I knew they were not a happy couple, as I knew they slept in separate rooms. We watched a couple of boring programs, then at about 8pm, uncle Paul sai... he was going out to his music club, and would be back about midnight. He went out and left us watching TV. Mary was flicking through the channels trying to find something interesting to watch, she found a drama about a girl who had turned to prostitution, it had some very graphic sex scenes. I was sitting on the sofa, she was on an armchair. After all they were teachers in a very public place. We said goodnight and Ellie and I walked to her car holding hands. I got another kiss with a full embrace then she got in her car and drove away. I drove home thinking that Friday night was a hundred times better than the previous Friday night and that Friday night had been my best in well over a year. ‘I should accept her offer of employment as boyfriend,’ I thought. Ellie called me the next morning and asked where we were going to meet that. “Hey, Cain ... so, tell me, can I raise you now?” she beat me to the punch, making me wonder if I would get to test my new powers.“Maybe you can, if you’re able, that is. Take off your panties and put them in your mouth,” I told Erica, who jumped at the chance to do just that, “now, hike up that miniskirt and bend over that barstool for me. I’m going to fuck you tonight. Bareback, too, so don’t even think of suggesting a rubber. I’m going in freestyle.”Erica blushed a little as she indeed. "C'n y'fix it?" Gilly asked, looking down at me as I knelt in the ditch water. "Wha' happened to your face?"I smiled up at her. "Accident," I said. "Where's your horse?" Mule," said Annie. "Man stole it las' night. Jus' walked it off, jumped on 'er back and rode away. Black feller."I wondered if it had been Joe. "I doubt we can fix it," I said. "Maybe." I spent the rest of the day whittling out two new spokes and putting them down in the ditch to soak. Then I carved back the end of the axle and.