Chapter 16

Next morning, they started to wake up by the smell of breakfast, Alex was cooking. So, they started walking down the stairs and into the kitchen, Walker grabbed a cup and poured himself some coffee.

"Smells good Alex," said Jesse walking over to get him some coffee as well.

"Thank you," said Alex.

"Your welcome," said Jesse.

So, they started eating breakfast.

"So how do you like your new job?" asked Red Cloud.

"I love it, I really do," said Jesse.

"Good, I'm glad," said Red Cloud.

"Well you better hurry and finish eating, you don't want to be late for your practice today," said Alex.

"Oh, did you call my friends last night?" asked Jesse.

"I sure did, and they loved the idea of throwing a celebration party for you," said Alex.

"Sweet, so they will be here awesome," smiled Jesse.

"yes," Said Alex.

"Come on Jesse you don't want to be late," said Walker.

So, they started heading towards the truck and drove to the reservation to practice. When they arrived, everybody greeted Jesse once again, they were glad to see him especially Richard.

"Jesse it's good to see you, you look good, we'll see you this afternoon," said Richard.

"Yeah, I'll see you then, this is going to be great, I can't wait to see everybody," said Jesse.

"And they can't wait to see you either, "said Richard.

So, they went on stage and started singing and playing their hand drums. Once again, they did awesome as usual. When they were finished Jesse, Walker, and Red Cloud started headed towards the house.

"Are we going to Jesse's party? Asked Alvina.

"Of course, we are, we just need to see if William will drive all of us to Jesse's house," said Lisa.

"Yeah, let me call him and ask," said Alvina.

"Okay and I'll tell Richard we can go to the center, where Richard is and you can call William from the center and have him come by and pick us up at the center," said Lisa.

"Sounds good, let's go and I'll call William form the center," said Alvina.

So they walked to the center and let Richard know what they were doing and Alvina called William.

"Hey William, were all here at the center, I was wandering if we all go together to Jesse's party at Walkers house on the ranch," said Alvina.

"Oh okay, yeah I'll drive by and pick you all up and we'll go together," said William.

"Great, thank you William," said Alvina.

"Your welcome," said William.

"Okay, William is going to come by here and pick us all up for Jesse's party," said Alvina.

"Good," said Richard.

So, they waited at the center for William to pick them up. William showed up and honked his horn and they all came out and got in the car and drove to Walker's house. When they arrived at the party they saw Alex carrying the food out and putting it on the long picnic table outside under the willow tree.

"Oh Alex, everything looks so beautiful," said Lisa.

"Thank you, Lisa," smiled Alex.

"Your welcome," said Lisa.

"Hey guys, I'm glad you came," smiled Jesse.

"Your welcome, we wouldn't miss it for anything," said Alvina.

"Thank you," smiled Jesse.

So, they all gathered around the picnic table and some of the new rookies were invited along with Tyron. They had music, games, and they all got to ride on horses and had a blast. Jesse took Lisa to his favorite spot on the ranch. It was on top of a cliff, it was a flat top, you can see for miles.

"Wow, this is amazing, how did you find this spot?" asked Lisa.

"I know, it's great, this is my favorite spot, I found it when I was riding up here by myself, I asked Walker if I could go explore on horseback, he said yes. So, whenever I feel down, or sad, or even angry, I ride up here and just sit on the horse, or even sit on the ground," said Jesse.

"Wow, this is amazing," Lisa said with amazement.

"Yeah, it is amazing," Jesse looking at Lisa.

Lisa looked back at Jesse and smiled.

"Come on, we better get back to the party," smiled Lisa.

"Right, we should be getting back," said Jesse.

So, they decided to walk down instead of riding the horse.

"Be careful, it's a little rocky here," said Jesse looking back at her.

So, they started walking down the hill. Well she tripped over a rock and went over. He quickly ran and slid to the edge and grabbed both of her writs before she fell further, he scrapped his side.

"Please, don't let me go," frightened Lisa.

"I won't I promise, I have you, now, I want you to breathe and stay calm, now I know there is a ledge, you're not touching it yet because I have you. I'm going to lower you down, and when you feel the ledge let me know and I will let go, and then I'll toss a rope to you, and you grab it and I'll pull up from my horse, do you trust me?" asked Jesse.

"Yes," frightened Lisa.

So, he lowered her down, she felt the edge, "I feel the edge," he smiled and he still had a hold of her wrists.

"Do you want me to let go?" said Jesse.

"Yes, I trust you," Lisa looking up at Jesse.

So, he let go, she gasped when he let go, but she was still there standing on the edge, so went over to his horse and grabbed the rope and he tied the rope to his horse, and then the slowly lowered the other end of the rope down to her so he wouldn't scare her even more. Her shaking hands grabbed the rope.

"Okay, now I'm going to lead my horse to pull you up," said Jesse.

"Okay," said Lisa in a shaking voice.

"Alright boy, easy does it," said Jesse.

So, they horse started going forward, pulling Lisa up.

"Whoa boy," said Jesse. He ran toward her side and held her tightly to calm her down. When she stopped shaking a little he gently picks her up and looked deep into her eyes.

"Are you alright," said Jesse.

"Now I 'am, thank you for saving me," said Lisa.

"Your welcome, come on let's go, you go first and I'll stay behind and keep an eye out for you," said Jesse.

"Okay, thank you Jesse," said Lisa.

" Your welcome," said Jesse.

So, they slowly headed down the mountain and finally got on flat ground, they jumped on the horse's and rode into the ranch. Walker, Red Cloud and Jesse's friends were all sitting at the table eating a watermelon and drinking pink lemonade.

"Hey, you guys, come have some watermelon!" shouted Tyron.

So, they jumped off their horses and walked up to the table.

"Something happened?" said Red Cloud.

Jesse and Lisa looked at each other.

"What happened? Are you guys alright?" asked Alex jumping up and walking towards them.

"Yes, were fine now, were riding up the ridge, I was showing her my favorite spot on the ridge, we didn't have a problem going up, but coming back down we decided to walk down, when we were walking down the slipped and fell, but I caught her before she went over," said Jesse.

"Oh my gosh, sweetheart sit down, are you alright, come on have some lemonade," said Alex.

"Yes, I'm fine, still a little shook up is all, thank you for the lemonade," said Lisa.

Jesse went over and sat down next to Red Cloud and drank some lemonade as well and they started to eat a piece of watermelon.

"How'd you know something happened?" asked Jesse.

"The look on her face, and your clothes are dirty, and the side of your shirt is soaked and you have a tear," said Red Cloud.

"Oh yeah," said Jesse.

"Are you hurt nephew?" asked Red Cloud.

"Not really, it's just a scrape, I'll live," said Jesse.

"Come on," said Red Cloud.

"Were you off to?" asked Walker.

"Inside, I'm going to change clothes, this one is all torn up," said Jesse.

"Alright," said Walker.

So Red Cloud and Jesse went into the house.

"Sit down my nephew," said Red Cloud.

"Okay," Jesse confused.

Red Cloud goes up stairs and went into the bathroom, grabbed a basket to put the stuff he needed into it, he grabbed peroxide, gauze pads, small scissors, cotton balls, and went to Jesse's room and grabbed a clean t-shirt, then he went into his room and grabbed some sage. He went down stairs into the kitchen and sat everything on the table. Jesse just smiled, and slowly started to take his shirt off. So Red Cloud put two to three cotton balls together and soaked them into a bowl of peroxide, then he began to dab Jesse's side.

"I may have to put on a clean pair of jeans when were finished," said Jesse.

"Yeah you will, cause now it's dripping blood on your jeans now," said Red Cloud.

"What are the scissors for?" asked Jesse.

"To cut the skin that is loose," said Red Cloud.

"Oh," said Jesse.

So Red Cloud started to cut the skin that was hanging. Then he grabbed some sage and put it on the wound, then he grabbed a gauze and laid it on the sage and then he taped the gauze on each side. Then he soaked a cotton ball and used Alcohol rub to wipe around the tape and clean up any blood. When finished Jesse grabbed his clean shirt and went upstairs to change is jeans out as well.

"Hey what's going on uncle?" asked Walker.

"I just had to doctor him up, but he is fine," said Red Cloud.

"Really, what happened, why do you have all this stuff out?" asked Walker.

"I was cleaning his wound, he got a scrape on his side from leaning over to grab Lisa," said Red Cloud.

"But he's all cleaned up, and putting on new clothes, he had a hole on the side of his shirt and blood was soaked to his shirt and his jeans had blood on them as well," said Red Cloud.

"Jesse, are you alright?" asked Walker.

"Yeah, I 'am now," said Jesse.

Come on let's get back to the party," smiled Walker.

So Red Cloud cleaned up and followed them back outside to the party. It continued for another hour to two, and then everybody started leave and go home.

"I'll help you clean up," said Lisa.

"No, it's okay, you go ahead and go with William, we got this, thank you all for coming," said Jesse.

"Your welcome," said Richard.

"Thank you again Jesse, for saving me, I hope we can see more of each other again," smiled Lisa.

"We will, don't worry, bye," said Jesse.

Lisa smiled and walked to Williams car, and they drove off, back to the reservation.

"Well that was wonderful, it turned out great," said Alex cleaning up.

"Yeah it was, thank you for throwing for me Alex, I had a great time, other than the mountain incident, I had fun," said Jesse.

"I'm glad your both were okay, this was so much fun, we should do it again sometime," said Alex.

"Yeah, that would be nice," said Jesse picking up the glasses.

They got everything inside, Jesse was helping Alex was the dishes.

"I think Lisa likes you Jesse," smiled Alex.

"Alex, were just friends," said Jesse.

"Okay... So, do you like her or have a crush on her?" asked Alex.

"No, I don't, were just friends that's all," smiled Jesse.

"Okay," said smiled Alex.

So, they went on to wash the dishes, it was getting late, when Alex and Jesse finished washing the dishes, Red Cloud and Walker were just finishing up cleaning outside and came in.

"We all better be going to bed, its late," said Alex.

"Your right, its ten o'clock," said Walker.

So, they all went upstairs and went to bed.