BEEP BEEP BEEP with a frustrated groan Samantha Anne Forster grabbed her alarm clock and chunked at the wall.
"Sam, what in the world was that?" asked her dad, Wyatt, referring to the loud thump of the alarm clock hitting the wall.
"Me and the Alarm Clock disagreed and things got violent" Sam answered while getting dressed.
"That's the fifth time this week Sam!" Wyatt exclaimed from outside her door, giving her privacy to get dressed before starting her chores.
Once dressed Sam raced down stairs, almost tripping on her four year old brother, Cody.
"Cody! Don't play on the stairs!" Sam reprimanded the little guy.
"I'm sowy Sammy" the little boy turn his baby blue eyes on her, and she instantly lost any feelings of anger.
"It's okay" Sam smiled and quickly picked him up, and entered the kitchen.
At the sight of her Gram making chocolate chip pancakes, Sam moaned in delight.
"Now you hurry up and get your chores done young lady" Gram said "just because you graduated last week, doesn't mean you can sleep in and forget your chores."
"Yes ma'm" Sam rolled her eyes and shot out the front door like a bullet, excited because tomorrow was her seventeenth birthday. "Ace! Tempest!" Sam song entering the barn where her little bay mustang, Ace, and her blue-black mare, Tempest, spent the night. "Hey guys, you hungry?" Sam asked and got a bored look from both horses.
After the morning chores were complete, Sam went back inside just as everyone was sitting down to breakfast. Once Sam sat down, her step-mother Brynna, cleared her throat "Sam, about you spending the summer with the Phantom's herd, me and your dad talked about it, and decided you can, but Jake will spend the summer with you."
Sam let out a groan and rolled her eyes before speaking slowly "Are you sure that's a good idea?"
"Yes we are Sam, and we aint stupid so watch your tone" Wyatt warned.
"Yes sir" Sam lowered her eyes and began eating. "You know I changed my mind, I think having Jakey with me will be fun" Sam laughed.
"Speak of the devil" Brynna looked out the window at the black mare tied to the hitching rail.
"What Jake's here? Oh my god! Look at me I'm a mess!" Sam shrieked and ran to her room to change.
"What was that about?" Wyatt asked.
"Well Wyatt, its fairly obvious, Sam has a crush on Jake" Gram was the first to answer the question.