The morning sun had called forth a rainbow in the spray of the waterfall, and a big shiny Trout jumped out the water greeting the sun.I felt the blood...rushing into my cheeks as we both observed the scenery.“I’m a girl,” I mumbled.His eyes returned to me.“No doubt about it,” he replied as a smile flicked upon his face.He grabbed me by the shoulders and lifted me off the flat stone I was sitting on. I watched as he took the huge hammer off his back and held it high above his head. He smashed it. She’s still mad about her father. I am sorry she ran away though.”“I know,” Abby replied. “She never forgave us for getting married. You were drinking pretty heavy back then.”“Dammit, Abby! Not here, not now!” he snarled at her.Abby turned away and looked over the little mining town. She forced herself not to dwell on the past several months. She remembered better times.She’d moved to the Colorado Territory with her father, Henry Thompson, when she was only six. They’d left Pennsylvania a few. It should be over by then.”Kelly sighed. “Will you at least promise to be careful?”I smiled and wrapped my arms around her. “That I can promise you. I have way too much to live for these days not to be careful! I just might be a little late over the next few days with paperwork.”Kelly asked, “Nothing that is going to affect next week, though?”“It shouldn’t.”“Good! I’d hate to have bought those new swimsuits for nothing.”“Hmmm ... new swimsuits?”“Well, Grim, the girls have grown a bit,” she. ”‘A technicality,’ Arlyne agrees. ‘My brother and I may be at our weakest right now, but that will all end soon.’“The calm before the storm,” Trent mutters.‘You can say that,’ she says, frowning for the first time.“Then you can be stopped,” he says, looking in the direction of his house.‘There is that possibility, but not only will you not make it home in time to stop them, your sister will never make love to you,’ she warns. ‘Without her consent and mutual feelings, it is a useless gesture.’He.