. having some fun at your sister?s expense." Rita said coldly as she folded her arms in front of her. "NOW you?re BUSTED and SO in trouble!" She conti...ued as she gritted her teeth. "You think it?s funny to mock people and make fun of the way they look?" Rita squealed pointing her finger first at him, then at Sissy. "We?ll see just how funny you think it is after tomorrow young man..." She paused."No... that?s not right. You don?t deserve to be called a young man after tonight. You have NO idea. “So you said I’m supposed to work on a solution to this problem. Based on the way you’ve laid it out, there isn’t one.”“I’ll admit that at first sight, it looks like a Gordian Knot, yet there’s one thing at this center of the triumvirate of government, business, and military. Money. It’s right there holding everything together. Money for reelection. Money for profit. Retirement money for influence. All that money is getting spent and none of it is going towards a final product: a weapon of. Casa del Agua and Casa de la Tierra will have a place to live down there when the new bunkhouse is built. It wouldn't be fair for all of us to try to bunk with them. Their parents are paying for the house and they are leasing the land from Anna. Temporarily, it would work. But we'd go crazy by fall if we didn't have a place."Jingo flicked his ears and shook all the way down his spine as I tossed a blanket over him."Don't worry. You still have a place to live either here or in the barn down. White thinks I ought to date Jenny, maybe I will ask her out."A few days later, I just "happened" to pass Miss Babbage's classroom about when Jenny's class would end, and I waited for her.Jenny told me that Jill liked the card, and thanked me for helping her find it. I really didn't help her, I told her, but ... and then I stumbled into what was on my mind."Jenny, how about a date? There are some good movies coming up, and I could get you home before it is dark."Jenny sighed, and I can still.