I thought, "Damn! Not again. Jane's gonna kill me fer messin' up another hat!" The sound of the rifle shot caused Sam and me to grab our rifles and hi... the ground in a hurry. Joe and Jack both ran for their rifles and joined us flat on the ground.I looked back the way we had come and saw 7 men on horses, one of them holding a rifle. Before I could move, Sam showed off some of his prowess by snapping off a shot at the man holding the rifle; he dropped the rifle and fell out of the saddle.Joe and. Please.’ He wipes an arm across his eyes. I watch him for awhile, and I’m sure he knows I’m watching him. But he’s done with the moment, with the grass and its magic. ‘We should go,’ he says and pushes himself up. His shirt sticks to his back. And he reaches a hand down to help me up, which I take. But he walks away before I have my balance and I’m forced to follow behind, watching his shirt unstick from his back. He walks like he does after his mother rags him out. Like he doesn’t care, like. Roy settled down and Jackie took his hands away. Roy gasp for breath a few times and then I took the syringe from Susan to give Roy his injection. As I was findin a vein he was still."Why are you helpin them Susan?" Roy asked, "We've been together a long time." What have I gotten out of it Roy? I barely have two thousand dollars that I can call mine after I've made you more than a hundred times that. You won't even let my girls go to school or anywhere else. We ain't nothin but your slaves.. I told my Mom that Peter had caught me in his room going through his stuff and had kinda blackmailed me into subsequent events.Mom said,"If all that happened was Peter catching you going through is bag then why didn't you tell me, sure it's a bad thing to do to a guest, to go through their personal belongings, but I wouldn't have been too mad. I have to admit that on occasion I have done it myself", she said.Mom clearly knew there was more to it than just my snooping. I decided to tell her.