This is where I left off from the first posting

She was interested. She knew they could use the help and any new person at the farm was always welcome as part of the Heartland family. "What's he like?" She asked him curiously.

"He's a bit different but he'll work." Ty said slowly as he lifted the feed buckets for the stable block. With a shrug she worked in the feed room finishing the last of the hay nets and then taking them and hanging them in each stall.

Continuation of Chapter One

Amy could hear the sounds of the horses munching on their morning feeds, so with a sigh she grabbed a wheelbarrow, a pitch fork, and a shovel and began working on the stalls. She worked down the aisle until she reached the stall of the new rescue. She gazed in at a huge chestnut tobaino gelding. The horse stood at least sixteen and a half hands from the withers. The gelding's eyes were wide with terror when he saw Amy. He nervously moved to the far corner of his stall. Well she couldn't leave his stall in a mess and carefully opened the door. The horse stayed where he was watching Amy with wide eyes. She left once she was done with his stall and moved to empty the wheelbarrow one last time on the manure pile which badly needed attention. She walked past it promptly and moved into the aisle of the back barn and glanced around. She'd done all the stalls in this barn and could see that Ty was finishing up the upper barn. The stable block still had to be mucked out and the aisles had to be swept. She figured those could wait until after breakfast so she called out to Ty "want to go get breakfast?" She could see him down at the muck pile and watched him turn to look at her.

"I'm coming." He called back leaving his wheelbarrow at the pile he jogged up to her. "What's left to do?"

"Just the stable block stalls, and sweeping the aisles for the morning chores. But I think we also need to take care of the muck pile." Amy said with a shrug.

He groaned at the mention of the pile, while Amy smiled at him. "That can be Jason's first act of duty?" Ty suggested with a grin.

"Or we could do it straight after we finish the last stalls?" Amy suggested with a bigger smile, tucking her hands around his back and leaning against his chest.

Joni, drove up then, followed by a black car. Amy walked over to Joni's little red car as the stable hand stepped out. "Hey Amy, I think I've got a follower." She pointed to the black car.

"I noticed," Amy watched the black car carefully. Suddenly a boy of about eighteen stepped out of the car, which she figured, was probably Jason. She glanced at Ty who'd come over to stand beside her. He shrugged his shoulders, then slipped an arm around Amy's waist and squeezed encouragingly. The boy was certainly dressed a bit oddly; wearing black jeans, a black shirt, and black boots, with black hair but blue eyes, and a black cap. The boy stepped over to them, and Ty stepped towards him. Ty hadn't yet met the new hand, the boy having been hired by Lou.

"Can we help you?" Ty asked him politely.

"I'm Jason; this is my first day here." The boy said hesitantly. Jason looked around the property, his eyes settling on the new paint whose head was out over his stall door. The gelding seemed to have his eyes fixed on Jason watching him.

"Welcome," Amy stepped up from behind Ty. "I'm Amy, this is Ty and that's Joni. We are getting ready to head for breakfast."

Jason nodded and followed them closely behind. "How many horses are here?"

"Currently we have 20 horses; five are permanent residents, ten are boarders, and the other five are rescue horses," Ty said confidently. Amy gave Ty a surprised look that showed she was glad she hadn't answered that one. Since she hadn't been at Heartland all the time she didn't know.

"What is my job going to be?"

"Well," Amy took this question. "You position will be the same as the rest of us. Of course my family owns the farm but that doesn't make a difference to me. You will help with cleaning stalls, grooming, feeding, and exercising the horses. Anything that needs doing you will help with. Also because Heartland is different then most farms your going to have to learn the treatments and other things that are woven into Heartland's life."

"Ok."

They all walked into the house, leaving their boots in the mudroom. This room had been added on and was where boots were left at so mud wouldn't be tracked around in the house. In the kitchen they all sat down at the table where everything was all ready. Over the meal of pancakes, sausage, bacon, eggs, and biscuits and gravy they discussed the plans for the day. Soon it was time to go back outside leaving the comfortable setting in the house and off to work.

A/N Ok this is the end of chapter one what do you think? Chapter Two will be posted very soon. Also thank you for the reviews so far they were awesome! I really didn't expect my story to be liked, I just wanted to make a story that follows as close as possible to the true books.