ready to hang up. She told me that she needed a room but was unwilling to share a house with a man she didn't know and said, "Thanks anyway." and hung up. This same thing happened over and over again. I was just about resigned to thinking I had been overly optimistic about finding. "Hey, head's up, Mike," Alex said. "We're all fine, so no worry too much. You get fit again and we sort things out here." Three weeks later they already had a new place to live, even on the campus area. Alex's father, who owned a law firm, had taken care of the fire issues and the official reason was an electrical fault in one of the washing machines in the cellar. Nobody did ask any questions about the small lab Mike had had down there.Ty and Jerome sat in the living room as Mike stepped in,. "How was that, brother?", she asked.I tried to get my breath back. "Wow! I think I just found another difference between the two of you!" Maybe, maybe not. I've told Sue about that one, and she's quite keen to try it. Do you think she couldn't?" I suppose she could, but it's not something she's ever suggested."Jill laughed. "I don't suppose she would have. God, we were a terrible pair, weren't we? Giving you both just enough, and no more. Treating it as a 'favour' to be doled out when you'd.