And we worked the next year, the following year and so on. Ten years later, I'd managed to accumulate close to 90 credits of online classes, but Jack ...adn't taken any. He was still working on the same farm, but now an assistant foreman overseeing three other workers. I'd started my own daycare business out of our small two bedroom home.The bills seemed to never stop, and our bank account was constantly in jeopardy of being deficient. Jack came home one evening and it was clear he'd had a few. Especially this!" All I want to be able to do is be myself whenever I'm not in school dad,that's all! Nothing else is going to change! I like the same colors, thesame sports teams, the same foods, everything is the same except for whatI'll be wearing!"It was hard for dad to understand, but at least he was trying, he didn'tthreaten me, scream and shout or anything like that. But I didn't expecthim to. He's a lawyer. He's trained to be really cool under pressure. Hisresponse was more than I. Evening was setting in, and we had plans to go a lightshow (fireworks) about an hour away from the house. Itold Jenn to get ready to go so we could get there withplenty of time to kill. Tom also wanted to pick up somefireworks because he couldn’t get them where he lived.When Jenn came out of the bedroom I knew that she wasgoing all out. She was wearing a denim mini-dress thatwas cut low on top and hung loose on the bottom. Thebottom of the skirt came down about an inch below thebottom of. He spoke quietly, trying to reassure her, as he gently put his water bottle to her lips then tenderly persuaded her to eat some of the vittles he had been carrying. For the next few days he visited her daily. Fetching food, some of his queen's clothes, sheets and blankets. They both had so many questions for each other that they hardly knew where to start. He couldn't get out of his mind the thought that this girl, Talia, believed she was the daughter of a long dead Count whose estate.