Anyway, after talking it out with Buchanan's staff and the home and school association, they've authorized us to start with the volleyball team."Leona...was sitting quietly, head down. She seemed to be trying to hide behind her long brunette locks. Bringing her head up, she addressed the two Grade 8 students. "You were on the swim team last year, competing against regular schools?" Both girls nodded affirmatively."How did those compare to today?" Well, we won," ventured Natalie, to a brief laugh. I pointed at the ground with a scowl on my face, ‘Next time point that thing somewhere else,’ I growled. ‘Now that you’re fresh as a daisy, could we please MOVE OUT?’ I ordered. We mounted the transport vehicle to cheers and chuckles from the troops in the rear. I thought about my twenty plus years in the service, man, things had changed. I wasn’t that fresh-faced boot that did two tours in the Nam, now I was a gristly old relic that hadn’t known when to quit. Hell, I couldn’t quit, I tried. Which leads me to Abril.All partners of Huttle, Shunt, Barnes and Associates, participate in the wife exchange, and Abril was nominated as the wife In needed to steal from the first. She would prostitute herself to old white guys on my behalf.Abril is a strong, beautiful, confident and stubborn woman who has been successful doing confidence work at a very high level for the majority of her life. She was not crazy about switching to what she viewed rightly as prostitution, so I had to identify. That didn’t matter to Allan. He’d never been a farmer. The field stood idle. In the barn beside the ranch, the tractor and harvester gathered cobwebs. The old Bellamy farm was merely his retirement home, where he hid more or less comfortably from the world and its reminders of his failures. Allan didn’t bother much about the field or the barn. When the mood struck him to be outside, he invariably went to sit on the front porch. Traffic on NY 231 was too sparse to annoy him, and the Compton farm.