Tennessee's POV

"I want you to marry my daughter." Her father's last words before his final breath echoed in my mind. On the inside, I was feeling a mixture of happiness and sorrow. I want to marry Lorelei, but I have to do it on a dying man's breath. After everything she's been through the past three days, I don't know what she's going to do.

I walked over to Lorelei's room. She had her head in her hands, and I could hear her attempts to muffle her cries. She heard me walk and lifted her head to look at me. Her eyes were red and puffy just like her mother's. "Lorelei, I know you won't believe when I say this, but..." "My Pa wanted you to marry me." She finished my sentence for me.

"How did ya...?" "I over heard ya'll, I was listenin' through the door." "Is that why your cryin'?" She looked away. "No," She said simply. "My Pa is dead because of that no good, dirty, yellow-bellied sidewinder. And he had the nerve to be sweet on me." Her voice was cracking. I walked over and sat down next to her.

I was a little startled when she hugged and was crying over my shoulder. I was holding her for about 15 minutes when her Ma came in. "Lorelei, there's...oh!" She was blushing when she saw us hugging. "I'm sorry to interrupt." Lorelei wiped away her tears. "No, Ma it's okay. What were you sayin'?" She pointed downstairs. "There's someone here to see you." She got up and dusted off her new dress that she put on. I followed her downstairs, she opened the front door, and there was a dark brown male raccoon, with a black hat and a white shirt and a black vest and he was wearing jeans and brown boots.

He had a small grin on his face. "Lorelei, I heard what happened and..." He looked at me and his grin disappeared. He then pushed Lorelei to the side and blocked her with his arm. He pulled out his gun and pointed it at me. "Lorelei run!" "Derek! Stop!" Out of instinct I put my hands in the air. "Derek, he's not going to do anything!" "Lorelei if he's holding you against your will just say so!" "No! He's..." "I know he's one of those Cooper's!" "HE'S MY FIANCE!" I made him stop completely in his tracks. "Your what?"

"He's...My...Fiancé!" She pushed his arm away and walked over towards me. "You can point your arms down now." She whispered to me. She took my arm and wrapped hers around it.


Lorelei's POV

Derek was still in shock when I told him that Tennessee Kid Cooper was my fiancé. "Tennessee, this is Derek Rebio, my ex-boyfriend. Derek, this Tennessee Kid Cooper my fiancé." "Ex?" He looked at me and Derek back and forth. Derek still had his gun out. "Derek, put that away!" He reluctantly put the gun away. "Lorelei, can I speak with you in the other room? Alone?" I followed him into the kitchen.

"Lorelei, what the hell is wrong with you?" He was shaking me silly. I pushed him off and slapped him. "I deserve that." "Derek, he saved me from the Golden Snakes, twice!" "Probably so he could have you for himself!" "DEREK!" "What? He is an outlaw! A criminal!" "No, he's a thief! There's a difference." "He is a lawbreaker! End of story!" He took out a pair of handcuffs. "Derek. STOP!" I blocked the door with my body. "You know what I think? I think your just jealous!"

He stopped and looked at me. "I'm doing what's best for you!" "No, Derek, that's exactly why we broke up." I sighed. "Derek, you think you know what's best for me, but in reality, you don't. You just don't! I love him for who he is. And he loves me!" "I still don't trust him." "Just please get to know him," He looked at his handcuffs, "Without arresting him!" He put away his handcuffs. "Alright, fine." "Thanks."

We walked back out into the living room. Tennessee was still standing in the same place he was when we went into the kitchen. "You two are going to get to know each other, and he is not going to arrest you." He let out a breath of relief.

A few hours later

My Ma had gotten out her wedding dress for me to try on. I was a spiting image of her. The dress was long and gorgeous. I looked and felt like a princess. I wondered how Tennessee's and Derek's bonding was going.


Tennessee POV

The bonding was horrible. Most of the time, he was just giving me death glare. I was really gettin' creeped out by this guy. "If you've got a problem you can just say it to ma face." I spoke against his glare. "Yeah, I got a problem. With you!" "What for?" "How can she love you? Your a thief! You cause trouble wherever you go. You have no shortage of enemies." "I guess she just likes adventure." "Or you just like playing with a girl's heart."

It was my turn to glare at him. "Now listen here boy! I love her! And I don't like people insultin' that!" We were in the stables and I was tending to Ol' Betsy. I saw him waving a small mirror out into the scorching desert. Then something shined back in the distance. "What are you doin'?" There was a dust cloud headed straight towards us. "I'm askin' you again, what are you doin'?"

He looked at me with hatred. Just like the leader of the Golden Snakes did. "When is the wedding?" "Tonight." "Good." "What?" The dust cloud was getting closer. I heard shouts and horses neighing. I looked back at Derek an saw he look a devilish smile on his face. "Because you won't be able to make it tonight."

I saw the Golden Snakes were riding towards us. I reached for my gun and aimed it at Derek. "You set us up."

"Yep, I hired the Golden Snakes to kidnap Lorelei in the first place, but then you came along and ruined the first attempt. I paid them double to try again and to keep her captive so that I would go and rescue her, but then you got in the way again." He took out his own gun and aimed it at me. "So now I'm tripling the price for them to take the real problem away." "And that would be?"

"You."

He motioned for the bandits to come into the barn. "Lorelei will find out about this!" My anger was rising up again. "No, she never will. She will be too heartbroken to listen to anyone talking about the fiancé she was in love with, who left her standing at the altar." He turned to the bandits. "Get'em boys."


My parents are being idiots and mean they are trying to keep me away from writing this stuff! So I must power down and let the government control me! So bye for now!