Saturday morning came in with a lovely sunrise, a lovely alarm, and a lovely knocking on the door.

Letting out a groan and pulling herself out of bed, Alice watched as a sleep deprived Victoria swung open the door and gave one heck of a nasty look to the girl standing at the door.

Without saying anything, the smartest move anyone could have made, the girl held up a thin brochure and said, "Check the list. It's a really great one this time." Then with a fabulous smile the girl turned and walked down the hall to the next door.

As Victoria let out a groan and then stalked back to her bed, Alice asked," What's 'the list'?"

"'The list' is a list of different topics and statuses within Canterwood. Honestly it is really stupid but a lot of people take it to heart," Victoria explained, "ever semester a new list is posted and its another uproar. Though Alice would have admitted it is worth seeing sometimes.

After Victoria grabbed her phone and checked the time she handed Alice the list before walked over to the bathroom and started brushing her teeth.

While she brushed her teeth Alice looked the list over. There were a few pointless titles like, Most Likely to Study Abroad, Star Football Player, Star Soccer Player, and Star Athlete. But there was also a section on who got the top grades, who was the best dressed, the loudest voice, so on and so on.

A little further down the list that was a title that caught Alice's attention, reading out loud Alice spoke in a questioning voice, "Couple Predictions?"

"Yeah those are really interesting," Victoria called from the bathroom, "Another one I really like is the popularity lit."

She walked over and flipped the brochure over. There on the back was the popularity list, and boy oh boy was it something. It was divided into two lists, one for the boys and one for the girls. The top five in on the girls list read:

Alex Beach

Alice White

Victoria Knight

Miceala Nicole

Kimberly Taylor

"Well would you look at that… we made the list," Victoria actually sounded astounded by that.

"Is that good or bad?" Alice asked as she stood up and walked over to her closet, pulling out riding clothes for her lesson.

"It really depends on how you look at it," Victoria explained as she too walked over to her closet and started looking for an outfit for the day, "I mean it could be really bad and everyone is going to want to hang out with us, or they are going to treat it the way I treat it. Just as a list."

"Hmmm," Alice replied thoughtfully. With her outfit pulled out, Alice walked into the bathroom and silently washed her face, brushed her teeth and combed her long blonde hair. Almost as an after thought she applied a thin layer of makeup.

Walking out of the bathroom Alice watched Victoria quickly pull on a pair of shoes. Standing there Victoria wore a pair of dark purple and light pink flower print skinny jeans, creamy sweater, and brown half-calf lace up boots. Her hair stick strait and a light layer of make up on.

"Where are you off to?" Alice asked as she started pulling on her own clothes.

"Meeting up with our years ASB board for some coffee at the Sweet Shoppe, then off to studying for some tests at the library." Victoria replied.

"Sounds like a jammed pack day," Alice off-handedly answer while pulling on her chocolate brown breeches.

"Yeah it is. I might not be home tell like later tonight," Victoria replied as she grabbed a black North Face wind breaker from her closet, and her bag from the ground by the coach.

"Ok well I will see you later tonight then," Alice called as she walked out of the room.

"Ok, bye!"

As Victoria shut the door Alice grabbed a long sleeve white shirt and walked over to her bedside table thing to grab her phone. Checking the time, Alice noticed she had about 40 minutes tell her lesson. Moving back to her closet she pulled out a pair of field boots.

Pulling them on, and zipping them up Alice walked out of her room with her phone, keys and advanced team riding jacket.

Strolling down the now familiar path to the barn Alice quietly hummed to herself.

Before she knew it the large doors that lead to the stables came into view and massive halls filled with different riders could be heard. Passing people in the hallway Alice ducked under cross ties and around rushing riders.

Reaching Fearless's stall she looked in and saw the big liver chestnut standing in the corner, his head down and looking like he was staring at the ground with nothing else to do.

Smiling at his boredom Alice called out," Hey Love!"

Hearing Alice's voice Fearless lifted his head and pointed his ears in her direction before walking toward the front of his stall.

Knowing she couldn't wait much longer Alice pushed the stall door open and grabbed his halter off the hook. Stopping in front of Fearless, Alice slip the halter around his head and lead him out.

Finding a pair of crossties not to far from his stall, Alice hooked him up then grabbed his grooming box and set to work. After about fifteen minutes Fearless was clean as could be and waiting to be tacked up.

Walking to the tack room Alice grabbed his practice hunter saddle and bride, with a snaffle bit, before walking back out and tacking him up.

Grabbing her helmet on the out of the hallway, she slipped her hands over the reins and walked beside Fearless at a slow pace, Alice still putting her helmet on. Fearless's head bobbing back and forth as they walked.

Reaching the indoor arena and seeing no one inside Alice walked Fearless into the center of the arena and let down both the stirrups before putting her foot in and lifting herself into the saddle. The second Alice was comfortable Fearless started to walk forward, his head just bobbing as he walked. After a few rounds Alice gathered the reins, Fearless collecting his head near instantly and started to lift his legs a little higher in anticipation for the work out.

After a few minutes they had gone through four separate rounds of walking, trotting, and working up to an extended trot, before Alex walked in with a cremello mare.

Not really bothering to greet her with more then a nod, Alice continued to ride on the wall while Alex mounted up and rode opposite of Alice and Fearless. It took the two awhile but after a few minutes, Alex and Alice were riding at a slow canter on opposite sides of the arena. Neither of the two realized that the rest the team was watching them at the doors.

After a few minutes Mr. Conner gave a cough and they pulled their horses down to walks and turned to him.

Blushing slightly at the attention, Alice listened in as Mr. Conner spoke up, "Well, I think it is safe to say that you two will not need a warm up. So you two, please stay in the middle with me while everyone else warms up."

Nodding their heads Alice and Alex sat in the center as Annie walked in on a bay that was most likely Baker. Then Tanner and Lost, Tanner's tall bay mare, trotted in and started warming up. Being the last one in Colton went about at a slower trot on Noise.

It took them a minute but everyone warmed up and Alex and Alice joined everyone on the wall.

Switching between a working canter and extended canter, all the horses had worked up a sweat and Fearless was starting to slow down. Dropping down to an extended trot then a more relaxed trot Mr. Conner called out, "OK, good job everyone now line up in the middle."

Finishing the round everyone pulled into a line in front of Mr. Conner. Taking a second to collect his thoughts, Mr. Conner said, "Alex and Alice, I want to see the both of you when you are done putting your horses away. Everyone else, good job, for getting your horses into such great shape, continue what your doing and I will see you all again on Tuesday for our next lesson."

Nodding their heads in understanding everyone dismounted and started walking thier horses back to their stalls when Annie and Tanner jogged up behind Alice and said, "That was sooo awesome!"

Turning my head to them Alice asked, "What was?"

Annie spoke this time and said, "You and Alex riding together!"

"You were in complete sync!" Tanner added.

"Wow… I was just riding." Alice answered with a shy laugh.

"Well you guys were riding wonderfully together." Annie said.

Reaching a pair of open crossties Alice replied, "Thanks." Then started taking off all of Fearless's tack. It took Alice a few minute, but she was able to put away all the tack, groom Fearless and then put his cooling blanket on, before placing Fearless back in his stall.

Taking a deep breath Alice turned and started walking toward Mr. Conner's office.

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