As a middle-class family, we lived in a 1bhk apartment in Mumbai. The renovation was going to take about a week, starting with our bedroom. We had to ...shift most of the bedroom furniture in the hall.We had very little space left in the hall where we ate and slept. The sofa was the only place of comfort left in the hall. Out of respect for the breadwinner, dad got to sleep on the sofa. Me, Ma, and my sister slept on the floor with homemade cushion beds and blankets.Ma slept in the middle. I was. "I wanted Kenny to love me. Right after he left for work that morning I thought I would meet him at the door that evening wearing just my earrings and nothing else, but I knew deep down it wouldn't work in my favor. I wrote this note, took enough of his money to get me home. I found out that my family acted just like he said they would. That's the minute I began to grow up."Always in the back of my mind I was hoping someday Kenny would remember me. Even deeper in my mind I wanted Kenny to. Neither of them had encountered a tribe before who were attired in such a way. And more bizarre still was that they wore clothes irrespective of how warm the day was. When Demure realised that Glade had been missing for an unusually long time, despite her illness not only did she trace her lover’s whereabouts from the trail she and the hyena had left behind but she also found the tribe who’d built the trap into which Glade had stumbled. And then she somehow persuaded them to rescue her. Glade. “You sure?” she countered.“Of course”“OK. I’m not on this Thursday, so when do I come?”“Just before 2. I’ll get you a drink.”“OK”“Till then.”I thought I could be quite cool. Ivy worked and drank in the pub over the next few days without any sign of what had passed between us. But Thursday did arrive and the wife left just after opening, saying she would be back before happy hour finished.“No problem,” I replied “I think I can handle it. See you about 7.”She nodded in agreement, got in the taxi.