……….. “You two have meet?” Jessi spluttered
“Oh we’ve all met her” One of the guys on the horses, I looked at him
“You mean you gave me crap this morning” I stepped down from the porch and leant on the side of my car opposite all of them. Jess was frowning
“You boys were looking at her ass weren’t you?” Jessi huffed “Not everyone is as easy as some of the girls round here when you boys bat those damn lashes” she put her hands on her hips
“You giggle when we do” the same guy on the horse winked at Jessi causing her to turn beet red
“Y’all shut up” She grabbed another bag from my trunk and stormed into the house
“Chase that’s still my sister” Blake shot him a look “Stick to the girls in town” Chase wheeled his horse round and kicked it into a gallop causing a dust storm. I closed the trunk of the car. “So you’re working here then?” Blake looked back at me
“Well duh” Jessi walked back out and stood next to me “why do you think she’s putting her things in the Ol’ house”
“I know she’s got a tongue in her mouth why don’t you go do some chores and let me talk to her”
‘Because you’re an ass” Jessi couldn’t help but smile at her brother
“Maybe because you call me the Ice princess I don’t want to talk to you” I walked up the steps on to the porch again
“Hey Megan come to the house when you’re done and I’ll show you round some more” Jessi laughed “You boys need to get your work done before Momma sees you slacking off”
“You done what you were supposed to” One of the guys laughed at her
“I did all mine while you guys were in town I get the afternoon to show Megan around” she bragged
“You girls should go to the creek and swim water I amazing today” Blake ran his hand over my car “Heats only getting worse”
“You been in there?” I looked at him
“We just rode back from the top trail and it looked to damn good out there” he nodded
“Well maybe later” Jessi elbowed him “Momma wants to give a few things to Megan”
“Well we’re all heading there tonight for a while” Blake started to walk toward the barn
“Excuse my brother and the others they tend to think all women want a cowboy” she sighed
“Oh I’m not looking for a guy?” I shrugged
“You’re not looking for a girl are you?” She wrinkled her nose at me making me laugh
“No, when I do want some it’s guys only” I nudged her with my arm
“Bad relationship?” She cocked her head at me.
“Something like that yup” I pushed my hands into the pockets of my shorts.
‘Sorry I didn’t mean to be nosey” she fidgeted
‘It’s okay things are still a little… difficult” I took a deep breath “so how about we go back and see your Mom and let me find out more of what I need to do”
Okay” she nodded “Unless you want to unpack your things”
“It can wait it was a long trip coming here I just want to stretch my legs more”
“Well that e can do” she laughed as I closed the door to my little home for the foreseeable future.
We both walked back through the barn the guys from earlier were washing down the horses they’d ridden and bringing in others from the fields there was a few side glances as we went through but nothing was said. We came out the other side and Blake was leaning on the outside of the barn on his cell phone
“Come on we’re all going swimming tonight… well it’s hotter than the devils ass in the middle of August that’s why… Bull… you know you want to… Well I can come get you around eight… no bathing suit it required it’s a bunch of us… well maybe later it could be optional” Jessi groaned and Gibbs slapped him as we walked behind him “Ow Damn it Jessica”
“Well what do you expect if that’s who I think it his” he glared at her and flicked her the finger she smiled and looked away from him. He looked at me, I felt like he was weighing me up. “Jack ass” she muttered as we walked round the pool by the main house
“I take it you don’t like his girlfriend?”
“Girlfriend… more like the town bike. She’s humped everything male and on two legs” she literally ground her teeth “Now she’s getting her fake tits and overly manicured nails into my brother”
“Well he must like her” Jessi stopped and faced me
“Blake likes the chase, and Blake likes the sex” she shuddered at that “Let’s just say he’s not met the woman that can satisfy his wants and reign him in… and he goes for the wrong airhead type and it drives me crazy” She rubbed her hand over her face “Sorry I’m just really close to all of my brothers and they all were the same way till they met the right women… And Blake’s not going to do that stuck here in Wimberley” she looked sad “Neither of us are”
“You want to leave here?”
“I tried that” she sighed “didn’t work out that well”
‘Where did you go?”
“School in Dallas for business” she put her hands in her pockets and scuffed her feet as she walked
“And you’re home for the summer?” I felt like I was prying asking theses questions because when she’d asked me about my life I’d shut her down.
“No for a long time” She took a deep breath “I got mixed in the parting and drinking and got engaged to some jackass, that got me pregnant half way through my freshman year” I felt my eye brows almost reach the top of head “Then he cheated on me with my roommate and her sister so I came home” we’d reached the steps of the house. “So I came home” she walked up the steps into the house
“Hey” she turned and looked at me “I’m sorry for prying”
“It’s okay it’s not really a secret, well some of the older ladies in town were shocked because I was unwed and pregnant but” she shrugged “I Lost the baby right after he was born” I felt like I wanted to be sick at the sheer pain on her face “I guess something’s weren’t supposed to be” she pushed open the door “Momma, Megan wants to talk to you” she called out rubbing her hand to wipe away the tears on her cheeks “excuse me” she literally ran for the stair at the far side of the room and took them two at a time…………
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