Chapter 10!
Its time for the new years party! well...in a few days it will be anyway. I couldnt feel any happier! I've been here one whole year! Nearly. Gray helped a bunch and I love him so much. I am so happy its almost been a year! Gray has been acting a bit odd. He has been studdering alot and having hush hush conversations with his friends. I know he isnt cheating, because if he was, he wouldn't tell his friends. Or anyone for that mannor.Karen has noticed his odd behavior. One day, Karen and I followed Gray around secretly and found him in the super market secretly buying something.But we couldnt figure out what it was. Karen walked to Gray and smiled. He quickly hid his super market bag.
"whatcha buyin?" She asked playfully.
"Nothing! Nothing at all!" He panicked. He was aware that Karen was my friend and that I would find out if Karen knew.I was watching them from the window outside.
"C'mon! I wanna know. Im your friend afterall." Karen said, despritly trying to get him to tell her.
"You'll see." He said and left. I was out of veiw when he left. Karen came out and leaned on the building as I emerged from my hiding place.
"Did you find out anything?" I asked. She shook her head.
"Nope. He said I'll see. But I dont wanna see I wanna know!" She growled. Not angry at me, but angry that she couldnt find out.
"I guess we will have to wait and see." I sighed. I wanted to know really badly.
I walked back to my farm and started working. Running all the possabilitys in my mind. Gray didnt come over that day. That made me kind of sad. But I bet he is planning something. But I dont know what and its pissing me off. I threw down my hoe and stomped into town, looking for Gray.I found him at the Inn eating. He smiled and waved at me. Holding his bag tight. I sat down beside him and just plainly asked... "Why have you been avoiding me?"
"What do you mean?" He asked.
"You've been having hush hush conversations with your friends and you wont tell me." I snapped.He just sweetly smiled.
"You will see." He told me.
"I don't want to see. I want to know." I snapped again.
"Just have some patiants." He told me smiling. He held the bag far away from me. I sighed and nodded. I just wanted to know so so badly.
The last few days had passed and now it was finally the New Years party! Everyone met at the top of mother's hill after midnight. Gray was my date and we walked to the mountain together. The sky was dark and sparkling with stars. I could only smile. Gray grabbed my hand and turned to me. I turned to him. What was he doing?
"Jill..." He mumbled. I lisoned. He drew in a deep breath. The sun began to rise slowly. He pulled out a blue feather. "Will you...m...marry me?"
"W..wha-?" I asked, dumbfounded. A year together, a few days apart and he wanted me to marry him.
"I-I can understand if you dont-"
"I do! I do want to marry you. I love you." I told him smiling. I took the blue feather. The whole town watched as the perposal took place. Karen smiled. She began to cry happily for me. Gray smiled and hugged me.
"I love you." He told me, giving me a kiss on my mouth. His lips locking with mine. Everyone clapped as the sun rised on our kiss.
"I love you too." I told him when our kiss was finished.
A week after, it was spring. Everyone was so happy. Well. Actually. It was a day after the Party, but a week after spring had begun, we had our wedding. Karen sat with me in my room as I placed the veil on my head. I smiled at my mirror as I got dressed. I wore a long white dress and had some roses at the bottom hem.
"Congrats Jill. You and Gray are finally gonna be married." Karen said smiling.
"Yeah. Im just so happy." I told her. She smiled. She was too. She and I walked to the church where everyone sat in the pews. I walked to the alter and waited happily stood beside Gray. Holding my bouquet tightly in my hands. Gray smiled.
"The bride and grooms will now recite the wedding vows." Carter announced. I started first.
"I, Jill, take you, Gray, to be my friend, my lover, the father of my children and my husband. I will be yours in times of plenty and in times of want, in times of sickness and in times of health, in times of joy and in times of sorrow, in times of failure and in times of triumph. I promise to cherish and respect you, to care and protect you, to comfort and encourage you, and stay with you, for all eternity" I told him smiling. Gray grinned.
"I, Gray, take you, Jill, to be my friend, my lover, the mother of my children and my wife. I will be yours in times of plenty and in times of want, in times of sickness and in times of health, in times of joy and in times of sorrow, in times of failure and in times of triumph. I promise to cherish and respect you, to care and protect you, to comfort and encourage you, and stay with you, for all eternity"
Everyone cried tears of joy. Karen sat beside my mother and father, whom had flown in to see me and my wedding.
"ou may now kiss the bride." Carter said happily and Gray kissed me on my mouth. I kissed him back happily. During that kiss. All of last year flooded back.
First time met Gray:
"Oh..Hi." He said like he never even wanted to see me.
"Im New here. Could you show me around?" I asked cutly.
"The Mayor will take care of that." He said. Hey jerk! I like you here! Dont be so mean! I thought.
"Im a bit lost. Could you please show me to the old man's farm?" I asked. Cutely.
"Look, Im busy! Just ask someone else!" He said loudly tword me.
"FINE!" I shouted louder. I stomped away from him
Roomate:
"Hey!" An angry voice shouted. I shot up.
"What?" I awncerd. The boy from the shore was glaring angerly at me.
"Your in my room." He said.
"Look buddie! I got no were else to stay. So for the next 2 days. Your gonna have a roomate. Rather you like it or not!" I shouted.
"Im not your buddie!" He shouted and pouted on another bed in the room.
"Oh dont cry you big babie!" I shouted turning away from him.
The Notebook:
Gray for some odd reason, Stayed at the bar as long as I did. When the bar closed I left. I only had water. Wouldnt allow a 17 year old to drink. I walked up to the mountains with my purple notebook and just gazed at the stars. I had a pen at my disposal. I opend my book and began writing about a girl in my positon. I heard "Whatcha doing up here?" I flung my head backwards shutting my notebook in the prosses.
"What do you want?" I asked. The person was Gray.
"You left." He said trying to look at my notebook. He did grab it and looked in it. He read what I had written. I had fought to get it back but he just kept on reading. "This is pretty good." he said to me. I couldnt beleve it. He actually complemented me!
"What do you care?" I asked. Actually. I was happy to get a complement.
"Fine. If you dont want my opinion." He said giving me back my notebook. "But you may actually have something there. I thought it was pretty good." He said leaving.
After he was nolonger in earshot I read my story. Then I relized that, I didnt just think he was cute. I think...I think...I love him... I thought.
Broken Sickle and Understandings:
"Hey!" I shouted. "I dont know what he did. But,Scolding him like that wont help. You should help him and show him his mistake."
"Jill..." Gray mumbled. I gave him my cute citie smile
"Well Missy. This is my way of disaplin." Saibara told me.
"Your way needs fixing. So does my Sickle." I said calmly. Gray stood up and walked over to me. He took my sickle.
"I can fix this." He said.
"You couldnt fix your way out of a paper bag." Saibara said loud enough so that Gray could hear. Gray looked hurt.
"Hey! That was mean!" I shouted. Gray left with my sickle. I glared at the old man. I walked out mumbling "Old Geezer."
When I got back to my farm Gray was sitting there fixing my sickle. I grinned.
"Hi there." I said walking up to him.
No reply.
The Ankle
"Hey Jill. You gotta be more careful." He said. It was Gray.He gave me a piggie back ride to the clinic. "How annoying." Im pretty sure he mumbled under his breath. He took me inside the clinic and the docter examined my ankle.
"Well. Its only sprained." He said looking at the X-Rays. "It'll take about 3-5 weeks to heal." Gray sighed.
"Okay then." He said and gave me a piggie back ride back to my house. "Guess I'll have to do your work for you."
"You dont have too." I said. Although, the idea of him taking care of me and doing my work was intreging.
"I will anyway." He said and ended the conversation.
I'll protect you
We fished untill it was dark. We even stayed out after dark and stargazed. I gasped at all the beautiful stars in the sky. In LA you could never see all these stars. There was a howel of a wolf. I screamed a little. He looked at me.
"Scared?" He asked.
"Dont worry about it." He grinned "I wont let them eat you."
I blushed. Luckly it was dark and he couldnt see me.
"Okay." I said not removing my hand.
" Wanna go back?" He asked
"Yeah." I said and he gave me a piggie back ride back to my house.
He sat me on my bed and grinned.
"Tired?" He asked.
"Yeah. A little." I said. I lied down and I shut my eyes. Gray stroked my hair untill I fell asleep.
The Funeral
"Ms. Abukura was suppost to tell us about her grandfather, but she hurt her ankle and can't stand up." He said.
Gray looked down at me. "Want me to speak for you?" He asked. I nodded. I handed him a folded up peice of paper that I had written on before.
He walked up to the podeum and spoke.
"Jill Abukura wanted me to say this all for her." He began.
" I always loved my grandpa, He would play with me when no one else would. He taught me how to ride a horse when I was 5 and he taught me everything about farming that I know now. When my mom and dad faught, his farm would be my home away from home. I'll always love my grandpa more than anything. I had hoped he'd be with me longer, but I know that God knew it was his time." Gray finished the speach and sat back down beside me. I cried on his sleeve. He wrapped his arm around me and I cried on him. The funeral continued.
When it was all over Gray Carried me home like a babie again. When we got back to the house he set me on my bed and sat beside me.
"Are you okay?" He asked and I nodded. But I cried on him. He stroked my hair and cooed me. He ran his fingers threw my hair cooing me and comferting me. Somehow I ended up sitting on his lap and he was still comferting me. He sat with me all night long. From when we got home from when we both woke up.
First kiss
I cleared my throat, and when I stood up and attempted to walk I tripped. Plowing my face into the feild dirt. I sighed and sat up, wiping my face with my arm. I felt Gray's hands on my shoulders, he helped me clean my face off and he helped me up. Blushing in the process.When I stood up,Gray was blushing like a ripe tomato. He asked if i was Okay, I said I was and he said good. He had a grip on my hand. That Im not sure if he was aware, I wasnt about to tell him though. I stepped closer to him.Trying not to fall again. He stepped closer to me than I did him. I turned a bit red. He ;mabye without thinking; carressed my face and then he did it. He kissed me. I must have looked dumb. I had my eyes open the whole time. When he stopped. He mutterd.
"Sorry." I looked at him, really happy. I kissed him back. When we stopped. We both were red.
He still griped on my hand. I felt my cheeks turn red. I saw his. He hugged me tightly.
"Jill, Awncer me something." Gray said. "Do you like me?"
"Yeah." I said, blushing, to tell him the truth,I never felt like this about anyone before. I felt he could know everything, my every thought, My every feeling.
"I mean, LIKE me? Like." He said and I nodded.
"Yeah, I been feeling that way for a long time now." I said kissing him. He turned red.
"For real?" He asked and I nodded.
"Yeah."He kissed me again.
Summer swimming
I took a deep breath as Gray stretched. I Streached out my arms. The mayor stood behind the contestants, he fired his toy gun with a cork tied to a string in the gun and we started. Everyone dove into the water and started swimming. I was in the middle with Cliff, Docter, and Gray. I Reached my arms forward, getting the salty water all through my hair. I kept my eyes forward and making sure I didnt get distracted. Of course, having my ankle broken for a few weeks killed my training time so I kept messing up. I got tired fast but I still kept going. I was catching up to Rick. I thrashed my legs wildly under the water as I tried to go faster. Soon, I passed him, I didnt let it go to my head though. I kept my mind on finishing before celebrating. I reached out my arm to tag the rock when Rick tried once again to pass me. I kicked harder and used alot of energy getting myself even near touching the rock first. I slapped my hand down and, Taged it. I climbed ontop of the rock and sat down. Grinning proudly. After the boys stopped, relizing they had lost, I stood up on the rock and grinned. I walked around on the rock happlie, hearing the claps of the villagers whom had not participated, and Gray. I must have stood up to long or something but I just gave out.
When I woke I was on the beach again and the sun was setting, Gray was sitting beside me on a blue towl with red triangles on it. Really no real tast in towels but... okay, Getting off track. Gray was looking over me and He helped me sit up when he relized I was awake
"What happend?" I asked.
"You fell into the water after winning. The swim took alot out of you." He said draping his arm over my shoulders. I grinned. He kissed me and helped me stand up. "You sure your okay?"
"Just alittle wobbly. No big deal." I said, my legs felt like noodles, truly. I didnt think I could walk home but Gray had put me in his arms before I could worry. He carried me home, with my arms around his neck. He put me on my bed after we got back. My hair was salty and my body was tired. I had just woken up and I was ready to crash out for the night. Gray smiled and kissed me.
"Get some Rest. I'll see you tomarrow." He said with a hug and a kiss. I nodded and he left, waving good bye as he left the shack. I streached and lied on my bed. Right then, I had fallen asleep.
And I would rather not think of when he cheated on me. Gray ended our first married kiss. It was definitly not our first kiss. But our first kiss as husband and wife it was. The town clapped as we walked down the aile and out of the church. We walked to the lake where the I'll protect you memory took place. We both sat down and I sat on his lap. Smiling.
"I Love you Gray." I told him grinning.
"I love you too, and I promise to do my best. Now and forever."