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Post by ISSALYN! on Jul 1, 2012 13:48:47 GMT -5
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It had been two weeks. Two long, miserable weeks. Ethan's parents had questioned his missing phone and had seemed worried when he told them he'd rather just buy a new one. They asked him repeatedly if something had gone wrong with Aria, but he just kept brushing them off saying she was still busy cleaning up the farm. They probably knew as well as he did that two weeks was a long time, and they had their secret fears about what exactly had caused this rift between the teens.
Ethan had bought a new phone, spending money he had been saving and planning toward putting to something else. He had been really upset at first and ashamed of what he had done. But that had faded into a dim anger. How could she ignore him for two weeks? She had to know his phone was kind of important, yet she hadn't brought it to him or called their home phone to chat. Nothing, not one word.
His mind had replayed that night countless times, searching for every detail he could grasp. Unfortunately, it had been late and he had been so tired that he still felt like he was missing pieces of the puzzle. Had something happened, and caused her to act this way toward him? Or was she just mad about him running off that morning? Ethan wouldn't blame her for being upset, but he hardly felt the cold shoulder was necessary.
In order to evade his nagging conscience, Ethan had taken up a job at the local stable. It turned out one of the normal crew was on vacation, and they were happy to have someone fill in. The pay was minimal, but it would at least earn back the money he'd spent on his phone. Driving around mowing the fields and mending fences wasn't too hard of work, and it got him off the family property where it seemed he could never escape the concerned glances of his parents and siblings.
He was fine, really. Or he had been, until the barn owner reminded him there was a show today. A show...and he had a sinking feeling Aria might be in it. He didn't want to see her anymore. He just wanted to get over her and move on with his life. She was clearly done with him, and he just needed to accept that.
Hopeful, Ethan had offered to go mow the far pastures. With a shake of her head, the barn manager had thanked him but turned him down. "No," she'd said, "I'll need someone to work the arena a few times during the day and help out with other things for the show. For this morning, I'll just have you help me in the announcer's booth. We'll have a lot of people coming up to register for their classes before the show begins, and I could use an extra hand." He'd offered a dim smile and nodded, though groaning inwardly. Great, if Aria was coming to the show, he'd have no chance of escaping her then.
So there he was, sitting in the announcer's booth watching the trucks and trailers pull in. He'd seen her dad arrive, but he was alone. Ethan felt his hope rise, thinking maybe Aria had decided to stay home. But then that just made him worry more. Was she grounded? Did her parents know what had happened? He shook his head and went to run his hands through his hair. As he did so, he had the momentary shock one always has after getting a haircut. He still wasn't used to feeling it shorter, and was a little nervous how Aria would act...if she showed up. He'd already seen a few girls from school this morning, and between the haircut and shadow of stubble on his face, most of them hadn't even recognized him. He was hoping Aria might glance over him too.
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Post by SAMMIE! on Jul 1, 2012 14:17:53 GMT -5
  
The young girl, unloaded the horses, tying Pepper furthest away but close to the hustle and bustle so she would get used to it, she moved to saddle each horse up, Joker was doing reining, Chip was doing cutting and Fancy was doing the barrel class. As she finished her task, braiding and saddling she just couldn’t shake this sinking feeling almost just wanting to pack up and leave but she had to show, so much was riding on this that she felt as though she couldn’t put it off. She avoided the booth and had her father register her so she turned her task to getting ready for her first class, reining. Joker looked as good as ever and he was watching the other horses in the arena, she slipped the bridle on Jokers face and mounted up going to warm up, running through the pattern over and over again in her head while practicing a few spins. When her number was called she entered the arena, setting herself up for her spin to the left, followed by the one to the right and then her circles. When she was all done she patted Jokers neck and walked him out and back to the trailer, she dismounted and untacked Joker slipping his halter back on as she did a slight change to her outfit, she checked out Chips tack before mounting up and heading to the warm up arena, everything was going by smoothly and nicely so far. Heading into the main arena, she saw Ethan talking to another girl, it was upsetting to see so she shook it off and focused on her task at hand. It wasn’t however completely out of her mind and she tried to focus on her horse and getting through this. There was a loud pop, sounded something like firework, causing Chip to spook, he squealed and reared up as Aria tried to hang on she lost her seat and fell back on the ground with a loud thud as Chip lose his balance and fell backwards, managing to fall away from Aria but as he thrashed to stand, kicked her ribs and stood on her arm before taking off. Aria hadn’t a clue what was going on around her, she was unconscious. Her father was at her side trying to wake her, she didn’t know Ethan was on her other side. When she awoke she was in the hospital, a wrap around her ribs and a cast on her arm again, great she thought. She only saw her father who smiled and ruffled her hair, she frowned, oh Aria I know what you are thinking and no we are not taking your horses and no we are not going to make you quit showing, it wasn’t your fault it was someone else fault a lot of the horses freaked when the fire cracker went off.
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STATUS! complete
TAGS! Ethan
NOTES! So cute (:
INSPIRATION! nothing
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Post by ISSALYN! on Jul 1, 2012 15:09:33 GMT -5
I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE YOU KNOW [/font][/size] just who you're getting under
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Ethan had been given a break from working and a girl he vaguely knew from school came up and started chatting with him. He knew Aria was there, but had been avoiding her all day. Having someone to talk to provided a nice distraction. The girl seemed a little overzealous and was making attempts to flirt with him, but he just ignored them and tried to take his mind off the fact that Aria was about to enter the arena.
Just before she did he looked over and was fairly sure she had seen him too. He turned beet red and quickly looked away, praying she hadn't recognized him. He had totally missed whatever the bubbly brunette had said to him, and shrugged, smiling hopelessly. It was only a few minutes later than he her a loud popping sound followed by gasps in the audience. Before he knew what was happening he saw Aria's dad jumping the arena fence and someone screaming "Get the ambulance over here!".
His face went ashen as he ran into the arena. He glanced over and saw someone else had grabbed Joker and was taking care of the horse. He prayed that Joker wasn't injured, but his immediate concern went to Aria. As he knelt down on her side and placed the back of his hand to her cheek, she didn't stir. She was unconscious, but breathing.
Thankfully horse shows always keep an ambulance on call, and Aria was quickly put on a stretcher and loaded in the back. He pleaded with them to let him ride with her, but they shook their heads. Instead, Aria's dad squeezed his shoulder and asked for his keys. Their trucks were still hooked to trailers, but Ethan's was not. Aria's dad drove him to the hospital as he stared out the window, trying not to cry.
The doctors checked everything over and pronounced her to have some bruised ribs and a broken arm, but otherwise no major damage. She seemed to have hit her head, but had already begun regaining consciousness. They gave her some medicine to help her sleep through resetting her arm and putting a cast on it, and then finally wheeled her into a room where she could rest. Ethan sat nervously in the hall, clasping his sweaty hands together. He was scared she wouldn't want to see him when she woke up, and didn't want to make anything worse.
It seemed like hours that he sat there waiting, but finally her dad stepped out of the room and motioned for him to go in. "I think she's ready to see you," was all the man said before he shut the door behind him and Ethan entered the room.
For having fallen off a horse, Aria didn't look too beat up. Her color was returning and her face was unscathed. She had an IV hooked into her good arm, and the usual monitors and machines hooked up to her. The doctors had said they wanted to keep her for a few hours at least, just to be sure her head injury didn't turn out to be more severe than it looked.
He walked shyly over to the chair beside the bed and sat down. "How are ya feelin?," Ethan asked, before wanting to smack himself. Of course she was feeling awful. He didn't to point out the obvious. "You'll be back in the saddle in no time I'm sure. Doctors said your ribs should heal with a week of rest an' if I know you a broken arm won't keep ya down." He rambled on a bit, feeling suddenly shy and self-conscious. They still hadn't talked about what had happened the last time they'd seen each other. She also hadn't mentioned his new looks, and he was a little afraid she wouldn't like it.
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Post by SAMMIE! on Jul 1, 2012 15:44:36 GMT -5
She watched Ethan enter and sighed quietly before listening to him, she couldn’t help but to smile on the inside but kept that smile from showing on the outside, I feel awful and I will get back to working with the horses when im good and healed. She frowned and sighed, nothing happened that night Ethan you slept in my bed holding me all night, you removed your jeans to be more comfortable, we kissed a lot that was it, I was so upset when you ran the morning after that I couldn’t bring myself to call or text you I couldn’t bring myself to bring your phone to you or anything, im sorry Ethan I just want to see you more and more. She looked away and bit her lip before looking at him and taking his hand and holding it loosely in his, I love you Ethan but if you have moved on then I will too. She spoke quietly closing her eyes as she did, to fight back the tears that she felt were going to bubble over any time, she dropped his hand and started to hum quietly to keep herself calm, she never liked going to the hospital but she seemed to be coming more now that she was starting to train horses and as long as people bought and light firecrackers off at a horse show. Quietly she waited to hear what he said.
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STATUS! complete
TAGS! Ethan
NOTES! So cute (:
INSPIRATION! nothing
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Post by ISSALYN! on Jul 1, 2012 15:57:43 GMT -5
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Ethan could not even hope to describe how relieved he was when Aria began talking. It was a relief combined of the simple fact that she was talking to him and knowing that nothing had happened. In the past couple weeks it had eaten him up. It wasn't really the possibility that something had happened, but moreso the fact that if it had he didn't remember it. No matter what, if anything ever did happen between them...beyond kisses...well, he for darn sure wanted to remember it.
She took his hand and he offered her a gentle squeeze in return. His blue-grey eyes finally grew clear as the troubles melted away from his heart. As she spoke again, he drew back, face drawing into a look of shock. "Moved on?!," he spoke, his voice a little too loud. Realizing he could probably be heard in the hall, he cleared his throat and forced himself to talk in a normal voice. "Aria, I will never move on from you. I love you. Surely ya know how much you mean to me." He shook his head surely and met her eyes. "There's no one else for me but you."
He reached down and stroked the hair off her of her forehead, then planted a kiss right in the middle of it. She looked so pretty laying there. Her hair was a bit messed up, and most of her makeup had faded off, but she was still the prettiest girl he knew. For the first time since that night, he actually started letting himself feel again. He felt the sensations of her lying close to him. The sounds of her even breathing breaking the silence of the dark night. Ethan wanted nothing more than the crawl into the hospital bed with her and close his eyes and pretend he could go back and fix everything, but instead knew he had to move forward.
"I'm sorry too. I shouldn't have run off like that an' I should have talked to you. I was just scared I'd done something wrong and was going to lose you." He looked down at the floor, feeling a wave of emotions ranging between embarrassment to guilt.
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Post by SAMMIE! on Jul 1, 2012 16:45:54 GMT -5
Aria felt horrid for saying that but she couldn’t help it, im sorry I saw you talking to that other girl and I just thought and I know you say that but I feel you could do so much better then a girl like me but I wouldn’t ever give you up not even for the world. She felt him kiss her forehead and she closed her eyes, smiling wishing he was in bed with her but that would be too uncomfortable and weird in a hospital room. Its fine Ethan you were only scared I would have run if I didn’t know what happened but we are almost eighteen and teenagers stuff happens. She laughed and kind of sat up, she just wanted to go home and go to bed but that wouldn’t happen because she had a concussion and sleeping was a no go for a certain amount of time. She turned and looked at him noticing he had his hair cut, you look really good boo I like the new look. She smiled and heard the door open the doctors came in, you can go home now, take it easy don’t want to see you back in here. She nodded and carefully sat up and stuck out her arm so they could remove the iv and such, when that was taken care of she sat at the end of her bed not quite having her baring’s, she stood and took Ethan hand and walked carefully into the hallway and out to Ethan’s truck, when they were all situated she rested her head against Ethans chest and closed her eyes, can Ethan come back to the house she asked with a yawn, taking short breaths because it hurt. Her dad nodded and drove to their house, he would leave to get the horses and trucks. She was starting to fall asleep on Ethan.
WORDS! 5 something
STATUS! complete
TAGS! Ethan
NOTES! So cute (:
INSPIRATION! nothing
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Post by ISSALYN! on Jul 1, 2012 16:59:42 GMT -5
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Before he knew it, Aria was released to go home. After her dad filled out the necessary paperwork they were escorted out to his truck and all three piled in. It was a pretty tight squeeze, but Ethan didn't mind too much, since Aria was in the middle.
It was a decent drive from the hospital to her house, mostly across boring, winding country roads. He shifted awkwardly in his seat a few times, peering out the window as trees and fields flashed by. He felt her leaning into him and saw that she was looking ready to fall asleep. He was too nervous to say much with her dad in the truck, so he reached over and turned on the radio, loud enough to hopefully keep her awake. It was a country station, so he was sure her dad wouldn't object to any of the music.
Not sure what else to say, he fished around and finally decided to comment on the weather. "At least it's been clear all week. We don't need another storm like that last one for awhile. Crops could probably use a nice steady rain though." He faded back into his shell, remaining mostly silent and only interjecting himself into the conversation when necessary, or when he thought Aria was looking tired again.
Finally they reached her house. In his opinion, it was not a moment too soon. He leaped out and opened the door for her, holding out his arm to steady her as she stepped down. Then he reached down and put one arm behind her knees, and lifted her up into his arms. He walked into the house carrying her, as her mom held open the door, and then took her to her room. Ethan carefully laid her on her bed, not wanting to jostle her head or other injuries. "So, um...do you want me to stay awhile?" He knew it was past dinnertime, but when he'd called to tell his parents Aria was in the hospital they'd told him to take whatever time he needed. Secretly, they were just relieved to hear he was speaking to her again and hoped the pair could patch things out.
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Post by SAMMIE! on Jul 1, 2012 17:16:13 GMT -5
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Post by ISSALYN! on Jul 1, 2012 17:30:47 GMT -5
I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE YOU KNOW [/font][/size] just who you're getting under
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Ethan about jumped out of his skin when Aria's mom came into the room. She almost never did, thankfully. Even more thankfully, they hadn't been kissing or anything. He doubted they'd mind a little kissing, but he was hugely against PDA of any sort, and that was no exception.
Her words made his mind reel and he wondered who had died and what was going on. He pulled his phone out of his pocket and realized he still had it turned off from being at the hospital. He turned it on and quickly sent his mom a text message asking what was up as he began eating the delicious dinner given to him. They chatted lightly through dinner as his mom answered his texts. Apparently an old friend of his parents had been involved in a tragic accident and hadn't survived. They were taking three of his siblings and leaving just him and his older brother to tend to things while they were gone. Of course, his mom immediately warned him not to do anything she wouldn't approve of, and he rolled his eyes.
By then he had finished eating and gave Aria a quick peck on the lips before apologizing that he had to leave. She told him to text her and he nodded. "Of course. I'll see you later sweetie." He gave her one final kiss and squeezed her hand before heading out.
He got home and found his brother lounging on the couch watching TV. They talked for a bit about the situation, and his brother, who was a little bit of a partier, told Ethan he'd probably be in and out most of the time. He gave Ethan a wink and told him to be sure and enjoy the alone time. They weren't sure how long they'd be, but his parent's friend apparently had no immediate family of legal age, and had left a note in their will that left his parents to handle all the matters. They'd have to pack up the house and sell it and the contents, find someone to take the couple's child in, and sign a lot of paperwork before they could return home. "It might be a few weeks" they had said, apologetically. His dad said he'd already hired a crew to come in and oversee most of the farm work, so Ethan and his brother just had to make sure everything stayed on task and see that the animals were fed.
He excused himself to his room and immediately pulled out his phone and began texting Aria. Sorry that took so long. Was finding out what's going on with the farm. How ya feelin? Ethan looked at the clock and saw that it was getting sort of late, and he quickly changed into his pajamas and lay down in bed. He was trying to stay awake to talk to her, but wasn't sure how long he'd manage to keep himself up.
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