<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=112172.msg5212612#msg5212612">Quote from: Swordsman18 on 15-09-2011, 09:05:24</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">John was not sure about the trip to Serenity, it was a town that he knew nothing about and had very little access to. So going there for a vacation of sorts was not on the agenda. Just as he was little more than halfway there, he pulled a very hard U turn and went right back into the general area of town while speeding as if he was a bat out of hell as he pushed the speed of the car up to something that was close to about 90 MPH which was as we all know over the speed limit not by a little by a lot and there was this sense that this was not something that he had done for the first time. This was something that he had done multiple times.<br/><br/>So he had this control over the vehicle that had come with all of the practice that he had accrued over the while that he had been doing this as a teenager the several times he had to go stop someone from doing something that was reckless. And with the speed that he was going, getting back to town was going to take a fraction of the time that it had for them to get to where they had been on their way to Serenity. John maintained his cool throughout all of it as he sped down the highway to the town. But he did of course have to keep his eyes on the road. Which meant that he was not paying all that much attention to the woman that was sitting beside him.<br/><br/>Sukey was a good woman but he was not sure that she was going to be happy with a man that was like John. He had hoped to be that man but considering that they were now traveling away from the place that she had wanted to go he was sure that she was not going to be happy with him at all. He had a reason for what he was doing. If he took her then he was taking all of the potential support that their children were going to have for this challenge that he had given them. And to make them do it without some support was unfair. He had support when he had started working on the farm for Madison. So they deserved the same luxury.<br/><br/>He saw the welcome sign to the town that he of course passed with a bit of dust spreading all over it from the tail of the cars passing. He maneuvered his way through town without bothering to slow down since he wanted to make his way through town as quickly as he could so that neither of their children could stop him from continuing his way out of the whole place. When he saw her driveway, he dropped his speed to about 60mph and then drifted his way into her driveway with a sharp left turn that due to the nature of drifting dropped his speed down considerably as he swung into place in front of her house.<br/><br/>"You have a good day, Sukey. I did not mean to take you away from your child. I hope you will forgive me one day." John said as he opened the car door to let her out with his right foot already revving his engine that meant he was ready to speed off once more.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/><br/><br/>Sukey twisted in her seat and planted her hands on her hips as well as she could in the awkward space, glared at Mr. Klutz and then began to give him a piece of her mind. It was bad enough he'd scared the hell out of her turning around like that, but now he thought he was just going to dump her back in her own driveway without a word of explanation except for an assumption that he'd<strong>taken</strong>her from her<em>child</em>. Her boy was over thirty years old! What a ridiculous thought! ...Taken her from her child, hah!<br/><br/>"Now you calm yourself right down, John Klutz! Where on earth did ya get this idea in your head that the fully grown man who is my son needs me to be at his beck and call?! Now he's not exactly the luckiest man in the world, Lord knows that's the truth, but he is a capable boy, and I did raise him right, if I do say so myself. Besides, ain't it your own daughter who's the younger? Now I know y'all did right by her, too, so don'cha go gettin' all bent outta shape or nothin', but the poor girl is gonna be on her own for the first time ever, am I right? In addition to that your child's pregnant, and the first time for that as well! She's the one I'd say will be needin' our support, John, 'cause while my boy is capable, he don't know a danged thing about babies or birthin'.<br/><br/>Now then that that's all settled, if you don't wanna go on a trip right now then that's fine with me. We can do that some other time. But I resent you makin' the claim that's it's 'cause of my boy that you suddenly decide to whip this beautiful car around, nearly give me a heart attack, and drive like a madman back into town, 'cause I don't believe that that's the whole truth. So are you gonna tell me what exactly is goin' on in your head, or are we gonna sit here in this car all day long? 'Cause I ain't gettin' out 'til I get the whole truth. I don't think you wanna be that far from your daughter when she might need ya."<br/><br/>Sukey settled herself in the comfortable leather seat of the Mustang, squaring her shoulders and crossing her legs, with her hands folded daintily in her lap, and waited on Mr. Klutz's response. If he was paying very close attention to her, he'd see a muscle twitching in her jaw that could have been indicative of either extreme anger or a massive effort to control uproarious laughter.