Wild Ride

Chapter 7

"Oh damn, you look hot!" Madison says.

"Girl, so do you! Asher won't be able to look away!" I wink at her.

We begin to laugh and walk out of my room. I look in the body mirror in the hallway and I'm shocked. I actually like how I look in this crop top, plus it matches my boots! I really do feel more confident now.

"Thank you, Maddie. I really needed that push."

"You're welcome, I knew you'd look killer in it." She smiles as she grabs the door handle to go outside.

This is it. I take a deep breath and we walk outside. Madison first, then I do. I close the door behind me while looking down, not yet ready to look at the guys.

"So what are we going in and who's driving?" Madison asks.

I guess neither of them heard us come out because they both turn around.

"Holy shit!" They both blurt out. Asher just smirks and locks eyes with Madison. Ryder blushes and puts his hand on the back of his neck as he looks down at his boots. Madison then looks over her shoulder at me and winks. I can't help but blush then.

"I drove my explorer because I didn't know if we were all riding together or not." Ryder offers.

"Okay, good. Cheyenne will obviously ride shotgun with you, while Asher and I ride in the back." Madison says.

No one seemed to object. As Madison and Asher climbed in the back of the explorer, Ryder walked over and opened my door for me. It's nothing new, he's always opened my doors for me. I mean, I'm not incapable of doing it myself, that's just the way Ryder was raised. However, I'm assuming Asher has never actually seen someone do that in real life because once Ryder shut my door, he asks if we really are dating. I didn't know what to say. Do I lie and say we are or do I go against Ryder and tell the truth? Before I got to answer, Ryder got in and Madison asked why he cared so much. Confused by the conversation, Ryder asked what she was talking about.

"I always open the door for Cheyenne. You know that." Ryder says.

I can't help but to smile and look at him. He's so cute when he's unaware of what's going on.

"Not you, Ryder. I know why you care so much. I was asking Asher why he cared so much to whether you and Chey were really dating or not."

"Of course we're dating. Why is that so hard to believe?" Ryder says. I can't help but to feel like he's actually getting defensive.

"I guess it's not. It's just my older brother seen Cheyenne and thought she was hot." Asher says.

What? He can't be serious. He has an older brother? I guess he was inside as Asher was unloading the truck. I don't really peg myself for being the "hot" type.

"Well you can tell your older brother he can-"

"Where are we going to eat?" I cut off Ryder and try to change the subject as we pull out of my drive way.

"Well we all look hot as fuck right now, so no fast food. We can go to Gadsden and eat at a legitimate restaurant." Madison answers.

"Sounds good to me, but what restaurant?" I look over to Ryder. He just smiles.

"Well I like Italian." Asher states.

"Okay, so Italian it is." Madison agrees.

The ride to Gadsden is about 45 minutes. No one really spoke much on the way there. Ryder was playing some music, country of course. I could tell that Asher didn't know any of the songs that were playing. Madison and myself would occasionally text each other to keep our conversation between us. She was telling me about how Asher was playing on his phone and that she was kind of bored. I would text her saying he probably thinks we're a bunch of rednecks and she would agree but say that it's kinda true.

I was a little shocked about what happened next.