You're leaving? (A 1x1 with Lexxy)

[isax]

Ashley sighed and looked at Clay. "Honestly Clay. I do love my job I just...." She said and sighed again. "Rylan and the twins told me one night that I spend way to much time at the school and because Rylan knows about me almost dying there, he's scared it will happen again and me just being there terrifies him." She said and laid back in Clay. "I don't know what to do." She told him and sighed again.

 

[Lexus]

Clay nodded and assessed her words. "So if it makes you happy do it. Maybe do it a little less than you used too, but still do it. Rylan will leant no matter where you go things are always a possibility and if I brought you out of a burning building once I'm sure I could do it again."

 

[isax]

Ashley laughed and shook her head. "I think I'll just let this job go. Maybe do something else until all the kids are old enough for college." Ashely told Clay and just sighed. This was a hard decision. She didn't know to do.

 

[Lexus]

Clay shook his head. "You worked so hard and now you just want to let it go?" He turned away when he started to cough again and then turned towards her when it stopped. "I know it means a lot to you, it's who you are." She was a natural at what she did and he would hate to see her give it up.

 

[isax]

Ashley sighed and looked at Clay. "Id do whatever to make my family happy." Ashley said with a smile. That was another reason she didn't want to suggest moving out to the country. She knew her family was city and belonged here. They belonged nowhere else.

 

[Lexus]

"That's the point Ash, you do everything possible to make everyone else happy, what about you? When are you going to do something to make yourself happy?" The two of them had this conversation when they were younger but it was still a valid point. "If anything you deserve your happiness over anyone else with what you've been through."

 

[isax]

Ashley sighed and looked at the ceiling. "I guess I'll never do anything to make myself happy. I married you, that made me happy. Does that count?" She asked him and then just sat up and sighed. "I've already applied for a different job Clay. I'm just waiting to see if I got the job or not." She told him then smiled. "I just want the kids and my family happy. I don't blame them for thinking I left them for my job. I don't want them feeling unwanted." She told him. There it was. She didn't want her kids to ever feel like what she did before she met Clay.

 

[Lexus]

"Ahh, so there it is, you don't want them to feel the way you did." He pointed a finger at her. He now understood and let out yet another sigh. "Ashley, our kids will never live or feel the way you did, I won't allow it. They have no reason to feel that way, they have had a better life growing up than we both did. But because you don't want then to feel that way doesn't mean you have to sacred ice what you want for yourself for them. We'll all be okay, we're a family and you don't deserve to be unhappy, not ever again." He pulled her away from that life he didn't want her to go back into if

 

[isax]

"I'm far from unhappy Clay. I would never be unhappy I just think this is what's right. You know I'm not one who thinks for herself." Ashley said with another sigh and then laid down next to him. She closed her eyes and sighed. "I just want my family happy." She whispered and slowly began to fall asleep.

 

[Lexus]

Clay gave up the discussion for now. She was failing asleep and he knew how stubborn she could be, he needed and wanted to sleep anyway. He didn't pull her closer because he didn't want her to get sick but he did take her hand and watched her sleep until he fell asleep himself.

 

[isax]

Ashley woke up later that day and smiled when she felt her husbands hand in hers. Her phone rang and she got up to look at it. It was the job she interviewed for. She walked out of the house and went to answer it. She got the job and she was excited.

 

[Lexus]

Clay awoke confused because his wife was gone, he leaned over and looked out their bedroom window to see her in the front yard. He smiled at the sight if her and got up to go find some food since he had yet to eat today.

 

[isax]

Ashley walked back in and smiled at Clay then went to the kitchen. "Hungry? I have some chicken made that I can heat up for you." She told him with a smile and then went to the fridge.

 

[Lexus]

"I'm sick, not paralyzed." He says taking the container from her and heating up his food on his own. "So what's up with you?" He ask tapping the fork between his teeth and smiling at her. He still read her without even trying it came natural after being married 17 years.

 

[isax]

"I got that other job I was talking about." She told him and smiled. Yes, another job, out in the country. She was excited. She was getting paid to give horse back riding lessons. She did get paid 11 an hour.

 

[Lexus]

Clay smiled back at her, the excitement in her eyes making his smile brighter. "Congrats, if I wasn't sick I'd kiss you." For a moment he turned to the microwave to grab the chicken and then turned back to her again. "Doing what?"

 

[isax]

"Horse back lessons." Ashley told her husband and smiled softly. She was excited for this. Yeah she would miss the university and teaching the kids but she was content with being out in the country.

 

[Lexus]

"Ahhh I should've suspected that." Clay says starting to eat the chicken and as he thought he looked up to her again. "But that's a long drive to work and back, don't ya think?"

 

[isax]

"It's do able." She told him and smiled softly. "It's not all that way out in the country. It's just 30 minutes away from here." She told him and smiled again as she looked up at her husband. She would find a different job if she needed to.

 

[Lexus]

"I don't see why you just won't let me take you home where you belong." Clays hook his head knowing how stubborn she was being. "The kids would love it there so I don't know why you think they wouldn't."

 

[isax]

"Because I know deep down our daughter is not a country girl. She's a city girl." She told him and then sighed as she went and sat at the island. "I gotta keep everyone happy Clay and Allie wouldn't be happy if we moved out there."

 

[Lexus]

Clay rolled his eyes and set down the fork. "Allie will be fine, she'll eat used to it and she'll be fine, she's more country than she let's on. She just wants to fit in and she doesn't know she would more than fit in there.

 

[isax]

Ashley sighed and shook her head. "It's fine Clay. Plus this is the house you built for us. I'm not moving." She told him and that was final. She'd feel terrible if they moved to the ranch. Clay spent all this time making this house for them and they just moved out of it? She wasn't having it.

 

[Lexus]

"You're so stubborn Mrs Waters." Clay finished his food and rinsed the plate in the sink. "There's no winning with you is there?" He asks with raised eyebrows and a smile. He did win in getting her to give him a chance which if he needed to win an argument with her he was glad it was that one.

 

[isax]

"Nope. Not at all." Ashley said as she laughed softly and then smiled. "So I'll start the new job next week." She added. She was excited for this job. She was well with kids and horse back riding was easy for her too.