The Date (Single Wide Female in Love #1) by Lillianna Blake

day of your new life!”  
    As he started to climb up the wall I suspected that he hadn’t selected me for a date at all. He quite possibly had selected me to be his own personal project.
    I tried to follow him up the wall, but getting my toes not to slip off the rocks was harder than I expected.  
    “You can do it, Samantha!” JoJo coached me. “Just stay focused and remember, nothing will feel as good as getting to the top!”  
    “Let’s go, Samantha, get moving!” Kevin tried to motivate me, but he only inspired more annoyance.
    I managed to climb up a few feet. My body trembled from using muscles that I didn’t normally use. I felt the intensity of having the ground so far beneath me. I really didn’t think I was going to make it to the top.  
    “Go, Samantha, go!” JoJo called out from below me.  
    “I’m going!” I snarled. All of the cheering was wearing on my patience.  
    “That’s right, Samantha, use that anger!” Kevin plowed right up to the top of the rock wall.
    I spent the rest of my journey to the top staring at his rear end. It wasn’t exactly an unpleasant sight. However, his persistent encouragement ruined it for me.  
    “Oh, you’re going to see some anger alright.” My mind filled with visions of swinging him around on his harness like a tetherball.
    I pushed myself harder to get to the top—the main reason being so that I could then get myself back down to end this ridiculous date.
    By the time I reached the top, I was covered in sweat. The one positive thing so far was the fact that I’d gotten my workout in.  
    “Look at you! You should be so proud! I’m proud! Are you proud?”  
    I don’t know what he might have seen on my face, but whatever it was made him get very pale and quiet very fast.  
    “Alright, Samantha, come back down!” JoJo waved from the bottom of the rock wall.
    I hadn’t really thought about the going-down process. Going up seemed like the hard part. But when I looked down from the height of the ceiling my stomach lurched. I was glad I hadn’t eaten too much for breakfast.  
    “You can do it—”  
    “Stop it!” I scowled at Kevin. “Just stop.”  
    Kevin looked a bit like a smacked puppy.
    I gritted my teeth and began to make my way slowly down the rock wall.  
    You can do this, Samantha. All you have to do is get to the bottom. Everything is going to be fine—just a little rough patch—and then you’ll be back on your feet.  
    Except I didn’t feel anything under my feet. In fact, my feet were no longer on the rock wall and I was falling. JoJo pulled on the harness to slow my descent, and the harness got a little too familiar with my nether regions.  
    “Ouch!” I grimaced. Kevin, who’d climbed down alongside me, reached out and grabbed my hand. I was actually glad he did. He eased me to the ground.  
    “You okay?” he frowned.  
    “Get this thing off of me!” I tugged at the straps of the harness.
    JoJo went to work unbuckling. I was a little concerned that I might need a surgical removal.
    Once the harness was off, I actually did feel proud. When I looked up at the rock wall I’d just climbed, I was impressed that I’d done it.  
    “You’re pretty strong.” Kevin patted my back.
    I tried not to bark at him. “Thanks. So are you.” I pretended not to be having visions of him being tossed off the side of a rock wall.  
    “I know that it’s customary on a date to go out for a meal, but I want to introduce you to something even better.”  
    I was covered in sweat and sore in unmentionable places. I didn’t have the will left in me to argue with him.  
    “Okay.”

Chapter 22

    Kevin led me over to the juice bar at the other side of the building. I didn’t mind that too much. I’d gone through a juicing phase and some of the concoctions could be really delicious. I looked over the menu and was about to select a drink when he ordered for me.  
    “We’ll both have the Green Machine.”  
    “Oh,