Chapter 4
After school
After school Amy went to her locker to get her geography notebook. Amy was not really looking forward to this whole math tutor thing with Ty. Amy loved being with Ty, but not when it had to do with geography, her least favorite subject.
"Amy!" Ty yelled from across the hallway
"How am I going to get out of doing this math thing everyday?" Amy thought
"Hey Ty," Amy said as he came up behind her
"So, are you ready to work on some geography? With yours truly, "moue" Ty said with a fake English accent
"Is that a trick question?" Amy asked with a smile on her face
"Hey, your smiling you haven't smiled in like…. forever!"
This made Amy smile even more
"Yeah well you are the only one who can make me smile when I am sad,"
"OMG! Did I really must admit to Ty that he is the only one who can make me smile?" Amy thought to herself
"Really, that's a good thing to know," Ty teased
"So, I'll see you at my house in like 15 minutes?"
"Yeah sure, I just have to stop by my house and check on the horses and everything else there, and then tell Joni that I will be back later," Amy explained
"Ok, see you there,"
"Ok,"
All the way home Amy had one thing on her mind, "What the heck am I doing?" Amy couldn't believe that she was in charge of Heartland, failing geography, and that Ty was her only hope in succeeding in all of her tasks!
Heartland
When Amy got back to Heartland, she was instantly greeted with whinnies and snorts form her fellow horse friends.
"Hey Guys!" Amy yelled as she walked down to the barn
"Hey Amy!" Joni called from Captain's stall
"Hey Joni, can I ask you a favor?"
"Yeah, anything, and I am so, so sorry about your parents!"
"Yeah well I have been so busy lately and I am kind of failing geography,"
"Oh…. That's not very good,"
"No, not really, but Ty is helping me with it, but I am supposed to meet him in like 5 minutes at his house, and I was wondering.." Amy was suddenly interrupted
"….if I would work the horses and finish the feeding tonight?" Joni finished with a smile
"If you could that would be great!"
"Yeah, no problem, I already worked 3 horses and I just finished with Captain, and those stable hands from Ty's farm are a great help. Plus, I love seeing Ben while I work, and not just when I get off of work!" Joni finished excitedly and then skipped off down the isle way with a huge grin on her face.
Ty's house
When Amy pulled into the Baldwin's long driveway, she instantly saw the huge mansion, she knocked on the door she heard Ty's faint voice telling her to come on in. When Amy opened the huge front door and walked into the cool, air-conditioned mansion.
"Ty?" Amy called softly
"I'm in the library!" Ty called
Amy slowly walked down the long hallway and into the library
"Hey!" Ty called from the couch where he laid watching television
"Hey, so can we get started because I really don't want to be math right now."
"Well, actually I was wandering if you could take a look at one of our horses?"
"Um… sure, why not?"
"Great!"
When Ty and Amy got to the barn they stopped at a stall that had a beautiful Frisian mare that stood at the entrance of her stall.
"She's beautiful!" Amy gasped
"Yeah, well for some reason I have been having trouble getting her to leave her stall, but when she is in her stall she is perfectly fine," Ty said questionally
Ty gave Amy the mare's halter and opened the stall door for her. Amy slid the halter over the mare's exquisite head and lightly clucked to her. The mare took a few steps forward, but when she got halfway through the door way she started rushing backwards. Amy took a step back and then gave Ty the lead rope and looked around the barn.
Ty looked at her questionably, but also somewhat admirably.
"Amy always looked so, so out of this world when she was working with her horses.
Ty watched Amy slowly take down a flag that had the Baldwin trade mark on it.
Amy slowly put the flag down behind a bench and took the lead rope back from Ty. Amy, again, softly clucked to the mare. The mare slowly hesitated through the door way and then stopped half way through. She looked around and snorted a little, and then totally relaxed and walked through the door. When the mare was completely out of her stall she stood there and lightly whinnied to Ty. Ty looked stunned.
"How did you know that the flag was scaring her?"
"Well…… actually…I'm not quite sure how I knew about the flag, it just kind of came to me," Amy tried to admit
"Well, whatever happened you are brilliant," Ty stared at Amy
Amy was totally blushing at this compliment, but Ty was enjoying every minute of it.
Ty and Amy went back to the house and about an hour in a half later Amy was starting to understand her geography.
"Hey do you want to go for a ride?" Ty suggested
"Sure, I haven't ridden with you for like, ever," Amy exaggerated
When Amy and Ty were all tacked up they started out of the barn area. Ty was riding his horse Diablo, who was a handsome, German Warm blood, and Amy was riding a gorgeous, Andulsion, named Turquoise. Amy and Ty both started out with a slow canter and then sped up into a great gallop. It was a beautiful sunset and the weather was so perfect for a meadow gallop. When Ty looked over at Amy, her head was back and she was laughing into the breeze. All Ty could look at was Amy's golden, brown hair flowing in the breeze and her beautiful laugh. Ever since Amy was young, Ty had loved hearing her laugh. When they slowed down to a walk Amy and Ty stopped to look at the sunset sky.
"Remember when we used to do this when we were young?" Amy suddenly stated
"Yeah, and when we used to…' "race around the huge oak tree!" Amy and Ty said in unison. They both started laughing.
"And remember when we found that lost puppy and we hid it in the tack room, and when we went out to go see it, it had chewed up your bridle!" Amy tried telling without laughing
"Yeah, we have had some fun times," Ty smiled
"Yeah, we have haven't we?" Amy agreed
"But the one thing that I will never forget is when we snuck out of your parent's dinner party, hopped on the horses bareback, and rode over to Mr. Grison's farm and stole pomegranates, and to hide the fact that we had stains all over us from the fruit….' "That we jumped into the lake, and when we went back to my party parents' and they didn't buy our act for one minute!" Ty finished
"And it was probably because we were dripping all over the main room's floor!" Amy laughed
When Amy and Ty started back to Ty's house Amy stopped to tell him something
"Ty, I just wanted to thank you for everything I mean with my parents being gone and helping me to enjoy life again," Amy smiled when she saw Ty's face light up at this
"Amy, I hate to see you so down in the dumps, I just can't bare to see you when you aren't, well, having a great time."
After Ty and Amy put the horses up, they started walking up to the house
"Hold on I forgot something," Ty suddenly said softly
When Amy turned around to see what is was, she was shocked
Ty suddenly pulled her into a gentle kiss
Amy felt like she was in heaven!