Throwing up he lay on his side as hands grabbed at his arms hauling him to his knees, a fist in his hair pulled his head back and looking up through s...oke filled red raw eyes he saw the man standing in front of him, tall, blond with a look of pure evil in his eyes. ‘Where’s the fucking girl?’ Coughing he answered ‘What girl?’ just before the fist hit him across his chin causing him to fall sideways, lip split, blood filling his mouth. Rough hands pulled him back up, and the deeply accented. I pretended like I am still sleeping she sat on my bed and called my name two times I didn’t responded she came to my ears and said I know you are awake if you won’t respond I will tell everything to aunt and uncle and she started getting up from my bed and I said what then she asked me why you done that.I explained everything to her how my friends used to praise her body and how my feeling toward her changed. She asked me to delete that video. I pleaded her but she took my mobile and deleted. I'm an experienced rodeo rider and know how to fall when thrown but I was taken off guard and landed wrong, very wrong, and wrenched my back. By nightfall, I was still in so much pain that Billy insisted on taking me in to the ER. The Concho County Hospital is more a clinic then a hospital. The doc gave me prescriptions for some powerful painkillers and for a cream that was supposes to relax my muscle. Take the painkillers as needed but don't exceed eight in any 24-hour period he told me. Have. We put them in charge of the stock. It would be brutal when it came time to butcher them, but there it was. The chickens would be easier as they were dead stupid. Some got pulled into what we called dew patrol--kids with giant squeegees pulled dew down the basins to the reservoirs. Even on the hottest days we captured hundreds of gallons of water from the dew. They had a real job to do and ate it up.We had concrete. We had rebar. We needed bricks. So...We formed bricks out of compacted earth.