𝐂𝐎𝐖𝐁𝐎𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐊𝐄 𝐌𝐄 • 𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐲, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐤𝐢𝐝

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𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐲

"What specifically are you wanting to do?"  I call to Ross as I ride one of their horses. "Bronc, bull, wrangling, general western riding instead of tricks and stuff?"

He shrugs as he leans against the fence on the outside of the ring. "Riding, most likely. I'd be scared shitless on a bucking bull."

I snort. "Yeah. My mama refused to let me be a bull rider. She still tells me that if I ever get on one, she'll claw my eyes out."

Ross' mouth opens in a disbelieving laugh. "Really?"

"Oh, yeah." I nod, bringing the gelding beneath me to a trot.

"That's a weird thought. You being told off by your mom."

I scoff. "I'm not that scary. And I love my Ma."

Ross keeps talking and I nod along but my focus is now completely on my new obsession as she rides up the path towards the barn. She has a brown stetson on top of that pretty blonde hair, her hips involuntarily swaying with the horse's movements. I almost curse when she gets off.

I frown, not even being able to see her from this side - the horse's back alone was taller than her. I finally catch a glimpse of her when she ducks under the animal's head. She looks up, frowning at the sound of her brother's voice, and her eyes soften upon seeing me. The way she looks at me, so openly checking me out from metres away is giving my ego a serious boost.

As soon as my back is to her, picking up canter again, I'm grinning like a fucking idiot.

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"Yes, Alla, I know."

My twin sister only scoffs exaggeratedly into the phone. You'd think that, considering we're 26, we'd have grown out of childish debates. We haven't.

After a few moments of silence, she speaks up again.

"Ma wants to see you. Says she misses you."

"Course she does. I'm her favorite." I grin, opening one of the cupboards in the Jack family's kitchen in search of a glass.

"Are not. But seriously, we all want to see you."

"Well, come see me. It's only like a two hour drive."

I can hear the eyeroll.

"How about you come to us, you lazy little shit?"

I laugh out loud. My sisters all have a temper, especially Char, Megan and Alla when it comes to me.

"I'm workin'!"

"Yeah, every weekend! Come up on a weekday."

"Can't. I'm a busy man, Alla." I fill up the glass that took me about a hundred hours to find and sit at the island. "Training this kid."

"What?"

"Well, what I said. I'm-" I stop talking when Marley walks in wearing sweatpants with her blonde hair in a loose braid down her back. "Busy. Later."

"No! What're you talking about?"

"Later. Love you."

I hang up and Marley looks at me somewhat skeptically.

"What?"

"Nothing. Just..." She frowns a bit, mouth opening then closing. "Who was that?"

"My sister." I grin and lean back in my chair to face her. "Why? Jealous?"

"No." The blonde scoffs. Offensive. "Just figured that if it was a romantic thing then you would have been a complete asshole for flirting with me the other day."

"I wasn't flirting with you."

Marley gives me a blank look over her shoulder as she pours herself a coffee. I keep smiling. I really like the fact that I'm riling this girl up in her own home.

"Y'know that stunts your growth." I nod to the coffee.

"I stopped growing when I was like 16."

"Yeah, well, you're the height of a nine year old, doll."

She gapes at me as she moves to sit opposite. "Fuck off. You're just really tall."

"I'm average."

She mimics me a little and sips the liquid, grimacing at the temperature with a little gasp. "Fuck."

"Normally, you'd blow on it."

Another blank look.

"Didn't know you had a sister."

"Oh, yeah." I shrug. "Five."

Marley's eyebrows raise. "Five?"

"Yeah. Charlotte, Megan, Alla, Trixie and Annie. Alla is my twin, the one I was on the phone with."

"You the youngest or the oldest? Or middle?"

"Me and Alla are smack bang in the middle. Trixie and Annie are the youngest, 13 and 6." Marley's expression visibly softens at the sound of my baby sister only being 6. "Charlotte is 29, Megan is 27."

"That's cute." She mumbles, a little smile on her face.

"Yeah. Annie's cutest. She's my baby." I find myself genuinely smiling at the thought of my girl. "Alla just said that they all want to see me, so they'll probably come down at some point in the next month."

"They like rodeo?"

"Ma gets scared for me, Char too. Megan and Alla don't mind it and Annie only really sees pretty horses and cows. Trixie wants to be like me, though."

"Don't know why."

"Watch it."

Marley giggles to herself before drinking a bit of her now drinking-temperature coffee. Adorable.

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Stassie Speaks
so billy has sisters!! i was watching friends and got to the episode where you see joeys 7 sisters and for some reason i feel like he's the type of man to have a female dominated family? so here we are

i am LOVING this story so far