” He fell sideways suddenly as a small club smacked him in the side of the head. An even bigger man had come up behind him and had smacked the drunk...with a club, dropping him to the ground out cold.“Hey there Brutus, he was my trick this hour!” screamed the woman.“He hasn’t paid his bar tab Glenis, and he isn’t likely on planning to pay you either.” The woman, Glenis looked down at the man, drew a leg back and delivered a blow to the place all men fear being kicked. He groaned and curled up in. I was going to prison.I sat in the county jail for another three weeks before being moved to prison. It wasn't anything like the movies. No prison bus or chain gang. Just me and one deputy sheriff in a squad car for the eight hour ride across the state to the mountains of North Carolina. We pulled up around ten in the evening. This part was like a movie. Snow was beginning to fall, the perimeter lights glowing in the winter fog. Guard towers disappearing into the darkness. I was taken in and. "Miss, you were most helpful in there. You took only seconds to understand what was needed and that clerk did not have a clue in over 10 minutes explaining it to him. Bless you for helping me. May I ask you something else please?" She stood close with a hopeful look on her face waiting until I nodded, then proceeded to talk."I am a novice from the church down the street and all the church elders are gone for two days. They left me to care for things, and, well, one toilet started overflowing.. Mason from the 4 H group was behind them. I asked those three to wait at the gate."Not here. This is private." I said nothing more until we were behind the ship. "Ashley, at the 4H meeting last week, did you or did you not say you have a crush on Jacob?" I did. Don't worry. I'm not going to interfere in your relationship."I give Ashley an appraising look. Then I opened her file.What I read there made me wonder why she never had the nerve to make the first move on Jacob. Ashley was a 17 year old.