I had no idea how long I was there, when two girls came into the room.“Mike?”Clarissa!“Hi,” I said weakly, not having the strength or willpowe...r to tell them to leave, which was what I thought I wanted.“It’s Clarissa and Angie. We found the pictures. We were looking for you when Milena found us.”“I just needed to be alone.”“It wasn’t that!” Clarissa said firmly. “You were sitting on a bench in a snowstorm without proper clothes!”She sat on the edge of the bed, and Angie went around and sat on. The office gossip spot wasn’t the water cooler, it was the side door of the building that led into an alley. That was where the smokers went since the city had banned smoking in public places. Even non-smokers went out if they wanted to catch up on the office bullshit. Darren was standing huddled inside his parka. It hadn’t snowed in over a week but the temperature was down to the single digits and he silently cursed his nicotine addiction as he slowly froze to death. The two women next to. Gayatri was still looking away from me. She could never have imagined watching such a movie that too with a boy beside her. We went to the food corner and settled down. She was still so, I then started talking to her. After some time she was about normal, I asked her about the movie. She said that how could the peaple be so shameless and nothing like such happens in life. I then asked she liked the movie or not and the truth came out of her mouth. She said that she enjoyed the movie but still. In English Lit and if he had a glass or two of wine we could get him to recite Donne or Shakespeare or Chaucer. Randall didn’t have much of a body. He spent his time reading, after all, but he had this behind that looked like you could screw it off. I would sneak peeks at it when he was over to visit Susan. Once I caught him late at night at the fridge in his underwear and it looked so nice. I missed Randall. He was in England now doing some work with The Globe. He sent me a postcard saying he.