Lexi wanted to order the beef that tasted of home, but Grandma and Pop-Pop said that would be too much for a little girl and ordered her chicken fingers instead. "Every kid likes chicken fingers," they said. Lexi hated chicken, and she also hated the Jell-O that came with her kid's meal. Her grandparents ordered from a menu called 'Early Bird Special.'
Lexi found riding around in the car after the long plane ride from Texas really boring, but she didn't say anything. That was Lexi's usual technique, to say nothing. Her dad called her the strong and silent type.
"What do you do all day in the middle of nowhere?" said her grandmother. Lexi imagined herself on a map labeled 'nowhere.' She knew what her grandmother meant, and kind of felt hurt. "It's not nowhere, it's where my mom and dad and horse is," she said.
Cowgirls don't sleep, they always keep one eye open, Lexi thought. She'd hardly spent but one or two days away from the ranch, but she would be brave, because she was a cowgirl, that's what her daddy said. But where were the sounds she loved? Where was Boo, the old basset, snoring away by the stairs? Where was the silence of the open air outside? She didn't like the fact the window was closed but was really scared to open it. The room smelled weird, like her grandmother, sorta perfumey. And for the first time, Lexi felt like she smelled, being around all of that perfume.
The digital clock said 6:29. Lexi was glad the clock was digital because she still had a real hard time
Her father would have been out on horseback since 5am. She woulda been his little partner, riding beside him, opening the gates if she'd been there today.
Lexi couldn't stay in bed no longer -- she had to get up and go. She wanted to be on her little horse, Miss Texas. She crept downstairs, guessing Grandma and Pop-Pop were still sleeping because there was no eggs frying, no smell of bacon grease. None of her dad's chicory coffee.
"My goodness you're up early," said her grandmother. "It's a Sunday. I came to go to the bathroom, and you're already up. Would you like to watch some cartoons? Here, I got you some special cereals I know you will like." The cereal bowl of pink circles and paler pink marshmallows into a white china bowl was pretty and so was the fancy glass of orange juice. But Lexi hated orange juice, she only liked orange pop. Grandma turned on the television. "I bet you'll love the Smurfs on the Cartoon network." Lexi took a bite of the cereal and made a face. Pretty is as pretty does -- the stuff didn't hold a candle to her mom's pancakes. "Don't you talk?" asked her grandmother.
"I'm not talkin' any more or less than I do."
The rest of the visit pretty much went like that. Grandma and Pop-Pop would expect her to like something fun, like going out to eat or seeing a cartoon at the movies, or walking around the mall, and Lexi would kind of not find it fun. She'd always be polite, but "there must be something wrong with that child," said Grandma. "She has no warmth to her." She didn't understand that Lexi was warm in her mind, galloping away in the Texas sun on horseback.
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