Sadie caught the stink of something familiar: hog manure. The redhead introduced herself as June and showed off her schedule. Sadie looked at hers and remembered: she had signed up for the Agriculture class.
“Well come on, the stalls an field’s this way!” June motioned.
And what a field it was: Sadie eyed rows of healthy crops and stalls packed to the brim with even healthier hogs.
“We’ll be takin’ on hosin’ off the pens, think you can handle the hogs?” June asked.
“Yer darn right I can!” Sadie hollered.
Sadie did it just like it was done back home: grappling the hogs and wrangling them into the holding pins as the rest of the girls got to work. June sprayed the hose at full blast as Jesse scrapped up the droppins and Darlene went in with the big wide scrubbin’ brush.
“Now this is mah kind of class!” Sadie smiled as they all chuckled.
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The AG students went straight to the showers and hosed off before getting on some clean clothes and sitting on a pile of hay bales to eat lunch. Sadie was there noshing on some homemade bread and chili, noticing that Jesse wasn’t eating.
“Want some?” Sadie offered.
“No frets, Sadie. My girl’s bringin’ my lunch today.” Jesse smiles.
“Yer what?” Sadie asked.
In strolled a tiny little blonde wearing a golf visor with two lunch sacks.
“Hey sweetie, how’s it going?” The golf girl said as she kissed Jesse on the spot.
Sadie suddenly realized that Jesse wasn’t the only one who was... open about her interests.
“You broke up with Jade?” June asked.
“You know them creative types, always changin’ into someone else.” The farm hand said as she sipped some tea.
“Lizzie an I decided we were gettin’ our licenses together.” June smiled. “What about your girlfriend, Sadie?”
“Oh.... uhhhh.....” Sadie blushes.
“Come on, spill! Cheerleader? Bookworm? Somethin’... spicier?” Jesse probed.
“Uhhhhhhh.....” Sadie blushed harder.
“She’s new here, remember?” Darlene asked, “Y’all haven’t even picked yet, have yah?”
“Uhhhhhhhhhhhhh.... gotta check somethin’, bye!” Sadie shouted as she slammed into somebody, opening her eyes to find herself accidentally lip locked with...