She had followed Sam's advice and asked her Clayton; the boy of her reams. It had ended in humiliation. It wasn't Clayton's fault, it was Lindsey who ...ad humiliated her in front of everyone. Now Emma's life in high school was over. Maybe she could laugh it off. There were only a few months left in her senior year after all, but Emma knew this day would scar her forever.Emma rested one elbow on her desk and flipped open her makeup mirror stand to have a look at herself. She was a little below. JC agreed that he would accompany us at least as far as North Texas.The second part of the family meeting was how we would protect ourselves from the unpleasantness that we knew was looming. JC and I figured that Cummins probably had some thugs in his hire that would happily dispatch us to our maker and burn the farm to the ground for a few dollars in whiskey money. To that end we divided up into three teams: JC, Anne and Rose; Mama, Ruth and Florence; and Rachael, Carol and me. Then we. Oh, she was very polite and smiled at him, but she seemed sad. Probably that time of the fucking month. Just his luck. There was no way was he going to stick his dick in that smelly swamp of a pussy, so maybe it was just as well to give his pride and joy a well-deserved rest.He had to get her to sign those papers. He had shuffled them in with a lot of health insurance forms and general information stuff from the company. There wasn't a ghost of a chance she would even notice it was there. Marcy. Just some lipstick. I went to the kitchen and poureda glass of Chardonnay. Then I went back to my room and crawled in bed.I turned the television on, more for background noise than anything, forall that I could think about was why Grace couldn't talk to me tonight.Not wouldn't. Couldn't. I could not shake the image of her with a man -someone she'd been with in the past - out of my head. For old timessake. All I could do was picture her with her legs spread, gettingreamed by someone with a.