Bill had always been nice to me so it was worth the chance. I was only four months along and I didn’t want another abortion. The emotional consequen...es of the last one had been difficult.“Hey Bill, will you take me out to dinner. I’ll pay.” It worked. We had a good time and he asked me if I’d like to go to a concert two days hence. I jumped at the chance.When he returned me home I put on my best show and invited him in for a drink. I wasn’t supposed to drink but had some wine to serve him. We. The word ‘chew’ woke Lillian’s stomach which growled from a pent-up demand and her thoughts tossed aside her brother’s wild idea as food entered center stage. ‘Girdy and me are goin’ to eat peach cobbler tonight. Momma promised and I’m so hungry, I could swallow a horse apple,’ Lillian blurted out, brightening at the thought of her and her best friend digging spoonfuls of sweet peaches and sugared crust from the white porcelain bowls. Ben reined the gelding over to save a foolish rooster. I wanted to get to know you better because... well because I like you... a lot," she said.Tyler had to pause to take this all in. Krystal Smith, the head of the junior booster club and the most popular girl in the junior class liked him, a sophomore who didn't even have any sophomore friends! It not only broke the hierarchy protocols, but it didn't even make sense! By all rights, she should look at him like something you scrape off your shoes to keep from getting the carpets dirty!"Tyler?" she. Neither did the soreness or tenderness of her breasts or the battles with fatigue she sometimes waged. Brad doted on her as much as he could afford to during this time, that and his work duties combined to make him one busy man. ‘Bless his heart’, she would often think to herself, because he didn’t know yet. He would, though, in due time. Before he, or anyone else for that matter, would know, she thought it prudent to see a specialist to make sure there were no issues and to learn everything.