End of the Old.

Beginning of the New.

As the radio blared Fireball by Dev, as the black Durango Citadel pulled a new silver 2012 Circle J horse trailer behind it. Thoughts of going to the one and only boarding school she's dreamed about all summer long danced in Alice's head. In just a few hours she would be at the one and only, Canterwood Crest Academy.

Lying in her lap was the letter. The letter that changed her thoughts of walking away from horseback riding in all, to that of again riding with a smile on her natural ruby red lips and determination blazing in baby blue eyes.

As the car rolled by fields filled with beautiful horses, Alice kept thinking about her one true love in the trailer and how without even trying, DF Into Battle, aka Fearless, blew them all away.

After a few more minutes the Durango passing beautiful iron gates that were covered by lovely ivy, and pulled into Canterwood's parking lot. The buildings scattered around the gates were almost small mansions with most the stone structures covered with loads of growing ivy. Lush trees and rolling hills of green grass covered any land that wasn't occupied by a building, road, or footpath. The property was nothing short of breathtaking.

From the spot that the Durango had stopped, the stables were back a little and loomed over all the riders and their horses as they walked in and out of the open double doors. The dark-lacquered walls surrounded by multiple arenas with riders using up their down time and trying to work a few nerves out of their horses.

One thing that Alice noticed right away though, was the tension and pressure that could be cut with a butter knife. Glancing around through her rolled down window, Alice took a deep breath and rolled her window back up and leaned into the cars dark leather seat.

It took a few minutes but Alice's mom was able to find a spot and park, near enough to the stables that it wouldn't be hard to roll in her tack box and walk Fearless in with little to no distractions. After sitting there for a moment in silence Alice's mom unbuckled and turned rotated to look at her, with a expression on her face the older version of Alice said, "I'm so proud of you. I'm so so so proud," taking a breath she continued, "Be proud of yourself now sweetheart." She gently touching the side of Alice's face as tears brimmed her baby blue eyes. Tucking back a long strand of blonde hair that had slipped from behind Alice's ear she then stated, "Okay, time to get the big baby boy of yours out of the back and to a real stall!"

And just like that she was slipping out of the Durango and moving to the trailer. For a moment longer Alice sat in the car, and after taking a big calming breath followed her mom to the trailer.

Getting to the back, Alice's mom handed Alice a leather halter and then walked to the storage compartment of the trailer and started to grab some of Alice's tack.

Opening the trailer door, Alice looked in and standing there near the back in all of his traveling gear and head held high to see everything outside was Fearless. His deep liver chestnut coat was even darker due to the lack of light and his two white stockings were covered by light blue wraps.

When the door was wide enough for Fearless to back out he took the chance and all but hopped out of the trailer. The sun striking his coat as muscles were traced and rippled with his movements. Standing next to Alice, Fearless looked slightly huge and stood at striking 17.1 hh.

Glancing around his tiered eyes landed expectedly on Alice as she slipped on his leather halter, with a brass nametag on the side, over his nose. To be honest it was understandable though; they had just come all the way over from Washington.

Flashing Fearless a brilliant white smile Alice rubbed the white star in the center of his face and whispered, "Hey big guy, you doing better now?" she paused as he pushed his head closer to Alice and closed his eyes a little more in contentment, "Thank you for calming down after the plane ride." Alice continued to rub his face for another moment then she looked around. As her eyes passed the stable doors she saw a single girl, standing there glaring at her. Once she has noticed Alice's attention to her, the girl scrunched up her nose and stalked away back inside.

Quickly glancing back at Fearless and taking a calming breath, Alice quietly thought, "I really hope I didn't just make someone not like me..."

Almost like she was sensing Alice's slight distress, her mom came up next to her and said, "WE really shouldn't just stand in the parking lot with a giant of a horse, who might recover from the travel drugs we had to give him." Giving an over dramatic shudder she started walking toward the stables with Alice and Fearless in tow.

As the walked down the large hallways, they passed a lot of riders with their horses, along with a lot of people in general. Passing all their prying stares a few nerves started to creep up on Alice and she took a step closer to Fearless's lowered neck.

While there wasn't compete silence in the barn to begin with, as Alice, Fearless, and her mother passed, the halls seemed to get quieter. Once some thought that they were out of ear shot the whispering started, "Look at that horse!" "There's no way he was cheap." " I wonder where they found a horse like that." The starting continued tell the group of three stopped on front of a stall that had a name plate reading:

DF Into Battle

aka Fearless

Owned by: Alice White

Walking into the stall Alice let Fearless loss and walked back out to stand with her mom and watch Fearless get used to his new home. Leaning forward on the bars she broke the silence, " I put your saddle, bridle, grooming box, and everything else you think you would die without, in one of the tack room. Everything should be pretty easy to find, you are the only one currently in the tack room with baby blue and grey bags."

Smiling at her mom without taking her eyes of Fearless Alice replied, "Thanks mom." A pleasant and comfortable pause passed between them before Alice continued, "We should get my boxes to my room before you have to leave to catch your flight back home," the words were a little sad to say and Alice felt a pull in her heart.

Sighing Alice's mom turned to her and without a word the both walked out of the stables together. The stares started up again as they passed, but who could blame them. Alice and her mom had long blonde hair, gentle blue eyes, and stunning outfits that complimented both mother and daughter well. Alice's mom dressed in a deep purple pants suit and black pumps and silver dangly earrings and rings. While Alice wore skinny dark wash jeans, a loose graphic t-shirt with the sleeve's cut off, and a sleeveless jean jacket over. Silver studs were in both of Alice's double ear piercings.

Next stop Orchard.

Hey guy's! So I'm rewriting this story, while continuing it! If you have recently read this story then you can see the changes that I have made! This is a heads up! There with be some major changes in this story, starting today! This is mainly because I was just really angry with myself for how bad my old writing style was and took the insinuative to re due the chapters that I have already written!

Please feel free to post a review on what you think about my new style and how this first chapter is! The other ones will be done, hopefully, but the end of this week, as well as a new chapter being posted!

Like always, Lot's of Love,

WLUF