Family Reunion (Babette & T-Howell)

[Babette]

Adara Winslow
Age 23
Hair Brown
Eyes Brown
Height 5’6”

Adara got her name from her parents when they checked out a baby name and their meaning book. Her name though Hebrew means Fire, she is not Hebrew but American and Irish. Her parents travel to different countries for better education for their beloved daughter and only child.

She has returned to the old farm that belonged to her grandfather, and now that he had passed on everything at the farm was now her parents. Everything except two horses and all their gear given to Adara and her cousin Klayton. Her eyes lit up like sparkles hearing his name and that they both shared the horses. It meant more time with her beloved Klayton. She remembers telling him when she was only 14 years of age, that one day they would be married, some how, because no one was more perfect than Klayton and she would simply die if he turned her down.

Adara looked at the ownership papers of the two horses and their pictures. One horse is solid black and the other is pure white, both very beautiful and well trained. In the back of the property are riding trails that venture deep into the forest beyond the big woods. The big woods has small ponds and meadows lots of places to be explored. The rock fences are left over from the civil war era, and the land has some history to it. Adara can hardly wait to take her horse out and do some exploring, but today is not that day. Today she will meet her cousin again. She is very excited and has missed him.

Today is a family Reunion, where she will meet her cousin Klayton, for the first time in many years. When she sees him her heart pounds as he is simply gorgeous. She wants to find a place they can get together and catch up on the past five years she has been away. The last time she saw him and his parents she was only 18. Now in college she has transferred back to the United States so her parents can take care of the farm and she will help when and where she is able.

Due to the family reunion being outdoor Adara dressed casual, with a summer top, jeans and riding boots. Her soft smile gave her the look of pure innocence, but her mind was full of delicious thoughts on how she would seduce her cousin. If he was gorgeous back then, he would be more so now. Her heart raced as she closed her eyes imagining them both together intimately. She had no shame, she loved him, and wanted to make him see her as lovers, not just cousins.

 

[T-Howell]

Klayton King
Age 20
Hair Brown
Eyes Blue
5'11"

Klayton showed up to the family reunion and was happy to see his cousin again for the first time in awhile, she had always been around when they were younger and he missed her presence while she was gone. He was wearing a comfortable blue v neck shirt that showed off his decently sized biceps, black jeans, and converse sneakers. He always dressed this way since he was about 16 years old and he just realized that that was how old he was when he last saw his cousin Adara. He remembered how she used to talk about them getting married when they were younger and he laughed a little to himself wondering why she always used to say that.

He was also fairly interested in seeing which of the horses that belonged to their grandfather that he would be receiving, but that took a pretty substantial backseat to how interested he was in seeing his cousin again. The first thing he did when he got to the reunion was search his family for her wanting to talk to her since they hadn't seen each other in so long. He greeted her parents pleasantly and smiled and talked to them before he spotted his cousin in the distance. Wow. He thought to himself when he saw her. Suddenly he went back to thinking about her talk of marriage when they were younger and it didn't seem quite as strange to him upon seeing what a beautiful woman she was now.

 

[Babette]

Adara saw him instantly. There was no mistaken her cousin for anyone else. The smile forming on her lips was nothing in comparison to what was going on with her heart and lungs. Her heart beat raced upon seeing him and she yelled out, “Klayton!” She ran as fast as she could throwing her arms around him, jumping up to wrap her legs around his waist.

“I am so happy to see you, again. I have missed you so very much.” She kissed his neck, his cheek and without thinking much about it she kissed him on the lips, with a short ‘family’ kiss.
“Oh Klayton, it has been too long. Too, too long.” she was very excited he came to the reunion. She slid down his body so she was standing directly in front of him. “Look at you, you are so handsome. You haven’t changed much, but you have changed.” She hugged him close to her, there was no room for doubt, this girl loved her cousin very much.

She ran her fingers gently across his cheek, then through his hair. Her hands went to his biceps, and she remarked, “You are definitely changed, my dearest Klayton. Oh, I brought pictures for you to choose your horse, I am so glad grandfather gave them to us. He was always thoughtful, and truly loved his horses, didn’t he?” Adara reached in her back pocket, pulling out the two pictures to show him. “You choose, I can’t they are both so beautiful.”

 

[T-Howell]

He was surprised at how excited she was to see him putting his arms around her waist as she jumped on him more out of instinct and surprise than anything. Although he wasn't upset about holding his beautiful cousin wrapping herself around him. He was even more stunned when she kissed him before she slid down and stood in front of him. "You've changed too, Adara." He said with a smile looking up and down her body. "You've certainly grown up a little since I saw you last. You're beautiful." He said in an innocent, but still somewhat flirty manner smiling at her. He ran his hands through his hair looking into her eyes. "It's very nice to see you as well." He said with a little chuckle.

"It is great that he left us his horses." He said before he took the pictures from her and looked them over for a minute running his eyes over the horses trying to decide which one that he wanted to take. "They are both incredibly beautiful." He said looking up from the pictures at his cousin's radiant face staring back at him. "I think I'll take the white one." He said with a smile. He looked at his cousin now feeling that she was much more beautiful in every possible way than the horses could ever be. "We should take them out for a ride sometime today if you would like to." He said just before grabbing a drink from the table in the corner of the room for both him and her and bringing it back. "Did you want a drink?" He said offering it to her.

 

[Babette]

She looked at her cousin with a side way glance, “Do you really think I am beautiful, Klayton?” she asked him softly smiling at him, and then blushed. Suddenly Adara felt self conscious, due to his remark about her being beautiful. “you are more handsome than ever, you were a boy when I left, and now look at you, a young man, who is rugged in looks, and sweet. All the girls in town I am sure think of you as eye candy. I know if I was your girl, I would feast on your looks daily.” She looked away, and thought to herself, “you best stop that now.”

Adara took the drink from him. “Thank you, I was thinking of getting out of here, unless you want to stay? If not, I have my car and we could go check out the horses, get to know them and go for a nice ride together.” She felt a strange sensation flow through her, as she spoke the words to Klayton. “She laughed, “it isn’t like we don’t know everyone here. Plus, I think if we left, the older adults would have an open bar. You know they still think of us as kids.”

After Klayton chose his horse she was relieved. She truly wanted the black one, and she got her wish. “Thank you hon, for choosing the white one, I think she is suited well with her new master.”
Adara finished her drink, then asked Klayton. “So, up for a little adventure, shall we get out of here and go make our own fun?"

 

[T-Howell]

He smiled at her when she asked if he actually thought she was beautiful. "Of course I do." He waited for a little while taking in her body and her good looks before nodding at her about going to check on the horses. "Yeah a ride sounds like fun." He paused again debating whether or not to make his next comment to his cousin. "Besides we can go catch up and spend some time together." He said having decided against what he actually was going to say since she was his cousin after all. He moved to the door and opened it up waiting for her to go outside first. He was quite a gentleman and enjoyed being courteous to people.

He looked around for her car, not knowing what she was driving these days so he decided to follow her. He looked over at her and smiled a bit to himself. She really had become a quite beautiful woman. He followed after her like a lamb to her vehicle and opened her door for her before getting in the passenger seat and seatbelting himself in, getting ready for whatever adventure that they were about to go on together.

 

[Babette]

Adara started up her all wheel drive Toyota Seville. She smiled at Klayton and said “I am ready. We can take the well worn trail to the pine forest. I have never gone that far, but grandfather told me there are special places to see beyond the forest, if you want to go, or we can stay in the woods and make our own adventures.” She drove out from the reunion and headed in the direction of the stables.

“If you like we could fill the saddle bags with some food and a thermos of water or koolaide, or wine,” she gave him a wink. You are old enough to drink wine I would think?” She laughed almost daring him to choose the wine over water. What are your thought cousin....I really want to know what is going through your mind.” Adara took the next right off the main road, to a narrow dirt road that was slightly bumpy. They arrived at the stables and shut off the car. “I will check the refrigerator and see what I can find edible, she smiled and left Klayton to go see his new horse.

 

[T-Howell]

Klayton smiled patiently riding with her in the car looking over at her every so often and marveling to himself at her incredible beauty. He shrugged his shoulders though figuring since she was his cousin nothing was going to happen between them. "We can go where ever you'd like Adara, I'm sure we can have fun wherever you'd like to go. When she suggested they fill up the saddle bags with something he nodded and tried to decide what he'd like to have. "I'm certainly old enough, I just don't drink wine." He said with a smile. "But I do definitely drink Kool-Aid." He said licking his lips a bit. Innocent and not interested in drinking wine.

"I'll eat anything though." He said with a smirk as she went looking for food. He shut his eyes for a moment trying to purge the thoughts of his beautiful cousin from his mind. "You really don't want to know what is going through my mind." He said with a little smirk as he filled the saddle bags, one with Kool-Aid, and one with wine for her. He waited for her to fill up the food bags so they could go out for a little ride together.

 

[Babette]

Adara yelled back to him, “I heard that and yes, I do want to know every thing you think about. It has been years since we talked face to face, Klayton, don’t hold back now.” She made this pouty face as she walked over to him handing over some fruit and sandwiches. “I don’t need the wine either, it was just a thought. So, add these in and let’s get going, I can’t wait to spend some time alone with you in the woods far away from everyone. It will be like the old days when we were children. Exploring new places, getting to know each other all over again.”

She watched him closely, her thoughts going places she knew better. She was very attracted to her cousin, and right now her mind wasn’t on riding horses, it was thinking of him pulling her into his arms looking deep into her eyes and kissing her deeply. She shook her head trying to toss that thought out, and felt herself blush deeply. Her skin was hot from such thoughts. “I will be right back.”

Adara went into the kitchenette of the barn and poured some cool water on her hands touching them to her face. “Okay girl, she said quietly, this is your cousin, now stop these thoughts.” She walked slowly back to the stalls and got out both horses, she saddled hers and waited for Klayton to do the same. “I am ready beloved Klayton, shall we go see what wonderful things we can discover?”

 

[T-Howell]

Klayton nodded at her when she was all ready to go even though he was having his own thoughts about her, but he just shrugged them off and left with her going out to the horses and getting everything ready for their little trip. He figured nothing would happen with her seeing as how she was his cousin and that it would be pretty wrong for them to do anything sexual or even anything a little romantic together so he tried to block her beauty out of his mind and get along and get going on their adventure.


He prepared her horse for her first being the gentleman he was he couldn't let his beautiful sweet cousin do anything for him so he got the large black animal all ready for her. He even offered her a hand to get up onto the horse allowing himself to hoist her delicate frame up onto the horse's back. He lifted her up and sat her right down on top of the saddle before giving her thigh a little pat and hopping up onto his own white horse.

 

[Babette]

Adara felt his hand slide across her thigh when he helped her get onto her horse. His hand was hot like fire to the touch, and it felt nice. He was a lot stronger than she remembered. She smiled as he helped her onto her horse. “Thank you Klayton you are such a sweet heart,” she said to him watching him mount up on his own horse. She took the reins into her hands and though it had been sometime since her last ride she was completely at ease on this horse. “We need to name these beasts of ours eventually,” she looked over to him and eased her horse closer so they could talk and ride at the same time. “I think we should explore some of the older trails too, if you don’t have anything else to do today.”

She knew he didn’t because of the family reunion taking place today. If she had not suggested going for a ride she would still be there with him with everyone getting drunk and playing stupid horseshoes. Going anywhere with Klayton was all that was on her mind since he walked in the door earlier. “Wouldn’t it be nice if we found a place we could call just ours? On those days when we just feel we need to be alone. You know what I mean, don’t you cousin? We all have them, when everything just seems to be pushing you down and you need some space. Or don’t you ever wish to be away from your family?”

 

[T-Howell]

Klayton nodded when she suggested that they name the horses and followed her when she suggested that they explore the older trails. He wasn't too great of a horse rider so he just followed her lead mirroring what she did. He had remembered she was an exceptional equestrian when they were younger so he figured he was in good hands with her. "That sounds like a good idea, I always like to explore." He said with a little laugh as he looked around the area bobbing up and down on the horse as they enjoyed their ride.

When she suggested that they should find a place to call their own he shrugged his shoulders a bit, but he agreed with her. They needed to find somewhere private for them to think either together or on their own. "Yeah that's a good idea Adara." He said with a smile as they rode around and looked around the area for that private place for themselves. He was pleased just being away from the family reunion, but being there with his cousin made him feel even better somehow.

 

[Babette]

She was happy when he agreed with her about finding someplace of their own.Sitting up straight she listened for a moment. she reined in and brought her horse to a complete standstill. She turned facing Klayton. “If I remember correctly through the path straight ahead was a meadow that grandfather showed me years ago. He said it was where he met my grandmother before the woods grew so dense. She had been riding and was skinny dipping in the pond out there. Of course I had no idea what skinny dipping was back then.” She blushed a bit then turned back around.

She led them both through the dense pines ducking between branches ever so often. “The scent of these pines are breath taking. I love it here.” Her big black horse seemed to know exactly where they were going, and carefully walked a slow pace down a slope, following the old path. There was a huge limestone rock about the size of a small cottage and he turned left just after that boulder. As soon as they turned the bend Adara saw the pond. Some of the meadow had disappeared due to major amounts of growth and shrubs where there used to be none.

“It is almost as I remember Klayton. Isn’t it amazing? No one would know it was here unless someone led them here. And this horse knew the way. I am going to call him “Tracker.” She hopped off the horse and gave him a kiss on his muzzle. “You are the best Tracker,” she told the horse, smiling at Klayton.