" Okay, little sister, what's up?" she said curiously."Well, Mom called. She said she was going to work another shift.Actually, she made me feel reall... good, because she said that she wouldhave come home to make sure Johnny didn't get into any trouble, but shetrusted Jenny and ..." Well, Mom's right about that," Beth interrupted. "Seeing you dressed upby yourself when I came in was surprising, but seeing you doing yourhomework by yourself was shocking." Thanks for agreeing with Mom," I said. She pulled a tin can out of her cart, one she had filled with pebbles and scrap metal. It made a very effective rattle. She was still shaking it seven minutes later as the last notes faded.We didn’t look behind us, and when I heard clapping I looked back in surprise. There must have been three dozen people standing there. One woman held her three year old child up, and the girl dropped a five in her rattle. Her can was full of bills and change in no time. The guys on the ground shared in their. He wasn't sure why. Perhaps the realization that Angel was Frank's sister had set him on edge, "You better teach her to behave herself or next time I just might take her over my knee," Jordan continued to taunt them both, mostly because he knew it was getting under Frank's skin.Angel felt like a child the way Jordan kept going on about spanking her. She didn't like it. Who did he think he was? He was threatening to spank her, and it sounded to her like he meant it. It made her blood boil."C'mon. William could hear the feint sound of a man's voice in the background, and the soft sound of muffled clapping, he couldn't quite work it out though.He then began telling her about her sister ringing up and asked what she meant when she told her she'd quit her job."Ooh that - It's nothing baby just a little white lie I told her is all." She quickly uttered.William could obviously hear the panic in her voice."I'm sorry I got to get back to work, I've a job to do, you know." She quickly stated.For.