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They had walked almost a kilometer when they finally arrived at the fork spot by Sue. In the darkness the white mailbox, planted by the roadside, had silvery reflections.
" Finally ! Darry exclaimed. Seems like everything was right, Miss Dobbins, except the evaluation of the distance ."
Darry was leading now and felt that Sue, he held by the hand, began to drag the step .
"We have almost arrived !" he said seeing the lights indicating the presence of an inhabited house hunless hundred meters o them.
"It's not too soon ! Sue replied wearily. The next time when we will break down ,I think it will be better to follow your plan and wait near the car ! "
Darry laughed. "Where is your good mood ?"
"In these damn heels," Sue muttered.
"Ah ah ah ! I didn't know you to be that kind of girl ."
"What kind of girl ?"
"The kind who complains dice that is necessary to walk more than five hundred meters ."
"You can laugh ! You don't know the pain it is like to wear those things ." she retorted continuing to hobble behind him.
Darry smiled in silence. " You want us to stop for a break ?"
"No ,let us continue . I don't want to look like a picky twit with you, Mr. tough guy ."
Darry laughed and spun around by surrounding an arm around her waist. "Oh, you can believe me,he breathed by carresing slowly her face . I could never think that about you ." He leaned over and kissed her tenderly.
"Um ,I feel a little better ," Sue whispered with a mischievous smile.
Darry cocked his head and slowly kissed her silky neck. "And now ?" he murmured, smiling and try again. Sue put her arms around his neck and chuckled.
"Much better . Uh,Darrel. Darrel !" she insisted, and smiled dragging her hands over his chest as he kept his languorous kisses.
"What ?" he said in a suppressed voice, breathing softly fragrant smell of her neck.
"We should may recover on the way."
"Maybe, yes ." he said, tenderly kissing her cheek and lips, then he sighed deeply as to begin to recover. "Yes ... We should ."Sue nodded slowly with a small smirk.
"Well, "Sir,the big wise person," you get carried away, it seems !"
Darry cleared his throat. "Um ,Yes ! he said, rubbing his neck. Come on, you want . Before it resumes me !" Sue laughed and followed him again.
When they passed what appeared to be the double doors of a white wooden gate, the place seemed vacant despite the lit windows of the house. Darry walked slowly in the silencious yard,where only the sound of crickets sounded,shaking Sue's hand and passed a wooden building that must surely be a barn and next to what looked like a caged chicken coop.
"Maybe there is nobody ? he guessed softly. I see no car ."
"But it is enlightened ! Sue replied in the same tone. There's inevitably someone ."
"It's too quiet . They had to go out or ...".
"That's the way it is,a farm at night !" she exclaimed amused. "Come, come knock on the door ! "She dropped his hand and bounced lightly on the few stairs leading to the veranda which occupied the main facade of the house. Darry shook his head, a smile on his lips, still amazed by her unflappable enthusiasm.
"And if we bump into an old grumpy farmer armed with a gun!" he said climbing the stairs.
"You'd be there to protect me, no ?" Sue smiled before hitting three little knocks on the door without response. She knocked again and looked Darry who contemplated her with a mocking mimicry.
"I told you so you ,he said stirring the head. Come , let's go !"
"Wait a minute !" she insisted softly.
"There is nobody ! And in the meantime we are maybe spirit our luck that a car crosses the pick-up ! They may be gone,either ..."
The doorknob turned and suddenly a face with wide eyes appeared in the opening. Then the door opened revealing a young boy of a dozen years.
"Oh, Good evening," Sue said mechanically with a big smile
"Yeah," the boy said, staring at them, obviously surprised to find them there. "What do you want ?"
"Uh , Darry spoke up. We are breaking down on the road . And uh..." He exchanged a quick glance with Sue. "...We wondered if your parents allow us to call ."
"They went out ," the boy happily cut. "And they don't want we let foreigners enter ."
"Well , Sue said, looking at Darry of the corner of the eye. Maybe we can wait for them . It is necessary that we called a garage to get a tow truck ."
The boy pouted pensive, appearing to reflect, then nodded slowly. "Okay,he said in a voice that was meant-confident. Mom and Dad should be home soon . Then you can ..."
"Ahhh !" All three jumped at the little alarmed voice who had sounded in the dark.
"What is ?" Sue worried clinging to Darry arm while the young boy passed them stormed to jump the stairs and across the courtyard toward the trees upright behind the barn.
"Lou ? !" he shouted panicked. "Lou ! Where are you ? !" In his panic he hadn't noticed that the young couple had hurried to follow him. "Lou ? !"
"Ahhh !" the voice came again, seeming to come from the sky. The boy suddenly looked up the trunk of the oak next to him and then stepped back to take a saw leafy branches, imitated by Darry and Sue.
"Oh, my God !Darrel," Sue whispered, clutching Darry's arm . A few meters above them the faint light of the rising moon enabled them to see a little girl clinging to a branch, her feet dangling in the air.
"Hold on, Lou ! I come for you !" the boy shouted to his sister, trying to make his voice trembling most reassuring as possible.
"Ahhh ...!" the little girl screamed when she heard the branch crack slightly. "I'll fall ! Mommy !" .
Darry felt Sue's fingers clenched on his biceps as he pondered hundred miles an hour.
" Sue , he said in a firm voice. Speak to her ."
"What ?" She asked in a trembling voice, not grasping well where he was going.
"We need a ladder ! he threw to the boy paralyzed beside him. Hey !" he started again hard making the kid jump and raise towards him a petrified look. " The scale ? !" Darry strongly insisted.
"The scale ? Uh,it... uh ," the boy stammered, unable to collect his thoughts. The branch snapped more rudely causing another roar of the little girl.
"Don't be afraid ! Darry then cried as he walked cautiously towards the tree. Grips up . I come for you !"
He began to climb the trunk up the first branch to more than two meters above the ground. "How did you do to get up there ?" he asked in a voice too low for the little girl can hear. " Damn , it's been at least ten years that I haven't done that ," he muttered, mentally by thinking that it seemed much more difficult to climb a tree in the dark than working on roofs.
Sue watched him act, combining his precise gestures to find good catches on the rough trunk to his calm, reassuring voice, and understood what he had requested.
"Don't be afraid,honey," she said, advancing slowly. Everything will be fine ! Your name is Lou, right ? "
"Um ,Yes ," the little girl snorted, seeming to calm down a little bit .
"It's a very pretty name ," Sue smiled holding her breath, following by the look the progress of Darry. "It's ... It's short of what ?" she asked, hoping to distract the attention of the little girl and avoid that she panic more until Darry reaches her finally .
"Louisa . But I prefer Lou ," the girl replied while Darry arrived at her closeness .
"Oh,Well . Yes, Uh ... You ... you're right ," Sue followed every movement of Darry who had just reached the branch below the one from which the little girl was suspended.
"Well, listen to me, he said very calmly. I will hold out the hand towards you .When I'll tell you,you leave the branch of your left hand and I'll catch up you, okay ? " The girl turned her head slightly towards him.
"No ! I'll fall !" she sobbed.
"No,honey ! Darry promised with a strained smile. I promise you that you won't fall ! Go, do what I tell you !"
Slowly, he raised his arm, holding his hand to the girl. "Go ! Leave the branch !" He could see the heavy breathing of the little girl when she cast a fearful glance at him, then she said slowly slide her hand along the branch and gently unfolded her fingers
"Ahhh !" she screamed, feeling swinging in a vacuum, but Darry nimbly grabbed her hand and turned her small body trembling so that she could hold onto his neck and burst into tears.
"Here is ! he breathed, putting his hand on her back . Here is ! It's over ! Shh...We're going down now, huh ?"
He smiled, feeling she nodded against his shoulder. "Well, you're going to wrap your legs around me and you strong grip around my neck,okay ?"
"I'm afraid ," the little girl said between sobs.
"I promise you I won't let you go , Darry gently assured. Close your eyes, okay. And in a minute we'll be down ." The little girl closed her eyes narrowed hard her eyelids and clung with all her might her slim arms around Darry's neck as he began his descent. It took him, in fact, no more than one minute, himself being much more agile in this exercise than he would have thought, to believe that all these years up and down roofs finally had given him some sense of balance.
When he put foot on the ground, his eyes met Sue's look misted by tears as she came toward him, her beautiful face paled slightly wearing a soft, admiring smile .
"Here is ! We are there ,he said softly, releasing his breath. There is nothing to fear ". His voice had seemed so strangely calm and confident, that for a second, he wondered if he intended his words of comfort to the little girl in his arms ou to Sue, who seemed so upset in front of him.
"It's over ," he whispered, giving her a sweet smile, and ran a finger on her left cheek before handing her the girl. Sue positioned her onto her hip and spread her dark locks of her bangs stuck to her forehead, the moon clarity enabling her to discover the great green eyes and adorable mug of the little girl.
"Are you okay, sweetie ?" she asked gently, sensing the question in the eyes of the child who suddenly realized she didn't know these people.
"Um ,yes ,she replied shyly. Ouch,my knee ." Sue looked at the bloodied knees of the girl.
"We will disinfect all this until your mom comes, okay ?" she suggested, stroking her hair, and then she said to Darry nodded course towards the boy remained silent at the foot of the tree.
"Hey, kid, you come !" he airily before realized that the child was shaking like a leaf and gently placed his hand on his shoulder. "It's okay, all is right now ".
The boy gave him a puzzled look and stammered: "I ... It's not my fault . I ... I told her to wait until tomorrow,Dad would pick her stupid kite . I ... I'm sorry . I ... I ... She didn't listen ". Darry could see flocked tears in the boy's eyes, and lightly rubbed the back of his head.
"Hey,don't worry. Believe me,I know what it's to be a big brother whom we not listen . " He gave him a encouraging smile and ruffled his hair and then, with a little nod, pointed to the house where Sue had already carried the little girl .
"Ouch, it stings ," the voice of the little girl exclaimed a few minutes later, while Sue gently dabbed her skinned knee. She was installed with the girl on the porch steps and, in light of the porch, applied in disinfected the light notch using a cotton soaked with oxygenated water. Seeing the boy's clear reluctance to do them to get inside, despite what had happened, Sue had to find something to compromise by declaring that a big breath of fresh air would be good for everyone. The full moon lit up the runs of the farm, so you could practically see into day. Leaning against the post of the stairs, arms crossed, watching her act,Darry tenderly impressed by how her contact with children was easy.
"You hurt me !" still complained the girl.
"Stop it, Lou ! the boy growled an authoritarian tone. It's your fault that you're hurting ".
"But,Tommy . I just wanted my kite ," the little girl replied with a sheepish voice as her eyes filled with tears. "Ouch !" she whimpered again.
"Wait ,Sue said softly . Do you know the blow magic trick ?" The little girl shook her head gently.
"Look , Sue smiled before blowing gently on the wound. This is better ?"
"Yes. Thanks !" the girl exclaimed with a cute smile.
"You are welcome,honey ". The roar of an engine was heard and the yard was soon illuminated by the light of two headlights while a old Buick was parked a few meters from the house.
"That's Mom and Dad !" the young Tommy exclaimed by engaging the front of his parents followed closely by his little sister who seemed to have completely forgotten her knee pain. Darry shook his head at the two children greeted the couple out of the car, telling them their mishap of the evening in a confused hubbub. A small rustling next to him made him turned the head. In a soft silence, Sue wrapped his bicep in her hands. She either didn't leave her eyes of the little family scene unfolding before them, and Darry could see the features of her beautiful face relieved and relaxed. He smiled tenderly and put his arm around her shoulders as she rested her head against his chest and put her hand on his ribs, in discreet sign of comfort .
"It's Darrel and Sue ," the young Tommy told his parents, advancing towards the couple.
"Tom Harper ," the man said, shaking the hands of Darry who presented him then Sue . "My wife, Sally ." The farmer and his son looked like two drops of water. In forty years, he seemed like a good man with a jovial and hardworking look that was clearly not much used to wear the kind of clothes in Sunday best which he had on his backs.
"Oh my God ! the young brunette exclaimed moved, taking the hand of Sue while she carried her daughter in her arms. How can we thank you ?" .
"You don't have to do it ,Sue smiled. We are happy to have been there at the right time ."
"Ah ,you can tell ! the farmer exclaimed, putting a hand on the shoulder of his son. Lou is more daredevil than a boy ! You have to thank these young people at least,Lou ? " The little girl shyly turned her head to the young couple and whispered low: "Thanks you".
"Don't thank us, sweetheart, Sue kindly answered. But you must promise us never do it again, um ?" The little girl nodded vigorously, causing a burst of laughter from his father who rubbed her cheek.
"I think she understood the lesson ! her mother smiled. Oh my God ! And to think that we shouldn't go out tonight"
"And yeah ! Our fifteenth wedding anniversary and all the restaurants worthy of the name were complete !" the farmer began recounted cheerfully. "Then I called this new restaurant a little away ,do you see ? In the ranch style . They told me that a reservation hadn't been honored and that a table was freed at the last minute . "
Darry and Sue looked each other and couldn't help laughing heartily under the interrogator eye of the couple of farmers. "It was probably ours ! Darry then explained. We break down and ... ".
"Oh ! The pickup on the road,it's your ?" Mrs Harper suddenly understood. Darry nodded.
"Yes . And ... We were hoping to called for a tow . "
"At this hour, boy ? Mr Harper was astonished. I'm afraid you do find one ! And bring someone from Tulsa cost at least one arm and a leg to you !" Darry and Sue exchanged an annoyed look.
"Oh but,I can take care ," Mr Harper continued, smiling.
"It's true ! the young Tommy adds. Dad is very strong in mechanics !" Darry had a hesitant pout.
"I can't ask you ," he began when the farmer interrupted.
"None of that, boy ! It's the least we can do ." And he left to start his own pick-up without waiting for an answer.
"This is our way of thanking you and your bride ," his wife smiled, patting the back of her daughter almost asleep in her arms, before realizing the look both amused and surprised the young couples exchanged embarrassed.
"Oh, I spoke too soon," she said, confused.
"Well ," Sue said, feeling ashamed. She glanced at Darry uncomfortably who scratched the back of his head and replied in a small voice embarrassed: "It's just ... tonight was our first date ".
"Oh ,Mrs. Harper didn't hide her surprise. Excuse me. But ,you are so perfect together . You swore that you're about to get married . You seem so happy and so in love ! I assure you ! You seem to know each other for a long time " .
TBC .
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