Patti stood right there and began to describe things that had happened to me in such detail that I knew she was not bluffing in the least and that she... was telling me exactly some of the things that had been done to me.Then as she went on telling this and that to me sitting right there hearing it all, every bit of what she was saying flooding back into my mind with it all over and over again it flooded back into my mind.The very worst of it all was when she told me; “Jackie how about that time. What kind of world was she living in? Since when did being nice to people mean you were uncool? Why did it matter if you liked to dress in clothes that were comfortable instead of dressing like a skank? She smiled at the use of the word skank. Bree had always found it to be a funny little word. Her reflection had no answers for her questions and always seemed to argue with everything she said anyway. When you argue with yourself in the mirror you may be speaking from two different perspectives. All my family members would be busy watching kasuati zindagi kii. But I will be waiting in the balcony for aunty to enter the bathroom first I was very afraid to peep my heart beat raised as if uncle would notice it would be a bad remark on me. I couldn’t dare at first but once I assured that uncle has gone to bring children from their tuition this was my chance my heart beat was at a peak I was so afraid looking back so that no one is behind me.Just then I heard the bathroom door shut I just. The evening menu was, as always, on the fridge door – two lists – one for Mike to do, one for Chen to do – Mike started doing the prep work and making the salads, so that when Chen came in, everything would be ready for him to make quick work of dinner. In the back of his mind though, Mike was uneasy – on the way home, he’d felt something – a brief flash of intense flushing, almost like a heat flash, centered deep in his chest – it had startled him, because he’d also seen Chen’s face ever so.