Summer dance

* not the real names

My brother has always been smart. He also could lie a whole lot better then I could. Every summer my cousins *Jim and *Peggy would come up from California and spend part of the summer with us.  They had lost their dad when they were really small and they loved coming to the farm.

My dad always let us each have a building for a club house every summer.  This summer *Peggy and I had an old garage and the boys had a small trailer house.  The garage set right by the driveway, the trailer set up behind the garage past the raspberry bushes. We usually slept in our club house.

One Saturday night we wanted to have the neighbor kids down for the evening. My mom was exhausted and dad had to work and then go bale hay.  Mom said we could have them down as long as everyone went home at 10.  Mom went to bed and we were having a blast on the lawn. Tumbling, dancing and just being goofy.

10pm came and no one wanted to stop. *Jim and my brother said that mom was asleep and dad would not be home until around 10am when it got to dry to bale hay so no one would know when we went to sleep.

Sounded like a good idea to us. We continued to goof off and have fun when all of a sudden we heard my dad’s pickup.  We lived at the end of a county road and you could hear a vehicle a mile away and you also got where you knew the sounds of a vehicle. The neighborhood boys piled in the car and took off out the driveway with their lights off. My dad was very strict when he said something he meant it and they were scared. All of us ran like mad towards our bedroom club houses.

My dad saw a dark car come flying out the driveway with no lights on and turn left down where there are no houses and he took off in hot pursuit.  The boys were doing their best to out run him in their old car. At 14 they were not near the driver he was and he got close enough to recognize the car.  As soon as he saw the car he knew what was going on and he stopped and came home mad as a hop.

He came to our garage and we were laying there pretending to be asleep. He grabbed the covers and gave them a big yank and there we were dressed with our shoes on. The look on our face told him all he needed to know. He said “girls you are grounded for 3 weeks, no horses, no swimming, nothing!”

He then proceeded to go towards the trailer where the boys were. *Peggy and me snuck outside and listened. He yanked their covers off! We hear “I’m sorry boys, the girls have been up to some mischief you guys go back to sleep”

We were wondering, “what the heck?” What in the world happened that they did not get in trouble.

Dad came back out and we huddled against the wall where he couldn’t see us. As we were turning around to head back to bed still wondering what happened we heard a noise and looked up and here comes the boys in their underware getting their clothes and shoes out of the raspberry bushes where they had thrown them as they ran to their quarters.

The next couple of weeks were hard as they boys would go to the swimming hole and smirk at us as they went.  We were so mad as we had said we needed to go to bed and they were the ones that said to keep going and yet we were the ones in trouble.  We just had not thought it through, we were just running to get in bed, thinking if we could get in bed we would be safe.  BOYS!   We were mad enough but they rubbed it in all the time we were grounded. They were so smug about it you wanted to tell or kill them……well maybe beat them up but some kind of damage.