To be Yours

Sweet times

Ranza woke up being slapped and jolted awake. She looked over quickly and saw Javier asleep on his back, and his arm now dramatically flung across her back.

Javier mumbled something in his sleep and Ranza grunted and laid her head back down, flipping her arms up to rest her head on them, the loud patterned poncho immediately caught her attention.

She stared at it for a moment before curiously giving it a sniff. A smell of charred wood and a soft smell she couldn't quiet put her finger on, but nevertheless it smelt pretty good.

She huffed after a moment and rested her head down on the material softly. She could feel Javier's hand move off her back, and was soon replaced with the other as he moved onto his side.

A few hours later she woke up again hearing her name being softly called, and she looked up groggily, and saw Javier rubbing his eyes with his hand gently shaking her shoulder.

"Come on we need to get up." He muttered and she sat up after a moment and rubbed her eyes squinting a bit as the sun was coming up.

Ranza begrudgingly got up and stretched a bit. Javier walked over to her, and straightened out his poncho on her shoulders as it was laying funny.

Forgetting about the garment she lifted it up over her shoulders and Javier looked at her a little confused. "I was just fixing it." He chuckled and she shrugged putting it in his arms before walking into camp.

Javier quickly slipped on the poncho and did the same, but to the campfire.

Ranza was met with Kieran handing a bowl of stew out to her, and she smiled softly taking it in her hands.

"Thank you." She thanked and he nodded. "Course."

"So uh, where'd you go yesterday?" He asked with a twinkle in his eye, and she looked at him confused. "Huh?"

"Well you, Javier, Bill, Sean, and Karen went into town. Bill came back, Karen and Sean didn't til this morning, and that left you with Javier." He explained himself and Ranza furrowed her brows.

"So?"

"You and Javier seem close." He stated and Ranza looked at him dead serious. "No. We just hang around." She defended and Kieran hummed not believing her.

"Sure sure. Now, I told Charles I'd go help him with Taima, I'll see you later." He said and gave her a pat on the back before walking away towards the horses.

Ranza stood dumbfounded and took a spoonful of her stew before walking over behind Pearsons wagon and sitting down to eat.

"Ah I found ya lass." A strong accented voice said and her head snapped to look up at the Irish, who plopped down next to her.

She eyed the man awkwardly and took another spoonful of stew. "Y'know I had real fun with you last night." He said loudly and she looked up a bit confused.

"I didn't even see you last night...?" She pointed out and the red head threw his hands. "I was having fun with you through Javier." He revised with a grin.

Leaving Esperanza even more confused as he stood up and skipped away to Karen she blinked and looked off into the trees.