As much as she felt things were over, she still held out hope that she and Bobby could get back together. If by some miracle Bobby swept her up in a p...assionate kiss, she didn't want to subject Morton to watching something like that.She was anxiously picking at her fingernails as they waited for their bus to arrive, which caused Collette to periodically swat her hands apart."Knock that off!" said Collette after the third swat."I can't help it," said Patty irritably. "When is their fucking bus. Bein' good at it makes me sick, when I think back on it."I tried to draw him out a bit more, and he finally admitted being a SeAL in the second gulf war. I asked him if he would prefer a training post, but he declined."No sir!", he grumbled. "If there's fightin' to do, you need the most experienced people on the line. Less of our folks get killed, that way. I just hope there ain't no war. If'n there is, I'll do my part."They were worried about the farm, and what they would do about it if they. This year, as the season came around, he decided to venture out into the forest to see for himself.As luck would have it, these two met not far into the woods.“Oh! My! I thought you were a deer!” the young man exclaimed when he caught sight of the maiden carefully picking her way through the undergrowth. He marveled that she didn’t shriek or scream as the young women he knew at the castle would have.“And I thought you had been sent by my father to take me back home. He doesn’t like me out in. Otherwise, he could run like Hell for a quarter mile and stop dead, switching ends and kicking with both feet, like a mule. A pretty penny they paid for a small horse that damn near killed their only child with his one trick.They asked, warning her of the trick first, but for Missy it was love at first sight ... Charley seemed to like her in return. 12 years later, the pinto was old ... and still loved.With the price of horse meat it was looking like he was cannery bound. But she loved him;.