Chapter 47

She hit the clutch as they slowed down and came back to the building as well. When she climbed onto the back of his snowmobile, she wrapped her arms around his waist and pressed into his back. He loved the feeling of it. She watched him as he shifted the snowmobile into gear and moved forward. He looked at it like it was a straight drive car. When he started getting to the point of changing gears she leaned forward so she could speak directly into his ear.

“Do you hear how it’s starting to make that revving sound?”

“Yeah,” Jesse shouted over his shoulder.

“That’s telling you that you need to shift gears. When you hear it, change gears, okay?”

“Okay,” Jesse replied.

He did exactly what she told him to do and they rode around until he got it up to speed so he could go through all the gears. She watched him as he shifted the gears and when they came back to the building, she watched him shift when the motor whined. He had learned rather quickly.