Our Handshake (Arthur Morgan X Reader)

V: Its called a secret

Blackwater
1881
Y/N's POV

After what happened I didn't come down the hill. I didn't want to talk to Arthur. Not for a little while I suppose. Was it jealousy over this girl, maybe. I wasn't sure what I felt. Because I wasn't sure I did go down but only to talk to momma. When I saw her, she was talking to Arthur and who I assume is Mary. "Momma can I talk to you privately?" I asked her interrupting whatever conversation that was being had. "Y/N this is Mary. Mary this is my best friend." Arthur said clearly not noticing that I wasn't paying attention or going to listen to him, but I decided that I was going to be nice and shake her hand. I wanted to introduce myself to her on my own. "Hi. I'm Y/N." I said putting my hand out. "You must be the Mary I've heard so little about." I said with a smirk. I did not give a fuck about what she thought of me. This woman clearly does not want to be here by the look on her face. She  also keeps looking over her shoulder as if she was being watch or if someone might steal her-...oooh now I get it. I'm taken out of my thoughts by this I put my hand down she clearly did not want to touch my dirt covered hands. "Stop looking over your shoulder. You're making me nervous. You look like you're about to get robbed." I chuckled and turn to momma. She had a shocked look on her face she had never heard me be so rude to someone before. "Momma can we talk now?" I said as I grabbed her hand and walked over to my tent, not saying a word to Arthur. I closed the folds on my tent. "Y/N that was very rude!" She said with a loud tone. I rolled my eyes. "Oh give me a break. You can not tell me you didn't notice the fact that she was looking over her shoulder every two seconds to see if anyone was eyeballin her or about to steal her precious jewelry." I said with a low voice. I may not like Mary but I didn't want her hearing a conversation she was not a part of. "Y/N I know but Arthur loves her and you're his best friend. You can't just be happy for him?" She asked. "No I can't. Somethings going to happen and he ain't gonna be happy when it does." I said wanting to get to what I needed to talk to her about. "I needed to talk to you because, Arthur said something to me at the secret spot that really hurt me when it shouldn't have. I don't know why I'm feeling this way momma, please help me!" I asked with tears in my eyes. Immediately, she knew what I was talking about. "Honey what you're feeling is called heartbreak. It's gonna sting for a little while but you'll be okay. I know what he said. He told me. As for you havin a feeling like something's going to happen, you're just gonna have to sit back and let it happen. After it does Arthur might need someone to pick up the pieces." She said with a bit of sadness. I was her one and only baby she knew eventually I was going to have my first heartbreak but didn't know when. "Until that happens at least try to be happy for him at least a little." "Okay I'll try but no promises." I gave momma a hug and she squeezed. "Thank you" I said and we both got up and walked out of the tent. When we did I didn't see Arthur or Mary. So I went asking around. The last person I asked was Hosea. "Hey Hosea, have you seen Arthur anywhere? His horse is still here so I figured he hasn't gone anywhere." As I asked Hosea looked at me. He knew what I was feeling. "Last I saw him he was heading up that hill there with Mary." Hosea said. I looked at him wide-eyed and pointed, "That hill?!" I asked and he nodded his head. I turned and looked at momma and she knew what was about to happen. I ran as fast as I could and momma followed not too fair behind yelling me name and telling me to stop. As I got to the top I saw what I never EVER wanted to see. Arthur with Mary in his arms kissing her. I stopped dead. "ARTHUR MORGAN!! ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!"  I screamed scaring the both of them apart. "Y/N calm down what's the big idea? Whatchu screamin for?" Arthur asked completely clueless. "ITS CALLED A SECRET FOR A REASON?! ITS SO EITHER ONE OR BOTH OF US CAN COME UP HERE AND BE ALONE! NOT SO YOU CAN BRING SOME STUCK UP, GOOD FOR NOTHING GIRL UP HERE AND SWAP SPIT WITH EACH OTHER!" I said. I wasn't going to stop yelling I was just so angry. "Y/N I came up here so we could be alone. I don't understand. What is your problem?" "Oh I'll tell you what my problem is Arthur! See when you first came here I showed you this spot so that you could come up here and have some alone time instead of being in your tent! I told you that we could both come up here and talk without being interrupted! So that you could come up and draw somethin because you don't let anyone see what you're workin on! I told you that it was a secret the only people that were allowed to know about it were you, me, and momma! You ruined that! It's no longer a secret!" I said, still slightly yelling. At this point my voice was waving and my eyes were watering. I didn't know what else to say. So I turned away and went back down the hill. I could hear Arthur calling out for me but momma stopped him and told him that he should leave me be for a while.