Jace:
“Do you not have a family who you want to take care of?”
“You know, you are a fair young man, you would at least want to find a woman to be with.” The old woman, who was now making me call her momma, said. “I always do ask myself whether or not you are hiding from someone or something. You refuse to leave the house unless you have to, you are constantly under the sun, and there are nights when you would disappear completely. We wouldn’t be able to find you until the next morning.”
“Are you doing drugs? Is that why you are hiding?”
“I have been trying to chop this log for the past ten minutes, momma. You don’t want to allow me to do that,” I said, and she sighed.
“You are a mysterious man. We found you on the road and now it is like you are stuck to us. I love you, a lot. You c
