Chapter 9
Summer came quickly. Before they knew it, it was almost time for Kid and Louise's wedding.
"If I have to wear a dress, so do you." Louise was saying.
"But I can't. It's not that I don't want to, it's just that I can't. I'll lose my job." Lee argued.
"You did it for Emma's wedding."
"You want me to wear the wig and go as Lynn, then?"
"Yeah. I want you, Cindy and Emma standing beside me."
Lee looked at her friend's face and said, "All right. I'll wear the wig. But remember that Lynn's going to be there too. She'll have to go as me."
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When Lynn arrived for the summer, she agreed to go to Kid and Louise's wedding as Lee. And Emma agreed to stand with Louise when she was saying her vows. Kid had picked Jimmy, Sam, and Jeremiah to stand beside him.
Although Louise was looking forward to her wedding, she was nervous. She wanted everything to go just right. And Kid being late coming in from his last ride before the wedding was not helping her nerves at all.
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Kid was 10 miles from home when he was held up by some bandits. Since they demanded to see the mail, he handed them the empty mail bag and said, "Sir, I just made a delivery. I don't have any mail, I was just on my way back home."
"He's lying, Boss," the small one said. "They always have some bank bonds or money on them."
"Sir, I don't know where he's getting his information from, but it's not true. We don't always carry bank bonds. Truth is most of the time we don't even know what we're carrying." Kid explained.
However, the two bandits did not believe him and the "Boss" knocked him out. They searched his bags and found out that he was telling the truth. When he woke up, Kid checked his pocket and found that the bandits had not discovered the wedding rings. It was getting dark, Louise must be worried. He got on Katy and rode off to Sweetwater as fast as he could.
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Louise was standing by the corral with Lee when they heard Buck call out "Rider Coming!" They looked up and since Kid was the only rider out, they thought for sure it was him. To Louise's relief it was Kid coming in. When he dismounted she saw that he was hurt.
"Oh God! What happened Kid?" Louise asked worried.
"I got jumped about 10 miles outside of town. I'm fine though, they didn't get them though."
"Kid, what do you mean you're fine? You're head is bleeding. And what do you mean, they didn't get them?"
"They didn't get these." He said as he showed her the rings.
Louise was speechless as she hugged her fiancée. "Kid, I'm more worried about that cut on your head, let's get you inside the house where I can get a good look at it." He ended up needing three stitches on his forehead, but no other cuts or bruises showed up and his hair could cover that up if he was worried about it.
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The wedding was gorgeous. Boggs gave Louise away while LeAnn, Emma, and Cindy stood beside each other, surrounding the bride. Jimmy stood beside Kid, with Sam on the side and Jeremiah, who was proud, stood as tall as he could beside Sam during the ceremony.
LeAnn was able to be with Jimmy at the party afterwards. While Lynnette was there, she was pretending to be Lee and could not spend the party dancing with Buck. She did however get a few moments alone with him.
Emma and Sam's gift to the newlyweds was the deed to the land the station was on, the bunkhouse, and the house. The company would now pay Kid and Louise rent for the use of the land and the bunkhouse. Since they weren't ever going to use it and Emma looked at Louise as a daughter, they had decided it was the smart thing to do.
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After the reception, Jimmy and Lee snuck off to the pond, while Kid and Louise went to the hotel. While Kid was not expected back that night, Jimmy and Lee were expected back and when they came in it was late. The others were organizing a searching party to go find them when they stumbled into the bunkhouse. Teaspoon had determined that they had not been drinking any more than the rest of them and was afraid to ask where they had been and what they had been doing. Although unknown to Jimmy and Lee, they had leaves in their hair, and the others could make a pretty accurate guess as to what they had been doing.
"Next time you go off, tell somebody!" Teaspoon scolded as he left the bunkhouse with the others just snickering.
