This is a all human story. I love the all human stories. I do not own these characters. Just playing with them. Please leave a review.
Chapter 1.
Sookie was raking leaves for her grandmother. She had the radio playing. Sookie had grown up on her grandmother Adele's farm. Gran was getting up in age. She had come home to help her grandmother. She had went to college in Boston. She had got a scholarship. Sookie was a licensed vet. She was going to work on the farm and make one of the old buildings into a Private practice office. She had been engaged to Alcide. But he was killed in a car accident. He was from Boston and so was his family. It was good time to come home and be with her grandmother. Adele had fell off the porch and broke her ankle. So she needed help any way. So here was Sookie raking leaves for her Gran, listening to her music dancing along.
Gran hollered for Sookie, Sookie come in the house. "Yes Gran, Are you ok?" Gran replied, " Of course darling, You have been out there a while. I'm still having problems with this wheelchair. I was trying to get to the kitchen to make you something to eat." Sookie just shook her head, " Gran, I can fix something if I get hungry. You don't need to try and do that. I need to be fixing your meals." Sookie hugged her Gran and told her to go to the living room and she would put some homemade chili in the crock-pot to cook. And she fixed Adele a ham sandwich with some chips and a glass of sweet tea and took it to her. Sookie spoke, " Gran I need to go and check the office and see if the paint is dry. They will be here tomorrow to put in the kennels. Not to mention I need to feed Grace." Adele told Sookie not to take to long. Sookie decided to go feed Grace first. Grace was here baby. She was a painted horse. She was beautiful. She was brown and white. Sookie had her since she was 22. And she hadn't got to spend as much time with her as she liked. But that was changing since she was home again. Grace was waiting on Sookie as she stepped into the barn. Sookie fed Grace and then brushed her. She told Grace, " I'll see you in the morning, we need to ride the fence line with Luke to check it." Luke Collier was one of their ranch hands. But Sookie liked to help so she knew what was going on with everything. And Luke was a nice guy. He had a girlfriend. Her name was Jessica Compton. Her father William or Bill Compton as everyone called him. He was very strict on Jessica. But she was a good kid. She would be leaving for LSU next fall. Luke was older than Jessica. Jessica was 17. And Luke was 19. They were both very mature for their ages. But Sookie knew they needed to grow up a little bit before marriage and babies. Sookie had been ready for all of it with Alcide Herveaux. She had a job at a local vet clinic and Alcide was being groomed to take over his fathers construction company. Alcide and Sookie was the same age. They were both 27. And both was stable , had a house. But the house was Alcide's. Sookie didn't feel right living in it after he died. Even though his family had told her multple times to stay. She just couldn't. Every time she walked through the door she expected him to be there. But it was just empty. And he was never coming back. It took a while to figure out what to do. She wanted to come home. She wanted to feel safe again. And Gran's fall and her realizing she needed to get home just happened at the same time. She liked to think Alcide was watching out for her. She prayed for him every night. And she hoped he heard her.
Sookie got to the building that would soon be her office. She unlocked the door and went in. It looked good. She had painted it herself. The building had a cement floor she had painted grey. She had painted the bottom half dark blue and the top white. And it had a grey stripe to separate it all. She had ordered a Grey couch to go in it. With a plastic covr of course. And grey sitting chairs. Gran had made the throw pillow the same dark blue that was on the wall. She was going to have to order her supplies for her operating room tomorrow also. She was getting excited. It was really coming to life. The signs she had made would be here by the end of the week. They had " Fallen Stars Vet Clinic." Printed on them. That was the name of the farm, "Fallen Stars Ranch". Because you could always go in the back fields and see a fallen star Coming out of the night sky. Her Grandfather Fintan had named the farmstead. He had died four years back. But Gran just kept going. She said she had to make Fintan proud of her. He lived through the ranch, so Gran kept working just as hard as always. With everything checked on , Sookie went back to the main house. There was a huge main house, And four separate other houses. One for Sookie's parents, another for Jason and one for Sookie. And the last one was for Ranch hands. Some lived close by but most wanted the room and board. The ranch hands taught classes at the ranch twice a week. { Horse riding classes} They had a little of everything on their farm. Cows, Goats, Pigs, But mostly horses. They bred their horses. People paid them to breed with their horses. And on top of that, They had a garden big enough to feed the county. They would sell some. And if someone was having a hard time, Adele loaded down a truck full and sent it where it was needed. The Brigant Family was loved by everyone because of their generosity. Sookie entered the living room where Gran was and asked if she was ready for supper, Adele said she could eat. Sookie went and washed up and set the table. Sookie got Gran in place and fixed her a bowl of chili and a glass of milk. Sookie sat down to the same thing.
Adele: Sookie, I have heard a handsome gentleman has moved into town. I heard he is a widow. And he is only 29. He has a daughter. I think she is 5 years old. But he is working at the school in town.I think they said he was a teacher.
Sookie: Well that's nice I suppose. This place is a good spot to raise kids.
Adele: I was trying to get your attention Sookie. You need to get out. Go for a drink in town. Maybe you can meet him and see what he is like.
Sookie: No thanks Gran. I had Al. I just don't think I'll ever get over him. He was my future. But my future now is to come here and help with the ranch and open my own vet clinic. My animals keep me enough company. It was a sweet thought though.
Adele just shook her head. She knew Sookie would hide here from the world. She was hurt by loosing Alcide. She understood that. She had lost her Fintan. But she was much older than Sookie. And she knew the lose of your other half could devastate you. Maybe she would let this drop for now. Maybe not. But Sookie needed to get out of this rut she was in.