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Chapter 1

Chelsea

After putting the truck in park, a smile spreads across ood to be hoet out of the truck and notice the wind has picked up when I hear the leaves rustling in the trees I spend an extra second just to take it in again Living in the city, I don’t have any of this I have car horns and sirens

The blue sky has clouded over, and my blond hair covers my face now I don’t knohy, but the air smells so different here than anywhere else It just smells like home My black ballerina shoes are no match for the rocks in the driveway, so it’s time to dust off the cowboy boots

I hear the front door open and look up, seeing hts up with a s down the front steps of his house "If it isn’t Care Bear"

I shake o into nursing "How long are you going to keep that up?" I ask as he gets closer tome close to him

My hands go around his waist "Welco his chin on top of my head like he always does

"It’s good to be hoo, I decided I would trya nurse I wasn’t sure hoould like it, but I fell in love with it and graduated last week at the top of my class

"Is Moo of me noalk into his house

"Let’s just say that I’h my parents expected me to move back home and had my bedroom all ready, I needed to have my own space

"I’m still surprised she went for that" He looks over at me

"Oh, she didn’t at first" I stop when I get up the two steps "But then I threw in that you disappeared from our lives for five years" When he enty-one, he found out that his father was not Jacob He didn’t handle it well and took off for five years, cutting everyone off It was a rough time for everyone, but he’s home now

"Nice" He pushes my shoulder now