Bluebonnet Love

Chapter 3

Bryn

I look at her questioningly " the bluebonnet festival?" She nods her head at me , " it's a festival with vendors, live music ,crafts and good food! I went a couple years ago with my cousin and I really enjoyed it figured you would too since it's going on and we could spend the day together. So it's 11am now and it take roughly about an hour and a half to get there and since your dad  is gonna be out all night we can just let him know our plans and I can drop you back off at the hotel or you can sleepover like we used to do" her eyes are so hopeful that I don't even have to think twice about my answer " yes, let's go!" I let out a laugh as she pumps the air and points her car toward Brenham while I text my dad our plans. I look down at my outfit and frown I'm not dressed for a festival I'm thinking about getting a outfit when we get there more suitable for it.

She plugs up her phone to her playlist and we hit the road jamming out and singing loudly and very off key like we used to do when I would make trips up here for the summer to visit her or she would come down to mine. We stopped half way to fill up with gas and get snacks seeing as we already decided to eat lunch from a food truck there. The bell chimes as I walk into the store, as I walk to the snack isles I glance towards the register and notice the clerk staring at me intensely maybe he's had people steal and just making sure I don't is what I think to myself to keep from freaking out. He has dark brown hair with equally dark eye that are really starting to creep me out. He hasn't looked away once since I walked in, quickly grabbing 2 bags of chips and a soda for each of us I go to check out. As he rings me up he still has his eyes on me, just as I'm about to ask what his problem is the bell chimes announcing a customer has entered I look over my shoulder to see Chloe giving me a look that says hurry up. "$7.58 is your total" I hear from a voice in front of me, I was gonna use my card to be quicker but decided against it seeing how I really don't want this guy to know my name so I pull out a $10 bill and hand it to him and wait for my change. As he hands me back my change I grab my bag of goodies and start walking towards the door throwing a thanks over my shoulder . After getting in the car I look back into the store through the window to see he's still staring at me " that guy was giving me the creeps " I tell her as she drives off.

As we head back towards Brenham I think about my mom, 2 years ago she died of cancer it was hard around our house at first being a 15 year old having to pick up the parental role while dad was at work for Cutter my now 14 year old brother. At the time he was 12 and needed rides to and from school and football practice and while I didn't mind putting my life on hold for my family I'm just now going into my senior year and I feel like I've missed out in a lot of high school experiences. Dad works til dark at his auto shop to be able to provide for us I've tried to get a part time job to help out  it he shut me down every time saying I needed to keep my head clear for school to get into college. What he doesn't know yet is I've already receive a scholarship to A&M and I'm taking it. That's the college my parents went to and met maybe I'll find my true love there as well because it sure isn't in my small hometown where I've known everybody since birth.