Jimmie wun’t ready fer that. That stick popped up an hit him right smack dab in the kisser. Boy, was he mad! I’m arunnin’. He comes after me and...grabs me from behind, then he drags me back to that cow plop and pushes me down in it. Well I figgered I’m about as messed as I’m gonna get, but ole Jimmie ain’t gonna get away clean. No, Sir, not now. I just reached down and scooped up a great big gob of the stuff in my hand and flung it just as hard as I could. How could I help it if Suzy Roberts and. She rinsed in cold water and turned off the shower, to step out onto the bath mat and towel her flesh vigorously. Betty forced her mind to other things, to her daughter Nicole. Little Nikki was small and sweet, and she would be shocked into trauma if she even suspected an incestuous affair between her brother and her mother.And her older daughter, Linda; Betty found it difficult to believe that Linda had already been married for two years, and was now a well adjusted housewife, all of. I heard Jeanie clear her throat just before she came around the corner, pizza in hand. Just as she set it down the first strains of the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel's Messiah came bursting from the sound system—George had timed it perfectly! It took Beth a second to recognize the music, then she grabbed a slice of pizza—sans onions!—and leaned over to me, "Wise ass!"Life was good!When we'd finished our meal Beth wanted to visit the farm. It looked like this was turning into an opening night. He'd heard in jail how a new scam was to dress up like Santa and offer to give someone something so you could get in. Once there it turned into a home invasion. So he tried to protect Eva and Timmy from this unknown man, who cursed at him, whereupon he knew the man was a danger to them. He said he didn't know where the knife came from, and that it must have been planted on him, because they certainly hadn't given him a knife when he got out of prison. And he insisted that no one had said.