Cowgirl Roots

Chapter 12

Chapter 12

"You know I have an amazing boyfriend..." I start babbling to the stranger as he carries me to the parking lot. "He is smart, funny, athletic, and sexy as hell, fun to hang around, and caring, protective, great listener. And man can he kiss and the way his touch sends electricity through me is so comforting..." "Though I don't know if he is my boyfriend anymore" the man stops but I keep talking away. "A tragedy happened in my family a few weeks ago and instead of going to him for comfort I ran away. I have avoided him and haven't talked to him since I got the news, shows how great of a girlfriend I am." I start to cry and the man stops once more. "I may have pushed away the one person I can trust, I hope he forgives me. I just want to be in his arms again and feel the sparks fly when we kiss. Just lose myself with him" next thing I know the man is kissing me. For some inexplicable reason I kiss back. Those sparks feel familiar and so does the softness of his hair. This isn't a stranger this is Will!!

"Will?" I whisper against his lips.

"Hey beautiful" he pulls away and I see his smile. I smile for the first time in weeks and it feels natural.

"I'm sorry"

"I know you just told me" he laughs and I just feel like laughing with him. He kisses me again and I deepen it holding onto him for dear life. We stop kissing so we don't run into anything and we go sit in the back of my car.

"Ow!!" I wince as my head starts to throb. Will's eyes are once more taken over by panic.

"What's wrong?"

"My head hurts"

"I knew you hit it..." He releases me and goes to his car when he comes back he has an ice pack. He forces me to lie down on the seats and puts the ice pack under my head. The coldness feels heavenly against my sore spot.

"Wow that feels great" I murmur as I stare up into his beautiful eyes.

"I really am sorry"

"You're going through a loss of a brother I understand though it would have been nice to know it was because of the loss and not because of what we did" I blink at him and then it clicks raising my hand I caress the side of his face.

"It was not because we had sex. If I didn't want to I could have stopped you but I didn't"

"You did try"

"But then what did I do? I let you keep going because I realized I wanted to just as bad as you" he smiles though I know he doubts my words I can see it in his eyes. He leans down and kisses me gently but then it turns so passionate my heart starts to race.

My body arcs and Will wraps his arm around me pulling my closer to him yet keeping my head on the ice pack.

"Will..."

"What?" He kisses my neck sending electricity through my body.

"Never leave me" I whisper as he helps me take my shirt off. His hands freeze on my bra and he looks me dead in the eye. His eyes full of sincerity.

"I wouldn't dream of it" he kisses me with more passion than he ever has before and my body curves into his fitting perfectly...

"Your voice is heavenly by the way" I lift my head up and stare at him.

"How did you hear me sing but not know I was in the tree?"

"I heard it when I got out of the car"

"Oh well now you know something new about me"

"Yeah I guess I do” his voice sounds off and distant what is he thinking about?

"What?"

"Do we know anything about each other?"

"Of course we do! Unless there are things you haven't told me"

"Apparently there are things YOU haven't told me" ouch the bite in voice makes me recoil from him. Swinging my legs off his lap I get out of my car and head towards the lake once more. Climbing up the tree I perch myself on the branch and fold my arms staring out at the lake.

"April get down from there!"

"How about no!"

"April!! Get down"

"No!!" I yell and then just to spite him I climb higher.

"April! Please I don't want you hurting yourself"

"I guess you shouldn't have gone and pissed me off" I see his frown and then he starts climbing up the tree.

"What are you doing?" I shriek.

"If you aren't coming down I'm coming up" when he reaches my perch the fear is evident in his eyes.

"You sure do test my patience and strength"

"I test you! You test me!!" I shriek so loud the birds fly away. "I have anger problems and you sure aren't setting yourself in a good position"

"Let’s just agree we test each other. Now as much as I want to get down I can see you aren't planning on moving"

"Not moving one bit. So tell me what you haven’t told me?" He seems nervous and beads of sweat are covering his forehead. "Do we need to switch spots so you can lean against the trunk?" He nods his head so I climb up higher and wait for him to move. Once he does I swing down and hang by my arms and laugh as his face forms to panic and then when I think he has had enough torture I release and sit were he once was sitting.

"Are you part monkey?" I laugh again and he smiles.

"No I just have a knack for climbing. Have been for ages. It all started when I came to visit my grandmother years ago...she taught us how to climb a tree right before she... That was the last memory I have of her." I sniff to regain control. "Anyways... There's something you didn't know about me" I play with my hair nervous of how this will turnout.