Now Saramma took the broom stick and cleaned the entire room in ten minutes and waited near the door for me to tip her again. Now my mind started work...ing again and I deliberately took 2 hundred rupees note and gave to her saying that she can buy something for herself for Mahara Shankaranthi. Sarammas face said it all and she said thank you babu. Thank you. And assured to come and regularly clean my room everyday. I said that you are welcome to do so. Then she left my room and went away. I. And then there’s my mother’s boyfriend. He looks at us funny most of the time.” “He looks at you funny. Way too much, if you ask me. Me, he barely notices.” “Oh he notices you,” Lilah said. “He’s scared shitless of you.” “He should be,” he responded carefully. “Hmm. As chance would have it, he’s been noticeably less creepy around me the last few weeks. You wouldn’t know anything about that, would you, Run?” “I saw him drunk once, you know,” he evaded. “That’s nothing new,” she muttered. . She’d just been rocking Candy. “Anyway, this isn’t the end. Did you report this to the police?” A lawyer, she’d heard somewhere, never asks a question unless he knows the answer. It couldn’t be true; didn’t woman lawyers ask directions? In this case, though, Eric had known the answer. She had already told him.“No.”“Well, you’re going to have to tell this all over again. At least you’ll be telling it to a woman. Can I make an appointment for you?”“If you have to.”“Look, I repeat. I’m not the. .... We got there and pitched the tents, grabbed a beer and proceeded to skin-up and get nice and mellow. All was going well and she asked me to go for a wander about the site to see what was happening. I don't know if you ever went there, but it was a bit anarchic and a 'no-go-area' for the police. You could get (almost) any d**g there except for heroine. She wanted some acid, so I got some , we dropped some and went about our tour of the site - there was a big crowd in one corner watching a.