Cowboy Blues

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Part 1
Ada POV:

After a long night of anticipation my 5:30 a.m alarm sounds, today was the high school rodeo finals. All of my things for the weekend are already packed up and loaded except for the horses and tack. I get up and get in a pair of wranglers, a tank top and my buckle I won earlier in the season. By the time I finish braiding my hair and brushing my teeth I see head lights coming down our ranches dirt drive. Rushing down the stairs and out of the front door, I see a black dodge and the smell of marlboro reds. Anyone can connect the dots of who is behind the truck, my life long best friend JB Mauney. "Morning" he says between drags. Rolling my eyes I reply sarcastically "Aw what's got the future High School Champ in a mood this morning?" It's normally something really wrong if he is smoking at 6 in the morning. I walk over to the barn trying to make sure everything is ready and feed the horses their breakfast. Dragging his feet in the gravel and kicking a few rocks into the barn he puts out his cigarette and leans against the tack room door frame and simply reply's "Oh just the usual". But for this man his 'usual' changes every time I see him. But before I could ask him to elaborate on that ever changing 'usual' he looks me up and down he a very quick motion, and says blankly "Why are you in just a tank top? It's a North Carolina morning Ada it's freezing.". I roll that comment off and go to walk into the tack room but before I can reach the door knob, he stands straight in front of me and wraps his over sized jean jacket over my shoulders. Before I can register what really happened I looked straight down at my feet knowing very well I was blushing very hard for no reason, he is just my friend and practically my brother. Rolling my tongue against the inside of my cheek I slowly reply "Thanks cowboy" and quickly reached behind him to open the tack room door and step behind him to into the room. Still standing by the door way JB asks "Anything I can carry for you?", still getting everything together I say "No but you can go hitch the trailer" he says nothing and just walks off probably just trying to get out of the awkward silence after giving me his jacket. Soon after he came back with the trailer and we got all the tack and horses loaded. By now it was 7 so we needed to get going to school to meet up before we head out. I climb up into the passenger seat and put JB's jacket in his seat. After about 5 minutes JB gets in the truck after checking the trailer to make sure everything was right. And before I know it we are pulling out of the driveway. Still not sure what was wrong with him earlier but I know better than to bring it back up. The sun is just starting to rise and all the pretty warm colors swarm the sky's. I look over and realize he has his signature smile over his face, but not looking at me but looking straight ahead to the road we just turned onto. Rolling my eyes I ask "What's got you so smiley all the sudden, last I checked you had a bad morning" breaking him out of his thoughts he scoffs and smiles at me and says "I was not in a bad mood, just stressed about what's gonna happen after today." Then he suddenly turns back serious instead of smiley. He looks back to the road and I pitch in "Enlighten me?" at first JB mumbles something I couldn't make out but I did not question it "Well you know this is the last high school rodeo, what are we going to do after? I want to go pro and go for some titles but what about you?" Still slightly confused I reply "What do you mean about me? I have the same dreams as you, JB you know that." letting out a big breath he says "Never mind, Never mind." just about then we pulled into the school parking lot. We pull next to my friend Codi and her boyfriend Weston in there truck and horse trailer. I quickly get out of the car and Codi runs up to me practically yelling "Y'all ready!". JB lights up another red and says with a snarky tone "Ready to get rid of y'all or get on the road?" I roll my eyes and mess up his hat "Oh you should know by now you can't get rid of me" as he fixes his hat Weston chimes in "You too should just get together already" everyone stops in there tracks and looks straight at Weston. Codi quickly changes the subject and says "Your still with that roper Tyler right Ada?" I was kinda caught off guard with the question "Yeah I am, or at least think so, he's been in Texas for the last couple of months" I had no idea anyone ever thought about me and JB in that way. Codi slaps Westons arm and says "Well let's get on the road". I check the horses and get back in the truck, not so prepared for the conversations in the car ride ahead.
(Time skip)
About 1 hour into the car ride filled with small talk between us about this weekend I get a text from Tyler pretty much saying that he has been with other girls and all of them have been better than me and he has been with multiple this whole time and that we are done. Not going to lie but It I was expecting this to happen after he didn't call or text me for the last month he has been in Texas. Even when he was in North Carolina with me he still had problems with "accidentally" getting with other girls. We had been together 3 years previous to him going to Texas, my first ever relationship. So of course it hurt, he cheated the whole time with no remorse, it hurt more than it should have. "Why that face?" JB says as he glances over to me and I realize i'm almost crying looking at my phone. "Tyler just broke up with me after 3 years saying he's been with other girls" I said in one breath. "And I know now for a fact he has been doing it throughout our relationship on purpose not just a drunk mistake." I bury my head in my hands trying to hide my watering eyes. Eventually small salty tears start rolling down my cheeks, why would he continue the relationship just to bottom out and cheat every opportunity he got. We had been together 3 years prior so who knows how long ago this started. " I actually loved him, and I thought he loved me? How could I be so wrong" the tears were really coming now. I feel JB slow the truck down a bit and eventually pulling off into a empty parking lot of a abandoned tire shop.

3rd person POV :)

He flips the middle console up so the front seat turns into one long bench seat "Come here" he says with a blank face but his blue eyes full of sadness for the poor girl that he knew he cared for so deeply somewhere inside. Still with her head down, ashamed that this all happened on purpose and Tyler never cared to tell her, and she still loved Tyler anyway. She moved over to JB and laid in his lap, her face buried in his shirt staining it with tears. He took the same jacket he gave her earlier and put it over her and while starting to rub her back to try to comfort her as much as he could in the moment he said "You remember when I was smiling this morning while I was driving?" confused on how this would help her heart break she responded slowly "Yeah I do, you didn't tell me why.". His hands move slowly up and down over his jacket she was all wrapped up in and said "I was thinking about that time in 3rd grade when me and you skipped math class just because we had it set in our minds you don't need math to rodeo and well still to this day have not used it much, so we snuck out and somehow got into a unlocked school bus and we pretended to be driving to our national championships." Ada laughed a little at this thinking, that she was now in the same little boys lap she knew in 3rd grade, in his dodge going to the championships. "Yes I do, how could I forget, we got into so much trouble that year." he laughed a bit at this "Remember when we got back to my house after school and went straight out to the cow pasture trying to play with the cows and we get home 3 hours later with the cops looking for us?" he said. At this point Ada was laughing way more than crying remembering all the heart attack's they gave there parents with all the trouble they caused and still cause plenty of trouble to this day. "Of course I do, who could forget the look on ma's face when she found me in my muddy school clothes" JB laughed at this and said "It was priceless". After a few moments of silence JB softly pulls Adas face to look at him, saying "I know it hurts, but I'll always be here for you when it does and even if it doesn't, i'll still be here" he softly wipes off her tears with his thumb. "Thanks JB" Ada says with a sweet smile and gives him a soft kiss on the cheek and still wrapped up in JB's jean jacket she lays back down and falls asleep in his lap.

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