This isn't high school. You don't win just because you can kick my ass. I will tell you that if you lay a hand on me in anger, you and I will never pl...ay music together again." Gentlemen!" Crow said, now truly alarmed. "We must stop this! We must..." Shut your ass, Crow," Matt told him without even glancing in his direction. He continued to glare at Jake for a few moments. When Jake didn't drop his eyes, he slowly sat back down. He looked over at Nerdly. "What about you, Nerdly?" he asked. "How. Where are you? Granny said you had taken a few days off. But that was weeks ago." Oh Simon. I've made a big mistake. I was mad at you. You'd gone away for business again and left me." Simon could tell that she'd been drinking. The words poured out of her."So where are you?" His voice carried a note of worry."I came to a place called Eastville with a guy named Paris. I didn't know that there was a war going on here. Simon. I'm so scared."Simon's heart stopped beating. Three things were. Magar who nahi mani mei ne thodi der tak bola phir who chali gai. Mere mammy ko market jana tha. To mammy ne mujhse kaha ki mei thodi dder mei wapas aa jaungi tujhe chay pina ho to sandhiya ko bol dena who bana degi. Mei ne kaha thik hei. Mammy ke jane ke thik baad hi sandhiya phir se mere yaha aa gai. Aur mujhe pareshan karne lagi. Mei aaapna kaam nahi kar paa raha tha. Itne mei sandhiya ne mere hath se pen chhain kar mere kamre mei bhagne lagi. Mei usako pakkadne ke liye khada huwa. Mei ne. She always did what he wanted, but the one time she said no, she doesn’t feel like having sex, he made her do it anyway. That still rankled. So it was a much more composed Mansi, having had all these epiphanies, who kept checking her phone that morning. She knew in her mind that Dutt would probably want to take things further. And she herself would not mind it. And it would mean cheating on her husband. But taking a sum total of all the epiphanies, she had, well, why not? It was a little past.