Head Over Boots For You // Jenlisa

1: Fresh Start

A/N: hiiii everyone!! here's a new fluffy jenlisa adaptation (with smut eventually 😳). happy reading!! and get ready for the intense amount of fluff on this. 🥰♥️💓💗💘

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Jennie

It was greener than she had expected. Even though patches of dirty snow held on in hollows and depressions, sagebrush and tufts of bright green grass were beginning to emerge. Rolling gray clouds swept overhead, carried by westerly winds that had Jennie clutching at the steering wheel as her car bounced along the dirt road. She had left behind the gridlock of the city, passed through snowy mountain passes and endless forests, and now found herself in this land of rolling hills and open skies.

It felt like another world. And there she was, on her own, going to a place she had never been, to work for a woman she had never met, to do a job that she had never done.

Not for the first time that day, Jennie asked herself what the fuck she was doing.

Huntley, the small town half an hour back on the dirt road, had been enough of a culture shock: there had been a horse tied up on Main Street in one of the parking spaces; literally everyone drove an enormous truck; and cowboy hats seemed to be the hottest fashion trend. She couldn't believe that towns like this still existed.

So what was a college grad city girl doing there?

(Leaving her friends behind. Abandoning her family. Running away from her problems.)

That all too familiar worry stirred again in Jennie's stomach, but she had thought this true. She knew this was the right choice. She tried to fight down her anxiety by turning up the radio. The country station crackled a bit, and country was far from her favorite genre, but it was the only station she could pick up out there.

I wanna sweep you off your feet tonight

I wanna love you and hold you tight

Spin you around on some old dance floor

Act like we never met before, for fun

It was a campy song, but kind of catchy too. But Jennie's attention was back on the road, when her car hit yet another pothole in the road. She tried to avoid another, even deeper hole in the road, but she somehow managed to hit it straight on. Her car shuddered in protest. If her tires and suspension survived this trip, she would be surprised.

Would she survive this trip? She just turned the radio higher.

'Cause you're the one I want, you're the one I need

Baby, if I was a king, you would be my queen

You're the rock in my roll, you're good for my soul, it's true

I'm head over boots for you.

Despite everything, Jennie laughed to herself. She had never heard such a ridiculous song. The lyrics and the country twang contrasted starkly with Jennie's mood, but somehow, they made her feel a little better.

She had been driving for two days, trying to let the big skies and open roads let her mind drift to nothing. Of course, that hadn't worked. If didn't matter that she knew Kai was an asshole and her mom was a control freak, or that she had confirmed her decision to leave town over and over again. Jennie still pored over what had happened, her shock, her grudges, and she felt them more strongly than ever. She would never forgive Kai for what he had done. He didn't deserve it, and frankly, Jennie wasn't above hating someone for the rest of her life. Why should she waste her time forgiving someone if he doesn't even think what he did was wrong?