It's easy to throw to first when you're not rushed.I was up, and had evaluated the pitcher as being very straightforward. He had a decent curve but tw...isted his hand up before he threw it. His fast ball had a good release point and was a little difficult to see out of his hand. His change up came from the same motion but a higher release. Those balls had a tendency to die in front of the plate. So if you could hold your bat, it was a ball.The pitcher smoked a fast ball by me for strike one. I. The flame started easily, and within seconds the bed was a conflagration.What he hadn’t counted on was his mom waking up once her flesh started to burn. She sat up screaming and tried to flee the bed.Shawn rushed forward. “Stay in the circle!” he yelled, and punched her straight in the face. The woman fell back into the fire, stunned long enough for her available oxygen to finally run out, and then she collapsed.The building’s fire alarm had started shrieking at some point. Shawn covered his. A window would crack and eventually start to break, a tap would start to leak, or the garden would need tending. None of this got any attention as my mother struggled to bring me up and look after dad on her own. Soon the house was in a state of disrepair while dad continued on with his shouting.I didn’t have a happy c***dhood as you can imagine. The only enjoyable times I remember were losing myself in the extensive, overgrown gardens… Jumping forward a bit to the spring of 1981, I was on. It was my other cousins wedding and hence my family had to go out of town and Riya and I couldn’t accompany our family as she had important office work and I had my Semester Exams on. Hence it was decided that my family and her family would go without me and Riya. The wedding was to be held in Delhi.I had my last exam and it was not possible for me to go for all the functions and my dad and aunt asked me to stay back and come little later with Riya Didi. As I had exams and Riya didi was my.