The sun began to fall beneath Arkansas sky, not disappearing but hidden from the naked eye. A shadow casted itself over the two teenagers who had been debating on their next meeting. Only a few days in each others company, for Samantha Beckett they were her best days since leaving Wilmington. Piece of her wished he stayed, despite their differences and the rocky past they shared. Their had been unspoken connection, something that made it so easy for her to be around him. Even though everything around them said otherwise, Samantha Beckett could help but think she was meant to be friend with the eldest Willowfoot. Part of the blonde briefly wondered if they were destined to be more...it would explain the difficult time they were having saying their goodbyes.
"When shall you see me next..." Samantha repeated to herself, eyes staring past Ezra, lost in her thoughts. Finally her shoulders raised, shrugging it off "Whenever you have business in Arkansas I guess" Her brown eyes travelled to Ezra Willowfoot's face "Be careful on the road" she smiled, taking a step back. Samantha saluted Ezra, turned around and crossed the road, walking back to her uncle's apartment.
Jason sat in the distance, watching the two teenagers from the comfort of his motorcycle. The man's eyes narrowed slightly when the boy's hands touched his niece, a gentle squeeze on her shoulders. This stirred an uncomfortable feeling within him. Memories that was buried, ones he'd hoped would stay that way. "Dammit..." the older man mumbled. Jason had been returning home, unaware that he would be privy to their goodbye. What am I gonna tell Sean, he thought. Jason saw right through Ezra Willowfoot and the youngest Beckett saw no issue. Secretly, he wished it upon them. If a Willowfoot would love and cherish his Samantha. Jason Beckett would gladly approve, marry her off to one in heartbeat. He saw the qualities in Ezra that only came from a good young man. Not the type to lay his hands on a woman, and that had been good enough for Jason.
A smile broke out on the man's face. A hard decision decided. The decision to keep his brother in the dark. To lie about Samantha's involvement with the Willowfoot boy. What Sean did not know would never hurt him, and if somehow Sean Beckett learned of the secret visits, the relationship between the two, whatever it may be. Jason's as prepared to take full blame, and stand up for the two young lovers to be.
A week after Ezra visited Samantha the Beckett's did. Welcomed yet unexpected, Samantha had been grateful to her uncle for helping her hide the things Ezra brought. To Samantha's relief her parents suspected nothing, and their visit occurred without fail. All of them celebrating her seventeenth birthday will smiles and laughter. Unlike the normal father and daughter relationship, Samantha and Sean's had been tense. The eldest Beckett disappointed in his eldest child, Unable to look at her or treat her the same. No longer his little princess.
Samantha felt the resentment oozing from her father, the sad and distant look in his eyes when he watched her. The heartache experienced after her family left, struk tears in Samantha's eyes. Crying herself to sleep for many nights. Fearing things would never be the same once she returned to Wilmington. The realisation shifted Samantha's mood, her demeanor lightening greatly when Tiffany appeared. The two friends spending the day together,chatting as though they were never apart.
Although Tiffany provided a good distraction from Samantha's worries. The blonde beauty still found herself wanting to spend more time with the Indian alpha. It had not been long before they began talking in the phone. Samantha never rang Ezra, not wanting anyone in his family to hear her voice on the line. Their calls started sparse, once every two weeks, once a week, once every few days until they began talking everyday. Samantha looked forward to Ezra's visits, like a child on Christmas morning.
The friendship blossomed into something Samantha never expected. Ezra Willowfoot was now someone she considered a good friend. She spoke openly to him, allowing him to know how her father's feelings changed. Sharing her hopes and insecurities.
While Samantha lived rebelliously in Arkansas. Henry had been stirring his own rebellion. Being the eldest and the one to be left out of the inheritance, meant that Henry Beckett was a bitter man. Often coercing Sean into things that would disturb the peace among Beckett's and Willowfoot's. So when the bald, grey headed man suggested that the Willowfoot's and be fined for using public roads for vending on Sunday at the Green Market, Sean agreed. Using his power as deputy to influence the town's mayor into enforcing the public property act. A law that was relaxed in order green market to become a tradition for farmers cross all three counties. Now all vendors paid to sell, this caused tension among those loyal to Beckett's and those loyal to Willowfoot's. The fights began, Indians defacing Beckett property. Accusing the Beckett's of tainting the river water that passed directly through Willowfoot land. Another one of Henry's schemes, his idea of spoiling their crops and killing their fertile land.
The rise in drunken fights and accusations hurled the Beckett's made Sean Beckett refuse to let Marcia see Fauna or her children. Sean the assumption that Thomas had been causing all the problems. Pointing fingers at the Beckett's to stir trouble. Sean's belief that Thomas was in search of revenge for being fined to sell his crops on mains street like his family did for generations.
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