Sprinkled With Love

Chapter Twelve: Whole day pt. 2

    After leaving his apartment 15 minutes later, we rode in silence to the towns only diner. He hadn't necessarily asked me out or to be his directly, but thats what he meant right? I thought to myself while he drove. I could ask him to clarify later, I didn't want to rush something especially since we finally talked our misunderstanding out last night. He held my hand in his and I looked at our intertwined fingers, wondering what he was thinking about. When we pulled up to the diner, he got out of the driver's seat and ran around to my side to open the door before I could even get out. He held his hand for me to take as I jumped down. I smiled at him and thanked him. Leading the way to the diners front door he held it open for me and then placed his hand on my lower back, walking me to the hostesses counter. It was sort of quiet in here and I realized everyone was staring at us. But I honestly didn't care, I was here with him and I couldn't have been happier. Jeanie, the waitress who has worked here for as long as I could remember took us to our table and handed us menus saying she'd be right back to take our orders. Both of us browsed the menus and picked out what we wanted. While we waited for her to come back we talked between the two of us. The chatter around the diner opened back up like they lost all interest in us. Although I still heard a few comments about us. Mainly how happy they were that I finally found a good man, and at that I looked up at Morgan who was already smiling at me, they were all right, I really did find a good man. When Jeanie returned with our food we dug in our conversation still working its way in even while we ate.

    "So what do you want to do today?" Morgan asked after he wiped his mouth on the napkin he had in his hand.

   "I was actually kind of feeling a horse back ride, what do you think? I asked and pushed my plate aside when I was done.

   "That sounds fun, where can we do that at?" He smiled.

   "My ranch, I still own a couple of horses." 

   "Alright that sounds perfect then, I'd love to go horse back riding with you," he smiled and got up holding out his hand like he had done before. We walked to the register hand in hand. While I was reaching into my purse for money, he stopped me and pulled out his wallet from his pocket, paying for us both. He held my hand again as we walked back outside to his truck. 

   On the way to my house I told him about the horses I had including their names and personalities. When we pulled up outside my house 45 minutes later. I jumped out of the truck and when to the garage door to put the code in. Morgan followed me in and closed the garage when I got the door opened into the laundry room. He sat all of his stuff down on the counter then wondered off towards the downstairs bathroom. I took the opportunity to head up stairs and change into shorts and slipped my riding boots on. When I came back down, Morgan was making himself at home sitting on the couch with his feet propped up.

   "Excuse me sir, no boots on the table," I said and stood with my arms crossed.

   "Yes ma'am." He pulled his feet off of the coffee table and then stood up. "Ready to go?" He asked.

   "Yup let's go and introduce you to my horses," I said and led him out the back door and we crossed the back deck. We walked to the barn and I opened the door. It was clean and smelt like straw, when I started working a lot at the bakery 5 years ago I hired a farm hand that came in every day to feed and turn out the horses just incase I couldn't and for as long as he has been here my barn had never looked better. I walked up to the first stall and my mare, Starla, popped her head up and nayed. I  introduced her to Morgan and then continued to the other 3 horses. After getting everyone comfortable with eachother. I pulled Starla out along with Jackson and tied them up to get them brushed and saddled. Morgan took over saddling Jackson for himself after the brushing was over and I got Starla saddled also. After leading them put of the barn, I climbed into my saddle and held the reigns as Morgan did the same. Then we set out for a day of riding, after a good 2 hours I stopped at the small pond that I had on the the land. Morgan had done a good job of keeping up with me, even passing me at some points. I dismounted Starla and let go of the reigns and she sauntered over to the water to get a good drink and stand under the shade. Morgan did the same, coming up to me and placing his arms around my waist we stood there just like that for about 10 minutes not saying anything.

   "I want to watch you ride me the way you ride your horse," he said, his statement full of s****l desire. I turned around and smacked his arm.

   "You are so dirty," I shook my head laughing.

   "Can't help it when I watch you ride, any man would get horny." His cheesy grin took over his face.

   "Maybe later I can show you just how good I can ride," I winked and kissed his cheek then walked away to collect starla. 

   "Awe come on baby thats all I get?" He pouted. Then walked off with his head down to grab Jackson.

   "Don't get all pouty, it's not like I am going to with hold anything from you," I said from atop of starla looking down at him. He stuck his tongue out at me and mounted Jackson. 

   "First one back to the barn doesn't have to put the horses away," I said. Both Morgan and I lined up. Then on a count of 3 we took off. It was a tight race all the way back to the barn. But I came to a complete stop in front of the barn before Morgan did. I jumped down and waited for him. "Have fun handsome," I handed him the reigns to starla and took off towards the house. Listening to him talk to Jackson and starla. I sat on the back deck watching him remove the saddles and brush each horse for a good 10 minutes each before he took them into the barn. He came back to me smiling and tackled me backwards onto the decks wood flooring. I laughed when he had me pinned below him and kissed him. 

  "You smell," I said scrunched up my nose, as his musky scent hit me with a mixture of horse and straw. 

   "You don't smell like a flower either princess," he said sniffing me and making a funny face. I shook my head then pushed him off so i could head inside, waiting for him to follow me upstairs to the shower.