TITLE: Diary of a Country Barbie and a Cowboy
CHAPTER/TITLE: Chapter One/This is My Life
RATING: T (language and mature content)
SUMMARY: What does it take to be truly strong? How far would you go for love? How do you tell someone else about your life, your past, when you don't even know the first thing about yourself? This story follows Beau and Chiles post-movie, their struggles, their love, their journey together - and those they had apart. Can love survive? - Can they? Post-movie. Rated T for language and romance. Read, Enjoy, Review, Repeat.
A/N: First Country Strong fanfic, but most certainly not my first GH fanfic.
Chapter One: This Is My Life
When I was little, my mother used to sing me to sleep. I remember she would always smell like strawberries in the summertime. Her voice was like cream and no matter how tried I was, I would ask her to sing just one more time. I remember my father's porcupine chin rubbing against my forehead as he kissed me goodnight.
I remember the fading of my innocence.
I remember when the strawberries died and were replaced by stale whiskey and cheap cigarettes. I remember no longer asking her to sing. I remember when the porcupine no longer came.
I've spent a good majority of my life inventing a storybook family. I told these make believe dreams for so long that even I began to believe the candy-coated lies.
I forgot the way my cheek turned warm and red after my father's hand had grown tiresome of holding is PBR. I forgot what the biting bitterness and loneliness felt like. I forgot the hurt. Or at least, I thought I did.
It's a funny thing when you parents go to prison. Half the kids will tease you mercilessly until your tears feel like pieces of yourself bleeding out. The other half are too afraid of you to even spare you a glance. I knew the feeling of hundreds of eyes on me before I ever stepped on a stage.
Hello.
I'm Chiles Stanton.
This is my life.