Snippet #11
Jul. 18th, 2003 10:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gilascaveBo Duke
There's nothing that smells better than fresh cut hay, Bo thinks. Luckily for him, out here in the country there are enough people who agree with him that nobody looks at him funny when he stops, and breathes deep. Well, his cousin does, but only because he doesn't love the smell quite the way Bo does. He likes it -- doesn't dislike it, not allergic to it, the way poor Miss Clary is who can't so much as go outside when the scent is too heavy.
But Luke doesn't love it the same way, and he considers it an indulgence on his part when Bo pulls the car to a stop and lets them sit there for a minute so he can just smell the air.
Sometimes Bo does it just to rile him up, but he figures Luke knows that, because he just laughs.
He'll wait a minute, then he laughs once, and asks him the same ole' question. Never in quite the same way -- sometimes he asks what's got into him, or what's he doing. Sometimes he comes right out and says it -- When did you learn to love the smell of hay so much? When they were kids Bo never noticed it except for that cutting hay meant extra hours of work on the farm.
But along the way he acquired a taste for it -- and he knows that if he explained, Luke would just laugh again and leave him to it. If he explained that the first time he was told 'I love you' was when the air was full of cut hay and sunshine -- Luke would understand.
But it's more fun to let him wonder.
There's nothing that smells better than fresh cut hay, Bo thinks. Luckily for him, out here in the country there are enough people who agree with him that nobody looks at him funny when he stops, and breathes deep. Well, his cousin does, but only because he doesn't love the smell quite the way Bo does. He likes it -- doesn't dislike it, not allergic to it, the way poor Miss Clary is who can't so much as go outside when the scent is too heavy.
But Luke doesn't love it the same way, and he considers it an indulgence on his part when Bo pulls the car to a stop and lets them sit there for a minute so he can just smell the air.
Sometimes Bo does it just to rile him up, but he figures Luke knows that, because he just laughs.
He'll wait a minute, then he laughs once, and asks him the same ole' question. Never in quite the same way -- sometimes he asks what's got into him, or what's he doing. Sometimes he comes right out and says it -- When did you learn to love the smell of hay so much? When they were kids Bo never noticed it except for that cutting hay meant extra hours of work on the farm.
But along the way he acquired a taste for it -- and he knows that if he explained, Luke would just laugh again and leave him to it. If he explained that the first time he was told 'I love you' was when the air was full of cut hay and sunshine -- Luke would understand.
But it's more fun to let him wonder.