“My mum was supposed to pick me up after school,” Cheryl explained, “but she’s just texted to say she’s got to work overtime to meet a deadl...ne. Would you mind walking me home?”“No problem.” Having little experience with girls, I tended to put them on a pedestal, worship them and meekly do their bidding. But in this case, I was mostly being honest. I had done my homework and there was quite a while before I needed to be home for dinner. The only problem was that I didn’t have a clue where she. ."I cut her off abruptly. I twinge of fear creeping into my voice I ask,"Then what?" We would take you out into public to see how others would react. It ispretty simple. We would observe other people's reaction to you as youdid simple tasks like going to the store or a restaurant," Jencontinues."No. Not going to happen. No way in hell am I going in public."Katie stands up and asks Jenny if she and I could have a minute.Grabbing me by the hand she leads me back to my room. She moves. "Did my uncle sell you some feed, like I said he would?" Nope, he give me some." The soldier's mouth became a thin line, and he wiped his face and spat in the dust. "That's none of your blamed business. You jes' fergit all about that, y' hear!"Seth swallowed and looked into the muzzle of the carbine as it swung up toward him. It looked like the mouth of a well. "Was it Uncle Luke that gave you the idea? Did he tell you to come back to the house and get me?"The soldier reached up and grabbed. I interrupted and asked wasn't there suppose to be another girl spending the weekend? Yea Dad but she won't be here until later she had to go home first. "Dad" She had never called me that before Ann and I weren't married and had only talked about it once. I said Debbie can I talk to you for a minute "alone". "Sure Dad we need to". We walked out to the patio and I asked why she was calling me Dad all of a sudden and I also wanted to know what she was planning. I am going to call you Dad from.