Chapter 1
Golden rays of sun shone through my bedroom window. The sun has just had began to rise over my family's ranch, Heartland. I love everything about mornings here, there is anything for me to dislike. I got to be with the people and horses I love 24/7 and nothing was going to change how I felt about that, well except when school started up again in a few weeks, but why think about that?
I slowly dragged my feet out from under my warm covers and planted them gently and quietly on my cold hardwood floor trying carefully not to wake up my grand-pa and Lou as they still slept peacefully down the hall. As I slowly stood up I bent over to turn off my alarm clock before my real alarm could go off in 15 minutes. I quietly headed towards my bathroom, so I could pop in a quick shower before everyone else woke up and we were fighting for it. When I finished my shower and had headed back to my room I pulled a pair of dark washed fitted jeans from my drawer and slid them on, then I headed to my closet to get a shirt.
After a little bit of debating I finally settled on a dark purple V-neck and headed down stairs towards the kitchen. When I got there I was surprised to see muffins, toast, juice and jam already sitting on the table, maybe grandpa had already gotten up while I was upstairs and I just didn't hear him. As I sat down I noticed a sticky note attached to the jam jar.
Amy,
Take a long enough shower why don't we? :P I have already head out to do the morning feeds and chores, if your done getting ready and eating breakfast it would be much appreciated if you would join me :P
Ty
Ty is Heartlands lead stable hand, okay our only stable hand but he's still the best. Ever since Ty started working here he has had a great connection with the place and the horses. Even though me and Ty didn't exactly get along when he very first arrived me and him are now closer than ever, I guess you could even say he's my best friend.
I hurried to finish up my breakfast and then slid on my boots and my brown leather jacket and stepped into the crisp winter air to head off to the bar. As I was walking I could see Ty's navy blue truck sitting out front. I don't know how many times I have tried to convince him to get a new one, his was kind of starting to get ruined. But as he always told me " Come on Amy it's a classic you will never find another one like this" (A/N: Just going to say I LOVE Ty's truck I'm looking into getting one for myself, 1958 GMC apache 3 ) I guess there are just something's I can't talk him out of.
As I entered the barn I could see Ty leaned over some tack scrubbing it down. I knew I probably shouldn't but I was just so tempted to run up and scare him cause he would never see it coming, oh well I guess there are just somethings I can't talk myself out of either. I slowly approached Ty, from behind because he had his back facing towards me and his face turned so he could look out the door of the tack room.
"BOO!" I yelled as Ty jumped throwing a piece of tack up in the air and it landed smacking one of the stall doors, making Clover (the horse in the stall) freak. She had a fear of load noises.
"Holy Crap Amy! You scared me! I do most of your chores and this is the thanks I get!" Even though Ty sounded angry and me I could tell by the way he was looking at me and the way his lip was quivering that he found it almost as funny as I did.
"Okay, okay I'm sorry I just couldn't resist!" I said laughing
"That's it! Its payback time" Ty said as he jumped up from his stool and grabbed my arm and started tickling my sides. I tried to run away but he had such a type grip
"HAHA! TY STOP! I SURRENDER! HAHA…..TY STOP! I CANT TAKE IT ANYMORE!" and with that he spun me around to face him. I looked up so my stormy grey eyes were meeting his emerald green ones. I stared at him for some while, his brown hair just perfectly falling in front of his eyes. His slightly tanned and semi muscular arms still wrapped around me so I couldn't run. And then all I could think is "How could I have never noticed how perfect he is, his face is perfect, cheek bones perfectly chizzled and his body is fit and muscular but not so much that it's out of control but also not to small that it wasn't noticeable"
But my thoughts were interrupted when I heard Ty "Hello, Earth to Ames? "
"Oh sorry, what did you say I was kind of… lost in my thoughts"
"I said, can you get the feeds? The horses are getting anxious" I looked around to see the horses nudging at their feed buckets and pacing in their stalls.
"Oh yea, of course, but Ty…."
"Yeah?"
I looked down at his arms still around my waist "I need you to let go of me to do that"
He then looked down too "Oh yeah, sorry about that…." And with that, he let go and I don't know what it was but at that moment when he let go of me and walked away to collect the buckets, I couldn't help but have a feeling that I stilled wished I was wrapped in his arms.