Hey everybody! This is AlwaysBeenACowgirl, I used to be I Am A Cowgirl but I had a bad accident and stopped writing for a while, as you might have noticed with my own stories and One Hell Of A Summer with Horse-nerd. Well Im back to writing and here's a very short Chapter One of my new story By Your Side. Tell me what you think and if I should post my old stories! Love ya!
Chapter One
A dull red old ford pickup truck bumped down the bumpy drive of Riverbend ranch. It rolled over the rickety bridge and slid to a stop as the drive way met the farmhouse. The door opened and a cowboy stepped out. Lengthy black hair was tied back in a leather tie and a dark Stetson was placed over it, shading his eyes from view. He had a chiseled jaw and a cleft in his chin. He swallowed as he looked around, Adam's apple jumping in his throat.
Jacob Ely scanned the ranch yard. Everything felt so barren, so dead. There were no horses out to graze in the generous pastures, no sounds of cattle; chickens were oddly silent and unseen. Even Blaze, the border collie, wasn't present.
The screen door opened and Bryanna stepped out on to the porch, hauling suitcases behind her. One toppled down the wooden steps and burst open, throwing articles of clothing all over the cold ground. Bryanna crumpled to the floor, tears spilling from her blue eyes.
Uncomfortable, Jacob rubbed the back of his neck and started down the walk towards the opened suitcase. Bending down, Jacob started repacking the thick winter sweaters into the suitcase. At the sound of the scrapping suitcase on the brick of the walk Bryanna looked up startled.
"Jacob, what are you doing here?" Bryanna asked her voice squeaky from crying
"Thought I'd come over and see how you and Sam were doing." He said, zipping the suitcase closed and standing up to his towering height.
"I thought you were off visiting collages."
Bryanna stood up, tugging her hair behind her ears and pulled at her crinkled shirt.
"I was, I came back" Jacob then took an awkward pause before saying "when I heard, I'm sorry."