Sitting on her front porch Cheyenne looked out at the lightning in the distance. A cold front had already set in making it nice for a Texas summer night. She didn't really know what to do with herself. Most nights she would have already started drinking, maybe even gone with friends to a club but not tonight. She was trying to keep her promise to Nick. Why? Hell, she didn't know. She didn't know why she did half of what she did anymore.
Seeing her phone ring Cheyenne smiled seeing Miranda's name pop up on her screen. She hadn't seen Miranda since they had graduated. "Please tell me you are in town," she answered.
Miranda laughed, "girl, unfortunately. Tell me you want to come with me to Johnson's. He is supposed to be having a party and there is no way in hell I'm going alone."
She knew it was a bad idea, she knew she would run into Kyle and way too much drink to imagine but she wanted to hang out with Miranda. "Yeah, you want me to pick you up, or do you want t
A little after a year after from the notorious front porch talk Ed walked Cheyenne down the aisle to Nick. It was a day that he never could have imagined happening in a million years. He was giving his only daughter away to his best friend.After Nick's talk with Ed, he has moved on to Lindsey. She had acted just as he had expected she would. She went ballistic and drug Nick back to court. Things however didn't work out the way she wanted. She had gone after more money and Nick had gone after more visitation rights. In Lindsey's pursuit of more money, she had succeeded but fell short at the same time. Nick had to pay her an additional 500 a month but he now only had to pay half of Tate's cell phone bill and extracurricular activities. Nick had won more time with Tate in the summer months when he wasn't at school.Lindsey still talked plenty of shit but in the end, there was nothing she could do. As much as she tried to bad mouth Cheyenne and Nick to Tate it was all to
Pulling up at Nick's Cheyenne was a ball of nerves. She had no idea what her dad would say to Nick. The fact that he wanted to talk to him in private worried her even more. What would happen?Nick wasn't in the house so she walked to the backyard finding him in his shop. "Hey," she said walking up slowly.He looked up from his workbench, "where have you been?"Cheyenne shrugged walking up beside him leaning in to kiss him. "Why didn't you tell me my dad hit you?"Pausing Nick looked down at her, "so you went and talked to your dad today? How did that go?"Sighing Cheyenne tilted her head, "Nick, don't bypass my question."He smiled down at her reaching out and pulling her closer to him. "It wasn't worth upsetting you with. Besides he didn't hit me that hard. You'd have known don't you think?"Cheyenne laid her head against his chest, "I guess. He is coming over tonight to talk to you. He asked me to stay away. I don't know how I feel
It was two weeks before Ed said another word to his daughter. Each and every day he avoided the office, he avoided Nick, he avoided having to face the situation altogether.Rachel had tried to take to him about Cheyenne and Nick but it only resulted in a fight between them each time. He didn’t understand why she was ok with this. Cheyenne had no clue what she was getting into. Nick came with baggage. She was making a fool out of him and his business.Today however he couldn’t avoid her. Today she was sitting on the front porch steps waiting on him. Oh sure he could just back up and leave, refuse to talk to her but what kind of dad did that make him. He knew he had to face her eventually.As he approached her Cheyenne looked up and he could see the exhaustion all on her face. It was hard to be mad at her, she was his baby girl, but he was so disappointed in her. He had raised her to be so much better than this.Sitting down beside her he took a
Cheyenne had been a nervous wreck when they made it to Nick's house. She knew Nick wasn't telling her the whole story and it bothered her. She was sure he was only protecting her but she didn't want to be protected. Left to her own thoughts she would make things ten times worse than they probably were. But what if what she was thinking wasn't bad enough?To keep busy she decided to cook dinner, maybe if she could get everyone to just sit down for a bit tempers would calm down. Nick didn't object
Cheyenne had never been as nervous as she was now sitting outside of her dad’s office. Nick was in there now talking to her dad and although she had gotten him to agree to let her come he refused to let her inside the office. Confusion had been written all over Ed’s face when Nick and Cheyenne had walked in together.Ed’s face has fallen the moment he saw Cheyenne. “Cheyenne, what kind of trouble have you gotten yourself into now?”
It had been over a year since Cheyenne had seen Nick. She rarely thought of him at all anymore. Not during the day anyway she thought of him every night. She dreamed of him most nights. Still, she had for the most part moved on.She had managed to make all A’s last semester helping to relieve some of the damage her first year had caused. School was almost a vacation for her. It was a way to fill her mind with anything but Nick. It had helped push his memory back and fill it with other facts.Cheyenne had casually dated a guy named Ryan for a few months. Nothing serious had ever come from it and they still hooked up from time to time. She had no feelings for him, he was only a means to an end that didn’t require any commitment.She had only gone home twice since she had left. Once for Thanksgiving and once for Christmas. Both times she came down and stayed two days leaving the first chance she could. Those times had been hard on her. She refused to leave the house a