That afternoon, Adam had left with Elizabeth to go enroll Amy in school, Amy stayed behind with Joe and Hoss.

"How do you like her, Amy?" Hoss said as he brought the horse out.

"She's beautiful, what's her name?" Amy asked.

"Well I don't rightly know yet, what do you think we should name her?" Hoss said leading the horse over to Amy.

"I don't know, I'll think about it and let you know." Amy said sticking her hand out to stroke the horse.

"I think we should name her Hoss," Joe said pointing to the horse, "and him Horse," he finished pointing at Hoss. Amy giggled.

"Joe, I don't know what's gotten into you lately, you're always picking on me, and I'm gettin tired of it," Hoss said pointing his finger at Joe.

"Aww, I'm sorry Hoss. I didn't mean to hurt your feelings, didn't know you were so sensitive." Joe said with a smirk.

"Joe-," Hoss said starting to step over the fence.

"Boys, come on now. Stop fighting you're scaring her," Amy said still stroking the horse.

"Well, we wouldn't want to upset HOSS," Joe said, emphasizing the word Hoss.

Hoss tied her up to the corral, jumped over the corral, and ran after Joe, "Little Brother when I catch you-,"

"If you catch me, with all that food you put away at breakfast, I doubt you'll be able to." Joe said running away from Hoss.

Amy watched the boys as they ran around the barn, she turned her attention to the horse, "You're name isn't Hoss, don't start thinking that, you're too pretty to have that name. Yeah you're a pretty girl." Amy said while stroking the horses mane, "I'd sure like to get a better look at you, but if I went in this corral Adam would have my hide."
She looked back over her shoulder to see if Hoss and Joe were coming, "although if I didn't actually go in the corral, what if you came out here?" She looked back over her shoulder once again, neither Joe nor Hoss were anywhere in sight. She untied the rope, and walked outside of the corral fence, walking the horse to corral gate.

As she started to open the gate she felt two SMACK SMACK, she dropped the latch on the gate, let go of the rope, and spun around to see a very mad Joe.

"OWW! Joe?" Amy said, looking up at him with shock.

"Amy, what are you thinking? Do you know how dangerous that is?" Joe asked, he walked into the corral, and tied the horse up to where Hoss had her tied up.

"I just wanted to get a better look at her." Amy said, trying to rub the sting out of her bottom.

"You were told NOT to go into the corral." Joe said, while coming back out of the corral.

"I know, and I wasn't going in the corrral-," Amy started.

"Oh really, then why were you opening the gate?" Joe asked crossing his arms.

"I wasn't going to go in, I was going to bring her out." Amy explained.

"Amy, you knew why Adam didn't want you to go in the corral, you knew that he didn't want you with an unbroken horse by yourself." Joe said.

"I wasn't-," Amy started.

"There you are Joe, I'm gonna-," Hoss started.

"Not now Hoss! Amy here, decided that she wanted to get a closer look at your little fillie over there." Joe explained

"What?" Hoss asked.

"Adam said I couldn't go IN the corral, I wasn't going to go in the corral, I was going to bring her out here." Amy explained to Hoss.

"You knew what he meant, you were not to be with that horse or any horse by yourself." Joe reprimanded.

"Like I started to say, I wansn't by myself. You two were around." Amy tried to explain.

"Amy, you're just digging yourself deeper. Now, if you don't want another couple of swats from me, I suggest you go upstairs to your room, and wait for Adam to get home." Joe said sternly.

"But Joe, I didn't do anything wrong. I didn't go IN the corral." Amy begged.

Joe stepped closer to Amy, but Hoss spoke up before Joe could,"No you didn't go IN the corral, but you were about to do something dangerous. The point of you not going IN the corral was so that you wouldn't be near a dangerous horse, you knew what you were doing. You knew why Adam didn't want you to go in there, bringing the horse out here, was just a way of going around what he said, and you know that. Amy you could have gotten seriously hurt, that's why Adam told you not to go in."

Amy started tearing up, "I'm..I'm sorry Hoss, Joe I didn't mean to get you so upset."

"Amy do as I ask, and go up to your room, and wait for Adam to get home. Don't make it any worse for yourself." Joe said sadly.

"Joe..I'm sorry please don't tell Adam, please," Amy begged.

"I'm not going to tell him," Joe said. He saw her look relieved, "You are." Joe finished, pointing at Amy.

"Me, but, but, he's gonna." Amy said.

"That was your choice, I'm sorry Amy, but you decided to disobey Adam, now you have to deal with the consequences." Joe explained.

"But I didn't disobey him, I didn't go IN THE CORRAL!" Amy shouted, she then felt herself being spun around, and felt two more SMACK SMACK to her backside.

"Don't shout at me." Joe said said sternly, "Now, you're honestly telling me you don't understand why what you did was wrong, honestly?"

"Ok I know, I'm sorry Joe, I really am." Amy whined.

"Go up to your room, and wait for Adam." Joe said pointing towards the house.

She started walking towards the house, her head hanging. She stopped, turned around and said, "I'm sorry Joe."

"Go." Joe said pointing towards the house.

She quickly turned around, and ran up to her room.