Ride The Wind

Chapter Thirty-Two: Liss

"We're going to get in trouble." CC says for the eightieth time since we got out of the truck.

"Would you stop worrying?" Andy wonders.

"Babe, I think this is trespassing." Rikki adds and I look back at him.

"That's what these are for." I say as Andy and I hold up 12 gauges.

Andy and I wanted to go fishing, CC and Rikki had nothing better to do. Andy and I both know this fishing hole, it's deep in the woods but you catch the best fish. It may be trespassing but everyone does it. Rikki and CC are carrying the poles and the tackle box, even after hearing about CC taking down a turkey I still don't trust him with a gun.

When we get to the quiet little fishing hole, Andy and I start to set everything up. She turns to our boys.

"Can either of you bate a hook?" The boys shake their heads.

"Cool, it's not that hard." I say as I grab the minnows.

I show them how to do it on my hook, Rikki catches on quickly but CC looks disgusted. I smile and bring the pole closer to him. We laugh as CC backs away.

"Thought you were from Brooklyn." He mutters and I smile.

"I am but--"

"It's that Alabama blood." Andy smirks.

I watch as she picks up a minnow and hold it up close to Rikki's face while he talks with CC.

"Hey Rik?" Andy calls.

"Yeah." Rikki turns getting the minnow in the face.

We laugh and he freaks out a bit. That's about the time a see a little harmless snake, I grab it and look at CC. He sees the snake and starts to back away.

"Liss." He warns and I smile.

"You scared of a little snake?" I wonder as I walk towards him.

I chase CC around with the snake for about ten minutes while Andy and Rikki laugh at us. Once we get tired of that, I tuck my hair under the Yankees cap and show them how to cast. Andy and CC do well, Rikki struggles but eventually gets it. Kind of. He casts and he hook sinks CC's leg. Our short blond New Yorker screams and cusses in pain. We laugh and Andy is able to remove the hook from him and I end up casting for Rikki.

We fish for a while but the boys' ADD kicks in and they start to shove each other on the old rotted dock. When I say old and rotted I mean it, when you walk across it cries in pain and the boards bend. Come to think of it, I've never actually seen it have more than two full grown people on it. There's four of us on it right now, hopefully nothing goes wrong.

"Dude! Look at that!" CC pulls Rikki to the end of the dock.

"What the--" Rikki starts.

He gets cut off by the old 2x4 breaking and the boys fall into the mucky water. Andy looks over to me.

"Can they swim?" She wonders and I shake my head.

"I have no clue." I admit.

We look into the water with no sigh of life. We inch closer to the broken board.

"Rikki!" I call.

"CC!" Andy yells. "Jesus, can you swim?"

"Not well." I admit and she scowls.

"I was afraid of that, I can't swim either." She admits.

"God dammit! Rikki!" I yell. "I'm going to kill him if he's just screwing with us."

Rikki

"They can't swim." CC whispers as we watch them freak out.

We had swam under the dock and decided to scare them a bit. It's working a little too well.

"I can swim, I won't let Liss drown." I say and CC nods.

"So we gonna do this?" He wonders.

"I am." I say as I creep down the dock.

I creep up to Liss and shove her into the pond, jumping in right behind her. I grab her waist pulling her back up to the surface. When we surface her eyes are covered with black hair under the old faded Yankees cap. Liss pushes her bangs from her eyes and I see her beautiful green eyes, I smile at her and she looks pissed. To my surprise she hugs me tightly.

"You fucking idiot! I thought you were dead!" Liss' voice is uneven, I really fucking scared her. She pulls back and her angry green eyes face me again. "Don't fucking do that again!"

I smile and rub her hip bones.

"Honey, you do care." I smile and Liss still looks angry.

"Of course I do!" She snaps and I laugh. "I love you, dumbass. I can't lose you."

"Baby, you won't lose me." I kiss her hoping she's calm enough so she doesn't bite me or something. "I love you to."

"If you ever do something that stupid again, I'll kill you." Liss tells me and I kiss her again. Her eyes go wide. "I can't swim!" I laugh and tighten my grip around her waist.

"I won't let you drown." I smile and we look over to CC and Andy.

They look like they're trying to drown each other, we laugh at them.

We get as dried off as possible and start to walk back to the truck. CC and I were waiting for the girls, Andy had to piss. We're shooting the shit in the middle of the woods, the girls told us not to move or they would shoot us. After our stunt at the pond, I'm not going to temp them. We hear something behind us that scares the crap out of us, a couple guns loading.

"You're lost city boys." A man's voice with a thick southern accent says.

"Looks like we're having Yankee for dinner!" A different male says.

We're fucked.

Another two guns load from behind us.

"And we're having Alabama asshole for dinner." Liss says and I smile, we're not fucked anymore.

We turn around to see our girlfriends holding guns to the heads of these huge rednecks. One redneck turns to the other.

"I only know one girl that talks like that, Clint." One says.

"Yeah, me to." The other smiles as they turn around. "Our favourite little cousin, little baby Ally!"

Any anger melts from Liss' face as she points her gun back down.

"Clint! Ray!" She smiles as she hugs them.

Liss introduces us, so that means these huge dudes take turns trying to break the boyfriend's hand. We talk for a while before we part ways. We get back to the truck and as we load everything into the box of the truck. I smile across at my girlfriend.

"You sure got a lot of nicknames here." I say and she laughs, flipping me off.

I love her.