I guess you can stay [quietlikehim]

[cantbewithhim]

Ennis had allowed Alma Jr. to stay for a little while, keep some healthy distance from Mark. It seemed like the boy was here all the time, calling after her, even once sleeping over on the pull-out. And as Ennis lay awake, listening to them kiss and nothing else - his heart stirred, hating him. He had resigned himself to his own loneliness. Jack

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[quietlikehim]

Junior was glad that her father had let her stay with him for a little while longer so that there could be some distance between her and Mark. As well as Mark's father who was annoying the hell out of her. She noticed too that Mark seemed to be calling a lot, or showing up and even staying over one night. Not that she minded but she didn't want to make her father uncomfortable which was why she had kept it to just kissing the night Mark stayed over. She knew it made her dad miss Jack and she wondered when Jack was going to show up.

Approaching him, she nibbled her lip as she noticed the way he looked at her and she knew that he knew right away that something was up. She didn't know how he would take the idea of her going off and eloping with Mark but she hoped that he would support it.

"Hi daddy." She smiled, shoving her hands into her pockets, "Can I ask you something?"

[cantbewithhim]

"Well, sure ya can," he said softly, shoving his hands in his pockets.

[quietlikehim]

She drew in a slow breath and looked down, nibbling her bottom lip, "Mark and I wanna elope, and we wanna know if ya wanna come be a witness."

[cantbewithhim]

Ennis was quiet for a long moment. How did one respond to something like that? He thought about what Jack Twist would say... about how it were romantic or some crock. Alma would never forgive him this - didn't the girl want her mother there?

He knew Mark surer than he knew what to say. Mark was Alma Jr.'s Jack Twist. He'd do anything for her and nothing in his own life could meet up to this expectation he had for her. He couldn't very well deny her the one thing he had kept all his life. Since Brokeback, leastways.

"I'm.. not sayin' no." A beat. "Not sayin' no no more."

It was a joke of sorts, but then he sighed.

"Don't you 'least want yer mama there?"

[quietlikehim]

She nodded her head, moving to find her perfume and then something to occupy herself while he got ready. Biting her bottom lip, she opened the door and stood looking out at the world.

In just a little while, she was going to be married. She licked her lips, playing with her ring while she waited.

[cantbewithhim]

Ennis had looked, but he didn't really own nothing nicer. So he wore his hat, a button-up shirt with vertical blue stripes, and a belt inexplicably held together by an old rodeo buckle over his Wrangler jeans. Sighing, he figured he looked good enough to aid and abet, or some such mess, and he walked past her without really looking to start his truck.

"Y'sure about this, Junior?" he asked, calling out over the roar of the engine.

[quietlikehim]

She grabbed her purse and her jacket as he walked past, then she shut the door and hurried after him. Opening the passenger door, she laid the jacket down on the seat and then hopped up. Glancing over at him, she tilted her head with a little bit of a smile, "Yes daddy, I'm sure."

"I just hope he don't mind that I asked to get eloped." She settled back for the drive.

[cantbewithhim]

He laughed, shaking his head as he threw the sonuvabitch truck into gear.

"Shoulda known this was your damn fool idea."

And the whole way to the Town Hall, all he could think was how Jack and her would get along with their damn fool ideas.