I’m trying to avoid unnecessary confrontation. I hope you can see that there’s a difference.”“I still say you want her.”“I don’t know WH...AT I want,” I said, exasperated. “Which is why you and I need to sit down and figure out if we belong together or not. Or maybe it’s better to say if we want to seriously explore the future together.”“You can’t have both of us, Mike.”“Oh for Pete’s sake,” I growled, exasperated. “Don’t you think I know that? Why do you think I’m struggling here? I just told you. Course i go to Mumbai from Delhi. There I stay in a hotel. After few days I went to Goa by first class reservation in train. When i enter in the train and get my seat I saw a beautiful women come in the train and she had seat near me. When train started moving I start sleeping and i fell on her laps. At that time I did not know her. She said to me and said to me what are you doing? I say sorry and got up and didn’t sleep again. After some time she was sleeping and fell on my lap. I didn’t say. ’ A tear started in her eye, falling down her cheek and she swiped at it angrily. ‘You can’t think like that, Kaylee. Besides,’ he wiped off her cheek with his thumb. ‘You’ll wreck your makeup and you don’t want your viewing audience of one to see you with runny mascara do you?’ * * * * He turned on the television, turning the set so that it angled enough that Tina could see it from where she was tethered. He had cable hookups all over the house, an easy thing when he did all his own wiring. I was just trying to keep things light.”“It’s okay,” I said. “Seriously. I’m just a little flat.”“I don’t expect anything from you,” she said.“I know. You told me before.”“No, I mean tonight. I don’t expect anything.”“Okay.”We took turns at the beer for a couple-three minutes. The quiet suddenly gave way to fire engine sirens howling in the distance, dopplering toward us through the darkness and then away.Finally she said, “Ed and I got married right out of high school. It wasn’t like my dream.
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