1 Greetings & Feelings

  My name is Annmera Rhodes. I'm 23 years old, with medium-length black hair, brown eyes, 5'10ft, and curvy as can be. I have a sister named Rebecca she's beautiful with strawberry blonde hair and gorgeous hazel eyes, she's older than me rocking the age of 25. We live in Mountain Brooke, Alabama, where we have lived since I was 2 years old. It's a small town but it's home and I'm proud to be a part of this tiny town. She has this guy friend named Logan Styron who is incredibly hot. He's a few years older than me but I mean it's only a couple. He just turned 26 last week. He has light brown hair, with the purdist blue eyes that I'd ever seen standing at 6'0ft. My sister and him have been friends since childhood. Everyone usually thought that they would date and get married but they never saw each other that way it's more like a brother-sister relationship between them.

  I can remember the first time I met Logan. He had come over to watch the new Batman Mr. Freeze Sub Zero movie and play out in the backyard up in our tree house. And yes our tree house totally had a password to it. While we were watching the movie he fell asleep next to me, then fell over onto my shoulder. Now I was at the age where boys still had cooties so… I pushed him away and he hit the floor. His eyes flew wide open saying " Why did you do that? You know that hurt". He was acting like such a baby, aren't boys supposed to be tough and not care I thought. All I could reply back was " It's your own fault, who just falls asleep during a movie they wanted to watch and sleeps on a girl. Next time sleep on Rebecca who wants nasty boy cooties". After that, he did everything he could to give me his cooties and make me regret ever pushing him off the couch that day. Ugh, it was so annoying as a kid. 

  When we hit our teenage years it got worse. I swear it was like I'd never live that moment down from when we were kids. All he ever did was pick on me. Especially, when it came to my guy friends. That's when he would come up to me and be like " So which ones your boyfriend? You know you can't really be friends with guys? Your sis & I are an exception since we grew up together she's like family, not a friend." Girls and guys can totally just be friends. Even when we would go out to eat, the waiter would flirt or I'd see a guy friend from school. It was always" So is that the dude you like? I wonder what would happen if he found out all your bad qualities or maybe I can embarrass you in front of him". Finally, the time had come when I had enough. I turned to him gazing into his eyes with a blazing fire to beat him alive saying " I don't really care what you do. I don't want to date anyway guys are way too annoying to handle plus I put up with you already I can't handle another one. I'd probably bash my head into a wall". I couldn't wait to graduate and go to college away from him but that's not exactly what happened.

  After graduation, I went to a local community college cause I couldn't get into my first choice of college which was the University of Alabama. And like the total idiot I am I didn't even apply to other colleges besides the ones close to home. I was so certain I could get in but epic disappointment came my way. Finally, I graduated college with a master's in teaching. That has always been my dream. The thought of helping someone grow up in knowledge and seeing how far they can go in life was always so fascinating to me. I had some teachers I was close with and they always made me want to be like them someday. Their teaching styles were so unique especially my English teacher Mrs. Harper. She was so cool! Her beauty was so powerful inside and out. Mrs. Harper was young and would always ride a motorcycle to school. She taught comic books in her class as well. I'd never met a teacher so unique like that before. I wanted to be just like her and so hopefully that will happen soon. 

  Now in my adulthood, my emotions are changing like crazy. Logan and my sister are still close, and he comes over every night to our apartment. We're even going on a trip to our parent's lake house this weekend. Today is the day! Our parent's lake house is 2 hours away from our apartment but it's so much fun. We're all loaded up in my truck and heading out. We finally arrive at our destination and start unpacking before we start the day. We're all playing, goofing around in the lake, eating burgers, making s'mores, and just playing the guitar while singing old country songs like " Daydreams About Night Things by Ronnie Milsap and Can't Forget "Should Have Been A Cowboy by Toby Kieth". As the night went on we decided to play truth or dare well you had 2 truths and 1 dare you had to answer/fulfill. I had used all my truths and had to pick a dare. 

  Just my luck my sister was the one who was going to be telling me my dare. Rebecca looked at me and started laughing, I knew this wouldn't be good. She says " Annmera you have to do the test of courage." ( For those who don't know the test of courage is where you walk in the woods all by yourself ) I Said "No way, are you crazy?! I'm not doing that. Especially not by myself, you're nuts sis!" Logan then spoke up, " Come on Rebecca, why you got to be like that to our cute Annmera here? Tell ya what how about I go with her to make sure she doesn't get lost." Rebecca finally caved in after fighting us on it for 5 minutes. As we started to walk down this dark dirt path through the woods, the wind was blowing making the trees sway back a forth as we heard the owls whooo. I was scared out of my mind and Logan wasn't helping at all cause every time I calmed down, he would wait for the perfect moment to scare me himself. 

  We got up to this creepy hill in the forest and a cat jumped out making me completely fall back. Before I can hit the ground I feel the warmth of muscular arms wrap around my chest under my breast and pull me into his arms. He smelt like aftershave and ole spice. He just held me in his arms until I calmed down. Then we started to head back to the house. During that moonlit night looked up at Logan & his eyes turned this light blue that would put the ocean to shame. I could honestly stare at those blue eyes forever I thought. I'd never had feelings for him but tonight was making me think otherwise. I mean I knew he was a man but I always thought from an annoying family member's view, tonight however I saw him differently like he was a man I wanted to fall for. How can these thoughts be going through my head now? What was this feeling and why did I start thinking about it now? Are my hormones just going crazy or something I mean it's not like I was super close to him like Rebecca.

  Seriously, Logan, He always drives me nuts, and picks on me constantly! Why am I having romantic feelings right now, especially during this stupid courage test? Like seriously I don't even want to be like those girls in the movie who fall for that stupid situation it's so frustrating.