The sun was rising, the birds were chirping, and there were six girls spread out over the dorm room. Two had managed to make it to one Alice's bed, another made it to Victoria's, one on the coach, and the other two on the ground.

Hanging on Alice's closet door was a comfortable outfit for her date with Colton. One of her black dress was hung up; the dress hugged her arms and fit loosely off her chest, it reached about mid thigh. With the dress, Annie had picked a jean jacket, with the sleeves rolled up, a gold necklace with a circle hanging in the middle, representing karma, and a pair of tan suede boots. With her hair straightened and a little bit of make up the outfit looked fabulous on her.

Shifting around on the floor, Alice pulled herself up and quietly grabbed her phone. Answering a quick text from her mom, rolling away from Haley, she pulled on a pair of fuzzy socks and slipped out of the room. Walking down the hall and into the common room, Alice pulled up her mom's number and dialed.

Waiting for her to answer, Alice grabbed the teapot from a cabinet and filled it up, setting it on the stove and turning on the burned her mom answered the phone.

"Morning sweetheart," came the calm greeting.

Hearing her moms voice, Alice let out a deep sigh and smiled.

"Hey mom," she replied.

"How have you been? How's Fearless doing, and school, give me the rundown! I want the shebang!" Her mom questioned, the sadness that had been present months before no longer lingering in her tone.

"Fearless has been doing well, he is really thriving here! We've been working on a duo pattern with a fellow rider, her name is Alex Beach, she's," Alice paused and thought for a descriptive word fitting for Alex, "intense."

"A good intense, or a bad intense," her mom asked.

"A somewhere in between kind of intense," Alice said as she waved to Haley as she walked into the common room kitchen.

There was a clanging sound on her moms side of the phone, then, "Well that's good. Helps you get used to having tough competition again." Alice's mom answered.

"Oh thanks mom," Alice sassed back, smiling and moving to take the teapot of the burner. "How has the job been?" she asked back.

"Going pretty well. I went to England the other week to finish up a contract and I got back Monday," her mom explained, "Your Dad has been doing well, he just got back from his two months in Germany." she trailed off as sizzling was heard in the background.

"That's great!" Alice gushed as she grabbed two mugs from a cupboard. Setting on in front of Haley. "Has he said much about how the company is doing?" Alice questioned.

"They're doing well. Buying out the German company was a really good thing for them," Alice's mom replied, "He's talking about going on a family vacation soon."

Laughing at the notion of either of her parents being about to take a break from work, Alice replied, "Okay well, I have to head out. I'll talk to you later."

"Alright, bye darling, lots of love." Alice's mom said back before she ended the call.

Setting her phone down, Alice smiled at Anna as she walked in. Her hair in was in a messy bun that looked more like a knot then anything.

Yawning Anna asked, "Who was that?"

"My momma," Alice replied. Turning from Anna and Haley to grab yogurt she turned back, "We haven't talked in awhile and with break in the not very near future, I'm starting to really miss Washington."

"I totally get that! I'm really starting to miss my morning beach runs," Haley chimed in.

Laughing together, Haley, Anna and Alice started to shuffle back towards, Alice's dorm room.

Walking in, Alice moved towards to bathroom. Plugging in her straightener, Alice pulled out her makeup bag and toothbrush before starting to get ready.

In the other room Haley and Anna started walking the other girls up.

It was 9:28 in the morning, and Alice was getting ready for her day with Colton, sweets, homework, and Fearless.

This is totally a filler... but hey look a new chapter!

Thank you everyone who has continued to read this story and all it's mistakes :D I hope to be able to crank out some more chapters within the near future!

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WaterLilyUnderFire