So...new old story which keeps getting back. Seems like a sign to finnish it. GreenFire is a bit cheesier than my other stories, considering the upcoming love triangle, but hey, it's Horseland and they have a sense for the kind of drama I usually don't write. Also, this is another atempt to get better English writing skills. So beware, dear readers, when words and sayings seems a bit weird. I may have used google translate or my beautiful Dutch-English.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy the story and will leave a review.

Idelle

A muddy jeep with an even more muddy trailer came from the road to drive straight to Horseland. At that moment all the well-known riders of the equestrian school were training in the arena, but they stopped, curious to see who the unannounced newcomer was. Together with them, the other people at Horseland gathered; Will, who was always doing maintenance work at this hour, the owners John and Ava Marie Handler (Bailey's parents) and foreman Barto Rodriguez (Alma's father).

With question marks above their head, the young riders looked at Bailey, but the boy hadn't the slightest idea what was going on.

A woman stepped out of the car. She had to be somewhere between thirty and forty years old and she had the flair of an advanced equestrian. No need to wait for assistance. The woman started to open the trailer. A lipizzaner came forward. Automatically Will took her luggage and gave the woman directions where she could put her horse.

The riders secured their horses to the fence so they could meet this new person. John took the woman by the arm and leaded her to the house.

'Later, kids, later,' he said. 'I need Jeni first.'

It was a strange story and no-one, except the grown ups who followed John to the house, did understand what was going on. Only Will hadn't been surprised, but he went with the adults. The kids resumed their training, but none was really focused.

Something had changed at Horseland and not in a positive way. A year ago a famous producer had chosen the area around the riding school to be the set of his new series. The story was about a fantasy-themed adventure with stunts and a lot of horses. A whole lot of horses. A bunch of them were stabled at Horseland, the others at Jim's Ranch. Horseland was also the place where Irina, the person in charge of the horses and animal related stunt doubles, put her head quarters. This also brought the famous actors Lisa Winterfell and Tim Belwer to the riding school for more than a few lessons. A third lead role was for an unknown actress called Naneha Ederan. She would never win an Oscar, but the Olympic gold medal for cross country was within her reach.

Back to the riders at Horseland. Irina asked Will to teach Lisa and Tim the basics of riding, an offering he didn't refuse.

Good times. Good times.

It took the team(s) nine months to finish filming. Nine months of bustle, chaos, friendship, tears and much, much more. After that they packed and they left. It had left a gigantic hole in the hearts of the riders, the horses and in Horseland itself.

Mostly the horses missed the young twins, Sugar and Milk, who were always up for a stirring situation, but in a good way. Not in a Chili and Pepper way.

The riders missed the old Will. Or better said: the new old Will. Before the filming and the whole shebang he had been the calm young men who you could depend your life on and who never lost the importance of the horses wellbeing. With the animal stunt crew at Horseland, the kids had seen a completely different side of him. Passion. Tons of passion. Yes, they knew Will was a born leader, but not like this. He leaded up, regulated and motivated all those teams who where involved like he had never done anything else in his life. In reality, he never had done something like this big before in his life. It took Will one month when the producer heard his name from Irina, Lisa and the other members of the crew. No longer had the young man to work in Horseland name. Now he would be paid for all the extra effort he put into the series. The kids had never seen their instructor smile and laugh so many times.

After the crew left Will changed to his old self again. Still passionate about horses, still kind and understandable, still calm in every situation, but his smiles and laugh became rarer and rarer. Will refused to talk about it with the kids. It made Sarah nearly sick of worry. What happened with her Will? The good friend she actually liked more than only a friend? The young man really needed to open up in her eyes and maybe he was willing to do so, if she would do too. Only, how would she tell him?

Sarah had told Nani, Molly and Alma about her feelings for Will (as if they hadn't figured that out for a long time). Bailey heard the conversation (he wasn't surprised either) and of course Chloë en Zoë caught the news too. So, whole Horseland knew about Sarahs crush except the young man it was all about. With the support of her friends Sarah, heavenly blushing, entered the barn.

'Will!' Bailey shouted. The instructor had come back from the house and the weird situation with Jeni, the newcomer, and was now getting hay loft.

'Oi, I just needed you all,' Will shouted back. He came down quit easily. 'Something is going to change at Horseland. Jeni…'

'Wait a second, Will,' said Alma.

'Sarah wants to tell you something,' said Zoë. The blonde girl turned as red as her suit. She received a poke or two to encourage her.

'What is it?' asked Will. He sounded…irritated? It's wasn't usual the young man would sneer. 'Are you all right, Sarah?'

'I…I…' started the Whitney stuttering. Oh, this was so much easier in the movies. 'I like you Will.'

Molly gave her another poke. Keep talking. Sarah didn't dare to look at the face of her crush and the attention of the others was pointed at the girl, otherwise they would have seen the deep unhappy flash on Wills face.

'I like you more than a friend, Will. For a long time actually and I hoped…'

'Sarah, stop.' Will didn't even want to hear what she was hoping for, but he dared to take a guess. The kids looked at him deeply shocked. Will had the feeling he had to come of with a declaration of love from his side really soon, but he couldn't.

'I'm leaving.' Finally, he said it. Not the answer anyone had counted one. 'I'm leaving Horseland.'