Love in the Mountains

Thrown to the Wolves

The sunlight was peeking through the curtains as Taylee woke up. She started to get out of bed but Josh rolled over and wrapped his arms around her waist.

"Don't go, mama." he said in a sleepy voice with his eyes still closed. "Just lay here with me please. We only have one more night left here. I want to savor this."

Taylee smiled and relaxed into his arms. "Okay, Joshy, but only for a minute."

Soon enough they both fell back to sleep until they heard pans banging downstairs.

"Rise and shine fuckers!" Danny yelled running up the stairs. He beats on Josh and Taylee's door. "Sam and I made breakfast! Don't let it go to waste!"

They heard him make his way back downstairs and open the door to the backyard still hitting his pans together. Taylee pictured him shaking Jake and Jita's tent yelling at them as well.

"Damnit, Josh! I didn't want to go back to sleep." Taylee said. Josh looked up at her with his beautiful eyes. "Ugh. I can't be mad at you. You're too cute." She kissed his nose.

Josh smiled at her then said "We better get down there before Sam comes up. He won't be as nice as Danny."

"You call that nice?" Taylee asked with a slight laugh.

"Compared to Samuel, yes." Josh said. He moved the covers off of them then threw his legs over the side of the bed. "I'm so glad I'm going to wake up to this more often."

"Me too baby." Taylee said getting out of bed and going into the bathroom to make herself presentable.

Josh went downstairs and made a cup of coffee for himself and Taylee. He heard someone whisper his name.

"Josh."

Josh turned around but didn't see anyone looking at him. 

"Josh you idiot! Over here by the steps!" Jake stood at the top of studio steps motioning for Josh to join him.

Taylee walked down the stairs. Josh handed her the two mugs and said, "Here, take these over to the table. Tell them to go ahead and eat. Jake and I will be there in a minute."

Josh followed Jake down the steps and around the corner.

"What do you want?" Josh asked.

"Shhhh! Whisper." Jake whispered.

"Why? What's going on?" Josh asked quietly.

"I want to propose to Jita. But I have no idea when or how to do it."

"You just decided this out of nowhere?"

"No, I had a dream last night. A nightmare, really, where something horrible happened to her. I don't want to chance something happening before I make her my wife."

"That's sweet." Josh said kinda laughing.

"Don't poke fun at me! I'm serious!"

"Well, Jake, whatever you decide to do you know I will help."

"I think I want to do some sort of romantic picnic. Play my guitar as she walks down a hill or something."

"Really? That cliche shit, Jake?"

"What? I definitely want to write her a song and somehow end it with "will you marry me?"

"Okay, that's actually quite cute."

"Will you help me write it? We can figure out the rest of the details later."

"Of course."

"Jita is going back home tonight. I thought maybe we could start on it after she leaves and work on it again tomorrow before we all leave? And hey, don't tell the others yet. I don't want anyone to make a big deal about it just yet."