my jeans and stuff on a chair. She picks up her now shredded panties and looks at me. “Really you couldn’t give me the opportunity to slide my panties down. You had to tear them off.” “I would have torn more off than that had we not moved fast enough.” She slips her dress over her head sans panties. As I reach over in the closet I keep a few clothes in. “I’ve got a couple of extra pair of boxer trunks in here. I know how you like wearing my underwear.” “Nope I think I’m going without panties just to torture you. I may even stop by the grocery store on the way home.” “Um no. You can run around here with no panties all you like, but you are not stopping anywhere on the way home.” “Well I might take your argument more seriously if you weren’t standing there half hard and butt ass naked.” “Oh I can be completely hard in just a second thinking about you with no panties under that dress.” “Come on. Get dressed you perv I have to finish my sketch.” I finish getting dressed and walk out where she has picked up her sketch looking over it. “Wow that is an awesome sketch.” “It’s Button and his momma.” “Baby that is beautiful.” “Well I still have some shading to do and a few corrections here and there.” “You are so talented.” She shades and sketches for a little longer. Then she looks over at me. “I have a strange question. Why is there a bathroom out here?” “Well. We get really nasty some days out here. Like if we have to help a cow give birth or when they are sick. Things like that so it’s easier to shower and change out here than me going all the way back down to the house or Nelson having to ride home that way.” “Oh well that makes sense. I figured it was something like that, but I didn’t know.” I hear the barn door open. “RYDER!” “In here dad!” “Well hey Scarlet.” She waves back to him. “Here I need you to take this down to Nana.” He hands me a brown grocery bag full of fresh cut okra. “What the hell dad? Where did this come from?” “Mr. Beck ran into me at the post office and wanted to make sure she got this.” “Oh yeah he’s got the hots for Nana.” “Ryder.” Dad sneers as Scarlet snickers. “Hey I’m just telling you what she told me. At least the okra is better than the homemade hooch that Mr. Fitzgerald sent her the other week when I ran into him at the feed store.” He shakes his head. “Good Lord. That woman I swear.” I start laughing. “Just take the damn okra to her house.” He turns to walk to the door. “Scarlet did you do this sketch?” She smiles. “Yes.” He smiles. “It’s beautiful.” Then walks to the door. “Good to see you again Scarlet.” She waves. “Good to see you too Mr. Abbott.” “Did you get all you needed for your assignment?” “Yeah I can do the shading and stuff at home. But I am going to take you up on the underwear offer after all. Because I can’t go see Nana commando.” I laugh as she goes back in the bathroom to slip on a pair of my underwear. She steps back out into the barn. I grab her hand. “Ready to go?” She smiles. “Yep.” “We’ll take the jeep.”
Chapter 19 Scarlet Pulling up to Nana Pearl’s house she’s sitting in the rocking chair. She’s the definition of a true southern lady. I’m going to sketch her one day on this porch. “Well. What do I owe the pleasure of having you two come by?” Ryder sits the bag on the porch. “Mr. Beck ran into dad at the post office, he sent this to you.” “That man just won’t take no for an answer.” I sit down in the rocking chair next to her. “Are you playing hard to get Nana?” She laughs. “Honey it’s like they said in moving one time. At my age we don’t play hard to get we play beat the clock.” Ryder leans back against the porch railing.