Texas Forever

Chapter 19

At the Wetzel house.

Presleigh and I helped Julie lay all the food out on the table while the grandparents zk Koe and Gary sat in the living room watching football.

"Okay everyone. The food is ready yall come eat." Julie said to everyone

Everyone got in line to get their plates fixed while presleigh and I stood back and waited to go last.

"Come on Lily get infront of me" Koe offered

"No no y'all go ahead" I said to him

"Lily Katherine come on" he insisted

"Okay okay. I'm coming" I said grabbing a plate and getting infront of him

"Come on Lily. You're holding up the line" Gary joked with me

"Oh hush! Koe made me get infront of him" I said back

"Lily! You made my favorite burbon pecan pie" Koe said

"I sure did" I replied as I grabbed a cup of tea

I walked into the dining room and found myself between zk and presleigh across from Koe.
I'm pretty sure he noticed my rings I had on my left hand 

"So Lily... how long are you here for?" Julie asked

"I'm not sure yet honestly." I replied

After eating lunch Koe and his cousins played football while presleigh and I sat on the back porch with presleighs mom and grandparents.

"Well I'm going to go start cleaning up."Julie said after a while.

"I'll help" I offered as I followed her inside

Week between thanksgiving and Christmas I stayed with presleigh. We had a AMAZING time together and did all kinds of things. Koe was gone playing shows. But came back 3 days before Christmas.

Presleigh was at work and I was at home working off my laptop.

Someone came barging through the door. Koe didn't say anything to me as he passed me sitting on the couch. He went straight to his room and slammed the door.

I took a deep breathe and continued working.

Presleigh was going out to eat with Brantley tonight which leaves me a Koe.

I decided to make some deer steak with mashed potatoes and gravy and peas.

Currently 4:45
I clocked out and went to the kitchen laying out all my ingredients and began cooking.

Everything was done except the steaks. They liked about 5 more minutes.

Koe finally came out of his room and into the kitchen.

"Whatcha cookin good lookin" he asked getting him a glass with whiskey

"Deer steak and sides" I replied

"Oh thank god! I'm starving and I was telling Dre yesterday I wanted some deer streak" he said propping against the counter beside me

I just softly smiled at him.

Dinner was semi quiet. We sat on the couch and watched tv while eating.

The next day Koe and I went to Walmart for some last minute things presleigh was at work. Tomorrow is Christmas Eve

"Mom asked me to pick up the snacks for tomorrow night" he said as we walked though the entrance at Walmart.

"Okay. To the snacks we go" I replied standing on the buggy rail as Koe pushed behind me