Hey yall! This is my first Phantom Stallion story, all characters belong to the amazing Terri Farley cos if Sam and Jake belonged to me they would be together already =), seriously Terri Farley is like making them not fall for eachother at my expense :'( =P, anyways I hope yall enjoy my random ass story, I own only the plot and the new characters.

-Sincerely, Rapunzel Grimm

Chapter 1

"Finally" sighed Samantha Anne Forster, slumping onto the bed and letting out a loud yawn. "Everything is ready for the HARP kids to come tomorrow"

"Wow, it only took us a few hours, surprisingly" Sam's optimistic best friend Jennifer Kenworthy smiled.

"Yeah" mumbled Sam's other best friend, and Jen's rival, Jacob Ely. "We still have time to go for a ride if yall want" he shrugged his darkly tanned shoulders.

"Sure" grinned Sam, grabbing her brown Stetson and running out the bunkhouse door. She stopped at the entrance and looked back "Are you guys coming?"

"Yeah" Jen called, tossing aside the pamphlet she'd been reading and bolting out the door to join Sam. Jake moseyed out in slow cowboy fashion and pulled his black Stetson over his dark brown mustang eyes so they weren't clearly visible.

Jen rambunctiously ran up to her palomino mare Silk Stockings, nicknamed Silly for her flighty behavior and whooped, startling the horse. "It's okay Silly" Jen smiled lopsidedly and patted the mare's glossy golden rump. Sam and Jake went into River Bend Ranch's barn to get their horses while Jen tacked up Silly.

"So, it's gonna be weird, there's boys and girls coming for the HARP program this time." Sam said, as she entered her bay Mustang, Ace's stall. The little gelding nuzzled Sam's face and she laughed, kissing his velvety black muzzle affectionately.

"Don't be getting all mushy with your horse in front of me Brat" Jake said, making a face and slipping the leather halter onto his mare Witch's face. The black horse flicked her long tail in irritation, she was bad tempered and mean. A one-man horse. Sam stuck her tongue out at Jake and he rolled his brown eyes, but Sam saw the smile slip across his face. "So, how many problem kids are coming to River Bend?"

"I think there's gonna be four of em" Sam said, "wait" she took a crumpled piece of paper out of her jean pocket and looked at it. Across the paper her step mother Bryanna had scribbled five names across. "Oh there's actually five, Aubrey Banks, Jude Jones, Quil Brownlee, Johnny Hudson and Wednesday Clarke"

"Weird names" Jake said, his long ebony hair tumbling down his back, Sam nodded in agreement, but her eyes were on Jake. She blushed and shook her head, averting her eyes from her best friend. Sam flung open Ace's stall door and lead the bay out, she tied him up at the hitching rack beside Witch and went back into the barn to get Ace's tack. "Hey Brat, wait up" Jake said running up behind her. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing" Sam smiled "Hey Jake" Sam turned around so abruptly that Jake slammed into her. "That's a mighty nice hat" she laughed "so nice that I've gotta have it!" she grabbed Jake's prized Stetson and took off running with it.

"Aw Brat, come on" Jake sighed and began running after Sam. Sam laughed and backed down the main barn corridor, holding the hat above her head.

"Come and get it" she said in a sing song voice.

"Oh you're the one who's gonna get it Brat" Jake growled, he made a leap for Sam and tackled her in a stack of hay. Sam screamed and laughed loudly, she squirmed beneath Jake, who had her arms pinned. "You gonna give me the hat?" he said in a threatening voice, but his eyes shone playfully "Huh Brat?"

"Never!" Sam yelled, clutching the hat.

"I'll have to tickle it outta you then won't I?" Jake smiled

"No, please, have mercy Jake!" Sam giggled when he began tickling her. After ten minutes Sam was flustered and gasping for breath.

"Now are you gonna give me the hat?" he asked, licking his lips and tickling her.

"No" Sam said, out of breath, her auburn hair was everywhere, Jake went back to mercilessly tickling her and she gasped. "I can't breath" she laughed

"Are we going-haha what do we have here" Jen said.

Jake rolled off of Sam and grabbed his hat "Got my hat" he teased.

"No" Sam struggled and then laid back down in the hay with Jake "You win, you win"

Jen raised an eyebrow and twisted her bright blonde hair into a side ponytail. "You two havin' fun?" she smirked knowingly. Jake shook his head and stood up, Sam stood up too and burst into laughter, she clutched her stomach. She almost fell down but Jake caught her.

"What's so funny?" he asked, crossing his arms.

"You hair" Sam pointed "It's full of hay" Jen began laughing too, and soon the two girls were down right hysterical. Jake gave them the death glare and used a shiny piece of tin as a mirror. He plucked the random pieces of hay out of his Shoshone black hair and turned back to Sam and Jen.

He grumbled incoherently and took Witch's gear out of the tack room. "Are we going for that ride or not?"