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Chapter 9: Back Home on the Farm

When he got home Denise was no where to be found and he got nervous. He searched the whole house. She was nowhere in the house; he looked out by the pool and saw her sitting in a lounge chair, it was getting dark but he could see her reading. He went down towards the pool and went up behind her and she must have not heard him coming because when he touched her shoulder she jumped out of her skin.

When she saw him she laughed. "Frank! You scared me. And made me lose my page!"

"What are you doing out here?" He asked smiling.

"Well, I was reading Gone with the Wind."

He laughed "You're obsessed."

"Frank!"

"What?" He asked laughing.

"This book is every girl's life!"

He smiled. "Scoot over." He said. She did and gave him room to sit.

He sat and pulled her close and kissed her and one of the boys that lived in the apartment next to theirs whistled. Denise broke the kiss and blushed.

He laughed. "Don't stop on my account." He said from his balcony. "Continue making out like teenagers."

"She is!" Frank yelled back.

His eyes widened "Oh dang, Frank you cradle robber!"

"She's a very perfect eighteen."

Denise was blushing like crazy, she got up and jumped into the pool, soaking Frank in the process.

"Thanks man!" Frank shouted up to the boy.

The boy laughed. "Anytime dude!" He said and went back inside his apartment.

Frank went towards the pool and jumped in with Denise. She was on the farthest end away from him, her face was still bright red. He swam towards her and popped up in front of her. He wrapped his arms around her.

Denise gasped. "Stop creeping up on me." She laughed.

"Can't resist you." He said leaning in to kiss her again.

Denise wrapped her arms around him and pulled in as close as possible and put her leg around his waist so he had to hold her up to keep her from going underwater. He was surprised that she would make that move.

She almost went straight under and pulled away just in time. "Frank!"

"What? He laughed.

"You almost caused me to drown!" She said.

"You know I would never do that baby. Can't think when I'm with you."

"Yeah I've figured that out." She laughed.

He wrapped his arms around her again and brought her back to kiss him. She turned her cheek though so he couldn't kiss her and laughed

"Can't kiss you anymore?" He said trying to copy her sad face.

"Nope." She teased and mocked his sad face, hers was way cuter.

He leaned in and did it anyways. She immediately got lost in the kiss and id what she did earlier only this time Frank held her up so she wouldn't fall. To make sure he leaned her against the wall. Someone behind them cleared her throat. Denise looked up to see Ann-Taylor. She only smirked and pulled Frank back into their passionate kiss. Frank pulled away and Denise couldn't help but feel a little upset.

"Anne,what are you doing here?" He asked.

"That's all I get? An 'Ann, what are you doing here?' Oh Frank."

"I'm sorry." He said getting out of the water. "It's just that I'm surprised you're here."

Once he did she went towards him. She put her arms around him. "Frank, you know I just came to say hello."

He pulled away just in time before she kissed him. "Whoa, I have a girlfriend." He said looking at Denise.

"Hmm, pulled away last second huh Frank?"

He didn't know what to say, so he said nothing.

She came and whispered in his ear. "I know you want me Frank. You might have played around with other girls but you always come back to me."

Denise was watching all this from the pool, she felt sick.

"Finish up with her. Like you always do. You know where I'm staying." She whispered as she walked away.

Frank was stunned for literally five minutes, he turned around to see Denise getting out of the pool and running back to the apartment. Once Denise got there she called a cab. They only thing she owned was her book, which was at the pool and the dress she came there with. Frank went after her and when the cab got there he wouldn't let her leave.

"Dee, baby don't do this." He begged. "She doesn't mean anything to me!"

Denise smacked him. She didn't even bother saying anything to him. She ran down to the pool, got her book and got in the cab. She was going to go home. Back to Catalina. Frank felt like he'd just lost a huge piece of his heart, because he did.

When Denise got home it was pouring and Catalina was standing on the porch in all her elegance. Denise cried her way up the steps and looked at her. "Another woman, huh?"

Denise nodded and sobbed harder. She nodded and for the first time in years Denise laid her head over on her mother, she'd not done that in years.

Catalina hugged her and Denise just fell into her embrace. "You will go to your uncle's. I will go with you." She said. Denise hadn't noticed that all of Catalina's bags where packed and outside.

"What?" She asked looking around. "What's going on mamma?"

"We are going to my home."

Denise only nodded. "I hate him mamma." She sobbed.

She nodded. "This is the second time this has happened Denise."

"I know." She said, she was hysterical. That motherly instinct was kicking in full force no mater how hard Catalina tried to fight it and be tough.

Catalina held her tight. "I will make all this better. Smile. Happy girls are the prettiest."

Denise tried to smile, but she just couldn't, her heart was broken, that much was clear. Catalina had the Louis Vuitton luggage brought out to her car. Sue and Beth came out and hugged their sister. All four women got in the car and drove away. Denise finally calm herself down then just looked out the window as they drove off post. Beth held onto Denise's hand, but neither sister could say anything.

"Tell Mamma the details." Catalina said after a while.

"That girl Ann-Taylor, you know the girl he was engaged to?" She said. "Well, she showed up while Frank and I were in the pool and he got out and she put her arms around him and tried to freaking kiss him, and he didn't pull away until the last second!"

"That bastard!" Yelled Sue.

"The fact that he didn't kick her out right away only meant he still had feelings for her." Said Catalina.

She only sighed and looked back out the window. "Please don't say I told you so."

Catalina didn't, "On the brighter side. I have invited your little girly friends to come with."

She only nodded, she was torn apart and it seemed like she'd never be happy again.

"Give this a great six months and you'll be the bell of the ball again. Oh honey, I will throw parties, it will be great."

She nodded and for the first time in years Denise laid her head over on her mother, she'd not done that in years

Catalina didn't remove it, but she kept talking. "Violet, Annabel, and Pearl will be there. How wonderful to have a bunch of your girlfriends there. "

She smiled. "Can't wait." She lied.

Catalina smiled.


Frank woke up the next day after having spent the night with Connor trying to drink the pain away. He went straight to Colonel Branch's office.

The older man looked.. almost sad. "They're gone." He said.

Frank nodded.

"Catalina left to" he said

Frank knew that the difference between him and the colonel was that the colonel never hurt Catalina.

"It's my fault." Frank told the older man.

The Colonel raised his eyebrow. His expression was the same as Denise's. "Is it?"

He nodded. "My ex showed up last night and I fell into her trap and hurt Denise."

The older man smiled. "I found that whatever a woman withholds from a man is what hurts him. In one way or the other. You're lucky is was your lustful desires. And at least with your ex cured you of that."

He sighed. "How do I get her back?" He asked.

"Frank, you know what I wanted so badly, and will want till the day I die?" Frank knew where this was heading, and he didn't think he'd like the end of that story.

"What?" He asked.

"I want Catalina to love me. She never one has said to me she loves me. I wanted her love so badly I'd do anything to get it. Eventually, I had an affair, in hopes I guess to show myself that she cares. Her response when she found out was. "Good, that way I won't have anymore babies. Just make sure you and your whore are never seen and my reputation will be fine." "

Frank was shocked. "Wow... Colonel I had no idea."

"Deployment helped, but Catalina befriended the woman. And once when I returned Catalina was there and told me 'your whore will be at the hotel when the kids are sleep you go.'"

His eyes widened "She's crazy!"

"No, she just never loved me."

"Them, why stay with her this long?" He asked.

"Hope, hope that she can love me."

"Then fight" He said. "Fight for her."

"No son. I have been in the army long enough to know a losing battle."

"We'll I haven't." He said getting up.

Randall leaned back and pulled out divorce papers and threw them onto the table.

"She filed for divorce?!" He asked in shock.

"Yup. Came home to my daughters gone and every maid dismissed." He said.

"Go after her." Frank said.

"How?"

"Find out where she is and go after her." He said. "If you love her don't let her do this."

"I have work, and a letter saying she's done with me."

"Take off work and so what if you think for one second that you still love her show her that."

Randall handed him the letter.

Dear Randall,

I'm sorry for being the one who brings a divorce into our families but I want out of this marriage. I never even wanted in. I am sorry you wasted years on me. Continue your affairs, because I know you got some happiness with them. I thank you for my three amazing daughters. I want nothing from you as you can see all it needs is your signature.

Catalina H

Frank was shocked. "She's lost her mind!"

"And she already got rid of my last name."

He sighed. "I'm sorry Randall."

"I lost my wife and my daughters."

"You will never lose your daughters." He said. "Those girls love you."

"I am sure they all chose to leave with their mother."

"They will come back, especially Denise." He said.

"Maybe, serves me right. Catalina leaving me." He said getting out a bottle of whisky.

Frank took it from him. "Don't go down that road."

"Why? She'll never love me." He said reaching for the bottle.

Frank held it back. "Randall I'm telling you to go after her." He said. "Right now get your ass up and go after her."

"If you only knew." He said opening it and pouring himself some.

He rolled his eyes. "Okay if this is how it's going to be fine." He said.

"Son, you let the only woman who will ever come close to loving you go for a night with your ex."

"No I didn't!" He said "I only hugged her, I pulled away when she tried to kiss me"

"If you're going to jail might as well have done a crime."

"What?" He asked

"Frank, walk away now. Go to a bar. Re-meet your ex."

Frank wasn't giving up, he had to get Denise back.

"I deploy tomorrow."

"Well then you have about eighteen hours to find her and get her back."

"I leave at four in the morning."

"Damn the army." He said under his breath.

"Suicide mission. I swore to God that I'd love her and cherish her, love only her, till death do us part. I will stick to it." He said as he shoot down the drink.

Frank smiled. "Good."

"So let death do us part." He said taking a lighter and setting the papers to flames.

"Randall what the hell are you doing?!"

"Not sighing those is what I'm doing." He said as he threw them into the trash along with the letter.

Frank laughed. "You'll get her back?"

"I don't plan on returning." He said as he poured another drink.

"Wait, you're leaving the army?" He asked.

"I mean the mission."

"Randall you are crazy." He said. "You'll be back."

"It's a suicide mission."

Frank rubbed his forehead. "Okay you have lost what little mind you had left." He said.

He chuckled. "I wont sigh papers, and she wants out I'll give it to her in the only way appropriate."

"By getting yourself killed and leaving your daughters without a father?" He asked. "Denise is about to go over the edge right now, what is losing her father going to do to her?"

"What do you care about her? You left her."

"I made a mistake and I plan on fixing it." He said.

"How?"

"I don't know yet but I will." He said.

He took another drink. "Guess I'll see you in Hell when you get there."

Frank shook his head. "Whatever there's no getting through to you." He said leaving the office slamming the door behind him.


Catalina was happier than a June bug on a tomato plant. She had pants on for the first time in a while, cowgirl boots, a plain white shirt, and a whip in her hand. She was always happier on the Hacienda and more active then a bee. Catalina always took it upon herself to take complete charge of the lands when she was there. Joe knew better then to not, not let Catalina run the Hacienda when she was around.

Denise had to laughed. "She scares me with that thing constantly in her hand."

"She was riding with a whip on her hand as soon as she learned how sit on a horse right." Joe said.

Denise laughed as she walked to the stable to get her horse, she remembered bringing frank here. She knew she shouldn't have, this once haven now seemed tinted with him. She just walked back to the house.

"Denise. Get changed, I want you to go check on the new crops. I am going into town to do a little business. Joseph will be checking on the cattle if you need him." Catalina said as she was putting on her gloves and hat. "Your sisters will be with him."

"I want to go home." She said.

Catalina looked at her as if that was the most selfish thing she has ever heard. "Denise, I need you honey. I count on you here." She said putting a motherly arm around her.

Denise pulled away. "No I want to go home." She said.

"Denise. We just got here." Catalina said. She was trying so hard to whip her across the face. She went and threw herself on the bed. Catalina came in. "Honey, you know why we left. I want you to heal."

"I can't heal here." She said. "I want to go back to him."

"I know you do. But he hurt you, he went picked that woman over you." Denise knew in her heart frank still loved her. "If he loved you he would have told her to leave as soon as he saw her. But instead he hugged her."

"No, he didn't mean it" She said.

"How didn't he mean to hug her? He hugged her because he wanted her."

Denise started to cry again.

Catalina held her. "Heartbreak hurts now but you'll move on honey. Cry it all out now."

Denise sobbed her heart out for what felt like hours and hours.


Catalina left to do business and held her when she got back she saw Denise had finished her crying she changed and went to work.

"Honey I'm so proud of you." She said getting out of her car and hugging her.

Denise took her mother's hug. The two went back into the house and upstairs. Denise took her mother to her room and sat her down.

"Mother why can't I be alone and not think of him?" She asked.

"He used you as his play toy. You need me here honey."

"Why do I still want him?" She asked.

"Because you like him so very much, that's why hurts that he didn't feel the same with you."

"I don't want to be here." She said.

"Why not? You love it here."

"Not anymore." She said "I brought him here."

At this Catalina had literately fainted. Denise was shocked she shook her mother. Catalina's heart was beating but the woman fainted. Denise ran to get her uncle. Joe called a Dr. and later sat with Denise to ask her about what happened.

"I told her I brought Frank here and she fainted." She explained. She felt awfully guilty.

"You didn't."

She nodded, she wanted Frank now more than ever, she was scared.

"Why did you tell her that? You know she cares more about this place then her own life."

"Because I told her I wanted to go home and she asked me why." She replied.

"No wonder she fainted."

She sighed. "I really want to go home, but I'm scared." She said crying again.

"Your mother fainted and you want to go home?" Her uncle asked her in shock.

She only nodded. "I'm the reason she fainted. This is all my fault."

"Denise you owe it to her to stay here."

"I don't owe her a damn thing!" She shouted.

"Don't snap at me. I helped you when you had nowhere to go!"

"Go to he'll!" She snapped.

"Denise what's wrong with you?"

Denise didn't say anything she grabbed a vase and threw it. She went to her room and cried herself to sleep.

This went on for a week, Denise was sick over this but she kept trying to work the pain away. Whenever she though of Frank she would hit the horse harder, spend more time branding the calves, and angrily pick weeds like a field hand. She would be the last one to go to bed at night and the first one to wake up.