Taxes were high but the king needed an army, and he needed to pay for it to.My parents were all the family I had. Growing up I had a few friends from ...he surrounding areas but my parents were always around. A few months back I turned seventeen and my parents were a bit upset, but not because I was getting older but the king had a once a year round up all the women from seventeen to twenty two and had them brought to the castle keep.When the king was a much younger man he had found his wife in. ”“You can’t. My car needs to be washed and you need to be here to babysit Stanley while I go out with Gloria and the girls.”I kept waiting for my dad to assert himself, but he never did. I promised myself it would never happen to me and to my mind crawling o Pauline and begging would be a start down that road. Wasn’t going there! I was in the wrong. I would admit it and ask to be forgiven, but I wasn’t going to dog her to get her to listen. Wrong of me to be so hardheaded? Maybe, but I was what. “No. I’m not interested in girls that way.”“Well, I am,” I said. “I’m definitely interested in girls that way. I’m not gay.”“I know that now,” she said. “Calm down.”“Gay!” I muttered. “I go through all this just to be near you and you think I’m gay.”“All what?” she asked.“I’d been in college for two whole weeks when you called me a masher. You were disgusted with me. I couldn’t stand the thought of the girl I was all gaga for being disgusted with me. And I also couldn’t stand the thought of not. Making some sandwiches, we decided to have a picnic at River Lea. We enjoyed the day together, having a picnic which we both enjoyed very much, ending up eating more than we should have.By late afternoon we were lying on our backs, surrounded by grass, watching the clouds moving above us. Gliding the palm of my hand over the grass, I touched Lisa’s fingers with the tip of my fingers. Stopping at that point, I took her hand in mine and held it, just lying there watching the line of smoke from a.