Chapter 10: Chapter 10

"Man up little brother and talk to her!" Kit was thoroughly annoyed at his brothers sulking, he needed to either break it off and get over it or fix it.

After their fight Sam and Jake had not spoken a word to each other in four weeks and gradually the animosity between the two was getting worse, Sam refused to acknowledge his presence and in retaliation Jake refused to be in the same room as her. So far they had broken two plates, four cups, cause endless drama and thoroughly annoyed all 14 of their close family and friends with their snide remarks.

Jake walked away from his brother rather than fight with another person, clearly he didn't understand anything.

"SAM! Shut. Up. Either cowgirl up and tell Jake what you've been telling me for the past month or stop complaining! Honestly if you don't stop complaining I am never riding with you again!" Before Sam could retaliate Jen neck rained her palomino right and squeezed her heels leaving Sam on her own to think.

Jake was walking towards his house and couldn't help notice something was off, it didn't feel right. He slowed to an almost stop looking around for clues as to what was wrong, before he could pay too much attention his mom called him to wash up. He grumbled to himself as he walked to wards the house, forgetting his previous suspicions until he heard running feet.

Before he could react he was tackled to the ground and held their while his brothers zippy tied his feet and wrists.

"WHAT THE HELL!" He yelled. Why were they tying him up?

"It is for your own good little brother." Came from Quinn

"Desperate times call for desperate measures." Came from Adam

"If you had of been a man we wouldn't had had to do this."

Kit the bastard, he must have been the ring leader Jake realised. Before long he was thrown in the truck.

The drive was short and even though he couldn't know for sure he was sure they were at Sam's. Why was he here?

Before he could object he was being picked up and carried inside. Right to Sam's room. His scowl increased as they got closer to her room, it worsened though when he heard Sam's distress, they weren't hurting her were they?

When he was dropped on her bed, still tied up, beside Sam, also tied up, he began to realise what they were doing.

For once him and Sam agreed on something, his brothers and Jen were little #%$!&s and they told them so. The only response they got however was a closed door and laughter.

Annoyed at the situation they did not speak for at least 10 minutes, or so Jake guess, there was no clock.

"Look what you caused them to do!" Sam's accuserory tone broke him from his thoughts.

"ME? You're the one being unreasonable and stubborn!" He knew he was right.

"Hardly, you were trying to control me, no man has the right to control a women!"

"No I was NOT! What are you on about?" He had done nothing of the sort.

"Huh."

No one spoke for a while, there was no point both believed they were right. Unfortunately the peace gave them time to think over their thoughts.

"Sam—"

"Jake—"

"You go first," Sam told him.

"I truly wasn't trying to control you, I just wanted to know if you wanted him to find you. Do you?"

Sam sighed, "I don't know, I like it here on the farm but while I was away the main reason for coming back was you… I-I don't think I want to be here if you don't want me here. Maybe I should go?" the lift at the end of her sentence was the only recognisable sign that she had just posed a question.

Jake frowned, "Of course I want you here, but if you want to leave you have to tell me straight out. Last time you left without a word, clearly you didn't want to be with me. If you still don't you shouldn't play me like this!" his sentence lost its malice in his crestfallen expression at the end of the sentence.

"What! How could you think that? You wanted me to leave…"

The much needed talk that followed that statement continued until they realised it was getting dark outside and they were really hungry.

"You two made up yet?" Kit and Jen walked in the bedroom door smiling when they noticed Sam and Jake cuddled up on the bed, still tied up.

"JEN! You untie me right now!"

"Only if you say you made up!" Jen crossed her arms and tapped her foot.

"We did ok, now Kit untie me." Jake spoke as if he wasn't currently tied up while he tried to intimidate his brother.

"Alright baby brother, I'll untie you." With a smile on his face and a sly smirk he pulled out a knife, "but if either of you ever do this to us again you'll be tied up together for a week."

Jake and Sam rubbed their wrists as Kit cut the ties off their legs, "Now kiddies there is food downstairs and we expect a normal conversation out of you two."

After Kit and Jen walked out Jake turned to Sam, "I know you don't want to leave me but if you really want to do roping we can compete together or I can at least go see you sometimes. But if you love it Sam we can compromise so you can still compete."

"I love you Jake." She kissed him.

"I love you and I love competing but I want to spend more time with you than just weekends…"

"We'll work it out but for now we still have a wedding to plan," at Sam's unusual expression he stopped, "don't we?"