She stared mostly at the beds of leaves which collected from the few trees. Again no one cared to clean any of it up. She wanted more than anything ...to go over and join the bed. Curl up fetal position and just let the day pass her there. Birds knew where to fly in the winter due to a small metal bit in their brains, and Kelly felt drawn by the same magnetism to the spongy bed of dry leaves.Every Fall she would help rake leaves with her father. She did more playing than raking, but that was. He was your typical tough guy. Standing at6'3", with broad shoulders and a brawny frame, he was a menacingfigure. But he was not unattractive. He had striking clear blue eyesand he wore a perfectly trimmed goatee under his wide nose. His facialhair helped draw attention from his bushy eyebrows and his recedinghairline. He was fast approaching his mid-forties and his doctordesperately wanted him to shed seventy pounds. His obesity coupled withhis frequent bouts of anger were taking a nasty toll. My name is Seema and I’m a 20 year old dusky female from Nepal. I work as household help for Karan and Payal who have a big penthouse apartment in Bangalore. Payal is a housewife and Karan is a state level boxer by profession. Both have frequent visitors for meetings as they are into many other businesses. Apart from me, they have Robin who is their driver. I stay in the servant’s quarter attached to the apartment, whereas robin lives somewhere close by.Karan never had a sex eye on me or looked. After Mom and I got comfortable in a pair of low-slung,overstuffed chairs, our guide walked over to the wall across from us andspoke a couple of command words. The wall lit up with the Gender Expresslogo, then a few charts stretched open. Dr. Nari tapped on the first chart, which became highlighted. "This isour full package. It includes everything our clinic has to offer."Mom looked down the long list, then frowned when she reached the priceat the bottom. "That's a bit more than I think we can.