A little O'Delicious (A Heartland Story)

Chapter Fourteen

Calebs P.O.V

Everyone's standing around the kitchen, the topic of conversation Jolene she's  been worrying all of us. Even though we see her and she's here it seems like she wasn't. 

"This morning when I got up at 5:15 I looked out the window and there she was it looked like she had been out there for awhile" Jack chimes in

"When I got up at 4:45 to go to the washroom she was already gone" 

"Normally I deliver the breakfast to the cabins in the morning but this morning Cabin 4 let me know that she'd already been there as well as changed out their towels and put in a load of laundry...that was at 9"

"How is she doing all of this?" Asked Mallory

"She told me she would text me when she was available for practice as she was driving away I didn't get a vote training almost isn't fun anymore" Georgie says with a sad look in her eyes

"Most days she knows things before I do it's scary" Lisa says pouring herself a cup of coffee

"When I look at her I see the burn out there's no way one person can split themselves six different ways and not be exhausted" Amy says

"Why hasn't she said anything?" Asked Mallory

"Her whole life her parents never let her have a moment of rest they had her on the tightest schedule nothing could change ever. Sleeping, eating, showering had a time slot. She never wanted to disappoint her parents because they're so perfect and wanted her to be perfect. Apparently a few time she passed out because she was overworked. Maybe she feels like that with us that she wants to make us happy" Amy's voice is sad

"When did she tell you?" I asked she rarely spoke to me about her parents

"We were talking about some techniques she learned that I had never seen before then we talked about things we learned from our parents and she let it slip" She looked at me

"We need to change her work tasks a little bit free up her time because she won't ask to reduce her work load" Lou said

"I'll take her morning chore to free her mornings" I said

"I can help with that to" Mallory pipped up

"I can hire her an assistant to help her at the bar to take a load off" Lisa smiled

"I'll make sure to have breakfast ready in the morning so all she has to do is take it out" Lou nodded

Just then the door swung open and in walked the women of the hour she has a confused look on her face, she comes over to me giving me a quick kiss.

"Hey guys what's up?" She asks grabbing an apple off the table

"We need to talk about something with you" Jack smiles at her

"Oh my god did I leave a gate open or something this morning I am so sorry I was in such a rush I hope no one got out" She scrambled to get out

"No no not at all we just wanted to talk to you...about you" Jack spoke again she looked confused

"We don't want to take away any of your jobs but we would like to take away some of the jobs tasks to lessen your stress you need to relax. Everyone just kept pilling it on you with ought realizing it but we see it now" Lisa said

"What are you guys talking about I'm ok" She said with a smile but it was a tired one

"Jo c'mon your gone before I even get up in the morning, coming in after I've gone to bed, you've got all of your chores even some of ours done before anyone can even get started, then we blink and your off to Lisa's or the dude ranch" I said rubbing her back

"Jo let up help you please you've done so much for us the least we can do is take back some of the stress we put on you" Lou tried

"Are you sure?" She asked unsure looking around at all of us

"Of coarse sweetheart" Said Lisa with a smile

"Fine but if it gets to be to much I'm taking back my chores" She said we all laughed

"C'mon Georgie let's go do some training I was watching one of my old trick riding videos and there's something I wanna teach you it'll be fun we haven't done something fun in awhile" Jolene said motioning for Georgie to follow her

Watching Georgie's face light up at the thought of doing something fun was nice, we all went out to watch as Jolene showed the trick, her face is so happy it was so nice to see her happy doing something she loved.