I pulled my hair back into ponytail and tied it with a tartan ribbon. I looked in the mirror and thought to myself damn your hot, go girl. With that I... was off to the dance club. Upon my arrival I again, as was my habit, sat at the bar and ordered a beer. I then sat sipping my beer and scanning the room. Then I saw him a good looking black man smartly dressed. He had a shaved head with a closely trimmed beard. He was standing in a back corner and looked like he was waiting for somebody.Hopping. The adults are still wrapped in conversation, children are nowhere to be seen, though most likely are just someplace close though out of sight. How true this thought about the children proves to be. The ship sits there quiet as ever, same as ever, but no wait the door it is open, a black hole drawing my eyes and stilling my voice. It can’t be, yet there it is, my fears and hopes hold me silent, it seems to me this is like onto the box Pandora was once said to have opened. What demons of. It’s okay Amma and he is grown boy. He will manage and we will leave now.Okay Radha don’t worry, all will be fine. If there is an emergency call over the phone, and let me know and they all leave at 12.30 Simi switches off the TV not one good program she thinks. She again walks to the kitchen and the thought of eating lunch alone bores her as she is about to serve herself, she stops. Sam what will he eat for lunch. How will he manage? She opens the backdoor of the kitchen and looks into the. Tricia and I were friends from the very start, we were both were in the sidelines of the social scene in school. We had a core group of about 5 guys and four girls that we all hung around with each other through out school. Not losers but not super popular - kind of floating under the radar, getting good grades and having our own good time together.When we were 18, Tricia's parents were having some problems. Tricia's Mom arranged with my mother for Tricia to spend a few weeks at our place.