Life With Trent Harmon

Part 14: A Bet Gone Wrong

You climb in Trent's car and when he gets in, you say "what're we doin today??"
He puts on his sunglasses and glances over at you as he starts the car "I'm not sure. wanna go grab some food? We can decide after that."
"You know I'm always down for food!" You laugh and he turns out of your driveway.
He puts his hand on your leg and you slide his other pair of sunglasses on and roll down your window to let the warm wind blow through the car.
"So top 14?" You say as you take in the air blowing from outside on the very unseasonably warm March day.
He smiles and says "yeah.. It's crazy... In a good way!"
By the time you get to Tupelo to eat, your once straight hair is in a tangled mess.
You pull down the mirror and say "oh my word. My hair."
Trent looks over and laughs. "There's a brush in my glove box, but it looks pretty. Its Got that modelish wind blown look."
You open his glove box and find the hairbrush and say "how convenient..."
"It's Randi Kathryn's" he says quickly, trying to hide the pink in his cheeks.
"Yeah sure." You laugh and finish brushing your hair.  Once you get it fixed, y'all get out at the restaurant and go in.
When you sit down, Trent sits across from you and the waitress walks up and says "what can I get y'all to drink?" You both order and then she walks off. After a minute, You see her and another waitress looking over at your table, whispering. You try to focus on what Trent is saying about his duet with Jordin Sparks but the girls are being obnoxious about talking. Finally, they walk up with your drinks and the girl who isn't your waitress looks at trent, bats her eyes and says "are you Trent Harmon?"
He looks over at you and then smiles at her "yes mam I am!"
She touches his arms and says "I'm such a huge fan of you! Can we take a picture?"
He looks at her nervously and then at you. And then says "uhh.. I guess so." And stands up. Before the picture, she wraps her arms around him and hugs him . He pats her on the back and then smiles for the picture and then your waitress takes a picture with him. Then takes your orders as Trent sits back down. When they walk off, giggling, Trent looks at you, shocked, and says "um.. That was strange.."
You laugh and then he starts another easy conversation back up.
After you eat, he gets the check and you head out to his car. When he heads back to Amory, he says "you wanna go fishing?" You look at him over the pair of sunglasses you are wearing and smile. "Uh absolutely." He laughs and takes his hand in yours.
You ride, listening him sing to the radio until you get back to his house. You follow him to the back of his house and help him gather the fishing equipment, once you are on the side by side headed to the pond, Trent takes your hand again and kisses it. You smile at him and an idea crosses your mind. When you get to the bank of the pond, you sit down next to Trent and throw your line into the water and hang on to the Pole. You look over and him and when he looks at you, you smileand say "you wanna make this interesting?"
He glances at you and then back at the pond, where he is realing his line back in for the first time "What do you mean??"
"Let's make a little bet. Who ever catches the least fish, has to do whatever the winner says."
He takes off his sunglasses, raises his eyebrows, looks over at you and smirks and says "hmmm.."
"Uh" you say, blushing "keeping it G rated."
"G- rated????" He says in a whining tone.
You wink at him and say "maybe PG.." A smile creeps up on his face as he puts his sunglasses back on. He leans over and kisses your cheek and says "you got a deal."
A few minutes later, Trent reels in a fish and smiles over at you and says "you better get ready.."
You feel the heat rush to your cheeks, and you get up and move away from him
"uh what're you doing?? " he asks as you sit down on the pier, about 100 feet from him.
"I'm finding my sweet spot, where all the fish are!!" You look at him as you throw out your line again.
"Um excuse me but your sweet spot is right next to me.." He says, smiling again.
"Well then come over here and throw that way" you say pointing the opposite way from where you are throwing. He reels in his line and sighs as he walks over and sits next to you, facing the opposite way.
Right after he throws out his line, you get a pull on yours. You reel in a fish that is the size of your hand and Trent laughs as he takes it off the hook "1 to one half" he says.
"Um no. That's not half a fish" you say in a bossy tone "one to one." He laughs again and you each throw out your line again and he says "what you doin next weekend?"
"Like the coming up weekend?"
"Yeah the one before I leave" he says, glancing over at you.
"I don't know, hopefully hanging out with you." You say, reeling in your line before tossing it back out.
"I want to go to the beach..." He says quietly.
"Trent. My parents would never let me go to the beach with you."
"Ashley and Clay and RK and Cole can go too! Do you think that would help?"
"I don't know, t" you say as you feel another tug on your line. Then, you reel in another fish, about double the length of your first one. Trent doesn't say anything while he takes it off the hook and throws it back into the water. You toss your line back out and say "what's that score again??"
He looks at you and then back at his line "don't be so sure..." He laughs and then says "I'll talk to your parents and ask. Because when I leave this time.." He trails off.
"I know..." You say quietly and lean over and kiss him on the cheek. "We don't know how long until you'll be back.."
"Exactly" he sighs.
"Tell me again," you say before you toss your line out once again, "why can't we come out to the show until the finale?"
"Because, I don't want y'all to fly all the way out there to see me get cut."he says and reels in his line and turns toward you.
"Baby I promise. If I make it to the finale, you can come out."
"But.." You say and he leans over and kisses you.
"Please." He says in a whisper.
"Okay.." You say back trying to will the tears in your eyes to stay in place behind the sunglasses.
He throws out his line again and then says "we are about to have to go. This is the last throw"
A few minutes later, neither of you has caught another fish, and you both reel in your lines.
Trent stands up, helps you up and gathers all of the fishing equipment and heads toward the side by side.
"Wait a second, Trent." You tease. He stops and turns to look at you.
"I won. So you have to do one thing that I say." He puts down the things in his hand and comes over and kisses you. He slips his hands onto your waist and you put your arms around his neck and enjoy the most unbelievable kiss. After a minute, he pulls back, smiles at you, and then turns to pick the stuff back up.
"Uh wait. That was nice. In fact, you can do that whenever you want" you say, laughing. "But. That wasn't what I was gonna say." He looks at you again and says "alright."
And smiles.
"I want you to jump in the pond."
He looks at you shocked, and says "do you know how cold that water's gonna be?? Are you sure that's what.." He says and takes you into his arms again.
You stop him and say "I think you need a cold shower." And then point to the water. "Hit it."
He looks at you shocked, takes a deep breath , smiles at you, takes off his shoes, socks, and cleans out his pockets,
He kisses you and says "you know I love you if I'm doing this."
"Hey.! You agreed to the bet" you laugh and he takes off running into the water. You walk to the edge of the pier and video his reaction as he comes to the surface.
"SHIT THATS SO COLD" he says as he comes back up. You laugh and rewatch the video as he comes up out of the water.
He sneaks up and wraps his arms around you from behind and gets your shirt all wet.
"Trent!" You squeal as he continues to hold on tighter. "Trent stop" you say, laughing as you throw your phone to the ground and he turns you to face him, you fighting him the whole time.
You take a step back but his arms are still around you and he takes a step toward you but loses his balance and you both go into the water.
When you come back up, you try to catch your breath but can't. you fight your way to the edge of the water, climb out and say "TRENTON WILLIAM." As He climbs out behind you, he starts to laugh hysterically. You look down at your clothes and back at him, attempting to act mad.
"Why in the world?"
"I swear.." He says with his chin quivering "I swear I didn't mean. Mean to do that" he says shaking and laughing.
He wraps you back in a hug and you both walk to the side by side.
On the way back, you slide close to him and you both shiver as the cold breeze hits you. "I'm so sorry" he says as he parks the side by side next to the house and he takes your hand.
You walk in and Mrs Cindy turns to greet you. Her smile falls short when she sees both of you wringing wet.
"What in the world" she gasps and Trent starts laughing again.
"We went fishing and we made a bet. She caught more fish so I had to jump in the pond." He says between laughs.
"That water is.." She says
"Yeah it's super cold." Trent laughs again, trying to catch his breath. He walks into the living room and returns with a blanket and wraps it around you as Mrs, Cindy says "how did you end up soaked then??"
You can't help but laugh as you tell her about how clumsy her son is.
"TRENTON WILLIAM HARMON!!" She exclaims.
"Mama it was an accident" he laughs again, and then heads into his room to change clothes. 
"Let me get you some clothes" Mrs. Cindy says as she hurries off to Randi Kathryn's room and you follow her.
She hands you a pair of shorts and starts looking for a shirt.
"Mama C.. I can wear her shorts, but I don't think I can wear her shirts..."
At that moment, Trent walks in, already in dry clothes, his hair all tangled and hands you one of his tshirts.
"Here. You can wear this one."
You go to the bathroom and change and out your hair in a bun on top of your head. You look in the mirror and shake your head and wipe the smudged make up off your face.
When you walk out, Trent is grabbing his guitar and says "okay let's go!"
You look around his house and see no one.
"Where are we going?? I look awful!!"
"I'm singing at the longhorn tonight.!" He says smiling. "And you look absolutely beautiful." You roll your eyes and he pulls you in and wraps you in a hug.
"You're still shivering." He says, rubbing your arms.
"If we could stay like this, I wouldn't be.." You say.
He lifts your chin up and kisses your lips.
"I'm so sorry. I really didn't pull you into.."
You laugh and say "it's fine, baby."
He kisses you again. He pulls back and looks into your eyes and says "I love you."
"I love you too." You say, breathless from the kiss.
He pulls you into another hug and then steps back and takes your hand.
He leads you out to his car and drives to the Longhorn. He walks in, and sits down on the make shift stage and you sit down at the table in front of him. He smiles at you as he strums the first chords on the guitar, and you spend the rest of the night listening to your boy friend play guitar and sing to you, while a room full of people watch too.