Vera Xavier grabbed a nearby bamboo pole and jabbed it straight at Cara Preston's face. "Cara, grab the pole! I'll pull you up!"
Cara had barely surfaced before Vera poked her back under. After a few rounds of this, Cara was bobbing precariously in the water, nearly half-drowned from Vera's little game.
Vera Xavier shouted at the top of her lungs, "Help! Somebody help! My sister tried to kill herself! She jumped into the pond!"
Hearing this from the water, Cara Preston was so furious she could have died.
Aaron Cheney was watching the whole thing from nearby. 'The woman Third Brother has his eye on is really something else!' he thought with admiration.
He waited for Vera Xavier to have her fun before he rushed out from the nearby woods and jumped in to rescue Cara. By the time Zachary Preston and the others arrived, drawn by Vera's shouts, Aaron Cheney had already carried the nearly unconscious Cara Preston out of the water.
