Once Bitten

Part Thirty

Waking up in Riley's arms felt so right, like this is where I belonged. I truely did love Chris but I couldn't continue holding on to someone I will never see again. He was my first love but I'm hoping Riley will be my last. I don't know if I'd ever be able to go through the same thing again. Riley means everything to me and I never want to lose him. He opened his eyes and stretched out kissing me, "want to go out to town today?" I got out of bed, getting dressed "sure, what do we need?" He got up too throwing on his clothes. "I think we need to get out, we've been cooped up here for almost 3 weeks now." He grabbed the bags on the dresser and tossed one to me. I hung it from my shoulder as I finished putting on my shoes, and we walked out the door. We decided to take the horses this time. We rode slowly side by side as the sun was rising. By the time we made it to town the sun was high in the sky. We ended up going to Ross to look around. We went on opposite sides of the store. I found an aisle of dresses and it made me tear up a remembering how I never got to go to prom, not even homecoming. I stood in the aisle taking off my clothes and sliding on a dress. I admires myself in the mirror at the end of the aisle and tried on others, until I found the perfect one. It was light grey and it was like a corset in the middle with darker grey and silver. It was beautiful. I changed back into my clothes and put the dress into my backpack and kept walking around, near the back I heard small scratching noises coming from a room that was possibly an office so I set down my backpack and held my gun at my side approaching the door.