Mendoza would not accept no for an answer. He nodded his acceptance.She walked to the central stairs and yelled, "Janice Catherine Mendoza! Get your h...inie in the shower." Mom!" the faint yell of protest echoed down the stairs."Don't 'mom' me young lady!"A half hour later, Janie appeared in the kitchen freshly scrubbed. Despite her rough evening, he couldn't help but notice that she had grown into a lovely woman. Janie had always been more Spanish looking that the rest of the Mendoza clan, who. The farm had little to barter, but what they had Elizabeth took with her in a sack strapped to her back; eggs, apples from last years crop, carefully wrapped in hay and as sweet as when they’d been picked, a haunch of salt pork from the pig she’d slaughtered in the autumn. Hoisting her load of fifty pounds on to her back without effort, Elizabeth, having seen to her father’s comfort for the day, left the farm. Her long legs covered the mile to the Ackroyd steading in no more than fifteen. " Carl said, "Old man Baxter is out of town,nobody is home."I thought to my self, 'Just one quick look and I'll rideback, what would that hurt?'We crept down to the barn, peaking thought the cracks wecould see two old fire trucks. "Wow that's great!" I said.As we turned around to head back, there was Carl's mom."What are you kids doing, you both know to stay away fromthis place." she said.Carl spoke up and said, "It was Andy's idea, he wanted tosee the trucks!" Was not..." I started to. I meant to leave ... more to do later, but we never got the chance before you got engaged to Danielle and swore off everyone else. Now that your marriage is toast, though ... I can do justice to our little fling or whatever you wish to call it. I feel awful that I told her about us, too, but she got me a bit drunk and we were spilling out all of our secrets. That was when she told me about her own ... secret,” Michelle had the decency to blush now.“Secret? Do tell me this. I wasn’t aware of any.