She De Man

Team SLAM Sponsor Meeting

*Few weeks later, Team SLAM meeting*
I'm running around the room trying to get everything ready for the meeting today. We do this annually so we can keep up with the guys that we sponsor. I'm starting to stress and that means I'm starting to bark orders at Lane and Trevor. I hear Lane mumble about how he's going to call Cody and tell him to make my butt calm down. I quickly turn around and give Lane an evil look then pop off about how my boyfriend would not help. He'd cause me to stress even more. Lane raises an eyebrow at me and looks at Trevor then grins. I roll my eyes and get back to work. I watch the boys walk out the back door and groan. Dad walks in and looks around the room. "Star, it looks great in here."
I look at dad and pop off, "It may look great but your sons are no help. They both just walked out the back door to do god knows what. Dad, the guys and their families will be here in like 2 hours and I still have a million things to do."
He smiles at me and pulls me in for a hug before he whispers, "Starlee, stop stressing baby girl. It looks great in here. You know everyone will like it no matter what other little touches you want to add. Stop being the perfectionist baby. Your not worried about tonight so stop worrying about this one." He kisses the top of my head. About that time my cell phone starts going off. I grab it and answer it.
"Hello?" I mumble.
Cody laughs and says, "Bug, is there a reason why your brothers called me and told me to call you?"
I groan and start cussing under my breath.
Cody says, "Starlee, what's going on?"
I finally answer him by quickly stating, "Trying to get ready for this sponsor meeting. The boys aren't helping at all. I still have a bunch of things to do. And now your on the phone with me."
Cody says, "Star, take a deep breathe. It's okay. I bet you it looks fine. Do I need to come earlier than what I was planning for tonight?"
I mumble, "No, you don't. I'm just stressing. I always want this to be perfect."
He laughs and says, "Princess, it will be because your doing it. Stop stressing and bossing your brothers around okay? I'll see you tonight."
I nod my head not thinking anything about he can't see me so I mumble, "Okay. See you tonight." I hang up and watch Lane and Trevor walk in. I walk up behind them and pop the both of them on the back of the head. Dad is laughing and quickly says, "Y'all probably shouldn't have called Cody and told him to call your sister boys."
Trevor quickly informs us it was all Lane. Lane looks at him like he wants to kill him. I ignore them and walk off to finish getting everything set up.

*During the sponsor meeting*
I'm making my rounds when I walk up to a couple of the PRCA guys. Mark looks at me and says, "Cody Heffernan huh? I guess you could say a lot of us weren't expecting that one to happen."
I smile at him and say, "Well a lot of people were expecting it to happen. It just took us both some time to get on the same page."
Mark raises an eyebrow at me and says, "Has there always been something between y'all?"
Lane walks up and says, "Dear lord Mark, my sister was your traveling partner for 2 and a half years and you didn't know. Those two have always had feelings for each other. My dumb sister here just kept messing around and Cody got tired of waiting. He started dating a girl and it still took Star 5 years to really figure out how she felt about him." I pop Lane on the arm and give him a look. He wraps his arm around me and smiles.
"It did take us a while to get together but we got together on our terms and not anyone else's." I tell them. I notice dad is waving for Lane and me to come to the front of the table to start lunch. I tug on his arm and nod towards dad. We walk over there and dad whistles so everyone will sit down. I smile at everyone as they slowly start to make their way to the tables. I see dad nod his head at me meaning I need to go ahead and start my speech.
"I just want to thank everyone of y'all here. If it wasn't for y'all then we would just be stock contractors. We wouldn't have the support in a lot of the states without y'alls help. We love what we get to do for you guys and we love being y'alls sponsor. I do have to give our two rookies their shirts finally! Here you go Mack and Clay. Now there is a special one I have to give out." I hold up a shirt to fit a baby and I hear a lot of gasps. I quickly state, "It's not for me! Lord y'all! Dad would kill Cody and me if I ended up pregnant out of wedlock. It's for Stacy and Brad!"
Stacy laughs and takes it from me then says, "Star, do you mind if I say something?"
I shake my head no.
She smiles and says, "I personally want to thank y'all for sponsoring Brad. I'll admit I wasn't a fan of Star when I first met her. I didn't like that she would text Brad all hours of the night. I quickly figured out though that she was just telling him how he could improve and that she didn't have feelings for him. We've been lucky to get to know this sweet family. I know when we've needed places to stay the Team SLAM crew always had connections for us. Thank y'all so much for everything."
I quickly hug her and smile at everyone else.
Chase stands up and says, "We all appreciate y'all. Y'all were some ofour first ever sponsors. Y'all are the reason we have the sponsors we have now. We all know that we can call one of y'all anytime of the day and y'all will answer your phones. We're all grateful for the hospitality y'all always give us. Y'all treat us like family. Thank y'all for what y'all do."
I smile and wink at him. We finish up and start to eat. Then we clean the building and I head to my house to get ready for tonight.