You Belong To Me

Chapter Trey

'Just relax Ali,'
Trey...

When Adelaide announced that she had sat out some clothes for her to wear on her trip with the young master Ali has been both shocked and excited. She dressed in a cream colored form fitting dress with a sweetheart neckline and full sleeves to her wrists. It came very modestly cut below her knees with a very smart cape jacket cut just above her elbows. The collar was lined with fox fur and it came with both a matching creme fox fur box hat and saddle wood leather gloves. With it she wore three inch oxfords of the same brown and cream hue. Adelaide put her hair in a sweet braid and then pinned it onto a bun behind her right ear. She wore a reef of diamonds around her neck with a set of dazzling cluster earrings and a simple gold bracelet.

When she came downstairs Struthers was standing beside the front door but Trey was nowhere to be seen. "Do you know where we're going?" She asked curiously.

Rather than pretend she was beneath him or he was beneath her he actually answered. "The young lord says, and I quote, don't tell that nosy woman anything.'" He looked friendly and pleased with himself. There was a new air about everyone these days at the estate. People were more joyous and they spoke more often than they didn't. She raised her eyebrows at him and stepped out of the door he opened for her.

Trey was standing beside a very shiny black automobile with his hands folded behind his back. She looked around curiously for Theo as she approached. "Hello," she said carefully. She hadn't been being very nice to him of late. On occasion she ate breakfast or dinner with him. Sometimes they read together in the evening. Once she had even convinced him to play her a song he'd written as a boy on the piano in his bedroom. The conversation was practically nonexistent. He might ask something of her and once or twice she might ask something of him but there was nothing beyond their common companionship.

There was something comforting about that though. Ali anticipated him and their evenings together. She planned her bath around his own bathroom time. She turned off her reading light when he finally came to bed...

"Hello," Trey responded while walking to meet her a little.

Ali looked at the contraption behind him. "This is very beautiful."

He smiled at her. "You are very beautiful."

She blushed up at his face in the light of day. "Where's-?"

"Theo will not be driving today," Trey finished for her, taking her hand and leading her around to the other side. He opened the door of the driver's seat. "You will."

Ali looked floored. Her mouth hung open when she swung to look at him. "What?"

Trey looked most pleased and completely transparent. He was happy with himself. "I am going to teach you to drive."

Ali's grin broke across her face. She clapped her hands together and began jumping up and down. "Really?" she squealed. Her hands cupped over her mouth.

"Yes now get in before you get cold."

Ali did not hesitate even in step when she jumped into his arms in her excitement. She hollered in glee once, leaned back to kiss his cheek soundly with a very loud smack, and slid onto the leather seats. Trey closed her door and walked around to the other side.

It had been splendidly fun, the entire ordeal. He had shown her where all her mirrors were for seeing everything behind the car. Then he showed her what the difference between all the pedals were. Her favorite part had been the dashboard and all the different gauges until he had finally let her put the automobile into gear and ease off the brake pedal.

Trey said she was a very quick learner and that she had been his favorite pupil. Ali asked how many women he'd taught to drive and he responded with a huff that Ali had been the only woman he ever taught anything. She'd blushed into the windshield and kept her hands in the perfect acute angle on the wheel rather than respond. They did several turns around the koi fish pond before Trey had been comfortable enough to wave a hand for the gates to  be opened. Then they rode down the street that led to the market and town. In town they abruptly turned around because all the people and horses and children milling about made her nervous that she might hurt someone.