Wrapped around your finger - Post Malone

21

"Ok wait! You want me to do what?"

"Just shove it up there."

"You say that like I should not buy it dinner first or at least find out its name. Geeze!"

"Miss Hazel, we have seventy-five heifers to get through today. You are delaying the production line. Jack! Dad!"

Hazel watches Jack and Austin jump to attention and come over as soon as Evelyn calls them. Evelyn is no joke to them, they take her word just as seriously as an adult. She remembers being a kid - adults never took you seriously. But Evelyn is a unique kid, Hazel is fascinated by her, she talks about climates and sale demands for her calves like an adult would. The kid has more of a head on her than Hazel does.

"Jack, get Ace, Josh, and Ellis to move my mama heifers and their calves to the Morrice enclosure - we are not going to get to them today unless I run the risk of stressing them and that ain't happenin'," Evelyn instructs with so much authority. "Then get Amish and Matt to send my potential mama heifers back to the pasture and I will fix them up next week," she says. Hazel catches Evelyn's quick side eye to Austin and his small nod in approval of her instructions. Evelyn knows what she is doing but she still wants her father's guidance and acknowledgment. "Yes ma'am," Jack says and dashes off to the rest of the cowboys. "Dad, I need your help with this one," she says pointing at Hazel. Hazel wants to be offended, but she is not. In fact, she feels a little guilty for derailing their production line and now relief too that Austin is going take over from her.

"Ok, well then I will just go sit...over...why are you both shaking your heads at me?" Hazel asks. "Because you have a job to do, Miss Hazel," Evelyn says pointing at the heifer she had managed to get into a cage thing. Austin pats the heifer's ass and grins at Hazel. He is enjoying this. "Come on, Darlin', we are losing daylight," he says. Hazel looks at Evelyn hoping the desperate look on her face will garnish her some sympathy, but by the grin on Evelyn's face she can see she is shit out of luck. Hazel steps behind the heifer with Austin while Evelyn stands behind her own heifer.

"Ok, first thing. We put our gloves on," Evelyn says picking up a glove and putting it on. The glove goes all the way to her shoulder. Why? Why does it go all the way to her shoulder? "Darlin'," Austin's voice has her turning to look at him. He is watching her with a raised brow. "Oh, me too? Glove for me too!" Hazel says bending to pick up a glove and groaning as she pulls it up to her shoulder. Why does it go up to the shoulder!? "Ok, great now that's done we disinfect. Dad?" Evelyn says. Austin steps around Hazel and picks up a spry bottle then sprays the glove on Evelyn's outstretched arm. He then turns to Hazel and stretches out his own arm in indication for her to do the same, she does and he sprays her arm. "And then a little grease, nice and thick," Evelyn says as Austin holds out the large tub of lube. Evelyn dips two fingers in and pulls out a blob, wriggling her fingers until the lube is spread all over them.

Austin turns to Hazel and holds up the tub, coming in close he whispers. "Take some, you seem like the type to appreciate a little extra lubrication." Hazel's mouth drops open at his brash comment, but she can't help her smirk that follows his. She takes a glob and starts wriggling her own fingers. "You are right...tight spaces and all," she whispers back and enjoys the way Austin's eyebrows shoot up. "Ok, whispering is rude. If you two are quite done whispering to each other - we can get on with the job at hand," Evelyn says, clearly annoyed. "Apologies. Proceed, Miss Evelyn," Austin says taking a step back. "Thank you. Ok so, Hazel, hold your hand up like this," Evelyn says holding up her hand and pinching all her fingers and thumb together making a point with her hand. Hazel copies her.

"And now we plunge," Evelyn says and then Hazel watches as she carefully sticks her hand into the heifers rectum. She keeps going and going and going until her whole arm is in up to her shoulder. Hazel can only but fish mouth in shock and when she looks at Austin his grin is so broad it looks like it hurts. "But why?" is all she can manage to say. "These heifers are close to birthing and we need to make sure the calves are all lying the right way. So feel around inside. We are looking for two legs and a head, if we feel two legs and a tail the calf will be born breach which is a high-risk birth for my heifer and the calf so I mark her and I have to watch her closely till she gives birth. This girl is all good, everything is in the right place," Evelyn says and pulls her arm out. It is covered in shit.

"Ok. Your turn."

"Oh. No thank you."

Evelyn takes off her glove and tosses it into an open trash bag as she walks up to Hazel. "This is a working ranch, not a holiday spa. You need to earn your keep," she says as Hazel hears Austin chuckles from behind her. Hazel bends over so she is close to Evelyn's face. "Like father, like daughter," she says. Evelyn smiles and winks at her. "Thank you," she says and points to the heifer's ass. Hazel groans and turns to look at Austin. "Do I really have to?" she asks hoping he will take pity on her but all she gets is a smirk as he lifts the heifer's tail. She groans and takes a deep breath, this is fucking bullshit - literally. She pinches her fingers together and slowly starts to push them into the heifer's rectum. Just past her fingertips and she dry heaves. Past her wrist and she dry heaves again. It's warm...her hand should not be in here. Austin is standing to her right while Evelyn is to her left, they are both watching her and the heifer. Both seem more concerned about how the heifer is feeling than her.

By the time she gets to her elbow, she can feel the bile rising in her throat and her head feels light. She is going to get sick. Her pleading eyes shoot to Austin who is watching her carefully. "Deep breaths, darlin', you are almost there," he mumbles. She takes a deep breath and pushes in till her shoulder. Evelyn is suddenly in her ear. "Careful now. You are going to feel the baby. You are looking for two hard rods, those are the legs. Opened your hand and feel around," Evelyn instructs. Hazel takes a deep breath and steadies herself. It helps that Austin moves a little closer and places his hand on her hip. She opens her hand and feels around, it's all soft and then suddenly her hand bumps into something hard. A leg? She feels around more and feels another leg, ok there are two of them.

"O-ok, I think I feel both legs."

"Ok. Now push just a little further between the legs...what do you feel?"

"I feel...something round. Something long...not a tail...a snout maybe? Oh shit...it's a baby, like a real baby. I can feel it in there. Shit! It just moved."

Hazel does not know why but her emotions get the best of her and she finds her chest starts to burn and tears trickle down her cheeks. She does not even care for the heifers so she has no fucking idea why the hell she is crying. But she is and she does not even feel bad about it while she stands here with her hand up a cow's ass. "Something special about this land and the lives on it, huh?" Austin whispers into her ear.