The 8 Second Ride

When I See You Again

Hey guys this is the girl I chose to play Clara. She is a good friend of mine and I thought she would be a great for this because of her equine background. This is Tanya Schmitz and her trusty steed Cookie Monster. R.I.P Cookie miss you so much. 4/20/2015

Jason's POV-

"Hi." I say while standing by the door.

I shouldn't have barged into the room like that. I was probably walking into a family thing.

"Hi." she says while not even bothering to show me her face.

"How long have you been awake?"

"Long enough to hear Max's neigh over the phone and to learn that I was out for six months. My mom also tells me that my ex boyfriend was the one who shot me and that the police have him in custody. He awaits his trail, but they have been waiting for me to wake up so I can testify." she has tears welling up in her eyes.

I go up to her and hug her to me. She cries into my shoulder and I put my chin on head. We stay like that and it seems like forever. When she finally pulls away she looks right into my eyes. I wipe the tears away from her under her eyes and she leans into my hands. I lean towards her, when our lips are a centimeter away from each other she her hands on my cheeks and pulls me towards her until our lips touch. At first they just graze each other and then she presses them harder against mine. She moves her lips and I move with her. When she pulls away she leans her forehead against mine.

"I have missed you so much. I did some crazy things while you were gone. I didn't get to see you and I just met you. I felt like I was going crazy until that kiss." she smiles.

"I missed you too and I have another problem I have to get through now." she says with a sigh.

"What is it?" I start getting worried again.

"I'm not allowed to ride for another two months because 'I need to regain my strength.'" she puts air quotes around the phrase.

"Well you think you are going to walk out of this hospital and go jump on Max and run the barrel pattern without a problem."

"No I just wanted to go for a nice long trail ride with Max, me and him need some alone time after the accident. I bet he is traumatized from that day." she says looking down at her hands.

I grab her hands and gently rub circles on her knuckles.

"We will get you out to the farm so you can see him, but you won't be riding. I want to see how he is going to react to seeing you after six months."

"Okay but I want to at least sit on him for a little bit and remember how it feels to be with my boy." she says in a tone that says that I won't change her mind. Right then her parents walk into the room.

Two Weeks Later-

"Hey sit you butt down, other wise I will turn the truck back around and you won't be able to see Max today." she sits right down and I smirk.

"Okay but how would you feel if you got to see your best friend for the first time in seven months." I stay silent.

"That's what I thought, now drive faster, I have an entire day planned out, I am going to go on a trail ride and bond with Max today."

"Your not riding today." I say sternly.

She puts her hand on my thigh.

"I was going to take Max to a lake near by and I brought my bikini and I thought you would want to see it. I was going to ask you if you wanted to come with but I guess not." she sighs.

"You play dirty don't you?" I ask and freeze when she moves her hand further up my thigh.

"Yeah only when I want to get something I want. By the way I just won this battle." she whispers in my ear.

"You shouldn't play dirty because I can play dirtier." she look at her and smirk, but all I can see in her eyes is that she took that as a challenge.

The rest of the ride to my house is silent and when we turn onto the gravel road that leads to the farm. My families white fences line the side of the road and there are horses scattered through out the pastures.

When the driveway comes into view I can tell Clara is really excited. I turn into the drive way and our drive way is almost 3/4 of a mile long. When we pull up to the house Clara jumps out of the truck window, she doesn't even open the door she just climbs through the open window. When she gets out she runs to the first fence she sees and yells Max's name.

"Clara he isn't in the pastures up here, we have to take the four wheeler to the back pastures. We do own 700 acres and her was going after the other horses so we separated him." she runs to the open garage and climbs on the four wheeler starting it.

"Hurry up and get on, I losing my mind not being with him right now." she yells over the engine.

I run over and get on the four wheeler. I take her to the back pasture and she jumps off the four wheeler while I am coming to a stop. She yells Max's name and he comes running up. He stops dead in his tracks when he sees her, he turns around running away. But he turns around and lopes towards the fence not bothering to stop, Clara yells and Max jumps the fence. He come back over to us and whinnies when he gets to her.

"Hey baby boy." she hugs him.

Today is going to be a rough day, I can tell already.