Honor or Love

Chapter One: Sammys Snack Shop

I get off the plane from the army and I am immediately rejoiced in a hug from my crying father. I start to bawl my eyes out too. I haven't seen him since last year at Christmas time. "How've you been, Tony? You hurt anywhere?!" he says frantically searching me for any wounds. Laughing and fighting back more tears, "I'm fine dad, just a few scrapes here and there." " You don't know how much I've missed you son." I smile and we walk to my blue Chevy truck. It was a 2 hour drive and I slept most of it. By the time we get back home it's 11 am. "Son, could you go down to the store and buy some supplies to clean the horses with?" "Sure thing." I holler back. I get back in the truck and roll all the windows down to smell the summer air. It takes about 2 minutes to get to Sammy's Snack Shop since it's such a small town. I walk in and go straight to the horse snack section, grab the things I need, and a coke. I walk straight to the register and see the most beautiful girl I've ever laid eyes on and she's staring right back at me. "Uh excuse me..." I look at her name tag, " Isabella?" She smiled, "Hello, Did you find everything okay?" she asked while checking my items. "Yes thank you." "Are you just passing through or are you from around here?" I smiled and said, "Oh I'm here for the summer back from the army and I live up on that hill on the farm with my father." I said pointing out the window to my farm. "Oh I've never been there before, $5.47" I hand her the cash and grab my bag. I didn't want to not see her again so it came out before I knew it, "You could come up there later this afternoon and I could, um, show you around." I paused, "If you want to." She smiled with her pearly white teeth. She had the most shiny blonde hair ever and little perfect freckles. "I would love that," she said giggling, "but I never caught your name?" I smiled back, "It's Tony."