I drove and drove and drove. All of a sudden, my car swerved and I realized I had a flat tire. I pulled over and got out. It was raining harder. Sudde...nly, I see four men approaching me. I was thinking that maybe they were going to help me but was I so wrong. They grabbed me and began to beat me and robbed me. They left me laying in the street. After a little, I came around and made it up to a house near by. I knocked on the door and was asked from inside what I wanted. I said I had been robbed. It was Neepa, and her cook.“Babu, I can’t cook for all. And moreover, your room is so dirty. I have asked Laxmi to take care of your daily chores from today.” Neepa asks.I remembered that I have asked the previous maid to quit. She was bunking a lot. Last night, my mom asked Neepa for a replacement.Neepa tells Laxmi that she will have to clean the house, wash my clothes, dry and put them back to the wardrobe, and report to Neepa for the daily updates.Laxmi gets into work as Neepa goes down to. I wondered, “How do you know all these?”. Rajee replied sadly, “My Jaya sister herself told me about this and daily she is crying in sorrow”. We both became sad and the matter ended there.The next day, my wife was admitted in the hospital and my parents in law were assisting her in hospital. Jaya was preparing food and I was carrying it to hospital daily. One day my sister in law told, “Kumar, today I will also come to hospital”. I told “Okey Akka”.(Akka means elder sister, as Jaya was elder to. And here she was now only a matter of days later, lying under me, cooing softly and contentedly. Surely, this wouldn't… couldn't… shouldn't last, I thought. Too many things to overcome: can you imagine her taking me home to meet her parents, who were younger than my two grown ch1ldren? Then there was the small matter of her being my student, which was strictly forbidden by school policy, although it happened all the time. Finally, I reasoned, was the fact that Soleil had just begun to live her.