Its Not Summer Anymore

Chapter 3

****Derrick Above****

"Kate. Kate. baby." I open my eyes and its dark and 12 in the morning. "Your mom wants to know if you want to stop at a hotel or drive straight through?" I look at my mom and say," Mom you know my answers always is going to be drive straight through just like Cortney's always is." My mom says," Okay buts its going to be a all nighter and 7 more hours." "Fine with me." I say. Cortney says," Yea me too."

My mom passes the exit and keeps driving.

Tyler says,"How was your nap baby?" I look at him with teasing eyes and say,"Just fine." I whisper in his ear and say,"I had a dream about you." he looks at me surprised and says,"What was it about?" I look at my mom and my sister and say quietly,"Let's just say it involved a bed." Tyler looks at me with a cocky grin on his face and say,"Omg we had a pillow fight." I laugh out loud and grab his hand.

My mom looks at us suspiciously in the review mirror and says,"What are you to doing back there." I say in between laughs ,"Having a pillow fight."

My mom smiles at me in the review mirror and then looks back at the road. I finally stop laughing and Tyler does also. He turns his body and lays his head on my lap. I play with his hair as he lays there.

He turn his head to my face and catches my attention he says,"You don't love him anymore right?" I look at Tyler and say,"Tyler stop..." "No Kate I need to know that you don't love him anymore." "Tyler I will always care for him but no I will never feel the same way for him

again." He turns his head away from me and closes his eyes to get some rest. I put my headphones back in and lay my head back and drift off to sleep.

"Katelyn Katelyn look there's Jr's. Where almost home." I wake up fast at the sound of Jr's but try not to move because Tyler's still sleeping. I say "I see I see but Cort Tyler's sleeping so ssshhh." Cortney let's out a annoyed sigh.

The first time she ever meet Tyler she didn't like him she thought he was trashy and ugly. She's learned that he's not a bad guy but still watches him closely.

I put my ear buds back in and the song "Only Exception" comes on and it make me think of Tyler. And he is the only exception, the only way to make me forget about Derrick.

20 minutes later we pull into the long driveway of Rose and Eddies. Its 7 am and everyone's already up and working.

My mom stops the car and everyone hops out beside me. I look at Tyler and see his cute baby face sleeping and I almost stop my self from waking him up.

I kiss his lips softly and then pull away. I here a mumble voice say,"That's a nice way to wake up." I smile at him slowly opening his eyes and I say,"Where here are you ready to meet everybody?"

He growls a little. And I smile,"Don't worry the boys aren't here yet. You won't get any black eyes for at least 20 min." He says sarcastically,"Well that's good." He sits up and rubs his eyes. I open the door and hop out of the truck. Tyler puts the pillow behind him and jumps out behind me.

I walk around to the tale gate and feel a pair of hands on my waist. For a few seconds I think its Derrick. I snap the thought out of my head and grab a bag.

"Here I'll get it." I hear a country

voice that sounds like Derricks drawl. I think its my mind playing tricks on me but when I hand the bag to what I thought was Tyler standing beside me it really was Derrick.

I snatch my bag back and give it to Tyler. I look at Tyler and say,"Babe will you take this to the house and meet Rose please." "No I think I'm good here." "Tyler please." He nods his head and pulls me into a kiss.

I kiss him long and hard right in front of Derrick. Tyler pulls away and says,"I'll be back for more bags." He walks past Derrick and bumps his shoulder.

Derrick has about 20lb more muscle then Tyler And about a million more dollars in the bank. And maybe a bit more attractive with his tan skin and country accent.......Shit I did it again.

I look at Derrick with an angry look and cross my arms over my chest. "What are you doing here?" "Oh Stephen didn't tell you. I work for the Phares now. Well I help they don't pay me." "You work here." "Yea, after you left Eddie and Raymond asked me if I wanted a job I told them yes but no pay. They of course insisted but I just always found a way to leave the money here." He says with that adorable smirk that I fell in love with. God I got to stop doing that.

"Well I would love it if you would leave while I'm here there's four of us to help on the farm. We don't need you." "You think your little scrawny boyfriend over there that doesn't know his ass from his head can help Eddie. Yea I'd like to see him bale hay and fix fences and chase cattle." "He can do it you don't have to be country to do that. I do it and I'm not country." "Don't pull that shit with me, you love this place your a country girl and that will never change" He says angry stepping closer to me. "I stopped liking this place when you showed up." I say stepping back. "Oh really?" He says stepping close to me again. "Yea." I say stepping close to him. He grabs my hand and turns the little ring around so its facing upwards. "Then why are you still wearing the promise ring I gave you?" He pulls me into his chest and holds me there I try to push away from him but he just squeezes me tighter. "Let go of me." "Tell me why you still have the ring on." "LET GO OF ME." I scream. He yells back,"TELL ME WHY YOU STILL HAVE THE RING ON. DOES HE KNOW I GAVE YOU THIS RING." He motions his head to Tyler walking out of the house. I whisper "Don't say anything got it. I'll tell you just not now." I break free from Derrick's grasp and grab 2 bags. I walk over to Tyler and hand him one. I say"Did you meet Rose." Tyler nods and says,"Yea she's really nice and told me to tell you she's making biscuits and gravy." I smile and say,"She always does." Tyler stops me and says,"Do I need to be worried about that." He motions his head to Derrick grabbing some bags. I say with a smile "No, where together. Your my boyfriend nobody else is." He says annoyed ,"does he know your my girlfriend." I ignore him and keep walking to the house I grab the door for Tyler and close it on Derrick.

"ROSE!!" I drop my bags and run to her and give her a big hug. "Ahhh Shit. your stick and bones girl." She says in her southern accent and big smile. I laugh. She says," Its so good to see you." "You have no idea." I say squeezing her tighter. She says,"Breakfast is in ten so shower clean up what ever you have to do before work." "Alright." I say with a big smile on my face.

I pick up the bags I dropped and show Tyler up stairs. I show him the rooms and he says he wants to change so he starts stripping and so do I. I'm down to my underwear (Thong) and bra and Tyler's in his boxers when someone throws the door open.

Derrick walks in with some bags. I try to cover my body with my hands and yell," DERRICK GET OUT." He looks at me with a smirk and says," Why? I've seen it all before. But the thong, that's new. I like it." He says with a wink. Tyler goes over to him and pulls back his fist. I yell,"TYLER DONT."

But I say it to late. Derrick grabs Tyler's fist in mid air and says," See the thing about us country boys is when you work on a farm all day everyday. You build a lot of muscle." Derrick squeezes Tyler's hand and I hear cracking of knuckle and bone. I run over in my lace bra and thong. And push Derrick away from Tyler. Derrick says with a slick smile ," See city boys lay around and play video games all day. While us country boys sweat our asses off. But Katelyn here is a little of both and that's why she can be so tinny and sexy but still have some muscle and fire in her." Derrick finally stops fighting me and let's me push him out the door. And I shut it in his face.

I run over to Tyler and say," Baby, are you okay. Let me see." I look at his black and blue hand. I put it up to my lips and kiss it softly. "I'm sorry." He looks at me and says," God Kate why did you have to defend me like that I can take care of my self." "Tyler don't talk to me like that I love you and that's why I have to defend you and no you can't take care of your self. Not here not with my family and ex you can't." I walk over to my bag and look though it I put on my ripped up old skinny jeans and a pink sweatshirt. And run down stairs for breakfast.