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Chapter 1 "Who are you?"
Kit goes to a rodeo championship in Arizona and meets Molly Parker, a 17 almost 18 year old girl, who has traveled with her father rodeo to rodeo all her life and is a talented barrel racer/roper with her horse, Honor. He instantly is attracted to the girl but the regular cowboys warn him away from her, she's too young they say, her father would kill you. But yet he finds himself running into her every day of the competition and realizes he wants to get to know her.
Tuesday September 20th, 2pm, Kit POV
After hours of travel, we finally arrived in Desert Valley, Arizona for the small time rodeo championships.
We pulled up to the fairgrounds, where the rodeo would be held and got out to stretch. I could see a couple of cowboys by the chutes watching a rider out in the arena, looking at my watch I could see it was early afternoon, probably someone practicing. I thought with a smile.
I saw Jason, a friend of mine who was also riding in the championships, wave to me. I started walking over to him. "'Bout time you got here Ely."
I grinned. "I just got done riding in California. One little rodeo before these championships."
"I heard you won another belt buckle." Jason grinned back at me. I looked down at my jeans where I wore my new belt buckle.
"Yep, I'm wearing it now." He looked down.
"Looks nice."
"I thought I earned it enough after riding that bronc." I chuckled. Jason chuckled along.
"Crazy Wasp. That horse is a maniac." Jason agreed.
"I can still feel his bucks."
Jason chuckled again then I nodded towards the arena. "Who's that?"
"Molly Parker. Very talented barrel racer and roper for her age. She'll be competing in barrels." Jason informed me.
I watched her as she warmed up her horse. Beautiful grulla colored horse that had good movements, the girl had a good seat and as she turned her horse towards us, I could see her face.
She was beautiful, with her dark brown hair coming down past her shoulders and her smile on her face as she cantered. She cantered past us and I saw more of her features. Big brown eyes, normal nose, wide smile.
"Looking good honey!" I heard a guy shout and looked farther down to see a guy in his late thirties sitting on the fence, watching her.
Jason caught my stare. "That's Molly's father. You might know him, Hal Parker, champion roper."
I did know him. Guy was an amazing roper, surprisingly still roping. He's made it to the finals in Las Vegas plenty of times. "Guess riding and roping runs in the family." I commented.
Jason nodded. A guy on Jason's right leaned over. "Wonder if the mother was a roper too." The guy said.
Jason looked at him. "We don't really know anything about her mother. I heard once that he was dating this girl, they broke up, she found out she was pregnant, nine months later the baby came along she found him on the road and left the baby with him, never to be seen or heard from again."
The guy whistled. "Bet that was a hell of a surprise for him." We all nodded in agreement.
After that, I tuned Jason and the guy out, watching Molly. You could tell she was a good rider just by watching her. Good seat, soft hands, nearly invisible cues to the horse. You could also tell the rider and horse had a good bond, they were so much in sync with each other.
We all watched silently. I don't know what it was about this girl but she had something that made everyone want to watch.
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Molly POV
I cantered Honor around the arena as everyone watched. I smiled, I knew most of the cowboys sitting on the rails that were watching me.
As I passed Jason, one of the bronc riders I knew very well, I saw a face that looked familiar but I couldn't place the name. He had black hair, medium tan skin, 6foot, and was wearing jeans, a white short sleeved t-shirt and his black cowboy hat.
"Looking good Honey!" I heard my father shout and I turned my attention back to Honor. I could feel the excitement coming from Honor at the sight of the barrels sitting in the arena. Honor honestly loved to barrel race, she had so much heart and talent at it too.
I turned Honor fast towards the first barrel and she took it on eagerly. She continued like this until after the third one and we turned towards the gates, running.
She slid and stopped right in front of them, just like a pro. I smiled at Henry, one of the pick up cowboys, who opened the gate for me. "Thank you Henry."
"That was a good ride out there, Molly." Henry smiled back. Before he could say anything else my father was beside me.
"Well done, Mol. You both looked great out there. Honor is in top shape." My father smiled at me and so quick that I wasn't sure, gave Henry a dirty look.
"Thanks Dad...hey do you know who that cowboy is next to Jason? I don't recognize him."
My father looked at him. "Oh that's Kit Ely, good bronc rider. We've seen him ride once or twice, you remember?"
And once he said his name, I did. Most of the time when I watched Jason ride, Kit was riding too.
"Yeah. I guess I just didn't recognize him." I was looking at him now. My father grabbed my hand and I looked down at my father.
"Molly, I don't want you around him. He's older, about twenty five and he's got other things than just talking on his mind..so you stay away from him okay?" My father said quietly.
Instantly, I knew I was going to talk to him. My father telling me not to, made me want to. Plus, I wanted to talk to him about his bronc riding, I mean really, was he going to get me "into bed" by just me asking him questions? Sometimes my dad really overreacted. Any time any of the guys from Rodeos would talk to me, Dad would flip out.
I nodded. "I'm going to cool Honor out Dad, you should go check on Shadow." I was referring to Dad's roping horse, Shadow.
"I might just do that, remember Molly, stay away from him." Then my father left. I turned Honor towards Jason.
"Hey Jason!" I called to him when my dad was out of sight. Jason looked up with a smile.
"Hey there, Molly. You and Honor looked good out there! I'd say you're ready for the finals!" Jason told me.
"Thanks! I think I'm ready but you know, I'll be a mess by morning when they start."
Jason laughed. "I know what ya mean, I still get that way about rodeos."
I smiled at Jason, then at Kit. "Kit Ely, right?" I dismounted Honor and held my hand out to Kit.
"You know me?" Kit's face was shocked.
I giggled once. "Doesn't a lot of people? I mean you're a really good bronc rider."
Jason groaned. "Oh great, his ego just got ten times bigger, Molly."
I laughed as Kit glared at Jason. "What ego?" Kit asked.
Jason just shook his head and Kit turned back to me. "So you're Molly Parker?" I nodded.
Kit grabbed my hand and shook it. "Nice to meet you Molly."
"You too...Can I ask you some questions about your riding?"
"'Course you can."
So I started asking him all the questions and we talked for awhile. I didn't notice when Jason left or when all the other cowboys left, all I knew was when we stopped talking for a minute, I saw no one and Honor was grazing peacefully beside me.
"Oh my God, where did everyone go?" I looked around, amazed. Hopefully my dad didn't see us.
"I guess they left. Wow, I didn't notice anyone leaving either.." Kit chuckled. "We were really into our conversation."
I nodded. "Well I better un-tack Honor and put her away, then better get to my classes."
"Classes?" Kit asked, curious.
"Oh, yeah I take online college courses since we travel a lot to rodeos..."
"Yeah? What for?" Kit was curious again.
"Riding Instructor." I blushed.
"That's nice, you wanna teach kids?"
I nodded. "I want to teach kids all about rodeo and horse care. I want to have my own ranch one day."
"Well Molly I hope, very much, that your dreams come true like mine have." Kit smiled at me and I blushed again.
"Rodeo is your dream?"
"Yep, it always has been. Now I'm living the dream." Kit laughed.
"It's amazing isn't it?" I was talking about the rodeo.
"It is. My family doesn't understand it as much as I do...but they understand I love it more than anything." Kit was being honest and I liked that, that he could tell me that.
"Where are you from?" I asked.
"A small town called Darton, in Nevada..How about you?"
I shrugged. "I'm not sure. I've traveled all my life with my father..I've never had a place to call home, to call mine."
Kit was shocked. "Really? You've never stayed in one place?"
I nodded. "I've been a rodeo girl ever since I was a baby."
"That must be hard." Kit frowned.
"I have no clue what a home is..so I don't know what I'm missing..so not so much." I shrugged again.
"Have you ever thought about stopping the rodeo life? Getting your own apartment, going to a real college?"
I looked at Kit and I stared right into his eyes. "No, have you?"
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Kit POV
I looked at Molly for a second before answering. "No..I haven't."
"Guess we're addicted to this kind of life." She smiled.
I laughed. "Guess so." I still had to get a hotel room so I unfortunately had to say goodbye. "Molly, it has been really nice talking to you...but I have to go grab a hotel room before they're all taken...so maybe I could talk to you tomorrow?"
"Yeah, of course. See you tomorrow." Molly hesitated then left.
"That's bad Kit." I heard Jason's voice from behind me, I whirled around at his voice.
"What's bad?" I asked.
"You shouldn't get involved with Molly." Jason sighed.
"I'm not involved with her—we were just talking." I snapped, pissed at Jason.
"I saw the way you were looking at her while she was talking. You like her. But let me tell you something, her dad will kill you if you try to get with her. He's very protective of her." Jason told me.
"How old is she?"
"Seventeen." Jason said.
I grimaced. I was twenty five... "But wait, she said she was taking college courses?"
"She got her GED once she turned sixteen. Started taking classes online right away." Jason explained.
I still felt a bit angry. "I'm not trying to get with her, I was just talking to her."
Jason relaxed. "Look, I'm just warning you. I don't want you to get the shit beat out of you by her dad."
"Don't you talk to her?" I asked. Why would her father have a problem with me, but not Jason?
"I have my girl, Lynn, back home. Molly and Hal both know her and know how committed I am to her. Hal knows I have no interest in Molly, she's more like a best friend, a little sister to me." Jason shrugged.
"All I want to do is talk to her. She seems like an interesting person." I looked down, trying to remember the last time I had said those words. That I really wanted to get to know a girl and not get to know her in a different way then just talking to her.
Jason smiled. "She is. Why do you think her father is so protective of her? Most of the guys do like to talk to her and hell, she's not so bad looking either."
Jason was wrong. She was beautiful, in that cowgirl way every cowboy loved. "But listen, if you can promise me that all you wanna do is talk...I can maybe arrange something. Lynn is supposed to be here tomorrow morning and is staying for the rest of the week. I could convince her father to let her go with Lynn and I to dinner or the movies and you could tag along."
I rolled my eyes. "I'll think about it."
I told Jason goodbye and headed towards the hotel beside the fairgrounds, thinking the whole time about how I could meet with Molly without her dad finding out.
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A/N: Hey all readers! Sorry it took so long to post the first chapter but it's finally up and I hope you enjoy! I know it might seem a little out of character for Kit but as we go along, I'll try to keep up with his character. I'll try to UD soon but I have my other stories to UD first and I've officially started on a Chloe/Bryan story from RP.
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