Hi, my Days and Nights! So, this is chapter 2 of Days vs. Nights. We left off with Isaiah getting dressed. This chapter will once again be in Isaiah's POV, only because I love the way his thoughts of Lemons came out. Oh, and I will be alternating between calling Lemonisa Lemons, Nisa, and Nisie. The same goes for Tyvanna, I will alternate between Ty and Tyvanna. Lol, sorry, I was just laughing at my new curser. It's a sparkly picture of Michelle Obama. I'm not sure where I got the toolbar for that, so don't ask. Okay, so, On With It!
Copyright: If you take my story, I will be forced to track you down. You have been warned.
Getting to Work
I walked out into the barn and saw Ty and Lemonisa sitting on a haystack. Lemonisa had changed into a red plaid shirt that was tied up to show her stomach and some jean shorts. They were both stained with dirt, but it made her look good. Her hair was pulled up into two pigtails. Her back was to me. Tyvanna was wherein much the same as Lemonisa, but her hair was pulled up into a high ponytail.
"Hey, we ready to work?" I asked as I walked in.
They turned toward we, not have noticed me come in. "Yeah, let's get going," Lemonisa said and got up from hay. Ty followed. When they both turned to me, I was… well, shocked. They both had a nice set of abs, though I shouldn't have been shocked. They do work for hours a day on a farm. It would only be natural for them to be fit, even though I would expect the extra muscle to amount to extra height. She's just different.
"Come on, we'll work on the chickens first," Ty said as Lemonisa came over and grabbed my hand to tow me to the chicken coop. She opened the egg door and pulled me in. There was a hell of a lot of chickens in here. There was row after row of nests on there. Ty and Lemonisa reached over to a big bowl on a shelf and pulled out a handful of seeds. I did the same.
"Okay, just go to each chicken and give then 3 popcorn seeds, 'kay?" Lemonisa said. I nodded and got to work on the right wall. These chickens are pretty agitated with me, since they kept biting me and then took the seeds. The girls, on the other hand, had no trouble, whatsoever. They finished first. I finished about 5 minutes after.
"You're from the city, ain't you?" Ty asked with a smirk.
"Yeah," I said, rubbing my hand.
"No wonder you're not good with this stuff. But don't worry, we'll teach you to be an expert at virtually every job here on the farm," Lemonisa said.
"So, what's next?" I asked.
"Milkin'," they said together.
"So, to the farmhouse?" I asked. They nodded.
We headed in the direction of the farmhouse and when we got in, I was amazed. The inside was painted with cow spots. It was everywhere, even the ceiling.
"Yeah, we did this," Lemonisa said from beside me. "Took 2 months."
"It's just… wow," was my brilliant response.
"Why, thank you," they said in synch.
"You know what? I'm gonna call you two the Twins," I said. They chuckled.
"People already do," Lemonisa said. "Okay, here, I'll give you Baby to milk. She's gentle."
She led me to a cow that was about her height. It was defiantly not a baby. I sat down and they showed me how to milk a cow. All you had to do was squeeze and pull, and squeeze, and pull, and… well, you get the idea.
"Okay, so, we'll be over here on Bessie and Tulip if you need us. You'll find us easily. The stalls have the cow's names on them," Lemonisa said.
"Okay," I said. They walked away. I started milking Baby and she didn't seem to like me much. But she stayed still and let me milk her, nonetheless. Well, we did before I squeezed too hard. She mooed and bumped me with her side. I fell back and him my head on the side on the stall.
"Shit," I muttered as I rubbed the back of my head. I got up and walked out of the stall. And then I ran straight into Lemonisa. She knocked me over and fell right on top of me.
"Oops, sorry, Isaiah," she said and got up, pulling me up with her.
"No problem, even though I have a grudge against Baby now," I said, looked over at the stall.
"Yeah, I heard. What happened?" she asked and pulled me over to a stack of hay. She sat me down and I was surprised at how soft it was.
"I think I squeezed too hard, because she butted me. I fell back and hit my head on the stall wall." She giggled. "What's so funny?" I asked.
"First, you rhymed, and second, you are bad enough to make Baby mad. We need to do something with you," she said and laughed again. She pulled her iPhone out of her pocket and looked at the time. "Well, I'm done with Tulip, so I'll go and finish on Baby for you. You just stay here and rest. It sounded like you hit your head pretty hard," she said.
"Okay, thanks, I owe you," I said as she got up.
"Big time, dude, big time," she said and walked to the stall. I pulled my iPod out and put on The Ready Set's "Love Like Whoa". It was about halfway through the song that I felt someone sit down next to me. I opened one eye to see Lemonisa sitting next to me.
I took out the earphones. "What you listening to?" she asked. I gave her one of the earphones, "'Cause I got some intuition, but I may be superstitious. But I think you're a pretty sweet pill that I'm swallowing down. The counter is addiction. You got me on a mission. Tell me darling, can a get a break, somehow? Can I say no?" she sang along.
I joined in for the chorus. "She got a love like whoa, whoa, whoa. Girl's got a love like whoa, whoa, whoa. Ba, da, da. I gotta feel like it don't make sense. 'Cause you're bringing me in and not you're kicking me out again. Love so strong, then you moved on. Now I'm hung up in suspense. Because you're bringing me in and now you're kicking me out again. Because we, only have one life. The timing and the moment all seem so right. So would you say you're mine? We'll be just fine. Would you say you're mine? We'll be just fine. She's got a love like whoa. Whoa, whoa, oh. Girl's got a love like whoa. Whoa, whoa, oh. Ba, da, da. I gotta feel like it don't make sense. 'Cause you're bringing me in and then you're kicking me out again. Love so strong, and then you moved on. Now I'm hung up in suspense, 'cause you're bringing me in and then you're kicking me out again. She' got a love like whoa. Whoa, whoa, oh. Girl's got a love like whoa. Whoa, whoa, oh. Ba, da, da. I gotta feel it like it don't make sense. 'Cause you're bringing me in and then you're kicking me out again. Love so strong, and then you moved on. Now I'm hung up in suspense, 'cause you're bringing me in and then you're kicking me out again." When the song ended, we laughed. Yup, we just laughed for no particular reason. The next song was a "I Kisses a Girl" by Katy Perry. That just made us laugh harder.
"You… actually… have… this song?" she said between hysterics. "Only... girls get this song!"
"Well… excuse me… Miss… Judgmental," I said. We just sat lye there, laughing to our heart's content. At one point, we fell off the hay and landed, once again, on top of each other. That just made us laugh even harder than before, and I didn't think that was possible.
"What this hell is so funny?" I heard Tyvanna ask. I looked up to see her standing next to us with a smile on her face and her arms crossed.
"Oh, nothing," Lemonisa said as she got up and then helped me.
"Yeah, sure," Ty said and walked away.
Lemonisa looked at the lime. "Aw, crap is it that time already," she said to herself.
"What time?" I asked.
"Break time," she said. Then she smiled. "Wanna see how I spend my break?" she asked. I nodded. She grabbed my hand. "Then come on!" She towed me to the stable. "I sure hope the horses like you better the chickens and cows did."
She took me to a stall that housed a brown and white horse that was taller than her. The stall door said "Kobe" and had a basketball on it.
"This is Kobe. He's a gentle boy, but take it slow with him," she said. "Do you want to ride bareback or saddle?"
"Bareback," I said. She looked at me, but shrugged it off.
"My horse is in the next stall. Do you think you can handle yourself for a couple seconds?" she asked.
"I think I can manage," I said.
"Okay, well, get up on him and wait for me." She went to the next stall and I climbed onto the horse's back. He seemed nice and to actually like me. So far only 2 animals seemed to like me. The rest strait hated me. Then again, Winn Dixie probably likes everyone.
Lemonisa came in front of my stall on a big white horse.
"This is Snow White. She's been my horse since I was little," she introduced and petted the horse's white main, which also had some pink streaks in it. "Okay, come on," she said and headed out of the stable. I came right after her and we went over to the edge of the gate. "You think you can go fast?" she asked me. I nodded. "Wanna race?"
"Bring it on, Far Girl," I said.
"Sure thing, City Boy," she said.
"On your Mark," I said and we readied our horses.
"Get set," she said and got a good hold of the reins.
"GO!" we screamed and set off. She was winning, so I went faster. We were tied, and then I realized we didn't have a finish line.
"Where to?" I screamed to her.
She thought for a second. "That big oak over there," she said and pointed to a big tree about 50 yards away.
"Okay," I said and pushed harder. It was about half way there that Kobe's hoof got caught on a trig in the high grass. His leg curled in and he was down for the count, and so was I. He fell and I went with him. My leg got caught under him and I tried to wiggle out from under him, but he was too heavy. Then came the pain. I knew my leg was broken from the searing pain that went through my leg. I screamed and then Lemonisa saw me and turned Snow White. She came to a stop in front of me. She jumped down and rubbed my hair from my eyes.
"Der'mo," she said. I recognized it as "Shit" in Russian. "Ty v poryadke (Are you okay)?"
"Da, hotya noga povrezhdena (Yes, although my leg is broken)," I said, using the same tongue she was.
"Oh, crap, sorry, I didn't realize I was speaking Russian. Sorry," she said. She put her hands under the unconscious horse and lifted it just enough for me to scoot from under it. The movement hurt like hell and I hissed a bit. "Crap. Your lip is bleedin'" she said. I hadn't tasted blood, though. I put my finger to my lip and pulled back and, sure enough, there was blood on it. It must have been far from the inside of my mouth.
"Ouch," I said. She looked at me and rolled her eyes.
"Looks like I gotta get you on Snow White, seeing as Kobe is out," she said. She put her arms under me and, surprisingly, picked me up bridal style and carried me to Snow White. She put me on the horse and then got on in front of me. "Hold on tight."
I wrapped my arms tightly around her waist, just kind of loving the proximity. She rode back to the stable and put me on a big pile of hay. Like the one in the farmhouse, it was very soft. "Stay here," she said and went into a supply closet. She came back with some bandages and two crutches.
"Um, why do you keep crutched and cast bandages in your stable?" I asked and raised an eye brow.
"This same thing happened to me when I was 13. Dad just wanted to make sure I was prepared just in case it happened again."
"Cool," I said and braced myself for the pain. Of course it came, but I didn't show it. Lemonisa started muttering stuff in Russian like, "Eto vse Fal't moĭ (This is all my fault)," and "My ne dolzhny pomchalsya (We shouldn't have raced)."
"Hey, don't beat yourself up over this. It wasn't your fault there was a twig right there to trip Kobe," I said. She looked me in the eyes.
"Yeah, I guess you're right. I just should have never raced you," she said.
"It's no big deal," I said.
"Where do you live?" she asked.
"Well, I sort of don't live anywhere at the moment. I haven't gotten a place yet," I said.
"You wanna stay here?" she asked. I'm not sure, but I think I saw a glint of hope in her eyes.
"Sure, if it's okay with your dad," I said.
"You could probably have Toby's old room. It's pretty bare."
"Jeeze, I'm taking all of Toby's old stuff. First his old job, then his old clothes andnow his old room," I said. She giggled.
"Yup. You're gettin' a bunch of hand-me-downs from my big bro," she giggled. "Are you always this klutzy, though? This is, what, the second time you've hurt yourself, even though the latter was way worst." She laughed again.
"Oh, you think other's pain is funny, ey? Let's see how you like it." I grabbed her waist and threw her over the side of the haystack. She landed on her butt, but on the way down, she grabbed my hand. I fell on top of her. Luckily, my leg didn't hurt because she had finished bandaging it.
"Hey! That wasn't funny!" she screamed at me.
"Neither was either time I hurt myself," I said.
"I technically didn't just hurt myself. You pushed me off the haystack." She had a point.
"Okay, so if you hurt yourself, then I can laugh?" I asked.
"Yes, but only if I hurt myself."
"Deal."
"Now will you be as kind as to GET OFF OF ME!" she yelled at me.
"No, I wouldn't be that kind." Then I did something I really didn't expect from myself. I kissed her. She froze for a second and then she kissed me back. She kissed me back! My hands found her pigtails and I took the rubber bands out. Then I tangled my fingers in her soft curls. Her hands went to my hair and she ran a hand through it. That caused a shiver to go down my body. She licked my lip, asking for entrance, and I gladly gave it. She flipped us over so that she was on top and her soft, curly hair fell around me. One of my hands ran down her bare waist while the other stayed in her hair.
"Lemons, break is- WHOA!" I heard Ty at the stable entrance. Lemonisa jumped off of me and pulled me up with her. "Yes! I knew you guys would get together soon, but I didn't really think it'd be this soon." Wait, what?
"You knew we would get together?" Lemonisa asked as she helped me back onto the haystack. "Well then why didn't you tell me?"
"It would be more fun for you not to know beforehand, that's why," she snapped back. I was confused.
"Ty just knows things about love. She would make the ultimate matchmaker, even better that Steve Ward from Tough Love. If she sees two people together, she knows of they are going to click or not. We're not sure how, but she just does," Lemonisa said, answering my confused face.
"Ooookaaaay," I said, drawing the word out.
"Boy, what happened to your leg?" Tyvanna asked, staring at my leg.
"Kobe fell on me," I said. And then I remembered that he was still outside. "Oh, crap! He's still out there, Nisa."
"Oh, yeah. But if it's anything like I think it looked when I got you, his leg's broken. I hope it heals. If not, we gotta put him down," she said, her voice full of sorrow.
"Lemons, he's gonna heal, don't worry," Ty said.
"Well, I gotta go call the vet," Lemonisa said and walked out. She was out there for about 3 minutes before she came back in. " They'll be here to get him in 15, so me and Ty gonna head out and wait with him and get him awake. You stay here, Isaiah." She came over, climbed onto the haystack, and kissed my forehead. "Stay."
"Yes master," I said like a good little dog.
She giggled and climbed down. She and Ty went out to the field and I sat back and put on my iPod again. This time, I put on "The Way You Make Me Feel" by Michael Jackson. Song after song came on. After about the 6th or 7th song, which was "Magic" by B.O.B. and Weezer, I felt the hay shift under someone's weight. I opened my eyes to see Lemonisa sitting next to me.
"Hello, gorgeous," I said and she kissed my nose.
"Hey, handsome," she said.
I had actually wanted to ask her something. "Hey, Lemons, was that kiss before, you know, your first kiss?" I asked awkwardly.
"Well, unless you count me kissing a boy I hated in kindergarten so he would freak out about having cooties, then yes, that was my first kiss," she said. That surprised me.
"Really? I thought you would have already kissed someone by now. Aren't you 18?" I asked. She lied down next to me.
"Yes, I am 18, but I'm also shy with boys. She that amounts to me not having a first kiss," she said.
"Oh, well, it has been an honor to be your first kiss," I said. She giggled and kissed me. She looked at me and then behind me.
"Uh, oh," she said.
"What?" I looked behind me to see her father standing at the doorway. But I relaxed when I saw his face. He was smiling.
"Tyvanna told me," she said, referring to beforehand.
"Ona umerla (She's dead)," Lemonisa muttered. "Tyvanna Rose Parks, get your butt in here right now!" she yelled. Ty came in from the door and I saw her shrink down a bit. "You told my father, but not me?"
"I, um," was her brilliant response.
"Jeeze, why does everyone but me know about my love life?" she muttered. I chuckled. She plucked me in the back of the head.
"Ow! Sorry, Nisa," I said.
"Horoshaya sobaka (Good dog)," she said and ruffle my hair.
"I never asked you, why do you speak Russian a lot?" I asked her.
"My mom was from Russia. We used to talk Russian and English before she… before she died." She whispered the last part. I hugged her tight and rubbed her hair.
"Oh, I'm sorry, Lemonisa," I said into her hair.
"No it's okay. We miss her, but we know she's still here," she said and pulled back. She smiled sadly. "Really, I'm fine."
"Sure, okay," I said and kissed her forehead.
She sat up. "Hey, daddy, Isaiah doesn't have anywhere to stay yet. Can he stay here? Oh, pretty please?" she said and put on a puppy dog face that he just had to give in to.
"Oh, alright," he said. She squealed and jumped of the haystack and nearly trampling her father to the ground.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you," she squealed. I laughed at her and sat up, throwing my legs over the side of the haystack. I grabbed my crutches and got down carefully.
"Well, let's get you settled," Mr. Brookes (I discovered Lemonisa's last name on a saddle that was hung in Kobe's stall, switch said "Toby Brookes", so I could only assume it was Lemonisa and her father's laast name) said. I lead them to my car and I popped the trunk. I didn't have much, just two medium sized suitcases. Lemonisa took one and Ty took the other. They headed into the house, upstairs, into a room that was, just as Nisa had said, bear. There was a TV and a bed and some drawers, plus a lamp and a bedside table. There was also a decent sized closet.
"Do you need us to help you put your stuff away, or can you handle it?" Lemonisa asked.
"I think I'm good," I said and sat down on the bed.
"Okay. Yell if you need us." She kissed me on the cheek and they walked out the room. I got to work and was done unpacking in half an hour, due to my leg. I used my time to get to know the house. I peeked my head out to find a room across the hall from mines. It was bright with pinks, purples, and blues. I when to see who's it was and then noticed the sign on the door that said "Lemons". This was Lemonisa's room. I went back inside my room, remembering that I was filthy due to being crushed by a 1 ton horse. I changed and some jeans and a white t-shirt and went into Lemonisa's room. Each wall was a different color. One was orange, one was pink, one was purple, and one was blue. She had intricate black and white designs all over them that made it look kind of exotic. Her bed was queen sized with blue covers, pink and purple pillows, and orange sheets underneath. Insteadof exploring therest of the house, like I'd intended, I plopped down on her bed and waited. I think I fell asleep, because the next thing I knew, I was woken up by someone falling on top of me. It was Lemonisa.
"Hey, Sleeping Beauty," she said.
"Hi, beautiful," I said and kissed her. "How was work?"
"Good, thank you for asking. How long have you been asleep?" she asked.
"About 45 minutes after you left, I came in here and fell asleep."
"Jeeze, you've been out for a while then," she said. I'll be making dinner in a little while, so get back to your room so I can change."
"Yes, master," I said and hobbled off into my room. I sat down and waited to hear the door of her room open. It finally did 10 minutes later. I peeked out and saw her in a jean skirt and a yellow tank top that said "Country Girl" on it. I went out into the hall and went to her side. I looked down the stairs and then to her. She put her arm around my waist and helped me down. I really don't know if I would have made it down alone. When we got to the bottom, she turned right, so I followed. She walked past the living room, which was furnished with khaki soft looking couches, a glass coffee table, a flat screen TV, and a bookcase similar to the one that was on the way to the downstairs bathroom. It had all sorts of books by authors like Anne Rice, P. C. Cast, Gena Showalter, and Christopher Pike. They were all paranormal books. I stated to wonder who's they were. There were also pictures lined up on a couple shelves.
She continued to walk past the dining room, where Ty and Mr. Brookes sat. I followed Lemonisa into the kitchen, where she began to get out food. She pulled out some chicken and filled the sink with hot water. She put the chicken in the hot water to thaw it out and then moved onto something else. She got on her tip-toes and got out some corn. Then she started jumping to try to get a box of Velveeta, to no avail. I walked over and reached up to grab the box, but she swatted my hand away.
"No, I almost got it," she said and continued to jump. On about the 15th jump, she finally got the box. I laughed at her. She stuck her tongue out. I kissed her forehead.
"YA lyublyu tebya, limony (I love you, Lemons),"I said and smiled down at her. She smiled hugely.
"YA tebya tozhe lyublyu, Isaiya (I love you, too, Isaiah)," she said and hugged my waist. "Navsegda (Forever)." I put down one of my crutches, because really, I had already healed, and hugged her back.
"Now, can you help me with dinner?" she asked she asked. I nodded and helped her with some things. I stirred and tasted things. She did the more important stuff like frying the chicken and actually turning on the stove. When it was finished, we took them out to the table.
"Uzhin vremeni (Dinner time)," Lemonisa announced.
Okay, so I realize how long this is, but it was fun to write. I really like it. And to SunStealingPixie, your review kind of made my day. I'm happy that you liked this story, though you don't really like the vampire genre. That's kind of what I was going for, something different. Isaiah and Lemonisa are cut, aren't they? And I do realize that I but a lot of Russian in here. It's my favorite language besides English. I thought I'd but in here. And, yes I'm sad, too, that Lemonisa's mom is dead. We will learn how she died, though. Also, there will be a surprise in the next chapter. Some might think it is good, others bad, and others in the middle. So, you know YA lyublyu tebya. Show that Ty menya lyubish' (you love me) and Review or PM me.
Love,
Bruks Lemonisa tysyacheletiĭ (Lemonisa Millennia Brookes)