"I knew that you knew me too well to keep fooled, but I was hoping to make it until the end of school." Well!" she huffed, for lack of anything better...to say at the moment. She had been expecting a lot more resistance and my apparent total capitulation threw her completely. "Of course you couldn't fool me."My confession of sorts had disarmed her some, and derailed her charge down the warpath, as I'd hoped it would."I can't say anything more for now," I said in a conspiratorial tone. "It'll have. Neither Tom nor I had any at this point and George continued. “So far everything I’ve talked about assumes that the comancheros make their attack in broad daylight, sometime after all the men are at work.“Miguel, Maco, Yolanda and I have talked about this at length and based on the reports from the group you rescued last year, none of us think this is the way it’s going to happen. Instead, we expect them to follow the same pattern they’ve used successfully so far.“They will ride in, in small. Ace was tiring of her blue funk and had begun avoiding her. This made everything worse for Leila and she resented his lack of empathy. “It’s your fucking fault!” she would yell into the phone when he’d make some excuse to be somewhere else. “You’re with that little bitch again, aren’t you? Fucker! It’s your fault this all happened to me! Please, Ace. I want to come over. Be there for me, why can’t you fucking be there for me when I want you, I did it for you!” None of this made Ace feel any. The doorbell rang about 10 am and Mother walked to the door to answer it.We weren't expecting guests today and I was still dressed a bit peculiarthis day. I started walking up the stairs so whoever was here wouldn'tsee me dressed like this. Mother called to me to come to the door as Ihad a visitor. "Mother, I can't come to the door like this!" I pleaded."Don't be silly, Jamie, your friend Tammie is here to visit." "You don'twant to make her feel unwelcomed, do you?" Mother asked.I was hiding on.