Here's the first chapter in my new story! I'm excited for it and I really hope you all like it. It is the sequal to Unexpected Love and I ask that you read that first if you haven't already :) Please read and review. Suggestions are welcome :)

Chapter 1

It had been months since I had seen the bright Nevada sky. Months since I had walked on that hard ground. Since I had ridden my horse around that green pasture. Months since I had seen him. And months since I had touched him and looked into his eyes. Every day I missed it, wished that I could go back there again and stay there with him.

Ross.

He's the reason why I yearn for that place. He's the reason why I'm doing so much better back at home. I tried harder in all my classes. I reconnected with my friends, my true friends. I even picked up my old sport of softball, playing for a fall ball team. My family was happier and I was better, but I was not completely happy.

Ross and I wrote weekly, whenever His letter would come, I would sit down immediately and write back. My friends would say that it was weird that we would write to each other instead of taking on the phone or texting but, I thought it was sweet. It felt realer to write to him, more heart-felt. Yes it was old fashioned taking the time and writing it all out, but it felt better to just getting your feeling onto one paper, more than one most of the time.

Two weeks before Thanksgiving, I wrote to Ross. It had been four months since we had seen each other and I missed him like crazy.

Dear Ross,

How are you doing? I miss you. I miss everything about you. Your smile, your eyes, your laugh. And especially the way you make me feel, as if the worst thing could happen in the world, but none of that could touch me because you are there protecting me and giving me strength. I hit a homerun for you the other day. The ball had Slocum's face all over it! LOL. How's my horse? Is she doing okay? Making tons of progress I hope. And how is everyone on the ranch? Especially baby Cody now that winter's coming. Write back soon.

All my love, Lea

Dear Lea,

I'm doing fine. I miss you crazy. Every day I think about you and I wait for your return. I look at your horse and I think about how beautiful you looked sitting on her. She's doing okay, but she hasn't been grazing as much. Dallas says it's because she's lost her best friend. I know how she feels. The moments that I'm with you, the world seems to light up and everything feels right again. I'm glad to hear you hit that. Next time go for Darrell. He's been hanging around here too much lately. Cody is, well, he's such a feisty little thing. Pulled Blaze's tail a time or two. I'll wait for your response.

With all my heart,

Ross

P.S. Be patient my love.

The day I received this letter was the day I got a very important phone call from Sam. Sam and I talked almost every week on the phone. Sometimes she would be with Jen or Brynna. Brynna would ask how school was going and if I was staying out of trouble. And even though I never talked to Jake on the phone, mainly because he always refused, I always made sure to send a "hey" his way.

But this time, Sam wanted to talk about getting Ross something for Christmas, to surprise him with. This present included one "package" delivered on a nonstop flight from Rhode Island to Nevada on Christmas Eve day. She was getting him me!

Sam told me every detail of her plans. Her parents already knew and had completely agreed. I would arrive at 2 o'clock, if the weather held out and only Ross would be there to pick me up. He would think that he would be picking up Sam's Aunt Sue for the Forster's and that only he was able to do it because everyone else would be busy. Sam, Brynna, and Grace would be out shopping for her arrival. Dallas, Wyatt, and Jake would be checking cattle. And Pepper would be visiting back home. Ross wouldn't be going with them out on the range because they needed to do this and they would say they could spare him for a little while.

Ross would come to pick up "Aunt Sue," but he really would be getting me. The perfect surprise.

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