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Willadean, to avoid her father, spent that previous night at Elaine's house.
Read 'Women I knew Willadean' before this for the earlier story.
The following afternoon, Elaine was sitting on the Buick running board when I came out of the gym after football practice. Elaine, also eighteen, was described as a hot piece of ass that no one in our group of friends had ever even suggested that they fondled; because there were no rumors even of anyone having dated her.
I obliged her, and off we went to take her home. As we drove up her driveway, a string of cattle trucks was leaving full of what looked to be mature beef cattle. She said her dad had sold them in the field to a new meat processor for a premium price and that her mom and dad would be gone by now as they were flying to Hawaii for a two-week vacation.
We parked my Buick in the tractor shed and went into the barn to see who was around, and finding no one, we went to the ranch house and found no one home. There was a note on the kitchen work counter and an envelope with cash.
Elaine sat on a stool and counted the money first. The total was two hundred in small bills, with a slip of paper that she read and folded into her pocket without a word.
She turned on her stool and asked, "When will you need to be home?" as she knew I had a string to milk every day.
"About five-fifteen is as late as I should be started milking those four hundred tits."
"Can you have a serious discussion with me, Dale, a conversation that will be between you and me and no one else?"
"Yes."
"I have known you for sixteen years, Dale. I have never heard you gossip, so I will trust you with this secret. But, it needs to remain a private sharing."
I replied, "Tell me, and I will tell you if I can keep the secret." I laughed a little and then said seriously, "Elaine, I couldn't hurt you that way after all these years of being friends. I will keep my mouth zipped."
"Oh, good," Elaine said. Then she continued.