Chapter 13

After our morning shower Christy and I were laying on the bed holding each other, we must have dozed off until we heard a knock.

"Time for breakfast sleepy heads." Martha, Oh Shit! We were both scrambling for clothes when Christy answered,

"We'll be right out grandma." After we finished dressing Christy hugged me giggling and whispered,

"I think the cats out of the bag, grandma knows." I didn't even bother answering as we opened the door to a grinning Martha, Yep, she knows.

"Good morning Martha." She once again had me blushing.

"I hope you two are being careful." As she turned and started walking to the house it hit me,

"Ah, Christy..." I didn't get a chance to ask her as she was already catching up with Martha. I would have to talk to her later, no! I was going to have to get some rubbers. This was the second time it happened, first Dawn and now Christy. Dream or No Dream we were too young to be having babies.

When I entered the kitchen the sight of Christy and George cuddling warmed my heart, as I noticed the smile on his face. During breakfast we talked about the work that still needed to be done. It was decided Christy and I would take care of moving the irrigation then we would get George and work on her car.

The day was already warming up and by the time we finished moving the pipes and started the pump both of us had worked up a pretty good sweat. As we were making sure the sprinklers were working properly I decided to get cooled off,

"Christy are you getting warm?"

"Yea, why?" I thought I'd just show her my good idea. So I walked over to her threw her over my shoulder, then walked out to the sprinklers. Of course she was screaming and kicking, not liking my idea as much as I was. Putting her down I turned the sprinkler towards her retreating backside and got her pretty wet before she reached the other sprinkler and started returning fire.

We both looked like drowned rats by the time we decided the battle was over and started running back to the house, it was then we noticed Martha and George laughing at us and saying something about wishing they had a camera. We were drying off with a couple of towels in the bunkhouse when I decided to talk to Christy about protection,

"Um, Christy we need to get some rubbers."

"Rubbers? What for... Oh! Um, I guess we better. Where you going to get them?"

"Well, I guess you're going to have to buy some."

"ME! No way, I'd be too embarrassed, you have to get them."

"Christy I can't buy them, I'm only fourteen."

"Um, when are you going to be fifteen?"

"In a few weeks."

"A few weeks, I'm not waiting that long." With that I turned and thought I saw someone move away from the door. Oh Boy! I was pretty sure that Martha heard us talking. I just prayed George wasn't with her to hear that conversation! That would be bad. I then told Christy I would see what I could do and she replied,

"You better."

As Christy and I joined George and Martha in the workshop to start working on the car, my face heated up again as I saw Martha's grin. I decided that before too long I was going to have to have a talk with her about Christy and me.

We worked on the car installing the drive shaft, radiator, hoses, wiring and battery.

"George do you think it'll start right up?" He smiled,

"Well, it should."

We decided Christy should do the honors of starting it up first, well Christy kind of decided for us. We were all watching as she proudly inserted the key and then it started. Wow! It was so loud in that enclosed shop that we were hollering to shut it off but Christy couldn't hear us over the unmuffled roar as she gunned the engine. I finally ran over and shut it off myself.

"George we forgot the muffler."

"I guess we did Jim."

It didn't take too long, with some clamps and baling wire it was ready to test drive. George informed us it was not to be driven on the road until he got the insurance for it, so we would have to stay on the farm roads.

"Hurry up and get in Jim."

"Excited are you?"

"God yes!"

Christy carefully back out of the shop with the smiling faces of George and Martha watching, then we spent the rest of the day up until supper cruising the dirt road from the pond up to the street. It would have been boring after the first ten or fifteen times going back and forth, except for the excitement that was beaming from the driver. She was happy and seeing her that way was all that was important to me.

Supper that night was filled with Christy's excitement as we talked about her car. As we finished eating I finally had a chance to ask George for some money. I really hated to, but he had told me he was going to pay me even if I didn't want him to and that he would invest it for me.

"Um, George I was wondering if I could get a few dollars from you?"

"Well sure, you earned it. I was just investing it for you, how much do you need?"

"Oh fifty should be enough." As he was handing it to me I saw Martha's grin.

"Um, my sister's birthday is in a few days and I was going to get her a present." As he handed me the fifty he said,

"That's a pretty good present for you sister."