1923 Tennessee.

Benji McCawley walked through the field to the Walkers house, her brother Rafe wouldn't let her come with them to play in the barn so she was going to go play with Mrs. Walker who always loved playing dolls with her.
Five-year-old Benji never told anyone except her mom and Mrs. Walker or Julie as she made Benji call her, that she liked playing with dolls. She had two dolls, one with strawberry brown like hers, and a blond doll.
You see Benji's full name was Hollie Benjamin McCawley, but if you called her anything but Benji she's kick you right in the kneecaps. She was a tom-boy, she always wore a pair of her brothers old overalls and his old shoes that he grew out of, along with one of his old t-shirts, she climbed tree's at the age of four and announced to her mother when she was three that she was no longer to be called Hollie but Benji. Her mother was very shocked, seeing as she hadn't talked before that, not one word had ever come out of her mouth, so least to say her mother was shocked, it was announced over breakfast.

"Good morning Hollie, would you like eggs?" Her mother had asked her, and Benji had walked up next to her and stood by her,

"Mother I would like it if you would stop calling me Hollie, its Benji now. And yes with cheese please." And she had turned and walked over to the table and climbed into a chair, Rafe had stopped his fork half way to his mouth, her father had his mouth hanging open. And the eggs started to burn because Mrs. McCawley stared at Benji,

"WHAT?" she asked taking a sip of milk?

Those were her first words.

Anyways, Benji got to the door and knocked, Julie came to the door,

"OH Benji dear!! Come on in!" she opened the screen door, and Benji followed her in.

"Wonderful you have your dolls,"

"Are you sure that the boys are out playing Miss. Julie?"

"Positive"

"Ok then we can play!" she ran to the living room and carefully took out both of her dolls and the outfits that her mom had made them. They played with the dolls for about an hour before Mrs. Walker heard her husband yell,

"Oh no... Benji would you run upstairs to Danny's room please?"

"Yes" she picked up her toys and ran up to Danny's room, she heard the front door opening and closing and Mrs. Walker talking to her husband, Danny came running up the stairs, and into his room, he jumped when he saw Benji.

"What are you doing here Ben?"

"I baked cookies," she says pulling out a brown paper bag with cookies in it. "They're sugar your favorite!" He grins and walks over to her and then takes the paper bag,

"Thanks, you got any..." she cuts him off.

"Milk?" she says pulling out a thermos with milk in it.

"Yeah, you must be psychic or somthin' like that" he bites into a cookie, "MMM you and your ma make the best sugar cookies this side of the mountains!"

"Yeah mommy is trying to teach me how to bake, but I'd rather be climbing a tree." She smiles at him.

"I know, me too."

"So I just came to drop off the cookies and leave so I should go home now." She hugs him and walks to his window, opens it and climbs down the tree her bag swinging on her back, Danny watched her run home through the wheat fields and he chuckled.

A/N

Hope ya'al liked this chapter, the next one is going to be really short, so don't be mad but the third chapter will be nice! So um XOXOXO

Rini!