. much. It’s dangerous. And I don’t let nationals know I know what they are saying. I wish ... sometimes ... that I had siblings. Daddy has taken ...care of that. But, being triplets would be so nice.”Junior appeared in the hatch. “We’re going now.”“Where?”“Atlantic ... about a hundred miles outta the St. Lawrence estuary. We need to go now. Cynthia is closer than she thinks. There’s a short gale where I want to drop us ... and it’s night.”We checked out but the Port Authority took a bribe and. Jacob had spent many hours sitting on that sofa in recent months, and many nights, as well, as he dozed after a night of filling his glass from the bottle and watching whatever he could pick up with the rabbit ears on his television. Jacob accepted sleep whenever it crept upon him. He had trouble sleeping in recent months and it seemed that only way he could fall asleep was with the help of Mr. Daniels, or by taking two or three of the pills his doctor had given him. Even then, his sleep was. She said she had to meet her sister and her fiance, who invited her to dinner. She asked me whether I could take her there? I said, fine, we’ll go by cab. But she insisted we go by bike. She always loved bike rides, and it wasn’t the first time she was coming with me.She called me again within 10 minutes and said, “Hey, one of my friend’s boyfriends is here along with his friends. I’m feeling uncomfortable. You come and pick me up now itself. I’m already dressed. So I’ll be in your room till. Settling back in the chair I look around, the empty silence outside my little circle of light reminds me that I’m alone, aroused and have hours ‘til anyone is expected home. Glancing back at the monitor I smile reliving the highlights of the story just briefly before coming to a decision. Shrinking the story down to the lower half of the screen I open up a few of her pictures arranging them story board like across my screen. Her smiling face brightening the otherwise darkened room as I begin.