"Erin?!" It was Sam that was in the driveway in the driverside of Bumblebee. The girl that Sam used to knew a long time ago now owned the place where she grew up at. She had two horses, a new barn on the place. He shakes his head and looks over at Bumblebee that was already heading in the direction of a song that was coming from behind the barn.
Well the note said you've had time to think about it
Looks like to me you're feeling kinda crowded
You're not looking for anything permanent here
So my Rodeo's packed and it's in goodbye gear
So I shot down to the Longhorn Diner
Her sister works there and she'd know where to find her
She said you did not hear this from me
All I'll say is momma's got that place out in Monterey
Oh, how fast can I go
Gotta catch that little red Rodeo
She drove off with my heart I got to let her know
Need the girl in that little red Rodeo
Texas plates, candy apple red Rodeo
Two towns back I showed your photograph
And the gas station man just started to laugh
She said I might see you in this old bucket of rust
And said "Good luck boy just follow that cloud of dust"
Oh, how fast can I go
Gotta catch that little red Rodeo
She drove off with my heart I got to let her know
Need the girl in that little red Rodeo
Texas plates, candy apple red Rodeo
Erin was riding her buckskin mare named Dusty and her other mare named Rain that was tied up to the fence. Her face was dead serious in the arena. She took her buckskin mare in the box that was ready for her to rope a calf and Will was operating the shoot. Erin nods her head and Dusty runs after the calf. On the back of the mare Erin swings the rope and pulls on the slack that was in the rope and jumps off of the mare.
Maybe I was straddling the fence just like she said
It took her leavin' just to get it through my head
She's the one and only it's over, that's it
I'm committed I'm in love and I'm desperate
She's a good ways gone but I'm closing the gap
If I have to I'll chase her clear across the map
Oh, how fast can I go
Gotta catch that little red Rodeo
She drove off with my heart I got to let her know
Need the girl in that little red Rodeo
Texas plates, candy apple red Rodeo
Yeah, how fast can I go
Gotta catch that little red Rodeo
She drove off with my heart I got to let her know
Need the girl in that little red Rodeo
Texas plates, candy apple red Rodeo
Oh, how fast can I go
Gotta catch that little red Rodeo
She drove off with my heart I got to let her know
Need the girl in that little red Rodeo
Texas plates, candy apple red Rodeo
She grabs the calf and flips it on the side so she could do a hui on three of the calves legs. Erin throws up her hands in the air and walks back towards her horses. She gets on and waits for Will to undo the hui that she did on the calf's leg after he did the rope that was on the calf's neck.
"What's the time?" Erin asked Will. Her boss shakes his head and showed her the stop watch. She jumped down off the horse and hugs Will and he hugs her back.
"You have a five second penalty, added to your time. Broke the barrier, Erin." Will added after the hug. Erin face went red and she kicked the dirt in front of her and Will. Than added. "It's a ten second time penalty Will, not five?"
"ERIN!" The twenty-four year old spun around on her boots to see who yelled her name. Noticing who it was she ran over to the gates, and jumped it to hug her friends.
"Hey,I haven't seen you in a long time BB!" Erin pushes up her cowboy hat up a little more so she could see Bee and Sam. She hugs him and gives Sam a nod to him and he nods back.
"So how did you get these horses?" Sam asked. Erin turned red in the face and looked over at the two mares that were in the arena. She didn't think he would've noticed the horses, but he did.
"Well, you know where I got one." Erin told Sam. "Hey? Where's the rest of the gang?"
Will leans up against one of the gates that make up the arena. "I think they're taking the day off? You're not the only ones who needs a break every once in awhile." He told the two teens. Had he forgotten they're not teens anymore they're in their twenties now.
"Glad to see you two!" The twenty- four year old told her friends. She had her back turned when Sam asked "What did you do, stop fighting?" Slowly she turns around and pulls her hat down on her head more and said "What did you say?"
"I said what did you do, stop fighting or what?" Sam said again to Erin. Will chuckles at what Sam said before to Erin and now he's going to pay for it. The twenty-four year old girl throws a punch into Sam's nose. His nose begins to bleed and he begins to say "Okay, that's a no I take it then." Sam's friends smiled at him and she walked off.
Erin was over by her two mares and was talking to them both when she noticed a blur running towards her. She didn't have time to get out of the way before the blur came crashing into her. Erin's hat was knocked off her head and she landed in the dirt with another friend of hers. When she lifted her head up she about blow a gasket at who it was, it was Ratchet.
"Hey, Erin!" He said out of breath. She lets her head fall back in the dirt and mumbled hello back. "I was wondering if you're free to ..." Erin stopped him short because she got asked this a lot since she was the only chick that worked on a farm and had her mother's hot looks, that didn't help at all except get this question. Also she hated being asked it at the rodeos, and now its Ratchet that start asking the same things as everyone else does.
"Okay, here's my answer to your question no!" She said as she tried to get Ratchet off of her. He didn't budge. "Are you trying to get yourself killed because I'm about to kill you myself, Ratchet."
He got off of her and looked up, that was when he seen Will, Sam and Bumblebee looking at them.
"Way to go! You knocked my hat off, your lucky that I don't kill you right now in front of them!" Erin shouted at her friend who looked a little disappointed. "Oh! Don't you start that game with me! She added as she walked to her horses.
He started bugging Erin for the rest of the day and into the night with the same question that he asked earlier. Every time he tried to asked she ignored him or just kept her mouth shut like she normally does when someone asked a question because they know the answer to it already.
Erin was done feeding her horses and was walking to a paddock that had Will's horses. She knew all their names that was only because Annabella named one after her dad's truck and the rest she knew right away. She still had a dog that followed her and it was getting a little annoying to her, but she didn't show it on the outside but in the inside she was about to kill herself. Spinning around she was going to tell Ratchet to find another girl, but didn't find him right behind her.
"Oh, good I got rid of him. At last peace and quiet." She told herself.
Turning back around to continue her job she heard his voice. Clenching her teeth together she tried to keep her cool, but her temper was getting the better half of her right now. She looked at her friend in the eyes and told him to "Shut up!" His eyes were wide and he looked over at the radio that was playing Little Red Rodeo, again one a different country station than the on outside. It was about a girl that stole a guy's heart and she left him in love with her. He had to find her and tell her that he's in love with her, but every time he does she's already at another rodeo.
Ratchet tried to get her to say yes to him, but she kept threatening to kill him or beat him up. He'll have to find another way to get her to say yes to him, but how?
"Have to ask Jazz how he got Kyra as his mate or wife in this case?" He mumbled to himself. When he reaches the base he looks for Jazz. Asking around, he finds out where Jazz was at. Walking to the first lieutenant that was with his wife, Kyra.