When a troop of soldiers comes into your farm yard and tells you at the point of a sword how much they're gonna take, there just ain't much you can do...about it. Between the King and the priests, they're lucky to have enough to eat even in a good year. Say, speaking of eats, there's still some stew in the kettles. You can bed down any place there's room, and put your pony in with the herd. You ain't said yet about hiring on." Where're you headed?" On down the coast. I've got a shipment of gems. She slowly drove up to the parking area and waited as I did the same. I had really expected her to drive off, but she didn't, and waited as I went inside and got both of us a Coke. She told me to get in and she slowly drove to an innocent looking frame house just off of Hemphill on St. Louis St. Taking my hand, we walked around the back to a small cabin type garage. I must have looked puzzled because she said, Oh, This is my grandma'shouse and she lets me stay in the garage on Friday and. There will be some real hell to pay. Do you understand?” Michelle asked. “OK, mom for a couple years at least now, I've kinda been in love with Steve honestly,” I replied. “So this is been going on for a couple years now?” Michelle asked. “No. Yesterday when you two were gone at he party, somehow I finally told him how I felt,” I replied. “Well, to be fair, you showed me first,” Steve said. Then Michelle just had the weirdest look on her face. Maybe she was starting to really think it was just. I was also starting to spend time with Professor Rhineburg, who taught both the Information Theory and Topology courses. Both subjects were completely fascinating and had been of interest to me way back when. That was where I wanted to get my doctorate, and I was trying to stay in his good graces. What I was trying to do was unusual but not unheard of; he could either be a big help or put the kibosh on the whole thing!The plan was that I was going to pick her up on Friday and we would go out.