It was almost 10 am when I woke up. Took a wash and cooked breakfast. Shubhi woke up after some time and I fed her breakfast sharing each morsel and d...rank one sip of tea from the same cup alternately. I broached the topic of her boyfriend to which Shubhi replied that he was two timing her and was seeing a common friend. She had fallen for me from the first time we met in office and madly in love with me since she joined office. She had already broken up with her guy before New Year’s Eve hence. Then she hadopened the other cuff and set it on her other wrist, not closing it, but testingto see if she could unlock the first cuff if her hands were secured together.Since she could easily reach the lock, she had closed the second cuff. The feel of the handcuffs, fastening her wrists together,restraining her, had been like the rush of some powerful drug. It didn't takelong for her to build up a collection of restraints: handcuffs, waist chains,leg irons. Within a month she had at least one. All I know is that she pushed opened my bedroom door and peered inside.This time, my brother and I both froze. There was no hiding that we weresitting on the bed watching the TV dressed up like two normal girls ourage.The look on my mother's face was pure shock. I don't know what I wouldhave done if I had been in her shoes and saw my son sitting next to hissister with a silver butterfly clip decorated with rhinestones in hishair, dressed in a long sleeved white graphic top, a black tiered. "There was commotion in the studio as this years flock of interns, chosen from the Communication and Broadcasting College of Cassandra, distributed small packets of paper and an engraved ball-point pen announcing that; "This Pen was Stolen from Cassandra in the Morning." The interns were checking to see that no member of the Studio audience had more than one packet."Would you please give a 'Cassandra in the Morning' greeting to Mistress Eva Caretaker Controller of Crossroads and Cassandra."The.