Don't say it
"Well were is she now?"
"Junior or Dorrin?"
"Big mouth."
Jack laughed Ennis always called Dorrin that when she got in trouble at school for saying things when she should have kept her mouth shut, something she got from her father Ennis would always say.
"Umm well she's in the house, cookin probably."
Ennis walked to the phone hung in the barn, dialed the number to that house.
"Dorrin? You get your butt down here now!"
He hung up
"Well?" Jack said
"You heard me she's coming down right now."
At that moment Dorrin was walking through the snow cursing herself for speaking her mind.
She walked into the barn Ennis was standing their hands on his hips looking at her with a hard stare.
"Hello"
"Hey." She waved trying to break eye contact
"Look at me Dorrin."
Silence
"He said it wouldn't change." Dorrin said in a whisper
"Change, nothings changin." Ennis replied
"Everything is changing, Juniors here and she hates my guts your getting mad at me for telling her something she should have know a long time ago and to top it all off you and daddy are trying to send me to Texas this summer and I don't want to."
"Well Junior is here and I'm not mad at you and Texas, hell if you don't want to go then don't know ones forcing you."
Ennis sat on the bench
"Come here sit with me Dorrin."
She went
"Did Junior say she hated ya?"
"She didn't have to her eyes did the talking."
"Well I love you and Junior well she'll just have to get use to you thats all." He said with a smile
"Yah, well I doubt it, I'm going to bed."
"Dorrin wait a sec."
"No I don't want to talk any more I'm tired."
"I love you." Ennis said in a low voice, a hurt voice
"Love you too."
Dorrin walked into the house and went up to her room, got into bed didn't even take off her clothes she just laid there, and fell asleep
"I wish this was a dream." She said"Don't say that Dorrin." Ennis told her
"But she hates me and I don't want to try any more."
"Wake up sweetie please wake up."
That morning Dorrin woke up in a bed not her own she looked around and she could hear a woman's voce talking to a boy she got up and looked out her window, no pasture no horses, just a back yard and fences.
"I'm I dreaming?" She asked herself
"Nope, this is life when you're not dreaming." Came a voice all to familiar
"Ennis?" she whispered
Silence answered her.
Dorrin ran out into the hall looking for her Father when she got to the living room Jack was in a chair looking out the window, he turned and looked at her tears coming down his face a post card in his hand with DESEASED stamped in red.
Authors note:
Well that its for my fan fic if your wondering The life Ennis, Jack and Dorrin all had was a dream, and in the end Ennis did die that's what the post card is for if you needed the clearance, I hated to kill him off its so sad, but I think it makes good reading this way, because life isn't always perfect and everything changes eventually.