Reaching Out

Chapter One

My Almost 5 hour drive from Washington to north Carolina has finally ended as I park my Black 2014 jeep in my grandmothers drive way of her ranch.

As I hop out of the car, and my boots sink into the wet grass, I looked around and forgot how beautiful my grandmas ranch is.

To my left, a white picket fence is lined up a few feet away to separate her and the person that lived next door. In Front of me was her beautiful house, it's painted red with a big brown door and big windows. And to the right of me, there was a huge grass field that went on for miles, with flowers and a big pond. There was also a big brown barn in the back where she had her 2 horses. It was quite the set up.

"Carter!" I see my grandma run towards me. She was only 60 and still was full of energy.

"Hey grams!" I laugh as she collided into me with a huge hug.

"I'm so happy your here for the summer, I've missed you so much." She finished her sentence with a kiss on my cheek.

"Me too. Help me with my bags?" She smiles at me as we walk to the back of my jeep and grab my 4 suit cases. We then walk into her house.

All the memories flash towards me as i can picture my grandma standing in the big kitchen with white cabinets and silver appliances, making her chocolate pancakes. Or when I feel and hit my head on the counter and got 5 stitches.

"Your room is right down the hall." My grandma calls to me as she had already put the 2 suit cases she was holding in my room.

As I enter the room, I forgot how big it was. There was a king size bed with a light blue canapé draped over it, blue walls and white furniture. It was very country, in fact that was a great word to describe her house.

I set the rest of my bags down by the door as i grab my phone to text Sophia ;

To Sophia: I just got to my grandmas.

Sophia: Sweet! Meet me at the coffee shop in 20 minutes.

The coffee shop was a cute little building located right outside of town, Sophia and I would always go there to do homework there when we went to school together.

"Honey, what are you going to do today?"

I look up at my phone to see my grams standing In the door way to my room.

"Well, Sophia just told me to meet her up at the coffee shop."

"Okay, you have fun... Here is 10$ just in case." She reaches into her pocket to pull out two 5 dollar bills.

"No no! I have money, it's okay grams." I smile at her and she gives me her 'just take it' look. I laugh as she hands me the money, I then Say thank you and head out to my jeep.

Once I get to the coffee shop, I immediately see Sophia sitting in the booth we would always sit in, sipping on her lemonade.

"CARTERRRR!!!" She screams as she runs up to me. Thankfully, no one else is in here.

"Sophia, I missed you!" I hug her as she hugs me back and we make our way back to the booth.

"So, how have you been?" I ask her, opening my straw and plopping it into my lemonade that Sophia must have bought for me.

"I'm good! And you? And boyfriends, huh?"

I laugh as I shake my head and ask her the same.

"No, i wish." She replays.

I laugh and agree. For the next 20 minutes, we sat in the booth talking about everything really. Stuff from graduating to what we are looking for word to in the future.

As Sophia goes off talking about how her sister just moved out, I saw the door of the coffee shop open. I look over to see two boys walk into the coffee shop. I look away quickly as they both look at me.

"-and I can't believe she moved out with her boy friend... HER BOYFRIEND. Like my mom-" I hear Sophia say as I zone out again and look back at the boys standing at the cash register.

Both of the boys were extremely tall, one had blonde hair and was very lean and had long skinny legs with black skinny jeans on, he was also wearing a red and black flannel.

The other boy had brown curly long hair with a brown cow boy hat on. He was also wearing a white t-shirt that showed off his tattoos on his arms, and black jeans with tan cow boy boots on.

All I could think was "damn".

"Did you hear anything I just said?" Sophia says as I look at her and laugh.

"Not really... But look." I nod my head in the direction of where the two boys stood.

"Oh my..." Sophia whispers, looking over at the boys.

"Don't keep staring!" I say laughing and she turns back to me.

As we sit there quietly sipping on our lemonades, the boys turn and head to a table across the coffee shop.

As the brown haired one turns around, my eyes fall on his, and his do the same. He had beautiful green eyes. He smiled as he turned back to his friend and sat down.

Oh my...

"WHAT WAS THAT!" Sophia whisper yelled.

I blush as she says "you need to talk to him."

I laugh as I went to reach into my pocket to look at my phone and see what time it was. It was already 6:00.

"I should probably get going..." I say as I pick my purse up and hug Sophia good bye. I walk out of the coffee shop with my heart racing. My purse in one hand and my lemonade in the other.

I set my lemonade on the car as I look for my keys in my purse. Once I find them, I grab my lemonade and hop in my car placing my purse in the passenger seat.

As I put the cars in the ignition, I look out my windshield as I see a little yellow sticky note stuck on my wind shield.

I quickly role my window down and reach my hand out to the note and grab it. I turn it around and read the words.

I saw you get out of your car and

couldn't help my self, so I wrote this

note... You are beautiful and I don't

even know who you are. H

910-748-0654

Who left this on my window? I couldn't help but smile as I look up towards the coffee shop to see the brown haired boy look at me and wink. I laugh and pull out of the parking lot.

Woah... What just happened?