"Ridley tells me that your stepfather raped you, correct?" Yes." Did you inform your mother what he did to you?" David asked.She looked sheepish and s...aid, "No." Why not?" David said."She... she probably wouldn't have believed me anyway. I told her about the creep touching me, feeling me up, and she didn't believe me." She sighed. "My mom... she thinks she's pulled off the coup of the century, got a rich man to marry her, and I've gotta admit that he hasn't been stingy with her, with me either,. We talked for hours and found things that we were really into immediately – red wines from California, the same favorite players on our hometown baseball team, an equal talent for impromptu and hilarious color commentary over the people watching we did from the sidewalk café. One drink turned into three, and as the drinks kept coming, his fingers went from just touching mine to wrapping themselves around them and entrapping them. My foot kept finding ways to rub against his ankles to running up. One day came when my dad and brothers had to go for a family function to Mysore.I rejected to go saying some excuse and stayed back.That day I and bought a lot of chocolates for my cousin and she was very happy and gave a naughty smile.I told her not to eat the chocolates now, instead eat them in the evening.Then finally the time came.She slept as usual without bra and I started my act.That day instead of pressing them over her dress, I first removed her dress and started applying chocolate on. 10:47am… ‘Fuck!’ He said, he was late for Beginning Chinese… Shouldering his bag, which he considered himself luck to still have after everything else that had happened to him, he raced off to class in his day-old clothes and unwashed body… He arrived at his Chinese class and flung open the door, not caring what kind of entrance he made nor how his appearance and demeanor must have seemed. He sat down in the back of the class, which since it was a first year class in the fall semester, was.