"I miss seeing you, Jimmy. I don't like it that you seem to have forgotten about me. I've been taking your advice. I think that everything is all righ...t again, but I won't really know until I get a chance to try being with a boy again." That's good, Connie. I'm glad to hear it." Aren't you going to ask me out now?" I will, but I still want to wait, just to make sure that you've adjusted to things okay." What do I do in the meantime, Jimmy? I can't just be staying in every weekend. My parents. “No Frankie,” I replied condescendingly. “This here’s the river we’re about to cross.”“Don’t look like no river I ever seen,” Frankie joked again but this time got nothing for his efforts.I ignored this asshole and carried on with my lecture.“Here’s the river,” I pointed to the two lines with my twig. “And here’s where our cattle are now.” I drew an X below the two lines. “And this is where we want ‘em to be when we’re all said and done.” I drew a circle above river and another two lines. "Start the car. Put the windows up," she orders, and I do. I flip the air conditioning onto high, though it doesn't work worth a damn. I don't want her to be turned off by my perspiration.Almost immediately she slides across the seat to me and breathes in my ear. "What's your name, cupcake?"I mumble that it's Kacey. She doesn't tell me hers, but repeats mine over and over in my ear, then licks my neck. I can feel goose-bumps the size of golf balls rise along my skin, and I sigh softly, not. Tony has figured out Christy was headed for your house. I just drove by your place and it’s being watched,’ I said to my sister. ‘Oh God, no. This is all my fault,’ Christy said beginning to cry. ‘No it’s not your fault. You didn’t know this would happen. You are the victim here. This is all Tony’s fault. But this means that we’re going to have to leave here. It will probably be only a matter of time that they find out that Jill has a brother and they might come here looking for either of you,’.