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Later that same morning, she registered at the front desk of a quaint style ranch house, and they gave her a room at the top of the stairs. She told them she was expecting a friend to join her.
Aunt Lucy was in Europe and wouldn't be back for another week according to her house-sitter. Trust Aunt Lucy to be enjoying herself. She couldn't remember much about her aunt except she seemed a happy person. Naturally, she wasn't sure of the kind of reception she would get from her, either. Still, they were kin.
Activities didn't begin until the evening hours when they would have their first camp-out. Savannah couldn't wait. She had practically been guaranteed some great shots of the West Texas wildlife tomorrow.
Two hours later, Janet, her best friend arrived and showered her with hugs so intense it boggled Savannah's thinking. Over coffee, she explained her plight to her friend. Janet burst out laughing.
"Now this isn't like you at all. Me thinks something is amiss here. Come clean, just what gives with you and the Sheriff, deary?"
"Why nothing..."
"I know you better than this; you just don't act this way. Running out on Chad the way you did. You had to have had a reason. You're much too sensible. So what gives, girl? I'm your best friend, if you can't tell me, who can you tell?"
Savannah sighed, knowing she was about to make up another lie and hating herself for it. But she couldn't betray Chad. She did still love him in her fashion.
"I met Ben, the Sheriff some time ago, remember three summers ago when I took a sabbatical?"
"Yeah, I do...you met him then?" Janet rolled her eyes heavenward, and then broke into a sly smile.
"Yes, at a gas station, I had car trouble and he offered to help me."
"Go on," Janet seemed all ears for her story.
Savannah drew a deep breath and plunged herself further into the void of lies. Where had she learned to lie so well? She never knew she had it in her. What was happening to her? She was so out of characters she didn't recognize herself.
"We had a summer romance. He'd kissed me, and for the life of me, I couldn't get over him. I tried. Honestly, I tried. So I came out here, hoping."
"Wait a minute, he kissed you one time, and you drop a perfectly good guy like Chad for a fling you had one summer? Am I missing something here? Get out of here Savannah. One kiss?"
"I know it sounds crazy, but I'd never been kissed like that before."
"Like what?"
"I don't know...like I saw stars, and hearts and happily ever afters."
"Oh my," Janet shook her head. "You've got it bad, don't you? But honestly, Savannah, no one would believe it of you back home. You're so...."
"Please don't say sweet."
"So what happened when you got here?" Janet changed the direction of her questions.
"Nothing..."
Janet was having none of that.
"Nothing?"
"Well, I went to his house, I spent the night...he kissed me again, and the same thing happened..."
"You spent the night....? Oh you're leaving way too much out, girl."
"No...not like that. I had car trouble; he was merely helping me out. I slept alone, in another bedroom. Honestly."
She neglected the handcuff story that might ruin it all.
"You had car trouble again? And he didn’t catch on to that little trick? So he kissed you again, and you saw stars. So then what?"
"Nothing..."
