Yay new chapter is up! Im excited. I hope u guys are too. I have a lot planned for the next chapters with her and Ross ;) u can put your mind into the gutter nahh lol just kidding. I have been obsessed with american idol lately and my favorite is definately Scotty he is just so sexy with his voice and his eyes. ugh i want to marry him. lol but its kind of funny cause my dad pointed out that he looked like the kid from MADD magazine and he kinda does. i like dare you guys to look up Scotty and MADD Magazine in the same google search and tell me what you think! alright ill shut up now R&R!

Chapter 18

In truck on the way to the fair was loud between me and Sam laughing hysterically and Darrell trying to sing his heart out. He started belting out Ladies Love Country Boys, which caused us to break into a fit of laughter.

"Lea, how 'bout you? You love country boys?"

"Why? Do you consider yourself country Darrell?"

"It's alright, you can admit you love me."

An idea popped into my head. "Yes Darrell baby, you're right I do love you," I batted my eye lashes at him.

He stared at me shocked.

I started laughing. "Gullible."

Ross chuckled next to me. Jake and Sam were laughing in the back.

A good song came on the radio and I turned it up. At the same time Sam and I said "Ooo, I love this song!" and we started singing.

Hey I'm a wild flower
Growin' in the sunshine
Soakin' up the way of life
I was raised in

Runnin' barefoot
Bloomin' in a summer shower
Ponytail dancin'
I can't help it
I'm a wild flower

Ooo yeah, Ooo yeah, I'm a wild flower

"Wow Lea. You sing really good like seriously," said Darrell.

I laughed that. "Thanks but you must hear a lot of dying animals singing to think that I sound good."

"No I'm serious Darlin'."

"Really?" I asked all surprised.

He smiled. "Nah. Now who's gullible?" Everyone laughed.

"Still you Dar, still you." We all laughed.

That's when Sam shouted, "Look who it is."

We all turned to look. It was Linc waving us down on the side of the road. I shivered and ducked down so he couldn't see me. "You have got to be kidding me," I said exasperatedly. Ross chuckled a little and I squeezed his leg to tell him I heard him.

I heard Sam from the back seat, "Don't pull over. We'll let my dad handle it."

We passed him, but I waited a little to get up. "Can I come up now?"

"Nope. It's a pretty nice view from up here."

"What?" My head shot up and hit the steering wheel. "Oww. Dang it."

Darrell started laughing and I whacked him. "That was for before," I said.

We continued on our way to the fair.

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We arrived at the place and got out of the truck. We decided to wait for everyone in the other car before we went anywhere, so we could coordinate times and meeting places and things like that. We waited there and we were all laughing at the banter between me and Darrell. That's when four guys that highly resembled redwood trees, with another man with a shorter blonde woman came walking over to us. I moved closer to Ross as they approached.

"Hey Baby bear and Sammy. Darrell. Ross," said one of the redwood trees.

"Hey guys. This is Lea. She's one of our HARP girls. Leah this is Quinn, Brian, Nate, and Adam, Jake's brothers," said Sam pointing to each of them.

"Hi," I said, still moving closer to Ross.

What looked like Jakes dad and mom walked up behind them. "Hi Maxine."

"Hi Sam how are you?"

"Good thanks. How are you?"

"Fine thanks." She turned to me. "Hi I'm Maxine Ely and these are all my sons and of course you know Jake. And my husband Luke Ely. I heard you ran into a little trouble with one of our neighbors."

"Ah, did everyone hear about that?"

"It's a small town sweetie, news travels fast."

"Yeah well that guy sure is something. We actually passed him on the way here and I had to duck down in the seat so he wouldn't see me."

"He has that effect on everyone, don't worry." I smiled politely.

She turned to Jake. "Be good now. And have fun but don't get into any trouble."

The Buick rolled up then. And everyone got out and came over to us. "Hey Maxine. I didn't know all of you were coming today," said Brynna.

"I decided it would be fun to bring all my boys to the fair. Why are all you here?"

On the side Wyatt and Luke greeted each other.

"Well we are here celebrating Lea's birthday."

She turned to me. "How old are you going to be?"

"18."

"Well happy birthday."

"Thank you." Jen, DJ, and Pepper walked up to us. We all continued on with our conversations. And DJ whispered to me. "You look really good right now and I bet Ross is like freaking out right now cause some of the Ely brothers are looking at you. Are you and Ross gonna hang out?"

"Are they really?" I asked. She nodded.

"I don't know. I want to hang out with him but I'm not sure if he wants to hang out with me."

"Oh come on. He hasn't left your side this entire time. And trust me he was looking at you when you came out of the bunkhouse earlier. This way if you hang out with him, I can hang out with Pepper," she said with a wink.

"No way you and Pepper?"

"Mmmhm. And I think there might be a little Darrell and Jen action going on."

"Reeeally?"

"Yupp."

"Well this should be an interesting night."

Just then the adults went off by themselves. "All right guys have fun and remember meet us back here at 10:30."

"It was nice to meet you," I said with a smile and they walked off towards the fair.

We were all about to go off our separate ways when I turned to look at Ross. I noticed that he looked really good tonight too. "Ross, do you want to walk around with me?" I said as I smiled at him with a bit of a blush.

"'Course," he said and smiled back. I loved it when he smiled.

"Cool," and with that we walked off to the fair. DJ, Sam, and Jen smiled at me and gave me a thumbs up as we walked by. This really was going to be an interesting night.

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