You see, besides ordering her to keep away from the bridge, Reese'sparents have barred her from being alone with boys. Of course, this hadas much suc...ess with Reese as the bridge prohibition did. Taylor simplydisguised herself as a girl whenever she visited.Unfortunately, the pleasant stroll through the fields was interrupted byan abrasive voice from a good distance away: "Hey look! Taylor thinkshe's a girl, and he's holding hands with a girl."Reese and Taylor both turned toward the voice. . I stayed faithful to your memory. I stayed faithful to mybeautiful boy, to the beautiful man he would have become. I tried not todream that you were still alive, I secretly ventured in disguise back tothe village, and no-one had heard from you. But much as I did not wantto delude myself that there might be a hope that you were still alive, Icould not give up that hope. No man, however handsome or charming,however powerful, friendly or wise could ever hold a candle to yourmemory. My days were. If we could get it out of the clearing, anyone happening on it would think they’d found just another old campsite and move on. It took a few hours of determined searching but I managed to mark a path that would require only cutting down saplings and very small trees, while avoiding ditches, sink holes and large boulders. The tools I’d grabbed included an ax, pick-ax, and shovels, so I marked the trees in the way and set about cutting them down.By the time I had the trail cut in, everything was. It was easy to convince herself to go along, not just because he asked her to, which made everything easy, but also because she secretly enjoyed some of the things he seemed to be pushing her into. Blushing a bit, she could not stop thinking on what she had just done in the shower. A month ago, she would have been scandalized to think she would have done that to anyone, much less do so willingly. That she had done so to her brother out of all the boys she could have chosen was the most.