revision of Mountain Lillie by Cheryl V.

MOUNTAIN LILLIE
BY CHERYL VERBEKE
INTRODUCTION
BACKFLASH:
CHER BEAR was living with her parents in St. Clair, Michigan right on the lake. CHER BEAR’s parents were sitting outside on the front porch on one sunny day when they jus happened to see this young man, walking down the street. And he appeared to be very ragged-looking in a pair of faded blue jeans with holes in them and are very faded-looking. He has a rugged-looking, angular face with hollow features along with brown eyes and a tall, thin build. Also, he looked like he hasn’t been sleeping for some days and nights.
So, then, CHER BEAR’S dad caught up with the young man as he reached his house. The young man seemed to be walking, aimlessly, down the street with a distant and lonely look on his face.
As CHER BEAR’S dad approached the him, he said to the young man in a curious way, “Hey there, my boy, how come, you’re out on the streets, alone? It’s dangerous to be walking the streets after dusk by yourself. Where are your mom and dad at this time of night? You appear to be too young to be walking in the streets at this time of night without having someone like your mom or dad along with you for protection.”
“It so happens that I don’t have a mom or even a dad in my life, anymore. In fact, it happens to be that I’m the only sibling in my family. I jus ran away from home, and I have nowhere to go to live.”
“C’mon with me, my boy; by the way, what’s your name?”
“My name is JUSTIN; would you mind, taking me into your home?”
CHER BEAR’S dad replied, “No, my body, I’m more than wiling to take you into my home, and I’m sure my wife, here, won’t mind either.”
“However, the thing is that I have very little money on my person. As far as I know, I should, still, have money in the bank. But I have worked odd jobs, here and there. However, there is one problem, here; I don’t have any way of getting some money from either my mom or dad.”
“My boy, why can’t you get any money from your parents when it’s your money?” “
“One of them have my bank card, and I know that whoever has it, won’t give it to me to use because neither of them seem to trust me to take care of my own money. However, if ypu’re willing to allow me to work around the house, and support me for working for you. I’ll be glad to be of service to you.”
“My boy, I”ll be more than glad to accept your willingness to help my wife and I around the house.”
“C’mon, my boy, take my hand, and I’ll introduce you to my wife and only daughter.”
So, then, as JUSTIN and the owner of the house walked up to the front porch, JUSTIN seemed to get quiet, all of a sudden.
Then, CHER BEAR’s dad said to him, “Well, my boy, this is my wife, FLORENCE.”
With a look of surprise on her face, she replied, “Well, I’m very glad to meet you, my boy.”
Jus then, CHER BEAR jus happened to walk out onto the porch, so, her dad introduced the young man to CHER BEAR, “This is my only daughter, CHER BEAR, and she’s going on fifteen years of age, this year. And by the way, I’m LARRY; it’s nice meeting you, my boy. And by the way, how old are you?”
“I’m seventeen years of age; I turned that age, only, a few weeks ago. I’ve been staying at a shelter, here, in the city. And the reason, I have run away from my mom and dad, is because we don’t seem to get along anymore. A week ago, we all got into a big fight, and since then, I haven’t been able to stand living with either of them, anymore.”
LARRY replied, “Don’t worry about a thing, my boy. Are you hungry or thirsty; when’s the last time, you had a decent meal or something to drink?”
“Well, the last time, I had anything was last night.”
So, then, from that day onm LARRY made sure, that all of his needs were met. And he allowed the young man to live over at his house without paying any rent to live there.
However, LARRY took in the young man as part of his family through adopting him. And from the first day on, CHER BEAR seemed to take to him, right away. And the two became jus like sister and brother because they were jus like peas and carrots to each other. This was because he needed a sister in his life as well as a mom and dad.
And CHER BEAR needed a brother of her own. Also, JUSTIN and CHER BEAR developed family love for each other. This happened in their lives, practically, overnight. Also, both LARRY and FLORENCE became father and mother models to him.
Since, both CHER BEAR and JUSTIN took a liking to each other, the two started going boating in her parents’ green and silver fishing boat when it was warm enough outside to do it. And during the cooler weather, even during the wintertime, the two took walks around the lake, together, when the there wasn’t any snow or ice on the shore.
CHAPTER I
PROLOGUE:
Originally, CHER BEAR’S parents found out about some cabin. And this cabin is located on Van Arrington Road near Panther Creek Road in the city of Clyde in North Carolina. And this place jus happened to be amidst the mountains. LARRY and FLORENCE, CHER BEAR’S blood parents, found out about this cabin through a member of LARRY’S family who was living in the heart of Kentucky near the mountains.
However, CHER BEAR and JUSTIN never found out jus how CHER BEAR’S parents discovered this cabin in the mountains jus because CHER BEAR’S parents wanted to keep it, one big secret. One day, LARRY and FLORENCE wanted to surprise both CHER BEAR and JUSTIN when they all took their first trip down south to the cabin. And being that both LARRY and FLORENCE wanted a big taste of living amongst the mountains, they might jus all move down south.
So, then, on one sunny, hot summer morning with clear blue skies, they all left on a long trip for North Carolina. And the whole family took off for the mountains down south jus after they all had their clothes packed along with plenty of imperishable food, energy drinks and bottles of flavored water.
The whole family, LARRY, FLORENCE, JUSTIN, AND CHER BEAR was unaware of jus how long it would take to get to North Carolina on a trip via the family car, a blue Ford minivan. This trip turned out to be their very first one, there, down south to North Carolina. So, they all left about ten o’clock in the morning for their destination right after a good breakfast. Somehow, CHER BEAR’S parents thought that they all would arrive, there, at the cabin, at least, by the middle of the afternoon.
The trip turned out to be longer than expected because the whole family had to travel by means of the highway through Ohio, Tennessee, and Kentucky before arriving in North Carolina at the cabin. They all, finally, arrived at their destination after having made a total of four stops along the way to get gas, to eat lunch and dinner and for a couple of good walks to stretch their legs.
The whole bunch, finally, arrived at the cabin around ten o’clock in the evening. And by that time, they all were so tired jus from all that traveling, that they, only, unpacked what they all needed for the night. Then, when the morning came around, after they all had some breakfast, they were going to unpack the rest of the stuff from the minivan.
CHER BEAR and her parents went right to sleep that night not long after they all arrived over at the cabin. However, since, JUSTIN couldn’t seem to get himself to fall asleep because he was so restless, he got up out of the day bed. After getting up out of bed, then, he walked outside onto the front porch. There, he sat on a wooden rocker, and tried to make peace with nature for about an hour.
After that hour was up, he, still, was, patiently, sitting there on the front porch, trying to get himself, tired enough to go sleep. While he’s out in front of the cabin, some gal with a heavy Southern accent, showed up at the cabin as if through some uncanny magic.
To him, this gal has some pretty features, like blue eyes which seem to glisten in the moonlight and short, blond hair.
So, jus as she walked up to JUSTIN, he said to her in a curious way, “Well, my dear, what brings you here to the cabin, tonight?”
“I jus happened to be passing by this cabin on my evening walk like I, usually, do every night near dusk. And it’s that I jus happened to catch eye of you, sitting, there, on the front porch, sporting some lonely and far away look on your face. By the way, can I ask you what your name is? Also, are you feeling like you are in need of some company, tonight?”
“Sure, my dear, you can ask me, anything, you wish. My name jus happens to be JUSTIN? And I, certainly, can say that right now, I’m in great need of some company. My girl is inside the cabin, and, probably, is, probably, buried in her writing on her laptop computer, or jus relaxing while playing one of her favorite computer games.”
After a brief pause as he studied her face, he said to her, “However, it’s not what you may think when I refer to her as my girl,” as if he could read the gals’ mind, “the two of us, my girl and I aren’t, currently, going steady or anything like that.”
“Then, what is it, you’re, actually, referring to, may I ask?”
“It goes like this. CHER BEAR’S parents took me into the family, way back when I jus turned seventeen, years ago. One time, her parents were sitting out on the front porch when they jus happened to catch sight of me.”
“And where is it that they jus happened to see you, back then?”
“It’s jus that her parents happened to catch eye of me, walking down the street back in Michigan where we all are living at the present right on the lake in St. Clair. So, what brings you, here, tonight, to the cabin?”
“I jus am having this weird feeling inside me, that you have this urge inside to meet me, that’s all.”
“Well, my dear, my girl’s jus sleeping inside cabin, right now. And not even a rooster can wake her up in the morning being she, always, seems to sleep like a cat, no matter, if it be at home in St. Clair or, here, at the cabin.”
“How about if I take a seat by you in one of the wooden chairs out here on the front porch?”
“Be my guest, my dear gal, and what’s your name, may I ask?”
“My real name jus happens to be LISA, however all my friends, family, and neighbors call me, MOUNTAIN LILLIE.”
“To me, MOUNTAIN LILLIE is a pretty name. And it jus seems to fit you, so perfectly, because I jus know, that you must live in the mountains, my dear.”
Then, MOUNTAIN LILLIE and JUSTIN jus sat there on the front porch in their chairs jus as it’s starting to get dark. And in a way, she jus wanted to sit there in silence being she jus loved making peace with nature along with him. This, also, gave her, a chance to get acquainted with him. And sitting in silence was her way of feeling him out.
The two were through making peace with nature, an hour later, there, on the front porch. So, then, he decided he wanted to get to bed before CHER BEAR’S parents have a chance to catch him being out on the front porch with MOUNTAIN LILLIE at one o’clock in the morning. And he figured, if she walked back home by herself in the dark, she would be setting herself up for trouble.
Then, he said to her, “My dear, I think, I’ll go to bed now, however I won’t like worrying about you, walking down the roads in the dark at this time of night. You never know who could be out on the roads. This is the time of night when the bad boys are out riding on their tractors or four-wheelers. And you never know what could happen if you jus run into one of these bad boys, my dear. So, come over here to my foster dad’s army green four-wheeler with me, and I’ll take you, home.”
Jus as the two were hopping onto the green four-wheeler which belonged to CHER BEAR’S dad, he said to MOUNTAIN LILLIE, “Hold on tight, my dear, because this contraption of LARRY’S, always, seems to move, very quickly, over these hilly roads.”
Then, the two were on their way down the road and over to where she lived on Panther Creek Road. This was jus after she gave him, the directions to where she’s living with her parents and her only sister, MOUNTAIN SARAH.
And as JUSTIN and MOUNTAIN LILLIE arrived, there, up the mountains right in front of his parents’ cabin, he helped her off of the four-wheeler.
Then, he said to her, “Well, it has been nice meeting you, my dear. And please be sure to take some time to stop over, again, at the cabin to see me. Don’t worry about my girl; we’re, only, like sister and brother to each other. She won’t get jealous of us two, seeing each other if she ever finds out about you.”
As he kissed MOUNTAIN LILLIE, briefly, she said to him, “I’ll think hard about dropping over at the cabin, again. How about if I come over during the early morning around seven o’clock when, I, usually, take my morning walk?”
“That will be fine with me, my dear MOUNTAIN LILLIE. I’m sure my girl’s parents won’t mind you, coming over to the cabin, at all. In fact, every time, someone, even a stranger like you, drops over there… Well, anyone who does, has, always, been very welcome because they know all Southerners are very friendly. And they both like that in a Southerner like you. Goodbye for now,” he said as he kissed her for the second time.
So, MOUNTAIN LILLIE started dropping over at the cabin, at least, every night. And every night, JUSTIN could sense jus when she would be dropping over to see him. And it turned out that he would be able to catch her, every night.
At first, the two jus would sit on the front porch in silence, trying to feel each other out. Also, every time, she would come to see him, he would say to her, “Let us sit out here on the front porch, and do what I call making peace with nature.”
Then, the very first time, he wanted her to try this nature thing with him, he said to her, “C’mon jus sit down here on the porch besides me.”
She replied, “What do you do next to make peace with nature?”
Then, he said to her, “What you do is jus, simply, tune your ears into whatever sounds of nature, you are hearing around you. Concentrate on the sounds of the birds like the chickens and the rooster around here. And don’t forget to listen for the cows, mooing across the road at the mountain over there. Also, you can do something to make peace with nature through every time, you jus happen to catch sight of the horse which hangs around here.”
“What is the horse’s name, and what else should I do to get myself, acquainted with nature and, also, the horse?”
“Jus follow me over to the right side of the cabin, and you’ll, usually, find a horse named Ranger, a pretty reddish-brown horse, jus hanging around here. He, usually, is waiting for someone to feed him, some carrots or he’ll even eat cobs from corn, too.”
So, then, she followed him over to the side of the cabin where there was a wire fence to keep the horse from wandering away from its’ habitat.
So, then, he said to her as she followed him over to where Ranger, really, was standing there on the grass, “make sure that you don’t go near that wire fence because you’ll get a shock from it if you get too close to it. And I don’t want to see you, end up getting knocked out from the fencing. I’m not trying to scare you, my dear. I jus don’t want you to end up getting hurt.”
Then, he handed her, a carrot from a bunch of carrots which he had grabbed from the wooden table on the porch jus before walking over to the horse with her.
“So what you do is jus put the carrot near the horse’s mouth. And then, he will nibble the carrot, however be careful because the horse likes to nibble on your clothes.”
So, every time, she came over to the cabin at night, she and JUSTIN walked over to Ranger, every time, they happened to notice the horse on the mountain. And each time, the horse would take a carrot from either of them, and nibble on it until it was gone, eating the carrot whole.
In a very weird way, jus visiting the horse, every night, turned out to be one way for the two to get to know each other, and to enjoy each other’s company.
CHER BEAR doesn’t suspect what has been going on between JUSTIN and MOUNTAIN LILLIE. This is because when MOUNTAIN LILLIE happens to drop over in the evening, CHER BEAR is buried in her laptop computer.
And in the early morning, CHER BEAR, usually, is awake before her parents. However she knows, JUSTIN, also, is an early walker. However she never bothers to check on him because she, simply, doesn’t care what he’s up to in the early morning. This because she jus assumes, that he’s going for an early morning walk down the road. And he, usually, likes his morning walks right after breakfast before the heat of the day, starts coming in like a lion.
However, he never can figure out why CHER BEAR never goes on her morning walks with him, anymore because he thought, he and her were jus like peas and carrots. And walking together in the morning jus to be with each other has been a natural thing for the two to be doing.
CHER BEAR hasn’t been going on walks with him while the family has been on their vacation, there, in North Carolina. He hasn’t been able to figure CHER BEAR out, ever since, the family has been spending some time, trying to get used to being in North Carolina.
CHER BEAR has gotten more attached to her writing on her laptop computer. It jus has gotten more interesting and entertaining to her, partly, because being on her computer inside the cabin, has kept her busy all the while, she’s been on vacation with her parents and JUSTIN.
She has been trying to keep herself cool in the hot North Carolina weather which she hasn’t been able to get used to being outside in.
Also, her computer has turned into her way of keeping herself occupied in helping the time, pass by.
However in the meantime, somehow, she, also, has seemed to have forgotten and realize that being in love with him, means that she has to put some time aside to keep him, company. So, she hasn’t been making any effort to show him, her love in any way, ever since, the family has been staying in North Carolina for a few weeks.
For one thing, all the sounds, her computer makes when she’s on her computer, writing or jus playing games, sometimes, when she becomes tired of writing or jus needs a break from writing, every so often. And the computer sounds, to her, seem to drown out all noises, coming from outside like the sounds of the birds and animals. Also, it has been stopping her from hearing MOUNTAIN LILLIE and JUSTIN talking to each other whenever she’s over at the cabin to see JUSTIN.
Especially, at night, CHER BEAR never yet has suspected MOUNTAIN LILLIE being around outside of the cabin from the very first day on which the JUSTIN and MOUNTAIN LILLIE have met. And another thing, she hasn’t been aware of, is that every morning, early in the morning, is that MOUNTAIN LILLIE has been making it, a point, to stop at the cabin during her morning walk.
So, CHER BEAR hasn’t had the slightest idea, yet, that MOUNTAIN LILLIE has been seeing JUSTIN at night or even in the early morning hours. This is, mostly, because CHER BEAR has been doing her writing from early morning until the late hours of the night.
MOUNTAIN LILLIE, always, seems to catch JUSTIN, sitting outside on the front porch jus by coincidence. Also, being the two have been seeing each other, steadily, and going for walks down the road in the morning, together, for, at least, a week, this means they have been enjoying each other’s company, very thoroughly.
By now, even CHER BEAR’S parents have been leaving her, alone at her computer. And being they know and value her privacy, they don’t even ask her in the morning to have breakfast with them, anymore. Neither do they ask JUSTIN either because they are aware, that he’s, always, up in the morning before they are. And they, by now, are aware that JUSTIN has been spending a lot of time, outside. So, they jus consider that he’s jus doing his own thing out there outside the cabin.
However, some day when the whole family moves to North Carolina, and LARRY and FLORENCE happen to find some goats, chickens, and roosters. JUSTIN knows that his morning routine will have to change, and that he and CHER BEAR will end up helping around the farm when the land is turned into farm land along with a possible corn field and maybe even some berry trees. This is because when the family moves there, that CHER BEAR and JUSTIN will, definitely, be getting a good taste of what farm life is all about.
One night after CHER BEAR was asleep in the cabin about one o’clock in the morning, JUSTIN decided he wanted to have a deep conversation with MOUNTAIN LILLIE while the family was on their vacation. So, that night, he jus took MOUNTAIN LILLIE by the hand, and the two were jus about to walk over to the camper. However they had to run over to the camper being it was starting to pour outside.
And when they, finally, reached the camper, and he closed the door behind them, JUSTIN said to MOUNTAIN LILLIE in a loving way, “My dear MOUNTAIN LILLIE, why don’t you jus have a seat right here on the other side of the small table. I think it’s time that we have a good talk, together, and try to find out where we stand with each other.”
So, as she took her seat, and made herself, comfortable, he, then, said to her, “Jus try to reveal some of your feelings to me. I know that I and the rest of the family will be leaving for Michigan, soon. However, I jus would like to know where we stand with each other. For one thing, I and the rest of the family are all planning to move into this cabin, very soon, and I jus would like to have a good talk, together, before it’s time to leave.”
So, then, she said to him with loving eyes, talking as her eyes appeared to be very starry-looking in the dimness of the camper, “For one thing, my darling JUSTIN, I would like to know, has CHER BEAR, really, in love with you? And has she been showing any love to you in any way, especially, in these last few weeks in which we have been getting together?”
“To tell you, the truth, I don’t know if CHER BEAR ever loved me in the first place. This is because she used to put some time aside from her writing to spend some of her time with me. And ever since, we have been in North Carolina, all she seems to care about is trying to stay out of the heat of the day. However, at night, she never seems to make any effort to show any love to me, not even some sisterly love like she used to when I, first, moved into the house back in Michigan. She jus seems to care about herself and nobody else, not even me.”
“Does she ever tell you, she’s glad to have you for a brother in any way?”
“No, my dear MOUNTAIN LILLIE, and I seem to be losing my trust in her. I think that I need to talk to her parents about the way; she’s been acting towards me. I thought that the last two years, I’ve known her, that she has been falling in love with me. And now, I seem to doubt her love for me. Also, this seems to leave me in the dark because I’m not sure if I even love her, anymore.”
“I think that you should start showing her, more brotherly love. And see if this doesn’t bring her around to realize what love, she has for you if any, anymore.”
“Right now, I need to know whether you like or love me at this point. I know it has been, only, about three weeks, since, we have been seeing each other. I’m not sure, myself, however I have been having the feeling, and I’ve been falling in love with you, my dear. Also, it may have been love at first sight, too.”
“I hope this doesn’t mean false love because you’ve jus told me. CHER BEAR has been acting like she’s withdrawn into herself. And this is not good, not even for you, because from the first time, you met her; you’ve craved her sisterly love.”
“No, I know the difference between brotherly love and growing love. So, my feelings of affection for you have been growing from the very first time, we’ve met. However, since, we haven’t known each other, that long, I can’t be sure if this is love, yet. I have to get to know you better; first, before I can know what kind of feelings, I am having for you at this point in our relationship.”
“The way, I’m feeling for you, is that I have taken a big liking to you. And I think it’s possible that this liking could be a possible launch to falling in love with you. Also, I have taken to trusting you with all my heart and soul. And I know for sure, jus through having been feeling this inside me. That you have become a soul buddy to me.”
“Okay, my dear, right now, I am having the feeling inside. That either of my parents might jus try to spy on us jus because we are inside the camper. And this is, only, because, tonight, they will be starting to pack because I and the rest of the family will be leaving for Michigan, tomorrow. So, I think you’d better leave before dark, so, that you will be able to find your way back home before the crazy people come out and about in the wee hours of the night.”
So, as the two walked out of the camper, he said to her in a low voice while giving her, a brief kiss, “Goodbye, my dear, I’ll be seeing you, again, when the family moves into the cabin for good.”
So, she said to him, softly, “It was nice meeting you, and you can be sure, that we’ll be seeing each other, many more times. Bye, JUSTIN.”
Then, JUSTIN walked over to the front porch, and made peace with nature. In the meantime, she hopped onto her tractor, and then, took off down the road as he waved goodbye to her with tears in his eyes.
CHER BEAR and JUSTIN along with CHER BEAR’S parents moved to North Carolina, one bright, sunny morning from Michigan because her parents wanted to spend the rest of their lives, there.
And CHER BEAR’S parents wanted them along with JUSTIN and CHER BEAR to stay one happy family like they have been when they were living in Michigan, all this time.
In fact, on that one day they all moved to the cabin, when they arrived in Clyde, North Carolina, they all arrived there in a camper. And the camper pulled the minivan behind it, all the way there. And CHER BEAR’S dad drove the camper all the way to Clyde with her and JUSTIN in back of the camper.
And both of them snoozed most of the way to their destination while her mom snoozed in the front near her step dad during all 12 hours of the trip there. So, they all pulled into the hilly driveway near the cabin.
It jus so happened, that MOUNTAIN LILLIE was the one, about who JUSTIN has been teasing CHER BEAR. And it has been about him and her, having been seeing each other, every night.
So, it jus happened, that MOUNTAIN LILLIE did, really, show up at the cabin jus by coincidence jus not long after they all hopped out of the camper.
And JUSTIN even had the guts to introduce CHER BEAR to MOUNTAIN LILLIE, while CHER BEAR, still, was around the camper.
And jus before today came around, JUSTIN seems to have been chiding to CHER BEAR about the fact, that he and MOUNTAIN LILLIE have been having some loving, nightly, in back of the shed, every night, on the last trip to the cabin.
However, CHER BEAR, only, took all this in as him, putting her on about this gal jus because for whatever reason, CHER BEAR, probably, will never be able to figure out. She never even believed one word, he would, constantly, day and night, tell her about this gal.
This, solely, was because every time, MOUNTAIN LILLIE would stop over to see him at night during the last trip to the cabin, she, only, would happen to stop over to see him during the night hours. And that was when he knew, CHER BEAR was asleep inside the camper. And CHER BEAR, always, happened to be asleep at those times, she would happen to stop over at the cabin.
So, as MOUNTAIN LILLIE walked up to JUSTIN, she’s unaware that CHER BEAR was more than a sister to him.
So, then, MOUNTAIN LILLIE happened to run into CHER BEAR, so, then, she said to her, “Hi, I’m MOUNTAIN LILLIE, and by the way, I’m sure you won’t mind hearing what I have to tell you, my girl. This is, since, you and JUSTIN is jus sister and brother at heart.”
Then, after a brief pause as she studied CHER BEAR for a moment or two, she said to CHER BEAR, “During the last trip when you two were here, staying at the cabin, it jus so happened, that while you were sleeping inside the camper… Well, I and JUSTIN, back then, always, were meeting every night right in front of the cabin. And as we have been trying to get to know each other better, I and JUSTIN jus may be falling in love with each other. At least, I’ve been having these feelings of affection for him. However, I don’t know for sure if he has been having the same feelings for me.”
“Why is this, and why does it so happen, that you two could be falling in love with each other,” replied CHER BEAR with an evil eye, “you aren’t putting me on, are you? Because if you are, you could be in for some good trouble because JUSTIN and I aren’t jus brother and sister. We two have been in love with each other for some time, now. That’s about, almost, since, the first year, he happened to move in with me and my parents.”
So, MOUNTAIN LILLIE said to her, “No, I’m not putting you on, my girl. And I think that you’re jus joshing about the fact that you two are in love. Well, you two could be experiencing the type of love that a brother and sister have in common. However, I think you’re mistaken about the fact that you two are in true love because I happen to be the one, he, really, is in love with, not you.”
Then, CHER BEAR would not even say another word to MOUNTAIN LILLIE because she jus found something about her which she couldn’t stand at this time.
So, CHER BEAR jus walked away from her, and went about her own business, and also, grabbed a hold of JUSTIN’S arm. And the two walked inside the cabin, and stayed there for the rest of the afternoon, at least, while it was so hot outside. The two were trying their best to stay cool, and stay sister and brother with each other without having MOUNTAIN LILLIE, get in their way.
However, JUSTIN was puzzled because, now, he’s confused as to who, he, really, loves, CHER BEAR or MOUNTAIN LILLIE. And that night, JUSTIN went out on the porch as usual, and waited for MOUNTAIN LILLIE to show up. In fact, jus before it turned dark, he happened to spot her, walking down the road. So, since, she wouldn’t come over to him, he ran over to her, and she stopped in her tracks.
Sensing that she’s as puzzled as he is, he said to her in a pleading voice, “What’s going on with you, tonight? If it happened tonight as I eyed you across the road, don’t ignore me, now. I know you have some feeling for me.”
Jus remember one thing, my dear, if you look this way, and see tears in my eyes, baby, jus look away, and act as if you don’t notice me because I, really, love you, dearly.”
“And I jus can’t bear to turn away from you, jus because you won’t speak to me, anymore.”
Then, without another word, Mountain Lillie proceeded down the road on her walk. And Justin, then, walked back onto the porch, and wouldn’t walk inside the cabin because he didn’t want to wake up CHER BEAR. However he didn’t know that she was inside the camper because of the heat of day not having left the mountains. And he figured that what she didn’t know about him and Mountain Lillie wouldn’t hurt her.
As Mountain Lillie was walking down the road, she couldn’t seem to get her mind off of Justin. And at this time, she, actually, doubted her love for him jus because she never knew until that day, that he and CHER BEAR had been going together for some time.
BACKFLASH:
Even when JUSTIN, first, suspected, that he and MOUNTAIN LILLIE, probably, were falling for each other. HE, always, made her, believe he was having, only, brotherly love for CHER BEAR. And he has been trying to deny the fact, that he and CHER BEAR were having any kind of feelings of affection between themselves. This is because he has been thinking a lot of MOUNTAIN LILLIE, ever since, that first night on which the two met.
He didn’t want to admit to CHER BEAR, that he was drawn to MOUNTAIN LILLIE’S sexy personality. And this has been jus because being he has feelings of affection for MOUNTAIN LILLIE. So because of this, he has been afraid of losing CHER BEAR as a sister because he needs her sisterly love to survive in this harsh world.
Even when JUSTIN, first, suspected, that he and MOUNTAIN LILLIE, probably, were falling for each other. He was feeling guilty for having told her, he and CHER BEAR were jus like sister and brother, peas and carrots. And that the love, he has been experiencing with CHER BEAR, was nothing more than family love.
And not until today when MOUNTAIN LILLIE approached CHER BEAR about him and her. And then, JUSTIN has, unknowingly, made life for himself, harder in having made CHER BEAR, assume that she, already, knew the bare fact. That he and MOUNTAIN LILLIE have been soul buddies, all this time. Only then, did CHER BEAR happen to find out about JUSTIN, having kept his relationship with MOUNTAIN LILLIE, one huge secret which secret has become one dirty secret.
Before this time, CHER BEAR never knew about this fact. And that was, that he has made MOUNTAIN LILLIE believe up until today. That he and CHER BEAR have, only, been sister and brother to each other from that first day on which CHER BEAR’S parents took him into the family jus because he, no longer, had any family to turn to for support for family love.
And for the rest of his life, JUSTIN is going to regret, he ever met CHER BEAR. And this is, especially, being he has wanted CHER BEAR’S love right from the start. This is because being for years, he has been having this passion for CHER BEAR, even though, he has never admitted this to her, personally.
In having met MOUNTAIN LILLIE, one night, when he had been feeling lonely inside for CHER BEAR, will he ever come to terms with CHER BEAR about his true relationship with her?
The bare truth about the whole situation is that from the start, CHER BEAR has given JUSTIN, all her ever needed jus in being a sister to him, all this time. So, what she has gone out of her way to give him is what she, always, refers to as simple family love.
Being because his relationship with CHER BEAR hasn’t been going too well, ever since, she has been spending a lot of her time, writing, JUSTIN JUS HAPPENED to be feeling lonely inside for her company.
And he couldn’t stand jus sitting outside on the front porch in one of the wooden chairs. While he’s sitting there on the front porch, he can’t seem to get his mind, geared into feeling some peace with nature like he, usually, does. And he couldn’t figure out jus why, it seemed so hard, that night, to get himself, surrounded by that usual feeling.
So, finally, he got up out of his favorite chair, and walked over to the camper where he has a feeling, CHER BEAR jus could be lying around inside it.
Although, he has this feeling, he could bump into her, he didn’t bother knocking on the door, but he walked right inside. And as he did, he happened to catch her, undressing to go to sleep.
Even though, he doesn’t know if he is in love with her, or if it is MOUNTAIN LILLIE, who’s his love, he walked over to me, approaching me from behind. However as he did, she was aware of him being inside the camper, so she jus tried to ignore his presence.
And as he jus stared at her as she’s, still, undressing, he seemed to sense, that she’s feeling very uneasy about him being around her when she’s half nude. This is, although, he’s seen her with, hardly, any clothes on, many other times.
Anyways, he jus walked up to her, and as he’s doing so, she seemed to flinch away from his grip on her waist. And then, she’s, almost, in tears as he tried to lean over jus after she laid down on one of the beds inside the camper.
So, then, she said to JUSTIN without thinking, “Do you mind, JUSTIN? Can’t you see that I’m trying to fall asleep, here? Where are your manners? You should have knocked on the door before entering. Now, please leave me, alone, as I can’t seem to be able to relax, and go to sleep with you being near me.”
“What’s the matter, tonight, my dear? Did MOUNTAIN LILLIE upset you when she let you know, that me and her have feelings for each other?”
“In a big way, she has upset me to the point. That she could destroy the relationship; we have been having with each other, all this time.”
“This thing is I couldn’t help feeling this way about her. Because after all, during the last trip here before your parents bought this cabin, every time, she came by the cabin at night, you had been sleeping inside the camper or the cabin.”
“So, what else is on your mind, tonight? I can sense, you are feeling very uneasy inside, right now.”
“The thing is, my darling, that at some point along the way, I jus knew this. And this was apparent to me. I jus knew, that you could sense the fact that my relationship with MOUNTAIN LILLIE has been going on behind closed doors.”
“Yes, it did kind of upset me when MOUNTAIN LILLIE revealed this to me. And this is that you two have been having feelings of affection for each other. I, always, thought, that you and I were very close to each other. And that some day in the future, we were planning on getting a ranch together.”
“What ever gave you, the idea that we were going to have a ranch together in the future? I’ve explained to you, more than once, that we were, only, to be friends. Also, I’ve told you, many times, I never wanted to get married to you because it jus never would work out between us.”
“But JUSTIN, you know and so do I, that both of us have been getting closer to each other through all these years, we’ve lived under the same roof. And I have been planning for the past year or so for us to move into an apartment or cabin at some point.”
“What encouraged you to want to move out with me into some other place like an apartment?”
“I, really, somehow, got the idea; you would change your mind. And that you would consider you and me, living together, some day.”
He jus stared into her eyes for a few moments, and then, he said to her, “I even have sat down with you, many times, and tried to get you to understand jus how much I have loved you as my own brother. And that since I have been for some time, that we could break away from my parents. And have a place of our own.”
So, then, without another word between them, JUSTIN didn’t even bother leaning over her. And giving her, a kiss, like he, usually, does when he’s aware of her, wanting to hit the sack. So, he opened up the camper door, and then, stormed out the door without saying another word.
And it’s a good thing that her parents weren’t aware of him and her being outside at the time because they would have come right outside. And then, they might have thrown JUSTIN and CHER BEAR out of the camper. And then, CHER BEAR’S parents, probably, would have forced her to get him out of her life for good, through kicking her out of the cabin. And then, her parents, probably, would have made her, find another place to live.
MOUNTAIN LILLIE, every night, and, also, early in the morning, has been meeting JUSTIN out on the front porch. And she, always, seemed to catch him out on the front porch. However, tonight was the first night on which she wasn’t able to spot JUSTIN, sitting on the front porch.
So, then, MOUNTAIN LILLIE jus pulled up in the hilly driveway. And there, on her parents’ old red tractor, she sat there for what seemed like hours to her when, only, an hour has passed by. And since, she didn’t want to be caught there in the driveway by either CHER BEAR or her parents. She, then, jus pulled out of the driveway, a bit puzzled being that by this time, she, usually, ran into JUSTIN out in front of the cabin.
Then, as MOUNTAIN LILLIE was riding back to her parents’ house on the tractor, she felt like she was going to cry, right then and there. She couldn’t understand why JUSTIN wasn’t’ expecting her to show up at the cabin, tonight.
As she reached her parents’ house, she didn’t know what to tell either of them, at first, as soon as she got up off the tractor, she sneaked around. And she tried to enter the house through the back door as usual. However her mom jus happened to be relaxing with his dad in the living room. So, neither of them heard the tractor, pull up in the driveway nor being parked at the side of the driveway like usual. This was because MOUNTAIN LILLIE started parking the tractor up the hill near her sister’s house.
Her sister, SARAH, lived in a house all her own because their parents knew, she has a boyfriend who she has been going steady with. And she’s planning to marry this guy who, only, MOUNTAIN LILLIE’S and SARAH’S parents have met so far.
Every time, SARAH’S boyfriend shows up at the blue house which she has been living in, ever since, he, usually, jus comes right to that house instead of going to the main family house. This is because when the two, first, started going together, that her parents, automatically, gave SARAH, the other house up the mountain for herself. This was because at this stage of the game, her parents felt it was important, that the two get to know each other very well. Also, SARAH could afford paying rent for living in this house.