Happy Thanksgiving to everyone who celebrates it! If you don't, well... Happy Thursday!

After breakfast the next morning, Raelynn dragged Grey outside without telling him where they were going or what they were doing. She wasn't wearing a dress which was unusual for her, as well as high boots and a white button up shirt, her brown hair braided.

"Come on slowpoke." she said as she ran across the grass, dragging Grey behind her.

"Where are we going?" he asked as he was being pulled by the arm by Rae.

"You'll find out." is what Rae would reply with every time he asked.

"Why won't you tell me?"

"Becauseeeeeee there's no fun in that." Rae smiled at him.

"For all I know you're dragging me to the woods to kill me"

"Oh wouldn't that be a twist." Rae laughed.

"Especially after what we admitted last night." he said, rushing forward to kiss her cheek and then went back to trailing behind her.

"Yeah I know I know." Rae said and slowly came to a stop in front of the stables.

"What is this?" Grey asked.

"It's a stable." Rae explained. "Where we keep horses."

"I've never seen a horse before"

"I guessed you wouldn't have, but that's why I brought you here." Rae smiled, walking into the little wooden building. Grey smiled and followed her. His eyes widened. Rae took hold of his hand and pulled him along. "This is my mother's horse, Maximus." she said, stroking the horse's nose. The horse glared at Grey. "It's okay Max, he's a friend. Well... boy friend." Max huffed but cheered up when Rae gave him an apple. "He's... protective."

"He's huge..." Grey gulped.

"He's a big sweetheart, just perhaps a bit threatening." Rae said, hugging onto Maximus.

"A bit? He knows exactly who I am." Grey took a step back.

"Yeah he's a smart horse... sometimes." She mumbled the last part. She turned to Max and comforted him. "Don't worry, Grey is fine. He's not evil." the horse neighed. "You won't be riding him anyway." Rae lead Grey to another, brown horse. "This is Citron." the horse was a lot calmer.

"Still big." Grey commented.

"Well what else do you expect?"

"Well they don't look his huge over a crappy tv screen."

"Yeah I know but you'll get used to it." Rae walked behind a door and threw something that looked basically like a black bowl at Grey. "Put this on." she said as she put it on her head and tightened the strap around her chin.

"On my head?" he questioned.

"Yeah, I don't see where else you could even put it." Rae nodded.

"On the horse?" He said, putting it on, but didn't fasten it.

"I don't think the horse needs a helmet." she laughed and walked over to him and fastened up the buckle and tightened the helmet.

"So how do you do this?" Grey asked, looking up at the horse. Rae opened the gate and slowly lead Citron out of his pen and out of the stable.

"Okay, this might be difficult for the first time but you'll be fine. So you hold the reins in your hand like this." she showed him. "Then you position the stirrup, which is this little buckle thing here." she gently kicked a metal thing that was swinging at the horse's side. "And put your left foot on it." she demonstrated. "Then you use your right hand to grab this part here." she grabbed the hump of the saddle. "You use your right leg to push yourself up, like this," she did so. "Then move your right hand up to grasp the reins, and then swing your free leg over the saddle and to the other side. And then sit." Rae was sat perfectly on the horse. She then jumped off and stroked the horse's nose. "I'll help you where you need it." Grey tried imitating her action but ended up on the floor with his foot stuck in the stirrup.

"A little help?" he looking over at Rae. She was laughing as she walked over to him and helped his foot out of the stirrup.

"Okay let me help."

"I'm glad you find the situation amusing." Grey muttered. Suddenly, he reached out and grabbed her ankle. This caused Rae to fall to the floor on top of him.

"You dickhead." she laughed.

"You like it." he shrugged.. He moved his head to kiss her, but a horse's loud neighing stopped him before he could. Rae quickly scrambled off him and went back into the stables to calm Maximus down.

"What is it buddy? You don't like it?" she gently stroked the horse's white nose. "It's fine, I do."

"Yep. He definitely hates me."

"He hated my dad when he first met him." Rae shrugged. "I'll come back for you Max." she said, kissing the horse's nose and leaving the stable once again, pulling Grey with her. She pulled him aside and kissed him so Max wouldn't be able to see. Grey pinned her against a wall and continued kissing her deeply and passionately.

"Grey I don't want Maximus to kick the gate down." Rae broke the kiss after a while. "As much as I wouldn't mind if we kept kissing."

"Fine." he relented and pulled away. "Help me get onto the horse?"

"Course I can." Rae walked over to Citron. "Well, I can try anyway. Come on Gothel, let's get you on this horse." she gently patted the horse's side. Greyson tried getting up again but ended up on his belly hanging on the horse.

"Get off you idiot." Rae laughed. "Just jump down and I'll help you properly."

"Fine." he said, sliding off the horse.

"You just didn't want to admit you couldn't do it, did you?" she questioned.

"Shut up..." he grumbled.

"Awwwww, did Greyson not want a princess to help him?" Rae teased, poking his cheek with her finger. Grey turned his back on her.

"Don't go all grumpy on me." she pouted. He stayed still, ignoring her.

""Alright fine." Rae shrugged, going back into the stables. "If you don't want my help, get on yourself." Rae emerged from the stables on Maximus, her hands on the reins.

"If you don't make fun of me then I'll ask for help." he grumbled.

"I was only joking, jeez."

"How was I supposed to know that?"

"I don't know. But do you want help or not?"

"Yes" he muttered. Rae jumped down from Max.

"You stay here." she said, giving the horse an apple. She walked over to Grey and kneeled down. "I'm going to lift your foot onto the stirrup."

"Ok..." he said, lifting his foot and correctly positioning it on the stirrup.

"Well you just did it." Rae stood up. "I think the problem was you were doing it too quickly. So now you grab the hump on the saddle." She explained, moving his right hand onto the saddle.

"Got it..."
"And then use your right leg to push yourself up and move your right hand off the saddle and grab the reins." she explained. Grey did just that and ended up on top of the horse, but with both of his legs on one side. "You need to swing your other leg over the other side and put it on the stirrup." Rae said.

"In these pants?"

"Well unless you want to borrow some of my dads..."

"Nope." Grey said quickly and straddled the saddle.

"I thought not." Rae laughed and quickly got onto Maximus.

"So now how do I do this?"

"You gently squeeze the horse with your legs." Rae demonstrated. "Walk on, Max." she said, and Max started to walk. Grey did that and when Citron began to walk, he almost fell off. "Woahh."

"Be careful, keep a tight grip on the reins." Rae said. "You okay if I take Max for a quick run while you get used to it?"

"If you hear a scream it means I fell off." He grumbled.

"You'll be fine, just take it slow and gentle." Rae leaned over to kiss Grey's cheek, which made Max snort but when she pushed the stirrups into him, he started to run off with Rae riding him.

"Ok... let's see if I can do it..." Grey said and pressed his legs against the horse. Citron started to walk forward, with Max running around in the distance.

"I knew you'd get the hang of it." Rae's voice called as Max came back over to Citron and Grey.

"Still afraid to fall."

"I was too when I first started riding." Rae said. "If you want we can just go for a walk."

"Yes please" he nodded. Rae jumped down from Maximus and kissed his nose.

"Thanks boy." she said, leading him into the stables and putting him away. She came back out. "Can you get off?" He swung his leg but ended up falling to the floor on his back. Rae struggled not to laugh and held her hand out to help him up.

"Laugh away." he grumbled.

"No no, I'm not laughing." Rae muttered, pulling Grey to his feet and taking off his helmet. She took Citron into the stables and cake out a few minutes later in a white dress that left her shoulders bare, the skirt fading to lilac. Grey's jaw dropped.

"Well that's a change."

"What?" Rae tilted her head, flicking her brown wavy hair back from her face.

"You… you look very... very..." He stuttered. This was really unlike him.

"Very...?" she questioned, looking at Grey.

"Very beautiful" he finally managed to say.

"Thank you..." Rae mumbled as her cheeks turned pink. He stepped forward and kissed her cheek. He then extended out his arm to her.

"Shall we my lady?"

"Wow how princely of you." She smiled, taking his arm. "We shall."

"I'm nothing princely, flower." Grey said as they started to walk. "I'm a bad boy."

"You wish." Rae rolled her eyes slightly. Grey smirked evilly.

"Smirking doesn't make you a bad boy you know." Rae commented. Grey suddenly grabbed her by the waist and pulled her up, tossing her over his shoulder. He began walking into the forest.

"What the fuck are you doing?!" Rae exclaimed, kicking her legs. "Put me down!"

"Nope." Grey said and continued walking through the forest.

"Where are you taking me then?" Rae sighed, giving in.

"You'll see." said Grey. After a couple seconds he smirked. "Here we are." he said walking towards a lake.

"How did you even find this?" Rae asked.

"Last night." he explained arriving at the edge. He adjusted her so she was bridal style. "Take a deep breath flower."

"Grey don't you fucking dare." she said, gripping onto his neck. He bent his knees. "One...Two...THREE!" he said jumping... and landing back where he jumped from.

"What are you doing?" she questioned, confused. He shrugged and as she had let go a bit, easily tossed her in the lake. Rae let out a loud gasp as she hit sudden contact with the cold water. She shook her head and pushed her wet hair out of her face.

"That doesn't make you a bad boy, just a dick!" she exclaimed, moving her arms to keep herself up. Grey smiled and dived in, and being tall enough to touch the floor, he could stand up. "And you are not a bad boy." Rae rolled her eyes, looking at him.

"Flower, I grew up on the Isle. There is no such thing as good boys from there." He said walking towards her.

"You're also not a bad boy either, Gothel." she shrugged.

"In what way am I not?"

"You're just not."

"How?" He asked, getting close to her face.

"You let a princess who was meant to be your enemy see your soft side." Rae whispered in his ear, and then kissed his jaw. Grey froze. He backed away slowly.

"You asked." Rae shrugged, swimming around on her back. There was a rustle of water as Grey got out and disappeared from sight within seconds.

Oh uh... stuff's going down soon, I'll say that ;)

See you all on Monday and thank you for reading!

x Luce