' Aunty, MissKaren and the three assistants then started to laugh and I felt morehumiliated than at any other time.Aunty then took several photos of m...e before Miss Karen said it was timeto try the other dresses on. Four more dresses followed, they all seemedvery similar to me but Aunty and Miss Karen were very enthusiastic aboutthem all.Eventually they decided on the dress I was to have. Predictably it wasthe most stunning of them all. It had pearl details on the tight fittingbodice, little. " I told them handing each girl a pair.They inspected their new gifts and Sheel commented, "The bottoms are very hard and made of a material I'm not familiar with. They look much stronger than anything I've ever seen before, and they'll cover us all the way up to our knees. Thank you Dac." Yes, thank you Dac." Roya said gratefully as she replaced her old moccasins with the new ones and paraded around in them.After getting a feel for their new foot ware Sheel made fire while Roya used her new. Around 8:05 pm, I saw Ani heading towards me. It was dark, and we were the only ones in the park. He came up to me with a distressed face such that I knew something was wrong.Me: Brother, what’s going on? You seem a bit off today. Is everything alright?Ani: I don’t know how to say this to you. This is something I never expected, even in my most haunted nightmare.Me: What happened brother, I can’t help you if you won’t tell me what’s wrong.Ani: Anu, brother, My dear Anu, I loved her so much that. One ring from seven brothers; they’d all chipped in to purchase the stone. Ruby had cried with delight the day they had presented it to her keeping the truth a tightly balled up secret inside herself: She hated the dam thing but didn’t have the heart to say this was the case. Agreeing to marry them had taken Ruby to places she could never have dreamed of, not all of them good or true … and now she held a secret that was burning a hole in her heart even as her men satisfied her ever-hungry.