So there's just thethree of us here now." Oh."It was all I could think of to say.Mandy spoke. "No one should be ashamed of their body, honey, and no ...oneshould be afraid to be naked. After all, we're not born with clotheson, you know!"All three of us laughed."So," I said, "you normally sit out here, um, in the nude?"They both nodded."We're only wearing clothes now," she replied, "because we didn't wantto potentially embarrass or offend you. Our guest."Which immediately made me feel guilty. . ”“Okay, be that way,” Diana said crossing her arms and glaring at Steve.Steve frowned and said, “Look, Diana, this is a rather private family matter. I was hoping that you would understand that.”“No, that’s all right. I understand,” Diana said thinking that he could have included her if he had wanted. She felt that he was just making excuses to get out of seeing her Friday evening. She decided that if he didn’t want to see her, then that would be fine with her.Knowing that she didn’t. Kumar said something in mom’s ear. They both started walking towards the balcony in mom’s room.I could see mom was quite high. Kumar got close to mom and said, “Kavya ji, you have not got me any gift.” Mom smiled and said, “What do you want, Kumar?” He said, “Kavya ji, the same gift you gave to Shoaib.”Mom gave him a naughty smile and said, “Kumar, you are so naughty.” He said, “Hehe, Kavya ji, I have a big crush on you.”“I know, Kumar. I have often seen you checking me out. But it’s not good. The Bible says God created the world in seven days. What gets recorded in print isn't always the truth, the losers version gets washed away to be forgotten. Truth is written by the victor after all. The task of creation actually took him eight day to complete, there was just no one around to argue over details with him when it happened. Light may have been created on that first day, but darkness was waiting to meet it long before. It doesn't matter how hard you search, you won't find what was.