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Title: I Can’t Lose You Again.
Chapter 15
Here it is a new chapter, thanks for your patience. It’s very short, but more will follow, I decided to post it because some of you asked if the story was blocked.
Plus, I’m adding soon to Bluebells and Roses and I’ve other works to develop.
This is the sequel to “Mexico”, ten days after its end.
Disclaimer: the talented Mrs Proulx owns the original story and characters.
Special thanks again to my dear beta Sam and to Onefreetoroam for the title idea.
Thanks to all of you readers and to those who added their opinion.
A few weeks later, Ennis was due to go to Riverton at the weekend and fetch the girls, so Jack decide to give Ennis his truck.
The real reason for this decision lingered in the air without being discussed: both men knew the importance for Ennis to give a fresh impression to his formers neighbors.
The girls chatted a lot during the first part of the travel toward Lightning Flat, especially about school and friends, whose names were unfamiliar to Ennis.
He let them do whatever they wanted, because he was already nervous enough and didn’t really listened to his girls. He tried to concentrate on the road.
When Junior, who was having female cramps, asked to rest a little on the back seat, Jenny sat up front and read a comic.
Ennis counted on Claire to support him; Jack’s mother was becoming used to having young people in her home after so many years and so she spent the greatest part of Friday in the kitchen.
When the Del Mars arrived in time for lunch, Claire greeted the girls politely and introduced them to her husband. John Twist spoke a little at the kitchen table and remained mostly on his own. Ennis was now used to checking on him without being noticed, trying to see new signs of his illness.
The afternoon went smoothly. Ennis showed the ranch to his daughters before dinner; they had some time to walk together because Jack wasn’t at the ranch.
After some discussion with John, who at first didn’t believe in the idea, Jack had told Ennis that he wanted to start having horses again, like when he had been a kid.
Jack had asked Peter’s help and they’d visited some farms around the county to see the available new stallions. So far, Jack had bought only three mares, but he was expected to return home this evening with the new purchase.
Jack arrived with two new horses - one of them a large black stallion - very late in the evening, when the house was already silent, so he and Ennis met near the barn at midnight to see the new horses and for the “last cigarette.”
“You’re OK?” Jack asked.
Ennis was smoking nervously, one cigarette after the other. “I’m better.”
“And the girls?”
“Fine, thanks.”
“It wasn’t too bad.”
“No...but.”
“Ennis, please, trust me, it will be better soon.”
For Jack it was a great victory to have Ennis’ daughters at the ranch.
He put a hand on Ennis’ shoulder, it was dark so Ennis accepted it and relaxed a little.
The burning cigarette caught Jenny’s attention while she was at the window of her room.
She hadn’t been able to sleep and the room was very hot, so she had gotten up. As her eyes adapted to the darkness, she noticed the profiles of her dad and somebody else chatting together like friends; and acting like it too, because friends would sometimes hug and support each other, she thought.
TBC
Chapter 15
Here it is a new chapter, thanks for your patience. It’s very short, but more will follow, I decided to post it because some of you asked if the story was blocked.
Plus, I’m adding soon to Bluebells and Roses and I’ve other works to develop.
This is the sequel to “Mexico”, ten days after its end.
Disclaimer: the talented Mrs Proulx owns the original story and characters.
Special thanks again to my dear beta Sam and to Onefreetoroam for the title idea.
Thanks to all of you readers and to those who added their opinion.
A few weeks later, Ennis was due to go to Riverton at the weekend and fetch the girls, so Jack decide to give Ennis his truck.
The real reason for this decision lingered in the air without being discussed: both men knew the importance for Ennis to give a fresh impression to his formers neighbors.
The girls chatted a lot during the first part of the travel toward Lightning Flat, especially about school and friends, whose names were unfamiliar to Ennis.
He let them do whatever they wanted, because he was already nervous enough and didn’t really listened to his girls. He tried to concentrate on the road.
When Junior, who was having female cramps, asked to rest a little on the back seat, Jenny sat up front and read a comic.
Ennis counted on Claire to support him; Jack’s mother was becoming used to having young people in her home after so many years and so she spent the greatest part of Friday in the kitchen.
When the Del Mars arrived in time for lunch, Claire greeted the girls politely and introduced them to her husband. John Twist spoke a little at the kitchen table and remained mostly on his own. Ennis was now used to checking on him without being noticed, trying to see new signs of his illness.
The afternoon went smoothly. Ennis showed the ranch to his daughters before dinner; they had some time to walk together because Jack wasn’t at the ranch.
After some discussion with John, who at first didn’t believe in the idea, Jack had told Ennis that he wanted to start having horses again, like when he had been a kid.
Jack had asked Peter’s help and they’d visited some farms around the county to see the available new stallions. So far, Jack had bought only three mares, but he was expected to return home this evening with the new purchase.
Jack arrived with two new horses - one of them a large black stallion - very late in the evening, when the house was already silent, so he and Ennis met near the barn at midnight to see the new horses and for the “last cigarette.”
“You’re OK?” Jack asked.
Ennis was smoking nervously, one cigarette after the other. “I’m better.”
“And the girls?”
“Fine, thanks.”
“It wasn’t too bad.”
“No...but.”
“Ennis, please, trust me, it will be better soon.”
For Jack it was a great victory to have Ennis’ daughters at the ranch.
He put a hand on Ennis’ shoulder, it was dark so Ennis accepted it and relaxed a little.
The burning cigarette caught Jenny’s attention while she was at the window of her room.
She hadn’t been able to sleep and the room was very hot, so she had gotten up. As her eyes adapted to the darkness, she noticed the profiles of her dad and somebody else chatting together like friends; and acting like it too, because friends would sometimes hug and support each other, she thought.
TBC