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curse me. I said I would help you, but I am not going to put up with what’s been going on around here with the two of you gone. These kids are stealing, drugging, and Lord knows what else. I’m out of here if it continues.”
    Jimmy’s trembling hands was getting worse. He felt it coming on long before this, but now it was coming on stronger. He blamed it on his nerves not knowing the real reason.
    JD and Susan knew they had to get control of the kids. They also knew they were staying out late; way past their coiffure. The arguments started the minute they came home dragging in at early morning hours only to be returned with fowl language Jimmy thought he would never hear coming from his two grandchildren’s mouths. That was bad enough, but with them being so doped up and out of control it was not just arguments anymore, but fighting. Jack started punching his dad. JD tried to hold him down to stop the punches, but couldn’t. Jack, at sixteen years old had grown in height and muscles, was a lot stronger. Then Jennie had to get into it. There was no controlling either of them. They were throwing each other in to the walls; knocking the table and chairs onto the floor. Dishes fell out of the cabinets, knocking holes in the sheetrock. “You are going to straighten out and get off those drugs you are using. No telling how you are paying for them. If you don’t, then you are not going to live here anymore.”
    “Yea, you think so, huh? You just try to put me out and see what happens to all of you.” Jimmy laid in his bed his whole body trembling.
    The stealing escalated. Clothes hanging out on the clothes-lines to dry were stolen. Lawn tools were missing. Flowers growing in neat flower beds lining the trailers were pulled out of the ground and smashed. People were getting angry. They had suffered enough; now this. Where does it end?
     
     

Chapter Ten  
    As if they didn’t have enough money problems, when the phone bill came, JD just starred at the amount of his father’s bill. Those long distant phone calls everyday to his lady friend amounted to a small fortune. He decided to call his brother, Bill.
    “Bill, I know Dad is doing everything to help me, but he keeps calling his lady friend and the charges are outrageous. If I told him not to call her anymore, he would come unglued. But think about it, if we don’t stop them from being together, and if they marry in Mississippi, then if he dies, she gets everything he has ever worked for; all his property; all his money in stock and savings, everything. We have to put a stop to them being together even to their calling each other on the phone. Any suggestions?”
    “For one thing, she wouldn’t get anything. That only counts if she had lived on his property while they were married so don’t worry about that. But I know how to stop him from calling her and breaking them up. Tell him she found someone else and this new man is living with her and if he calls he would be causing her problems with her new love. How about that?”
    “Sounds good. I’ll tell him you and Gail saw them together and they were all lovie dovie and that he moved in with her. That will do it. But what if she calls him and tells him the truth?”
    “Then we have to get word to her that Dad found someone up there that he loves and he is not coming home. How’s that?”
    “Sounds good. Let’s try that.” they said their goodbyes gloating in their mischievous scheme.
    “Dad, I have some sad news for you. I hate to tell you this because I know how much your friend, Anna, means to you.” Jimmy was paying close attention when he said Anna’s name. “She found someone new. She was so lonely being there by herself. He moved in with her so maybe you should not be calling her anymore. It might cause her problems if the new man answered the phone when you call.”
    Jimmy didn’t answer him. He just went to his room and as he laid in his bed, his whole body was shaking so much, his bed was