Taking a deep breath, the tall brunette woman placed her foot in the holster and tried to push herself up off of the ground. She was determined not to let her brand new enemy prevail over her, but she still found herself falling face first into the ground despite her best efforts. With a growl, she pushed a lock of brown hair out of her face and got back onto her feet, brushing the dirt off her jeans. Taking a deep breath, she slid her foot back into the holster and tried once again to swing her leg over to the other side.
"Lisa," she turned her head to see a tall muscular man standing with his hands in the pockets of his leather jacket. His dark hair was sticking up in the air as his brown eyes held amusement and walked quickly to her side. "If you need help getting onto the horse, all you had to do was just ask." He said with a tone of simple amusement.
Lisa Reisert was a stubborn, hard headed woman who disliked asking for help as she tried to swing her leg over the horse on her own once again but found to her astonishment that she had done so on the wrong side causing her end up sitting on the animal backwards. This action had spooked the horse, which in return jumped into the air and took off running out of the small wooden barn. Logan watched the scene, frozen momentarily at the sight of her sitting on the horse, backwards screaming fearfully. Trying not to laugh, he mounted his own horse and took off after her.
Finally, he managed to catch up with her horse and grab the reigns causing both horses to slow down. "This is not funny." She managed to say as he grabbed her hand and helped her onto his horse.
"Of course not, Leese," he said playfully. Once he finally got her firmly onto the animals back, he whistled to the horse which turned and galloped back into the small stable. Wrapping her arms around his waist she rested her head on his shoulder as the horse galloped across the small grassy field. He took her for a few laps around the area before they headed back to the stable.
"That was interesting, Lisa." He said as he helped her off of the horse.
"Of course, what kind of person would I be if I let you get bored?" She asked with a grin playing across her lips and began searching her pocket for her cell phone. "I can never find that thing when I need it." She muttered to herself before picking up her purse off the floor and began searching for it in there.
Tired of hearing her rummage through her purse, Logan let out a loud, exaggerated sigh and took the purse from her hands and began searching through it himself. "What's with all the pens?" He asked upon seeing the multiple writing objects that she kept in her purse.
"Girls got to have some secrets, right?" She asked with a shrug.
"Well, I think I found what you were looking for." He said producing a silver colored cell phone from her purse.
"How did you do that?" She asked, taking the cell phone from him she flipped it open and began searching through her messages.
"Guys got to have some secrets, right?"
"Very funny." Feeling satisfied after listening to her messages, she flipped the device shut and placed in her back pocket for safe keeping.
"So, when does your flight leave?" He asked, moving his head to the side and cracking his neck.
"Noon tomorrow," She answered, running her hand through her curls, "Are you sure you can take J.J. for the next couple of days?"
"I'm sure, Lisa. It's only going to be for a few days and then all I have to do is accompany him on his flight to Miami." Lisa could hear the dishonesty in his voice. It had only been a week since her ordeal with Jackson and Jonathan and within that time, Logan had found out just how much trouble J.J. can be but when she opened her mouth to protest, they were interrupted by the sound of someone clearing their throat. Turning, Lisa caught the sight of Scott Summers observing them, his eyes carefully obscured behind his usual sunglasses while he watched them intently.
"Miss Reisert, you have a visitor."
Here is the Prologue, the first chapter should be up soon. Please Review!
