Story edit by Romantesist
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Across the wide flat land, Lars recognized his pickup coming down the road trailing a plume of dust. It meant that one of his twin 18-year-old daughters was on her way to the field. The truck was a couple of miles away, so he finished the circuit, and headed the tractor to the gate in the fence. Jane arrived about the same time as he did and parked waiting for him to come over.
After climbing off the 4010, he used his ball cap to knock the dirt off himself before opening the passenger door. "Hey good lookin'" he said as he climbed in, "What'cha bring me?"
"Sandwiches," Jane replied, handing him a bag from a cardboard box containing his lunch.
"Hope you brought me sump'un sweet too!" he grinned in a sly way.
"I did," she answered, "a piece of pie."
"Umm, I was hopin' for that exact thing." Lars said, beginning to eat his ham sandwiches and occasionally taking swigs of tea from a mason jar. He looked out the windshield at the expanse of ground he had been working. He thought he probably was less than a third of the way finished planting the sorghum.
While he ate, Jane sat quietly watching a meadowlark perched on the top strand of a barbed wire fence.
Hungrily, Lars gobbled down the sandwiches and then began crunching on some celery sticks. He washed them down with the last bit of iced tea. He sighed, fishing two Winstons from a pack in the pocket of his chambray work shirt, and handed one to her. "Let's have a smoke," he said, taking his zippo out of his pants pocket.
Jane accepted the cigarette and leaned towards him for a light. He then turned the flame to his and took a long drag.
"Reach under the seat and see if you can find my bottle of whiskey," he said while expelling the smoke.
Jane rested her cigarette in the dashboard ashtray and bent down behind the steering wheel to feel around with her hand. Grasping the bottle's neck, she pulled it from beneath the seat.
Lars took the bourbon from her, unscrewed the cap and tilted it back to take a swallow, watching Jane as he did. She drew on her cigarette and turned to exhale out the open window. Sunlight caught her face and Lars could see the freckles across the bridge of her nose. She had combed her hair so a ponytail lay along the left side of her face and hung down the front of her blouse. The light reflecting off the blonde strands made them appear pale as straw.
"I've been thinking about you this morning," Lars said, giving her a sideways look. Her bosom was swelling snugly against a blouse that had fit well the summer before.
"Oh?" Jane said, in a disinterested tone.
"Yes, I was hoping you'd be the one who came down to bring me my lunch."
"Why was that?" she asked flatly.
He uttered a rough laugh, "Sitting on that tractor seat for hours vibrates my balls...makes my dick hard."
Jane knew where this was going. She opened her lips slightly and inhaled the smoke back up through her nose. It was a habit of her father's that she had unconsciously copied. Breathing out, she said acidly, "What doesn't?"
Jane stubbed out the cigarette and left it with the other butts in the tray. She peered over the steering wheel her eyes in a blank, unfocused stare.