What a revelation. When the music ended the lights came up and we all said our good nights, it would be an early day tomorrow for all of us. I wa... scared to death that Linda was going to come on to me, but you know, she never did. Perhaps she could sense my apprehension, perhaps she was happy to have just planted the seed and would wait to see if it sprouted. I don’t know. I got to my room and immediately threw myself on the bed, covered my face with a pillow and reveled in the. I knew I had packed it, now where the hell was it. I dug through the basket and it wasn’t there, I checked the blanket in case I folded it in there and it wasn’t. The only place left was in the cooler. I wouldn’t do that would I? I lifted the lid and there it was. Nicely settled in the ice! This could be hard for her to take. I said, ‘I put it in the cooler by mistake Jennie, it’s going to be colder than a witches heart for quite a while.’ ‘That’s okay Alex, I’m hot anyway.’ She had to be. Beth started the ATV again and we drove all the way home just like that, with Emily fucking me like she couldn’t get enough.We rolled into the ranch headquarters just after dark, and went straight to the bunk house. There was an open shower and we all got in and showered and soaped one another until we felt clean from the day of dusty riding and dirty fucking.It had been a long day and I was tired, I asked the sisters if they minded me getting to bed early tonight, I promised that I’d stay up. Mercifully, this box only contained a few items,and he quickly shuffled through the old school books and opened one ofthem, carefully peeling back its orange cover to reveal enthusiastichandwriting that had been faded by age. He went to put it back, and as hedid so a picture fell out from the centre pages, loosened with time.He sat down again, and carefully opened the folded page to reveal achildishly drawn picture of three people standing in front of a house. Itwas this house, he could tell.