Bachelor Jarod chapter four.
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Eight women left. Cordelia, Abby, Lydia, Miss Parker, Maria, Tess, Claude, Lexi.
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Before the women had time to make breakfast, O'Donnell showed up with another envelope.
"This time Jarod has decided one of you will get the chance to have a single date with him. And the rest of you girls will go on group dates, one with three and one with four. But to make things more exciting, Jarod has made up a little game. The one who can answer most of his questions win!" O'Donnell said.
Miss Parker sat down at the table with a cup of coffee. She smiled satisfied. She would win, no one here knew as much about Jarod as she did.
"But, Jarod also said that the woman who had the single date with him last time is not in the game. And that would be you Andi."
"Oh how convenient…" Miss Parker muttered. She was sure Jarod did that because he knew she would win and that it wouldn't be fair to the other ladies. GEE!
Miss Parker felt a little sad. Didn't he want to be with her? And she hated the fact that someone else would get to be alone with him, god knows what could happen. Damn it! Miss Parker didn't like this at all. Please, love me Jarod…
O'Donnell gave each of the women a paper and a pen to write with.
"Answer these questions, and we'll soon have a happy winner! Oh and Jarod said he wanted those papers back, so write your names on them," he said.
Maria eyed the paper; she started with the first question, but realized she didn't have a clue. She whined, Jarod was going to see that she didn't know anything about him, maybe she wasn't paying enough attention… maybe she should know these things… She continued. The questions were kind of silly, and also kind of cute. She realized she didn't know so much about Jarod as she thought she did. She didn't even know what his favourite candy was…
I'm sorry Jarod; I wish I knew everything about you…
Miss Parker leaned closer to Maria's paper, trying to see what it said. She was curious. She read the questions, and answered every one of them silently to herself.
She made a little sound to get Maria's attention. When she saw she was stuck on the candy-question, she wanted to help out a little. I suppose that's what friends do…
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The women were finished and O'Donnell gathered the papers and started to correct them.
"And the winner is…" O'Donnell made a dramatic pause. "Maria!"
Maria smiled happily. Finally she would get to spend some time with him! She gave Miss Parker an appreciative look. Thank you so much! You're a great friend!
"Maria, Jarod will be here soon." O'Donnell started. "I leave it to you to divide up in groups' ladies, when Maria returns, the group at four will go, have a nice day!" With those words O'Donnell left the room and the women started to talk.
Finally they decided that Lexi, Miss Parker, Lydia and Abby would be the group of four and Tess, Cordelia and Claude, the group of three.
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The women waited impatiently for Maria to return from her date. None of them could stop thinking of what happened right now, what every one of them missed out on.
Miss Parker was one of them. She tried to hide it but she was very nervous. Maria was her friend, and she was the one who helped her to get the date with Jarod, she knew that. But what if Jarod started to like Maria better than he liked Miss Parker?
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After another couple of hours of anguish, Maria came back and when Miss Parker saw how happy she looked, she couldn't help but feel happy for her.
"I hope you're ready, Jarod is waiting for you somewhere," Maria whispered to Miss Parker.
Miss Parker smiled. "So how was your date?"
"Oh it was great, we had such a great time together!" Maria couldn't help but see the sadness that flashed through Miss Parker's eyes. "I'm sure you will have too!" she added with a smile.
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None of the women knew where they were going when the car left the mansion.
After about forty five minutes, they'd left the city behind them, and it wasn't until they laid eyes on the farm they realized what was going on.
Miss Parker looked at the big white stable, at the pastures with horses in different colors as they drove closer. She had a feeling this was going to get really crazy, but at the same time itlooked beautiful, with the green landscape, so different from what she was used to.
Now she understood why Jarod recommended jeans. She shook her head amused; she didn't remember wearing jeans since she was a kid.
The car stopped and Jarod came to welcome them, giving each of the women a big hug.
"Is there anyone here who haven't ridden a horse before?" Jarod asked and smiled as Lexi, Miss Parker and Lydia nodded.
He looked at Abby.
"I've done it a few times while visiting a friend," she said.
Jarod nodded and turned back to the other women. "Don't worry, it's not that hard, and it's fun too!" he said and started to walk. The women followed him.
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After about half an hour, they were on their way. They had a leader who was riding first, and the other horses just followed, making it quite easy for the nervous ladies.
When they reached a beautiful place by a creek, they stopped, tied the horses to the trees and while the horses owner stayed with them, they went to sit down in the grass by the water.
"Wow, Jarod that was actually kind of funny," Lydia said with a smile. But she had to admit, she was very nervous. What if she would fall off and embarrass herself in front of the others…
They sat there talking a long time.
"Andi," Jarod whispered. Miss Parker looked at him.
"I wanna show you something," he said in a low voice, standing up with his hand reached out for Miss Parker to take.
She grabbed his hand and let him help her up.
"We'll be back soon," Jarod said to the others, trying to ignore the jealous looks the girls gave him and Miss Parker. He knew he couldn't spend more time with one of the women, but he just had to be alone with her for a little while.
They took one of the horses and when they managed to get up on its back both of them, Jarod told Miss Parker to hold on tight. She didn't really understand why until the horse started to move, really fast.
Terrified she wrapped her arms around Jarod and held on as tight as she could. Oh shit! This is scary.
"Don't be afraid!" Jarod shouted to make himself heard. He made the horse run a little faster, the wind was blowing hard in their faces as they were flying across the field. Miss Parker was amazed, she'd never felt anything like this before. She wasn't afraid anymore, she felt so free. She relaxed a bit, but clung to Jarod just as tight. Not because she had to, but because she wanted to. She felt all warm inside as she thought of how close to him she was, as she felt his body move against hers. Oh shit… this is driving me crazy!
"Oh my god, Jarod I love this!" she yelled.
Jarod just laughed. Trust me, I do too!
After a while Jarod was forced to slow down a bit. They stopped for a while, and let the horse rest.
"You can let go of me now," Jarod teased as Miss Parker still had her arms tightly wrapped around him.
Miss Parker smiled and leaned her head on his shoulder. "What if I don't want to?" she purred. I wish we could stay like this forever…
Jarod chuckled. "I don't mind at all."
"Good."
"Jarod, will you do this with the others too?" Miss Parker suddenly asked.
She prayed he wouldn't. She really wanted to believe that this was something special, that it meant as much to him as it did to her. Suddenly Miss Parker felt sad, she just couldn't bear the thought that someone else would sit there she was sitting now… that someone else would hold him this close… she almost started to cry as she thought of it, but forced herself to be strong.
Jarod was quiet for a while. He knew what she was thinking; he could feel the sudden change of emotions. He sighed. Maybe he should be fair to the others, but he just couldn't bring himself to hurt Miss Parker like that.
"No I won't…" he whispered. "But we should go back now." Jarod turned around as much as he could, kissing Miss Parker on her lips.
Miss Parker responded with a low moan. As she was kissing him, she couldn't help but question what she was doing. What about her life? What about the Centre? How would she ever be able to go back to that when this was over? But maybe she wouldn't have to… not if Jarod choose her… because now she knew that if Jarod picked her in the end, she wouldn't have a choice but to come with him. He'd brought her too far already, she loved him too much to ever be apart again…
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The day passed quickly and it was time for another rose ceremony. The eight women already waited for Jarod to show up.
Mr. O'Donnell entered first. "Hello ladies! Are you ready?" he asked and the women nodded nervously.
"That sounds great," Jarod said as he walked into the room. "Thank you so very much for the amazing dates we had today. I'm really sorry to let two of you go home, if I could I would pick all of you." He smiled, picking up the first rose and just stood there for a while watching the ladies.
"Andi," he said, smiling again as he saw the surprised look on Miss Parker's face. She walked up to him.
"Will you accept this rose?"
Miss Parker smiled. "Of course I want to. She looked at Jarod. Shit, go Parker, before you do something stupid!
"I'm glad," Jarod whispered, hugging her tight. Miss Parker couldn't believe being close to him made her feel this way. Every time she was close to him, she only wanted more… she wanted all of him.
When she walked back to her place she felt all warm inside.
She barely heard him call Maria's name. Lydia, Claude and Lexi got their roses too, she noticed. Than she started to think of the ride earlier today and she was lost. She didn't even notice when O'Donnell came back, when two of the women had to say goodbye. All she could think of was Jarod and the wonderful feeling inside of her.
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TBC
AN/ Now it's up to you to decide who is going to stay, Abby, Tess or Cordelia? Two of them have to go, please let me know what you think!
The next chapter should be ready in a week…