"Fists Work Better"
Kris woke up the next morning extremely content. She glanced to her left only to see that Junior hadn't left her side. Feeling like nothing could go wrong, she laid in the bed watching her love sleep soundly. After a short while, Junior woke up and smiled at Kris. He lightly kissed his fiancé and propped his head up on his hand. "How did you sleep?" he asked, concerned about what happened earlier that morning.
"Great," she answered. "I'm glad I told you about Mack."
Junior smiled and kissed her again. "Well, if we are going to get married and live our lives together then we have to know everything about each other."
Kris sighed lightly, removing all her nerves and said, "So, Mr. Davis, do you have any secrets?"
"Well," Junior began sarcastically, making Kris nervous, "when I was four, Dani made me dress up as a girl and play tea party with her." His cheeks turned red with embarrassment and he turned his face from Kris.
Kris burst out in laughter, rolling over on her back. "Hey! It's not funny!" Junior shouted. Ignoring him completely, she continued laughing even harder. Junior sighed heavily and got up from the bed, beginning to walk out of the room. When she calmed down a bit, Kris managed to say, "Wait Junior!" She paused to take a death breath to stop her uncontrollable laughter. "I'm sorry," she said sympathetically.
Returning to sit on the edge of the bed, Kris placed her hand on Junior's knee and said, "I thought you were the older sibling?"
"Yeah, well, she was very demanding," he explained.
"Apparently she always has been," she said, letting out another small chuckle.
Junior rolled his eyes and put his T-shirt on. "Let's get some breakfast, you pest."
Kris grabbed his hand and followed her morning laughter down to the large kitchen to eat breakfast. When Kris finished the last of her meal, she announced, "Well, I've gotta go train Flame some more."
"Wanna lift?" Junior offered with food in his mouth.
"No, I'll walk," Kris said, laughing at him for the second time this morning.
Clearing his throat, he said, "Okay. I'll stop by at around lunch time with some food. Sound good?"
"Sounds perfect," she answered with a smile before she kissed him on the cheek goodbye. "See you later, Romeo," she called out from the doorway.
He shook his head and said to himself, "And she's all mine."
At Raintree…
"Nice. You shaved eight seconds off of Flame's times," Matt explained to Kris as she slid down off of Flame.
"Good boy," she directed toward Flame as she rubbed his neck. Turning to Matt, she said, "He gets more like his dad every day."
Grinning at each other, they high-fived when Matt noticed the diamond ring on her finger. Suddenly, his face dropped and Kris knew he was hurt. "Matt, look, I can explain," she called out to a fleeing Matt.
"Why couldn't you just tell me this morning instead of making me feel like an idiot this whole time?" he shouted over his shoulder. Then he stopped, turned around and stood five yards away from her, waiting for an explanation.
"Matt, it's all so complicated. The three of us that is," she began. He lowered his head nad crossed his arms. "Ever since I got here, you two have been fighting over me and I ruined your friendship." She paused to look around Raintree. "I love this place so much, but…I…"
"Can't live without Junior?" Matt finished her sentence.
Stepping closer to her dear friend, Kris explained softly, "It has always been him since the beginning. I'm…I'm sorry Matt."
Finally Matt lifted his head to meet her sad eyes and said, "Me too." As he turned to walk away from her, he bumped into a man furiously walking past him. "Hey, watch it freak!" the man shouted at Matt.
Confused at this man's presence on his family's property, Matt said, "and who may you be?"
"Just get the hell out of my way!" the man snapped coldly.
"What are you doing here Mack?" Kris spat at him.
"You know this guy?" Mack asked, clearly confused once again.
"And I thought you would be happy to see me," Mack said with a smug look plastered on his face.
"In your dreams. The only way I want to see you is when you're six feet under the ground!" Kris shouted.
"Maybe you should leave. It doesn't sound like she want you here," Matt said, trying to make this unfriendly six foot four inch man leave.
"Why don't you mind your own business, man!" Mack screamed at Matt.
"Probably because your on my property!" Matt shouted back. Even though he was currently mad at Kris, he didn't want to see anything happen to her. And since this man seemed too eager to talk to her, he was very suspicious and only wanted to get him away from her.
Pulling into Raintree Ranch, Junior heard commotion out by the practice track and immediately jumped over his unopened door of his convertible Porsche and began sprinting toward the noise.
When Kris came into Junior's sight, he saw a tall man push Matt, causing Matt to fall to the ground and grab Kris' arm as she struggled to be set free. Suddenly, Junior's legs pushed him faster and before he knew it he was in front of Mack. Seeing Mack's raging eyes and Kris' terrified face, Junior's arm flew forward and his face collided with Mack's nose.
Mack flew to the ground and grabbed his nose that was gushing blood. Matt yelled at Mack and threw him out of the ranch. Kris gasped and stood in awe. Junior clasped his throbbing knuckles before he remembered why he punched Mack in the first place. He ran over to Kris and hugged her endlessly, making sure she knew he would always be there to protect her.
He didn't even know what was happening and he punched Mack for me. I guess I will be completely safe with Junior after all. Kris thought to herself as she clung tighter to the love of her life.
