Home is where the heart is

[Lexus]

Levi had indeed found the calf but not until way past dark. His mother had asked him to pick Ryan but the calf to him was more of a priority. He managed to rope her and bring her back home. Putting Jax back into the barn he dismounted him and headed inside where he could smell dinner.

 

[isax]

Ryan was dropped off by her uncle at the ranch but she didn't go inside. She sat outside in the back and stared at the sky as the stars started coming out. What was she doing? Who was she? Why did she have two sides to her? Why couldn't she just get rid of this country side of her. She didn't belong here. She was a city girl.


Eventually she decided to walk inside and smiled at the family who was already eating. She had grime all over her face and her hands were a mess. She didn't get to clean up before coming. She walked to the room she was staying in then went to the shower and washed up. This wasn't her.


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[Lexus]

Levi turned his head at the sight of her and held back his laughter because he knew his mother would glare at him for it. Ryan was an interesting character and just to get on her nerves he decided in the morning he would show her what real country living was. He would love to see her cover from that because he knew now she was fighting who she was.

 

[isax]

Ryan didn't eat dinner that night. All she wanted was to be alone and sleep. She was just in deep thought and as morning came, she didn't hear the family for once, but then again she had her headphones in and was listening to music. She was exhausted and stayed asleep. She needed to find a way back to the city and quick.


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[Lexus]

Levi finished his breakfast and ran up the stairs. Before he entered he knocked. Upon entering he finished the biscuit in his hand and ripped the blanket from the bed. "Morin' sleepy head, rise and shine there are things to do today."

 

[isax]

When Ryan felt the blanket ripped from the bed, she opened her eyes and gave Levi a death glare. She wasn't the nicest girl in the morning. "Leave me alone." She said and took out her headphones as she turned to where she hid her face in the pillow. She wasn't going to budge.


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[Lexus]

Levi laughed at her stubbornness. "You sure aren't from here," he says tossing the blanket to the floor. "If you sleep all day the spiders will come back." He laughed when she jumped up at this. "Come on, you're spending the day with yours truly."

 

[isax]

She jumped from what he said but she looked at him and sighed. "Nobody wants to spend the day with a redneck like you." She said and put her face back in the pillow. She refused to get up. She was tired. She notice he was still looking at her and groaned. "Fine I'm up. Get out so I can change."


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[Lexus]

"I'll be waiting, you have five minutes." He informs her before leaving the room to go get another biscuit with jam. Shelly saw him walk down the stairs and shook his was. "What are you up to?" Levi just flashed a smile. "Just showing her what she's missing."

 

[isax]

Ryan rolled her eyes and threw on a pair of her miss me jeans with a tank top and a cardigan. She put on her converse and sighed as she looked at her hair. She didn't have time to straighten it so she just threw it in a messy side braid. Soon she walked down the stairs and sighed but smiled at Bella and walked over, noticing she was drawing. "What are you drawing?" She asked her as she smiled.


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[Lexus]

Bella looked up at her and smiled as she handed her the drawing of her older brother. He was doing what he always did which was working with the animals. She looked up to her big brother.

 

[isax]

Ryan smiled softly and then looked at Bella. "Mind if I draw something?" She asked and when Bella shook her head, she drew a white mare on the paper. It was detailed but not as much as if she really worked on it. "There." She said and then looked up at Levi. "So where to?"


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[Lexus]

Levi smiled at his little sister and took the picture from her. Levi watched Ryan with interest not only because her drawing was impressive but she actually paid attention to his little sister. "You'll see but you should know you're a little over dressed. Putting a hat on his head he headed for Loretta, opening the passenger seat door for Ryan first.

 

[isax]

"This is far from over dressed." She told him and sighed as she followed him out to Loretta then got in. "Wow, the cowboy knows his manners." She said and giggled as she yawned. She was still tired. What could he possibly have in mind for them to do. She got in the truck and then sighed as she put in her seat belt.


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[Lexus]

"Of course, that's why I'm so irresistible." He says with a cocky laugh. Not long after they arrived at their destination, a river with nothing but a rope hanging from a tree. "Come on." Levi says with a wave of the hand he ran for the river. He watches as she watched him hesitantly. Undressing he revealed he had swimming shorts on under his pants and he tossed his flannel shirt to the side now in an undershirt he ran for the rope and swung from it, hitting into the the ice cold river.

 

[isax]

"You're crazy if you think I'm doing that." She called out but couldn't help and laugh at him. He was kinda cute but she refused to jump in the river. She didn't have anything to jump in the river anyways. "How's it feel?" She called out again. She wrapped her cardigan around her body as she smiled at him. If he was trying to bring out the country in her, it wasn't going to work.


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[Lexus]

"You tell me." He says walking up behind her, wrapping his soaked wet arms around her and laughed as she screamed from just how cold it was. He wasn't going to give up, she was going to accept who she was.

 

[isax]

The minute she felt his soaking arms wrap around her, she screamed from exactly how cold it was. "Levi let me go!" She screamed and began to shiver. The river was really cold but honestly it wasn't that cold. "Look at that, you got my wonderful cardigan wet." She said with a sigh. Her fifty dollar cardigan.


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[Lexus]

"Oh it's just clothes." He says letting go of her and shaking the wet water from his hair in her face while he laughed. Quickly ran for the rope again, this time making s big enough splash to soak her, when his head came back above water he laughed.

 

[isax]

"You didn't pay a hundred dollars for this whole outfit." She said until she became soaked. She began to shiver and she became annoyed. "I don't like you." She told him and took down her hair and re-braided it. She then walked off in annoyance. She hated the country. She hated this so much.


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[Lexus]

Levi sighted and changed into dry clothes before he ran after her. If he lost her his mother might kill him. He let out a sigh he never meant to upset her. Figuring she had had enough red just drove her home. He did all he could and honestly it didn't matter to him if she happily left back to her city life.

 

[isax]

Upon arriving back at the ranch, she got out of the truck and slammed the door. She walked inside, still shivering and then went up to her room. She grabbed a new pair of clothes and decided to take a warm shower. She let out a frustrated sigh. She would never be country. Why couldn't Levi get that through his head? She wasn't meant to live here. She didn't belong here. She just wanted to go back to the city.


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[Lexus]

Levi sighed in annoyance at the city girl. Everyone here was simply being nice as they were all raised to and she had nothing but annoyance for anyone who passed her way. To calm himself e went and mounted Jax and went riding far off the edge of the property. Hours had passed and he never made it home, when darkness fell his mother began to become worried and Vella seeing how upset her mother was after a crew went to look for her brother began to cry.

 

[isax]

Ryan was notified of everything that happened and she felt terrible. This was her fault. She made him annoyed and frustrated. She gave Bella a hug and assured her he would be okay and they would find him. She looked at Shelly and nodded as she pulled on her boots. She was now wearing her jeans, a flannel and her boots. "I'm going after the crew. They're going one way, I'll go another. This is my fault." She told her and then ran out to the stable and easily mounted a mare. She hadn't gone riding in years but it all felt so familiar to her. As she noticed she went far off the edge of property, she called out his name. "Levi! Levi where are ya?!"


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[Lexus]

Shelly tried to convince Ryan it wasn't her fault Levi went out on his own all the time. Jax was a horse that didn't let anyone might him but Levi so it brought alarm when Shelly watched him come running home, alone.