” As I put the beers in a paper bag the girls changed into tank tops and shorts. Then telling her parents we should be back by 1, they wished us a g...ood night and we headed out the back door.Before we left Kim grabbed some chips and two large blankets and we took the ranch truck. The pond was not really a pond, as much as a watering hole that was built on the edge of their family farm. It actually ran across the property line between their farm and the one to the North, and both farmers. And he wanted to holler out loud that he didn't like any of this,that he was a man, but that wouldn't carry much weight considering how helooked and was acting. He licked his fingertips and ran them over hisneatly formed eyebrows, before trailing his fingers down his neck. Mariesummoned him to her with a wave of her hand. He danced toward where shesat, his mind racing to try to figure out exactly what she would want tohire him for. When he was right in front of her, still moving like. He was intriguing and he wanted to get to know her – not just intimately. It was something about her that drew him close to her. He’d seen her many times as she was going to church, hanging out with her girls, as she left on vacations, but mostly as she left for work. He’d seen her smile and laugh, He’d seen her exhausted at the end of a workday and after she returned home from her workout classes. He knew she was nice, because she was always cordial, but tonight he discovered that she was. " Nicky choked out. 'Omigod! That's so sweet!' "What else did he say?" Nicky croaked."Well, I suggested that maybe we could all go, and he seemed interested in that ... Hey, you know? Maybe if Eddie Ray had a boyfriend ... Yeah. Then he couldn't take him to Homecoming, huh?" No," Nicky gasped, "he couldn't..." Nicky broke down totally at that point, sobbing."Oh. OH! Holy Shit!" Lucy eyed Nicky in surprise. "I'm pretty slow, huh? Come here..." She tucked the slight boy against her and let him.