then stopped for the night and amy sit up her spot by sammy to sleep she put her saddle and saddle pad down as her bed and went over to Caleb" ok I am done seeing you faking not being hurt what happened"

caleb lloked at amy. "bar fight" he said as he untacked whiskey for the night. he'd find a quiet spot later to check his torso

"when where and who " she wanted to check him but didn't want to let him know she liked him

caleb looked at whiskey "the night before we headed off, local bar and a dude calleb jacob" he said as he put a feather in whiskeys name.

"fucking jacob " that was the guy that would always hit on her at that bar and she had to punch him a few times for getting to hancy

caleb looked at her "you know the guy?" he asked. now that he thought of it he had been telling his friends about his new job and hed mentioned amy as his boss

"yes i do he hits on me when i go there I've had to give him a few punches to the face and stomachfor getting to hancy "

caleb looked at her "im going to head down to the stream" he said and headed off

she was confused but laid down

Caleb sat down near the creek and took his shirt off, His torso had bruised quite badly. Caleb used the creek water to wet a a cotton shirt. He pressed the cool shirt to his bruise to soothe it