The House That Built Me ~ Miranda Lambert

You leave home and you move on and you do the best you can

I got lost in this old world and forgot who I am

I thought if I could touch this place or feel it

This brokenness inside me might start healing

Out here it's like I'm someone else

I thought that maybe I could find myself

If I walk around I swear I'll leave

Won't take nothing but a memory

From the house that built me

I had just gotten off the phone with Angela and she told me her dad had passed on. She was the only one out to the three of us that had a decent set of parents. I had a good dad but a good mother was something I lacked.

I walked across the open lawn to Jasper's office in the barn and knocked.

"Come in."

"Jasper I need to take a few days off. A friend of mines dad just died. His funeral is this Friday. I'll leave on Thursday and be back on Saturday."

"You know you are leaving us shorthanded."

"I know that's why I am leaving late Thursday night and coming back early Saturday morning so you won't be shorthanded to long."

"Well there is nothing I can do right now. But you still got two days of work and I suggest you get back to it."

I replied with a thank you and went back to my work with the horses. The one I liked working with the most was named Jade but I already worked with her today so I had to move on to another horse. I picked midnight the newest horse from a farm over in the next county. The barn had burned down and they family had nowhere else to leave their horses so they spread them out on farms in the tri-county area. Midnight's owner came by every weekend to ride him and groom him. She loved him and hated not having him home where he belongs. I couldn't blame her.

It didn't take long for me to give the horses under my care their daily walk. So when I was done I took them and put them all back into the barn and began grooming them. I started with Jade and Midnight first since I took them out before any of the other horses. I took my time grooming them because I didn't want to leave them. I finished just after six.

I only had to work tomorrow and Thursday so I got my bag ready before hand. I was going to head straight to the airport after I finished.

"So I heard you leaving us." Jaspers brother asked.

"Just for a day really and it's not for fun; so quit moving those wheels in your head and shouldn't you be with your wife."

"She sent me to deliver pictures to grandma."

"Well she's outside on the porch." I told him as I passed. I got to my room and turned on the radio. I was going back home for the first time and only a month had passed. I can't believe I going home now I just hope I come back.

Knock

"Come in." I called.

It was Jasper. "You okay?" He asked.

"Fine; just didn't think I would be going home this soon."

"Death is a part of life."

"I know. I lost my grandmother two years ago and nearly lost my dad last year. I keep telling him he should retire but he won't listen."

"What does he do?"

"He's police chief of forks Washington." I replied.

"Now that explains why you don't like speeding always afraid dads going to catch you going over the speed limit."

"So true and I never went to any parties unless it was to pick up my friends after they had a little bit too much to drink." I replied.

"Mama said she's prayin' for you and you better and said that you are to leave Thursday morning not Thursday night. 'No young lady should travel alone at night' I believe she said." he told me.

"So I'm leaving Thursday morning?" I asked.

"Mama would kick my but all over Texas if I didn't let you off."

"She makes me think of my grandma."

"Well I got to close up the barn. so see you tomorrow." Jasper said walking back out of the room closing the door.