Turn to Me:Chapter 2
Link stopped and turned to Rhett with a raised eyebrow. Rhett felt suddenly nervous. After all these years, he still felt a moment’s hesitation when proposing a new idea to his best friend. “I was just thinking, on Monday, we could go up to Pilot Mountain together, maybe spend the night in one of the cabins up there.”Link smiled, but his expression was confused. “For what?”
Rhett thought quickly. He had simply felt a sudden desire to spend more time with Link, but it was easy to come up with a justification. “We need to focus on our plans for 2014. We can get away from everything and spend some time seriously thinking up new ideas.“ Link’s eyebrow remained raised as Rhett continued, “We could shut off our phones, stay off the ‘net... Just spend a big chunk of time brainstorming.”
Link considered the idea. “I thought we were supposed to stay away from each other while we’re home,” he eventually said.
Rhett nodded. “We’ve already broken that tradition, though. And it is really good to see you.”
Link smiled. “Yeah, I didn’t realize how much I missed your stupid face until you came in the door.”
Rhett grinned back. Link continued, “It’s true, we haven’t come up with our big idea for the year yet. I want to do something awesomer than ever.” He scratched his chest thoughtfully. “I do have a few days of unstructured time before New Year’s. I’ll have to check with Christy, though.”
Rhett nodded. “Of course.”
They joined the rest of their families in the dining room and enjoyed a wonderful dinner filled with laughter and stories from the children and Link’s mother’s famous country style steak. They ended the evening early, before the kids could get too restless, and the McLaughlins said their goodbyes.
The next afternoon, Link texted him to say that he could go to the cabin on Monday morning, so long as he was back by Tuesday night. They exchanged more texts to work out the details: Rhett would rent an SUV so their wives could keep their current rental cars and he and Link would have something that could handle the mountain snow. He would pick Link up early on Monday from his father’s house.
Rhett called the park ranger station and reserved the cabin for the night. The secretary made sure he knew the conditions at the cabin would be somewhat primitive, with only enough electricity for essentials and a wood stove for heat. “Perfect,” Rhett told her.
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