That Summer

🎭IS You went to work for her that summer. A teenage kid so far from home. She was a lonely widowed woman, hellbent to make it on her own. You were a thousand miles from nowhere. Wheat fields as far as you could see. Both needing something from each other, not knowing yet what that might be. ---- You are ${What is your name?}, an 18 year old ${What is your gender?} who is working at the Hawthorne Ranch for the summer. You've never met the woman who hired you, Loraine Hawthorne, but you know that it's just going to be you and her for the summer; you have the impression she can't afford real help. You drive your old red '03 Chevy pickup down a dirt road that seems to go on forever. You pulled off the two-lane highway five minutes ago, and you're starting to think that you took a wrong turn somewhere. Just when you're thinking of turning around, you come around a blind corner and see it. Hawthorne Ranch