We traveled for a few hours; this felt like it was taking longer than when Spencer and I walked from the wall to her village. The horse kept bouncing up and down I thought I would throw up but lucky for me and not so lucky for my girl we had to stop every once and while to let Spencer off, she’d rush to a bush and toss her cookies while I rubbed small comforting circles on her back. She seemed to be getting worse.

“Why is this taking so long?” I whined right in her ear as we rounded another bin. A throaty chuckle escaped from her lips flowing on the wind back toward me making me smile even if I was nauseous from all this riding.

“We have to meet my uncle in the next village over,” she explained with her head tilted toward me so I could see the corner of her eyes before she glanced back ahead.

“Why?” she laughed again why does she always laugh at me it’s kind of annoying.

“You ask a lot of questions,” she slid her hand over one of mine that was holding on to her waist intertwining our fingers.

“I’m curious,” my thumb rubbing back and forth on the back of her hand producing a contended sigh from her; I’ve found that the little things make her happy. Small touches here and there or soft whispering in her ear or I could just give her my attention and she seems to lite up. I’ve seen how she is around people when she doesn’t think I’m watching her; the glow she produces isn’t the same as if she is with me.

“Ever heard curiosity killed the cat?”

“Yes but…have you ever heard of girlfriend who laughs to much at her girlfriend doesn’t get any kisses?” I tried hard to keep a straight face as I saw the reigns in her hands slip a bit as she was shocked by my words but quickly recovered and turned around a little.

Raising an eye brow she stared deep into my eyes, “You wouldn’t?”

“If she’s anything like your mother Spence, she so would,” both of us quickly shot a look over to Arthur, I personally forgot he was here. It felt so natural for it to be just Spencer and I and the horse yeah I can never forget about the like million ton creature underneath my ass and I swear its evil cause it glares at me, really it does, all beady eyes and it’s clever too waiting for Arthur and Spence to look away before narrowing its brown eyes at me and if it had hands it’d probably do the knife across the throat action or the I’m watching you so watch your back action yeah the thing is that scary.