Every New Day
It was a peacful evening on river bend ranch. All the cowboys had ridden out for a week long ride to make sure the calving was going well. My stepmother Brynna was in Washington D.C For a conference and my Gram was in new Mexico for a cooking course in Mexican food. I had the ranch all to myself for the next week.
I was relaxing on the couch watching T.V when I heard the ranch dog, Blaize, begin to bark. I got up and walked through the door into the kitchen to look out the window. I smiled as I saw a familiar blue truck drive over the bridge. What's he doing here? I asked myslef.
I pushed open the screen door and steped onto the front porch and watched as my best friend, Jake, climbed out of his truck.
"Hey Jake! What are you doing here?" I asked as he walked towards the house.
"Thought I'd come over and keep you company." he said with a smile as he climbed up the stairs."I even rented a movie."
"Ouuuu really? Which one?" I asked excitedely. Jake had good taste in movies.
"Without A Paddle." he said with a wide grin. It was our favourite movie.
"Yay! Come on in and I'll make some popcorn. You have no idea how bored I was getting just sitting around watcing T.V." I said as I walked back into the house.
I went straight into the pantry and grabbed the box of popcorn. I walked across the kitchen and tossed it into the microwave. Once I turned it on, I turned around to face Jake and noticed that he was staring at me kind of funny.
"What?" I asked with a nervous laugh. He shook his head as if he were coming out of a trance.
"Oh, uh, nothing. Just kinda zoned out." he said with a sheepish smile. . Ok, thats just a little weird... I jumped as the microwave went off behind me.
"Yay, popcorn's ready!" I grabbed it out of the microwave and bounced into the livingroom. Jake walked in behind me, handed me the vidio, and plopped down on the couch. I put the movie into the DVD player and dropped down on the couch next to him. The menu screen came up and Jake pushed play on the remote.
We had been watching the movie and laughing our heads off for about half an hour. I noticed that Jake had slowly moved closer and closer to me on the couch. I thought nothing of it, after all, we were both doing a lot of moving around while we were laughing. Though I liked his closeness. I had secretly had a crush on Jake since I had come home from San Fransisco.
An hour and fifteen minutes later, the movie was over. It was now 9 'oclock.
"What do you want to do now?" Jake asked.
"Lets go hang out in my room and listen to music or something." I said as i stood up off the couch. I was about to walk up the stairs when i heard a knock on the door.
"Who could that be at this time of night?" Jake asked as he headed toward the front door.
"I don't know." I said as I turned away from the stairs and followed him towards the door. Once we reached it, Jake pulled it open to reveal our other two best friends, Darrel and Jen.
"Hey Guys!" Darrel said as he walked over the threshold with a big goofy grin on his face.
"Hey Dar." Jake and I said in unison.
"Lookie what have." he said with a sly grin, raising his left hand, which Jake and I just noticed was holding a case of beer.
"Dude, these two are a little young for drinking." Jake said while looking at Jen and me.
"Well they need to get their alcohol tollorance up somehow and it's better they do it while we're around instead of at some party where a guy can take advantage of them." Darrel said with a serious face. There was a pause before all four of us burst out into laughter.
"Mhmmmm more like you wanted to get shit faced and this is the only place you could go to do it." I said with a grin.
"Ya, I can't believe I held that straight face through the whole thing. I'm the best fucking actor there ever was!" said Darrel whiping a teas of laughter from his eye.
"Well alright, let's go into the living room and see if there's anything on T.V." I said as I took the case of beer out of Darrels hands. We headed into the livingroom and I placed the case of beer on the coffee table. Darrel turned on the tv and began flipping through the channels.
"Gah, there's nothing good on." Darrel said, turning off the tv and tossing the remote onto the table.
"Well then," I began to open the case of beer," we'll just have to talk. Even though thats impossible for Jake." I said while passing him a bottle of beer.
"Har Har, very funny Sam."
Within the next two hours, almost all the beers were gone. Jen and Darrel were passed out on the couch. "You can go sleep in the guest room Jake." I said as I unsteadily got to my feet.
"Ok." We began to make our way upstairs. "You wana know a secret Sam?" Jake asked when we got to the landing at the top of the stairs.
"Sure." I said as I sat down before I fell all the way back down the stairs.
"I love you. As more than a friend."
"You know what Jake? I love you too." Next thing I know, we're laying in my bed, taking off our clothing piece by piece. You're gonna regret this...said a little voice in my head. From there, everything is a blurr.