I was chopping down a tree because Robin told me the proper way to do it.

She was at my stairs pulling them apart.

I was finding a few more beer cans but at least that number was going down. Assuming most of these came from inside the cabin. I know Abigail said she walked through here, I am sure someone went inside and ate things.

I had a pile of stone also that Robin wanted to take home, so I was going to let her. I need money, giving me a chance to make more by just cleaning was great. I pulled out the lawn mower, I was getting things done and was running out of things to do but I wanted to stay.

The longer I spent here the more I wanted to keep it, maybe as a cottage and then renting it out sounded good unless I get a good safe offer. Making a path is not needed for a buyer but I wanted it, the more I stayed the more I wanted to.

I can see why my grandfather never left. I was falling in love with this area and the people.

I made two cups of pink lemonade and brought her. I sat on the edge of the porch away from them and she moved to sit next to me. "You thinking about the bike?" She asked.

"Ya I want to keep it, even if Sabastian can't fix it I will take it home."

She looked out to my farm.

"Sometimes I worry about Sebastian... he doesn't have many friends and doesn't really seem to care about his future very much... I would talk to him about it but he never opens up to me."

I looked at her, does he not want to leave? He never told her? But my mom put up a fuss for me being here for two weeks let alone living here. I pulled out a smoke as I took a sip of my juice.

"I found an ashtray in Sebastian's room and it smelled really weird. Should I be worried about it?" She looked at me as I almost spit out my drink and I tried to not smile and swallowed.

"Naw, some smokes just stink."

"Ya? It was just different then normal." I could not stop the small smile on my face. She is such a mom, slightly sounding like mine.

"Hey, did you ever know my mom?" I looked at her curious.

She looked at me awkwardly. "Yes, I knew her but we were not friends."

"Oh?"

She handed my drink. "I should get back to this, I am almost ready to start assembling it, I wont be much longer." I nodded as I walked into the cabin to put them down, I take it there is some bad history between them. I wonder what happened to my mother here, she never talks about it. All I can guess is that she was not popular or something.

I spent so long taking down tree's that I flopped onto my couch just to relax but I passed out.


I yawned as I filled up my coffee maker and wondered outside, I slept a long time as my cat ran through my legs and disappeared. I looked at my new steps. They were so beautiful even if off colored making me sit down on them. She did a great job, easy to sit on as I woke up.

It was nice to have my coffee and first smoke outside in such a warm and beautiful place, at home I would just go to my computer so it really gives me the feeling of vacation.

I wondered to my plants and squatted down, they were growing something. "Look at you." I said. I walked inside and grabbed a small basket, I started to pick the small avocado looking plants, wondering what they are.

Grabbing my fresh made candles I headed into town to the store.

Walking in I paused. Pierre was not out here and I heard yelling coming from the back between Abigail and her parents. It was so loud I felt second hand embarrassment and slid back out the door. Leaning on the wall in wait for it to be over.

Sam came riding by on his skateboard as he smiled at me with that smile, I can not help smile back when he does. He turned around and came back and he stopped in front of me and kicked up his board.

I saw something slightly inside his sweater near his hood, it looked like one of those little things from bushes that stick to you so I stepped forward and moved to remove it but when I pulled it off and then I noticed there was another so I picked that one too.

"Hmm." He said looking down and he opened his sweater so we could see inside of it and the whole inside was covered in them but there was none on the outside.

"What did you do turn your sweater inside out and roll down a hill?" I looked at him so confused.

"No, I never took it off." I put down the basket and started to pick them off.

"How is that possible?" I laughed as I moved and took his sweater off of him and we flipped it inside out.

We stood there for a few minutes just pulling them off, chuckling to ourselves as we did this.

Sab walked towards us. "Hey man aren't we playing?" He stopped and saw what we were doing and walked close, looking between us confused he just started to help us pick them off.

We stood there slightly giggling for a few minute's without talking and Sab asked no questions but we got them mostly all off before he put it back on. Sam gave me a fist bump before he kicked up his board again and they walked to his place. "You should see us play sometime." He said back to me with a goodbye nod.

I picked up the basket and went back inside this time he was here and the fight was over. I got some money from my candles and for my plants, I grabbed a few more plants that would only take a week to ripe and I guess the ones I have will continue to grow.

I headed home.

I sat in the dirt as I hoed the ground and started to plant some new ones. There was something so nice about working with plants, something nice about getting my hands all dirty. I stood wishing for a hose as I watered them when I heard a loud noise.

It took a second to notice it was a motorcycle making me put the can on my porch in wait. It came driving into my farm from the north and pulled up near me. "Sabastian?" He turned it off and took off his helmet looking at me bored.

"My mom keep's bringing up your bike up to me and saying you wont be around long." I smiled understanding as I headed to the barn as he followed. "By the third not subtle push, I figured I might as well come to you, just to make her stop."

I laughed and wiped my dirty hands on my dirty shorts and walked to the barn where I kept it, the door took all my weight to open. "One sec." I walked into the dark room and pulled the bike out.

He looked slightly happy as he checked it over before looking at it closer.

"This is a nice one." Then he rambled off a long name of what it was. "It is in decent shape, I was picturing a mess." His smile grew in excitement for my bike.

"I believe it was in there for a long time." He nodded as he started listing off what needs work, I tried to listen but I just could not follow as he used the big words and did not explain what part he was talking about. "I might be able to fix this."

That made my arms drop and I smiled. "Awesome."

"I would rather take it home and do it where I normally do." I was so happy until it hit me.

"How much would it take?"

"Not much, its in good shape."

I smiled. "I mean money."

"Oh."

He looked around then at me and shrugged. "Fifty bucks."

"Really that is nothing."

He shrugged. "I love working on them, honestly would have done it anyway but I could use it in my bank for leaving this place."

"Well that I can do." I smiled.

"So you have never rode one before?" He looked at me.

"I have been on the back a few time's but myself, no."

He smiled, he get's so cute when happy. "Well let's see if you can." I was confused until he headed to his bike, I followed quickly wondering if that meant he was going to teach me.


I shot forward slightly tipping before I stopped, good thing we are on a farm because I needed the space as he tried to tell me how to do it, I shot forward to fast again but it stayed moving slowly as I tried to turn before I went to slow and I had to stop and hold it up with my leg.

"Sorry I am trying but it goes so fast right away."

"Because it is meant to go fast and that was actually not that fast." He chuckled at me and it was nice to hear making me smile at him before trying a few more times. "Maybe It is just not for me." I said sadly.

He suddenly sat behind me. "You need to learn if you want to ride." He pressed into my back and put his larger hands over mine, making me feel a little nervous and I almost wanted to get up and run away when he made me move forward.

Breath.

With his help I started to get some speed as he helped making me forget and smile, filled with adrenalin.

We started to really move around the open area of my farm when he removed one hand. "No, don't stop." I yelled over the sound of engine but he did not move the one on the brake.

We just drove around in circles and he let go of the other hand, again it scared me and we zigzagged for a second but it got it as he held my waist. "There you got it." He yelled into my ear.

This was so much fun.

I was a little sad when we stopped and got off. "I was always a car girl because as nice as it is on the back of one, it was just better to drive but driving the bike, woo, it is so exciting."

"Eventually the adrenalin will go away but you can feel so free." He spoke as he slid into the driver seat looking like he is about to leave.

"I want to do that again on a road not a circle in the dirt."

He stared at me for a moment. "Well once yours is fixed we can hit up a real road." I smiled as I looked at my bike and stared with a small smile.

"Fuck yes."

I pointed to my truck. "Should I bring it now?" He gave a small smile and nodded before he helped me get it in the back.

I followed him home and man he drove fast, I was nervous being fast around here because of the homeless man that just walks out randomly. Pulling it from the truck we got it next to his in his garage when I pulled out a fifty and stuck it out for him. "I can't say how long it will take and if it wont work, so maybe after." He did not take it.

"That is alright." But he still did not take it so I grabbed his hand and stuffed it in. "I trust you."

"Sabastian?" I heard a quiet voice as we turned. "Cy?"

Abigail was standing there confused and almost looked hurt, I looked at him, Unsure if there was something going on between them. "He is fixing my bike." I pointed to it.

"You have a bike?" She looked inside I was unsure if that made her happy or not. "I came to play some games." She looked at Sabastian. "Let's go." She grabbed his hand and pulled him inside and he quietly followed, I guess I should go home?

"Come on Cy." She spoke and looked at me startling me.

I watched them go inside and stood there with my key's in my hand for a moment before I slid them in my pocket and joined them. They sat down and turned on a video game, ah I can do video games.

She started up a two person old fighter game as I watched Abigail kick his ass. "In your face dweeb." Before he won the second round but in the end she won the last.

"I killed you Sabby." Before she took the controller from Sabastian and gave it me, it was nice she was trying to include me in this.

"I have never played this." I said as I was looking at the characters as she waited for me to pick one with a strange smile on her face. I went with some busty chick and she made a noise and picked fast.

I just pressed buttons as she destroyed me with combo's, she won the two games and was hopping in her seat again. "I rule at this game."

"Ya." I said I handed it back to him on the other side of Abigail.

She again waited for him to pick before she picked.

I shuffled forward and looked at all his games piled on the ground and I pulled them towards me. I recognized a few as I moved through them when she placed the controller on top. "Your turn."

"Okay." I picked the busty chick again she gave me a look and picked that guy again. She kicked my ass with ease.

"Why are you picking her?" She asked as Sabastian took it from my hand. "If I use him I can't lose to her ever, try someone else." Oh so she waits to pick the one who would beat the other?

"She is hot." I spoke looking back at the games.

She huffed. "She is nothing but pixels."

"Still hot, she is boxes and boobs." I heard a small noise from Sabastian making us look at him, he found that funny? That was cute.

I watched as he picked the hot girl making me smirk at him as he half smiled back and she took that man again a little annoyed. This time I watched as she kicked his ass but he held on pretty long.

"Oh, I love this game." I spoke as I looked at one I have played, sadly it is a one player fantasy game and with the three of us there is no easy way to switch controls.

"Ya it is good." She said as the controller was handed to me again, I again picked her making her make a noise at me "Stop I hate this guy!"

"Sorry." I pressed back and looked at the people, I did not have energy to care, I looked but none stood out. "Let me try..." I shut my eye's and just pressed the forward button.

"Good idea." She said when I pressed X, I got the sexy girl making us all laugh even if Sabastian's laugh is quiet and almost unheard.

"Naturally." She spoke and did the same I watched as she hit X and got some other guy. This time I held on longer just pressing buttons but she won again. Handing it back. "What games do you like Cy?" She asked.

"I sometimes play pc online multiplayer games but they are normally fantasy with swords and magic." She was staring at me shocked I was so confused.

"We play Solorian chronicles all the time, they are similar right?"

"I have heard of that, that it is the kind you have a master or something and play with your mind?" She nodded so excited. "I don't know, never played it but I tend to love pvp and I don't think you have that in that kind of game."

"Really? But you suck at this." She pointed I just smiled. "You should join us anyway."

"Ya sure, I would not mind trying it."

She bounced again. "It would be so nice having a fourth, right Sabby?" She looked at him.

"Ya." He spoke.