The Ranch Hand

Coming Clean

Me and Beau are sitting on the blanket watching the sunset. The sky is beautiful. He's opened up to me, and I feel like he really don't know who I am. Hell, none of them do.

Beau: You ok?

Ella: Well, no I'm not. I feel like you deserve to know the truth.

Beau: The truth about what?

Ella: About me, and the real reason I'm here.

Beau: You don't have to tell me.

Ella: I really do, you only know me from what you've seen in the last week. I'm not as great as everyone thinks I am. I'm not here on vacation, my parents sent me out here. I guess I'm out here to learn a lesson.

He sits up and looks me in the eyes.

Beau: What kind of lesson?

Ella: Growing up it always seemed like I could never get anything right. I was always into something, and my parents were always there to bail me out. This time they didn't bail me out, my sister did.

Beau: Bail you out of what?

Ella: I was arrested for assault the day before I came here.

His eyes grow wide.

Beau: Now what in the world could you have done? You don't seem like the type to do anything bad.

Ella: I went out to a bar back home with some friends. A girl we use to go to school with was there. We never really got along. She made a comment on something that she knew absolutely nothing about. So, I kinda broke her nose. I even drove home like a idiot, and by the time I got there, there was a cop ready to arrest me. I spent three hours in jail, and my sister came to rescue me. My parents came over the next morning, and they were pissed. That's when my mom told me she was sending me out here. I know what you're thinking, I'm grown how in the world did they get me out here without me putting up some type of fight. They told me if I didn't come out here, then I was cut off.

Beau: Cut off how?

Ella: No more money. I would have to find a job, and magically start taking care of myself. Growing up me, and my sister never had to do anything. We always had maids to clean our house, our parents would buy us whatever we wanted whenever we wanted. They bought me a house for Gods sake. Me, and Victoria never had to lift a hand, or work for anything. Once Victoria got a little older she wanted to work, me on the other hand was ok with my parents still doing everything for me. I got so use to living like that. I would sleep as late as I wanted, go out and do whatever the hell I wanted and didn't have to worry about anything. So when my mom told me I was coming here I wasn't exactly thrilled, but I knew I couldn't make it without them. Once I got here I immediately fell in love with this place everything about this place is truly wonderful. It started to feel like a vacation instead of a punishment.

Beau: Ella, do you honestly think that makes you a bad person? Hell we have all done thing.

Ella: That's not all.