Simply Living Life
Chapter 1
Amy Fleming was trying to find her locker, but wasn't succeeding. Amy was new in school, and so far she wasn't enjoying it. She had just moved to Virginia from England, because her parents, along with her parents prize winning horses, had been killed in a horrible car accident on their way to the world champion equestrian show jumping competition. Amy had moved to Virginia to live with her grandfather, but he was always really busy running his cattle farm.
Amy was so diligent in looking for her locker, that she ran into a very hard chest of someone, Amy would have fallen backwards except two very strong arms came around to steady her.
"I'm so sorry!" Amy said trying to regain control of her self
"No problem," said a deep voice
Amy looked up and was suddenly staring into two perfect emerald eyes. She was breathless by them and suddenly shook her head.
"Uh, sorry again," Amy said as she walked away,
The guy just stood there looking after her before he too left.
Amy still had not found her locker but needed to get to class. Amy walked into her first period class and went up to the teacher.
"Hello, I'm Amy Fleming," Amy said politely
"Why yes, hello Amy, you must be the new student from England?" the teacher asked
"Yes I am," Amy responded
"Welcome, my name is Mrs. Foster, and welcome to Virginia. You may have a seat right over there next to Beth." The teacher instructed
Amy shyly walked over to her assigned seat and sat down. The girl next to her, Beth, was slim, but had some muscle, and had short dirty blonde hair, green eyes.
"Hi, I'm Beth," Beth greeted her warmly
"Hello, I'm Amy Fleming," Amy greeted back with a smile
"Wow, sweet accent, where are you from?" Beth asked eagerly
"Oh, I'm from England, but I hardly notice the accent," Amy explained
"Have you always lived in England?" Beth asked
"No, actually I have lived in Australia, California, and Ireland." Amy listed
"Oh my goodness, you have been around the whole world!" Beth laughed
"Yeah, I guess it will be nice to settle down now," Amy smiled
After class Amy and Beth walked out of class together and were talking about the day ahead of them.
"So, I guess I should get to my next class," Amy stated
"Wait, Amy," Beth laughed
"Don't they have block days at any of the school you went to?" Beth smiled
"No, what is that?" Amy asked
"Today we only have classes 1, 3 and 5, and tomorrow we have 2, 4 and 6." Beth explained
"Oh, so you mean I have time to find my locker?" Amy asked
"Yeah, and ill help you find it," Beth laughed
Amy's locker happened to be right next to Beth's locker so it all worked out well.
After third period, Amy and Beth walked to where they would eat lunch.
"Ok, so we are going to go sit with my friends, but I'm sure they'll love you," Beth stated
Amy followed Beth over to the table, everyone greeted Beth when she walked up, and then they all stared at Amy.
"Hey guys, this is Amy Fleming, she's new from England." Beth stated
"Well have a seat," one guy at the table said with a smile
Amy sat down next to Beth and sat there quietly
"Amy this is Jeremy, Chad, Samantha, Jenna, Mike, Bryan, Soraya, Matt, and Ty." Beth listed
"Uh, hi everyone." Amy said shyly
They all greeted her warmly.
"So Amy, what do you like to do?" Jenna asked her
"Well, I like to dance and sing, I like to go to movies, and I used to ride horses." Amy listed as they all listened intently
"What do you mean by used to ride, did you quit? Samantha asked
"Uh, no I was kind of forced to quit," Amy said quietly
"Oh that sucks, Ty here has some horse thing too," Mike stated
"Some horse thing! His family has the biggest race and stud farm in Virginia!" Samantha stated firmly
"Well, excuse me miss priss," Mike responded
Everyone including Amy was laughing at this
"What type of riding did you do?" Ty asked
When Amy looked at him, she was breath taken. Ty was the guy she had bumped into earlier that morning.
"Oh, um… just show jumping and endurance racing," she shyly stated
"Really! Me too!" Samantha exclaimed
"How come you had to quit?" Jeremy asked
"Um… I couldn't, bring the horse to Virginia," Amy tried to avoid the answer that would satisfy them
"Why, were your parents against the whole riding thing?" Soraya asked
"No, actually they were world champion equestrians," Amy said
At this Ty sat up
"Marion and Tim Fleming!?!" Ty asked suddenly
Amy's eyes flew to his," Yes, did you know them?" Amy asked questionably
"Well of course, they were the biggest thing in England, and they would help my father in the racing business. They were the only ones my father would let invest in his stallions." Ty stated
"Oh, so you must be a famous Baldwin?" Amy asked
Ty nodded his head and smirked
"So you two know each other?" Soraya asked
"No, our parents knew each other, but we never actually met." Ty stated
"So if your parents were champion equestrians, why didn't they let you keep your horses?" Samantha asked
Ty looked knowingly at Amy, but Amy was looking down at her hands
"Um… they were killed in a car accident," Amy whispered
Everyone at the table fell quiet and looked at Amy.
"Amy I'm so sorry." Samantha apologized
"It's fine, you didn't know." Amy confirmed
Everyone started chatting again, and Amy was chatting with a few of them, but Ty was staring at her. He couldn't believe this was the Amy Fleming he had heard about for years from his parent's conversations around the dinner table, or the Amy Fleming that was a nationally ranked equestrian, or the Amy Fleming that he had heard about becoming an orphan only one week ago.
When the lunch bell rang, everyone was getting ready to go to their next classes.
After School everyone was running out to their cars and heading home.
"Hey Amy!" Beth called
Amy turned around and smiled
"Do you want a ride home?" Beth smiled
"Sure that would be great actually!" Amy smiled back
When Amy and Beth went out to the parking lot, most everyone was just leaving.
They walked up to Ty who was standing by a black Hummer.
"Ty we are going to give Amy a ride home, ok" Beth stated
Ty just shrugged and got in
"Sorry about my brother, he is not the most talkative person," Beth rolled her eyes
"Oh, you two are brother and sister?" Amy asked
"Yup, twins actually, but he is older by 15 minutes." Beth stated
"Oh ok, that's cool," Amy said
"Yeah I guess, do you have any siblings?" Beth asked
"I have a sister, but she lives in New York and I have a little brother, but he is living in Australia with our aunt and uncle, he is training to become a champion show jumper." Amy stated
"Oh that is so cool!" Beth said
When they pulled up to where Amy was living, she thanked them and got out of the truck and walked in to the house.
"She seems like a nice girl," Beth stated to Ty
"Yeah she does, doesn't she?" he said
Beth smiled knowingly at her brother
"Yeah right! She doesn't seem like the partying type at all so don't even go there," Beth laughed
"What are you talking about?" Ty smirked
"Oh come on party boy, don't think I can't see that you like her, but I doubt that she would go out with you. You are the quarter back on the football team and stay out late all night partying with your friends and girls." Beth stated
"I doubt she is like that," Beth laughed
"Well then I guess we'll have to find out then wont we miss know it all," Ty smiled
"I guess so," Beth smiled back at him