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Storm waited then said “Yeah.”

”Thank you but I ah, don't know if I want
Jett to know.”

He looked at me, put his hands in his pockets
and gave me a confused look “Why?”

“Well, I think I attract trouble or ‘cause it
all by myself.”

He processed what I said and replied “So what
did you say to Kevin to make him all over you, even though you were
telling him to stop?”

“How much did you hear?”

“A lot, I wanted to make sure you needed help
before I jumped in.”

“Well thanks a lot for waiting 'til the last
minute.”

“So what did you do?”

“To who?” I snapped.

“Who do you think?” Storm replied
sarcastically, and put his hands in the air while he said it. His
down swing hit my wrists.

“Owwwww” I said more exaggerated than needed,
it hurt but not that bad.

Storm grabbed my right hand I just shifted my
weight to one leg huffed a little and looked toward the sky while
he examined my wrists.

“Baby!” he retorted and tossed my hand back
down by my side and started walking away.

I just laughed and he joined in. I pushed
Nic's sweatshirt into his chest. “Hold this” I said and I put mine
on....my favorite zip up, not in good shape but it was nice and
worn.

I started to explain to Storm “I was on my
way back out to the company barn when I ran into Kevin. And then he
just grabbed me and pushed me off the path and planted one on me.
So I didn't start it, but I was nice to him because I was in a good
mood.” I said the last part kind of full of pep trying to lighten
the subject.

“Kevin's just an ass and I'm sure you didn't
provoke him...I think he’s high or something.”

“Sooooo, are we telling Jett?”

“I told Kevin he had to and if he's high he
might just do it.”

We had the company barn and Jett in view;
Jett started walking toward us, Kevin veered off to the right and
neither Storm nor I said anything at all about our post
problem.

“What took you so long?” Jett asked me but
gave Storm the dirty look. Storm gave me the cool guy nod and
walked over to the bonfire.

Jett looked me up and down. “I remember that
sweatshirt. Are you wearing the same thing underneath as before?”
He said with his soft sexy voice and bent down to kiss my neck.

“I'm sorry, I’m hospital ready today.”

“What?” he said with laughter.

“Hasn't your mother ever told you every time
you leave the house you should have clean underwear on in case you
end up in the hospital or something like that?”

He laughed again “Something like that.”

“Well I have on clean undies and a clean…
well you know what I mean, hospital ready.”

“Too bad,” he said. He put his arm around me
and we headed over to the bonfire and stood next to Storm, Storm
handed Jett a beer. Storm grilled “So Addie, what kind of trouble
have you been getting into lately,” and gave me
‘a look.
’ I
froze, stopped smiling and made my eyes into slits and returned a
callous look back at him....Jett squeezed his arm that was around
my neck, laughed and said “No kidding this girl sure does attract
trouble, what did you do this time?”

“See Storm! I told you I’m a beacon for
trouble so just shut up....” my teeth were gritted. I was steaming
mad, I thought steam may have actually come out of my ears I was so
pissed. I know he said it just to spite me too, but then again we
were here to get Jett upset.

“Jeez, Addie I was just joking.”

“Ugh. You know this is way too much drama for
me, I'm going to look for Nic.” I ripped the sweatshirt out of
Storm's hands and gave him the stink eye and walked off saying “You
tell him......oh, and don't forget to tell him the poor guy is all
drugged up...”

I scrambled into the company barn where
Declan and Rae were making out....”Ewww guys get a room....” I
waited, when they came up for air I started again “I think Jett's
about to get mad.” That got their attention, they let go of each
other and Rae grabbed her camera off the counter.

Declan asked me “What did you do Addie?”

I said “Nothing!” and crossed my arms “It
wasn't me I just happened to be a person of, of circumstance!” I
stuttered.

He grabbed Rae's hand and pulled her out of
the barn and I followed and sure enough trouble was brewin.' “Well,
it's what we sort of wanted right?” I asked uncertainly.

Declan said “Rae get your camera ready, and
Addie, if he doesn't get mad enough we're going to have to help him
along.” But then we saw some shoving going on between Jett and
Kevin, we ran over. Rae stayed back, focused her camera and walked
slowly toward them.

Kevin was enough to make Jett mad, Storm was
trying to hold Jett back; I could hear Kevin say “Dude what's with
your face?” I saw it too, but it was dusk and hard to see a lot of
the details. The camera flash was freaky, it made the whole scene
increase in intensity.

Declan had a hand on Jett and Rae was walking
toward us slowly snapping pictures every few seconds.

“Kevin, get out of here.” Declan gritted
between his teeth as Storm and he were trying to hold Jett back and
not very well I might add. They were pushing with all their might,
it was like trying to hold back a bull.

“Is he mad enough Addie......” Declan asked,
trying to hold Jett back. “You need to provoke him?” Declan turned
his head and scrunched his eyebrows together at me.

“Why me? We should have let Kevin do it…” I
held my breath and squeezed my eyes shut and shouted “it wasn’t my
fault he kissed me.” I took a deep breath… “I was in a good mood
and I said some stuff.... to him...” I said an octave higher than
my normal voice. As I was trying to look at Jett’s face to see if
he was angry I shouted “Kevin started it…”

Jett roared and leaped out of their grips and
he was on top of me. My hands were pinned to the ground and the
weight of him had me pinned, immobilized. He growled really low.
His face was in mine, his eyes were all blood shot, his cheeks had
dark marks running along his cheek bones and under his eyes, the
veins in his face and arms were protruding everywhere and his skin
turned shades of grey-green. I squeezed my eyes shut. I kept
chanting to myself “I love you, I love you, I love you...” Over and
over again.

I noticed my breathing started to slow and so
did his. “Addie....” he gritted between his teeth. I kept chanting
“I love you, I love you...” I felt his face down by my neck...

And all I could say was.....”
Really
Jett.
You're the one on top of me, I can’t move ya fat ass
hooker,” and then I just started laughing, I know it wasn't that
funny but the moment was sooo serious and so intense I couldn't
help but laugh and then Storm did too. Jett looked away from me and
Rae snapped a picture right in his face. He growled again and
quickly spun around and sat on the ground so his back was to
everyone. He had his face in his hands that were large with veins
pronounced, his nails looked like they were stained with ink. Rae’s
flash went off a couple more times. His shirt was stretched tightly
across his back like it didn’t fit, it looked two sizes too small.
He got up turned to look at me still lying on the ground and walked
away…I’m pretty sure he was missing a tooth.

We walked back to Nic’s house and she and I
stood in the driveway watching everyone leave when Peyton pulled
in, she opened her trunk. She had rope, stakes, extension cords,
work lights, flash lights, shovels, pics and she showed us her
compass. She grabbed a helmet and turned it on it looked like
something a coal miner would wear. “Nice” Nic said nodding her head
in satisfaction. We got in the car, Nic’s mom came out, Nic met her
“Where on Gods earth do you think you’re going at this hour?”

“The Winchesters, I asked Peyton to drive by
her house on her way out and the cats escaped again, I’ll tape up
the screen tonight but we’ll have to get a new one tomorrow.”

“Oh ok honey, be careful.” Her mother of
course fell for that because the two of them had an affinity for
animals and the screen really was torn but we had taped it up a
couple of days ago. Nic got back in the car and we drove to
Harriet’s old place.

“I’m not sure why we couldn’t wait until
daylight for this” I moaned, I was exhausted and I wasn’t sure what
we were going to find or if I wanted to find anything at all.

“I didn’t think I would sleep without looking
for it.” Nic said and Peyton agreed.

We went inside the house and Nic shined her
flashlight on a picture on the wall, it was a family portrait under
a huge perfect looking tree. “I know where this is,” Nic stated.
She probably knew the property well as she was the only person to
cut grass and care for the ten acre property. I was worried this
would take us
aaallllll
night long…..

Peyton walked out strung her three extension
cords together and connected the work light. Nic plugged it in. It
lit up a section of the back yard pretty well. I wasn’t sure I was
seeing right but I saw a perfect looking tree in the back corner,
the light just barely reached the outskirts of the shadow the tree
would make during the day. Peyton picked up a shovel, slung the
rope over her shoulder and tucked the stakes under her arm. Nic
pulled stuff from the trunk too, so I followed suit, threw a helmet
on my head and turned it on.

Nic stood at the base of the tree looked at
her compass and adjusted herself, then paced off eleven steps and
started to dig. I got a chill down my spine just thinking of what
they might find. Nic and Peyton dug until the ground got so hard
they couldn’t dig any further. Nothing.

“Good” I said lying in the grass trying to
ward off bugs. “Are you guys done now?”

“No” Nic pouted “I was sure after I found
Dean and Sam looking for something suspiciously the other day that
it would be out here.”

I just started to laugh “So you think there
is really some sort of treasure buried out here?”

“Yes” she replied wiping the sweat off her
brow “I do.”

“Well then you need to find the compass she
used because it may not have worked right and it could send you in
another direction, plus she was short, have Peyton pace off the
steps. Of course, eleven may be a precursor for something else, it
may stand for something like an anniversary month or birthday and
you actually need to know the date.”

“Genius, pure genius for that Addie, I will
let your lazy ass lay there...”

“That is why you keep me around, besides my
good looks.”

Peyton knocked me with her foot “You wish.”
And she snort laughed.

Nic ran inside and about ten minutes later
came up with a very old large looking compass, she pulled Peyton to
the base of the tree. Their west was not Nic’s first west, Peyton
walked off eleven paces. They stopped, rooted to the ground, then
they looked up at me slowly….

“What?”

“The needle is pointing toward you now” Nic
stayed and Peyton left to get a stake and hammer and hammered it
into the ground to mark
‘the spot.
’

They looked back at me I sat up. “We need a
date don’t we?” I asked, Nic shook her head. She lent me a hand and
I took it. We all headed back to the house. An old calendar was
hanging on the kitchen wall, Nic took it down and paged through to
November, the fifth was circled.

An hour later Peyton’s shovel clinked.

The next day Jett picked me up, but we had to
stop at Woolworth's first, so Jett could pick up some glue and he
wouldn’t tell me what for. He wasn't grumpy, wasn't smiling nor
would he kiss me, he just seemed bleak.

We met at Nic's house to clean up from the
party. We pulled in and chatted with Storm and Declan. Declan told
us Rae would be here later and gave me a look, I nodded. We started
walking back to the company barn and Jett told us he'd catch
up.

It was hot, the sky was blue, it was a
perfect day. Rae wasn't with us yet because she was developing the
pictures we took of Jett last night and if he had known that's what
she was doing I don't think he would have shown up today. I'm not
sure how he'll take seeing the pictures either.

I was in a good mood, though, a bit nervous.
I started cleaning the inside of the company barn, wiped off the
furniture, counters and started to clean the floors when Jett came
in. He was all smiles now. He came over and gave me a hug and kiss.
I wanted to see his missing tooth, but the smile left him too
quickly when he noticed me looking. He got on his hands and knees
to wipe up the floor with me and I knocked him sideways. He
laughed, all his teeth were in place. “I thought you knocked a
tooth out last night.” I said.

“You noticed.”

“Well, yeah.”

He waited a minute, “I glued it back in,
that's why I had to go to the store....”

He got back on all fours and started cleaning
the floor and we had it done in no time. “Wait a minute how did you
glue your tooth back in?”

“You can’t leave well enough alone can you?”
I shrugged and gave him a minute. “About a month ago I lost both my
eye teeth, so the dentist made me a retainer, he pulled it out of
his mouth and attached to it were two teeth. I replied “hmmm” I
slid my hand in his other hand and we walked outside. I obviously
had no clue what to say to that.

We came out of the company barn, smiling and
hot. Hopefully the rest of the gang had finished picking up the
garbage outside. I started in on them “You guys are bums, you're
not done yet!” I flapped excitedly...I was in an overly happy mood.
I had my favorite jean shorts and a tank top on with a flannel over
it. The sleeves were cut off, it was open and I had tied it at the
waist. I hiked the garbage bag over my shoulder and hauled it to
the tractor and then let it roll off of me onto the trailer.