small town love

a different way

"stop it." Jesse said to taylor.

"shut up. you're not my parent." taylor spat back.

"stop it." I told taylor. I pushed him away from Jesse and chase came to help me.

"what's your fucking problem? I get home and all of a sudden I'm the one that gets jumped on? she told me y'all needed me cause y'all were worried. now that you see I'm fine everyone gets on me. fuck y'all. come on Wes." taylor said loudly.

"taylor Matthew Davis stop it right now. they care about you. don't talk like that." I said as I grabbed his hand and pulled him away from everyone.

I put him on the living room floor and sat by him.

he started crying and saying things I couldn't understand.

I sat there with my arms around his neck and rocking him back and forth. I wiped his hair back from his face and let him talk.

he looked up at me and said "am I supposed to do this?"

I smiled and thought about it. "everybody deals with different things different ways. this is right for you. this is how you deal with things. this is healthy for you." I told him as I let him go.

he went sit on the couch and put his head in my lap. "I just know it won't be normal ever again." he said softly.

"I know where we can go. all of the boys are ganna come, too." I said pulling him up.

"I don't wanna see them." he said.

"get up taylor." I told him as I tried to pull him up.

he ended up pulling me to him and then him tickling me till I almost peed my pants.

"come on. we're ganna go down to the ranch and go mudding." I told him as I got up.

he hopped off the couch and I ran upstairs.

"get up. we're going mudding." I said as all the boys looked at me.

they all grabbed their boots and ran down the stairs.

taylor was already loading the four wheelers onto the trailer.

"hey chase we're ganna need your truck too." I said as I threw him his keys.

*AT THE RANCH*

I drove all the way to the back of the property where we always went when we were little.

sam, hunter, Luke, Thomas, and will were in my Tahoe while taylor, Jesse, and Thomas were with chase.

I parked the car and went to unload the four wheelers when I felt taylor pick me up and run over to the mud.

"taylor don't do it." I told him nervously.

"why not? you didn't shower with me yesterday." he said with a grin on his face.

"wait y'all do that normally?" sam screamed.

I saw sam running at me when taylor pulled me up. "don't run at me like that you little shit." I told him as I pushed him down.

"yeah yeah" he said back.

chase looked at me then looked at taylor.

taylor walked over to him and I could tell that they were talking about me.

<TAYLOR'S POV>

"what?" I told chase as I walked up the trailer to get my four wheeler.

"speaking of showers, have y'all done it yet?" he said laughing.