Dixie cooed at the little girl in her arms. "She really does look like me!" Dixie thought as the little girl played with her mothers long wavy hair.
"Alright now, bed time my little Texas." Dixie said pacing the small girl in her crib gently next to her older twin C.j. (Cash jr. is his name but that's a mouthful!) She had auburn hair like her mother and amber eyes.
19 1/2 years later
Texas sat on the bed of her little apartment trying to think of how to tell her mother that she was...
Pregnant.
Flashback
"I love you Tex." Copper told his girl friend as they danced at senior prom. "I love you too Copper..."
That night was not one she wanted to recall but still did.
end flashback
She sat and looked at old baby pictures of her and her sibling. She tired to write a letter but it was useless she couldn't find the word to tell her mother.
'Dear Ma,
I need to tell-' Texas crumpled it up and tossed it to the end of the bed.
'Dear Ma,
I really need to tell you... I'm-' "No...
'Dear Ma,
I'm just goin' to come out with it I'm pregnant... that's why I ran away I'm five months and safe, don't worry. Tell the others I miss them and love them.'
Flashback
Texas walked quickly down the road from her former high school to where her boyfriend Copper lived.
She had just found out she was pregnant!
Knock, knock, knock-knock, knock!
"Texas!" Copper said opening the door. Instead of his brown tee shirt and blue jeans, he was dressed in a military uniform. "What are, what's with the uniform Cop?" Texas asked leaning in the door way.
"I gotta go to the training camp, I need to finish packing." He said.
"Please don't..." Texas asked quietly. "I have to! why do you ask?" Copper asked over his shoulder as he packed shirts, socks, and so on. "I'm pregnant..." She whispered barely audible.
"What?"
"I'm pregnant..."
Copper raked his hands through his hair and asked. "You are?" Texas nodded.
"I have to go!" Copper said cramming things in his bag quickly then running out the door.
She ran home in tears.
"Texas?" Dixie asked when she burst through the kitchen door but she was already up stairs packing a bag.
end flashback
Texas sent her mother the letter. and waited.
Three months passed and pain shot through her abdomen.
She made her way to the down town hospital, and was rushed to a delivery room.
Never before had she felt so scared.
"I wish mom was here..." She thought, but the chances of her mother coming were slim since she had to find her first.
Time passed and soon enough all the pain was over. The nurse passed her the crying little baby boy who she stared at. and he stared back with amber eyes like her.
He continued to fuss and cry, so she did the only thing she knew, something her mother had done with her little sister Opry.
"6 pounds and 9 ounces, lookin' up at me
Like I have all the answers
I hope, I have the ones you need
I've never really done this, now I know what scared is
Sometimes, I'll protect you from everything that's wrong
Other times, I'll let you just find out on your own
But that's when you'll be growin'
And the whole time I'll be knowin'
You're gonna fly with every dream you chase
You're gonna cry but know that that's okay
Sometimes life's not fair but if you hang in there
You're gonna see that sometimes bad is good
We just have to believe things work out like they should
Life has no guarantees, but always loved by me
You're gonna be
I'm afraid you'll have to suffer through some of my mistakes
Lord, knows I'll be trying, oh, to give you what it takes
What it takes to know the difference between getting by and livin'?
Cause anything worth doing is worth doing all the way
Just know you'll have to live with all the choices that you make
So make sure you're always givin' way more than you're takin'
You're gonna fly with every dream you chase
You're gonna cry, but know that that's okay
Sometimes life's not fair, but if you just hang in there
You're gonna see that sometimes bad is good
We just have to believe things work out like they should
Life has no guarantees, but always loved by me
You're gonna be
Someone's everything
You're gonna see
Just what you are to me
You're gonna fly with every dream you chase
We just have to believe things work out like they should
Life has no guarantees, but always loved by me
You're gonna be, always loved by me
You're gonna be, always loved by me~" Texas poured her heart into the song, so what if Chennai had a way better voice, she sung from the heart.
"I always knew you had a wonderful singing voice." Dixie said from the door, she had walked the hallways for a while and finally deiced to come in. She had heard the WHOLE thing. "Ma." Texas said tearfully, while rocking the little boy a bit.
Dixie held up the letter and smiled. Texas chuckled lightly not sure whether to cry or not as her mother walked into the room setting her purse on the foot of the bed and giving Texas a hug and a light kiss also on the verge of tears.
Texas lightly held up the little boy to give her other a better look. "He's got your eyes..." Dixie murmured running a hand gently across his cheek. "What're ya gonna call him?"
"Colten Nashville Hound..." Texas whispered.
Dixie just sat with her daughter the rest of the day talking about what had happened and cooing over Colten.
This is a One-shot for Texas Hound, inspired by... "Your gonna be" By Reba McEntire! One of my favorite singers!
Now just to let you know Opry is her younger sister by 16 years, she also has three younger brothers, the twins Tyler and Tucker who are ten years younger, and then the other twins Opry and Grand!
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