Chapter 8

Mom showed up at the cabin about 10 the next day. When she came in the cabin she said “hi Megan, I expected everybody to be out with the cattle. Are you here by yourself?”

“Yah mom, Jake and Kelley left around 6:30 this morning. I wanted to wait and talk to you before we joined them.”

“Sure Megan, what’s on your mind?”

“I don’t really know how to say this, but here goes; I think I’m pregnant.”

“I’m not really surprised honey.”

“You knew about Jake and me?”

“Sweetie, what kind of mother would I be if I didn’t know what was going on in my own house. I don’t know when you two started, but I know when you came back towards the end of March you, we going at it hot and heavy. You do know you are not very quiet?”

“Yes, I know I make a lot of noise, but I just can’t help it. You aren’t mad at me?”

“No, I’m not mad or upset; I’m going to be a grandma. Okay, so tell me when your last period started.”

“I think it was on Feb. 16th mom.”

“Wow, then you’re over 3 months. That means your due around the end of November. Has Kelley missed any of her periods?”

“She has missed two. She said her last one was about a week before we brought the cattle up.”

“Looks like she has a baby in the oven as well. Takeoff your shirt and let me see. Oh honey, that’s a beautiful little baby bump you have going. And your breasts are coming in fast. It looks like you could make milk any day. Has Jake been suckling on you a lot?”

“He sure has, and Kelley has been helping him. I cum from just being suckled on and Kelley does too.”

Why don’t you get dressed and we will head on out to see your brother and sister?”

“Okay mom, but I can’t button my pants.”

“Take this rubber band, run it through the buttonhole and loop it back over the button. It doesn’t appear you have been wearing a shirt so you might as well leave it off.”

“Thanks mom. I love you.”

As mom and Megan came riding up Kelley poked me in the side and pointed. “Megan doesn’t have her shirt on so I’m taking mine off too. Mom must not be too mad.”

“Well Kelley I don’t see a bump in your tummy yet, but your breasts are filling out nicely. Megan and I had a good talk and it sounds like the both of you are pregnant. The four of us need to have a family discussion. Do you want to wait till tonight, or we can set under some trees now?”

The three kids looked at each other and decided now was as good as any: no since in putting it off. They rode to an area where they could watch the breeding taking place and sat in a circle under a huge oak tree.

Mom started off telling us she wasn’t upset, but rather thrilled she was going to be a grandmother and then she began on our family history.

Our great-great grandfather and one of his sisters ran away from the family farm in Virginia, when he was 15 and she was 14, and came to the area we now live in. They started a cattle ranch and built the house your grandfather and grandmother live in today. They lived together as man and wife and produced three sons and eight daughters. The two youngest, which were girls, died of cholera.