Over the next few days Amy worked her butt off with Ash. The shw was tomorrow and Amy got butterflies just thinking about it. Ash had beenjumping incredible and Amy was sure they would get a ribbon tomorrow.

As Amy put Ash up for the night her phone began ringing.

"Hello?" she answered trying to control Ash who got spooked by the ring.

"Hey Ames. It's me," she heard Daniel say.

"Oh. Hey," Amy said back with a smile on her face. She stroked Ash's neck and lead her into the stall.

"Look. I figured out what we can do," he said.

"Umm...okay. What?" Amy said trying to keep Ashia in and lock the stall door at the same time.

"You told me yesterday that someone made an offer of $5,000 to by Ashia. Well, if you win tomorrow. That is $1000. So that will be six grand you have made off of Ashia. You told me that you weren't selling her for under $6,000. So if you get an offer that much. It will be $7000. And I'm selling you storm for $8,000 because that is the lowest I can go. So how about you give me the moeny you are making of of Ashia. And the other thousand after you make it. And you buy Storm," Daniel said sounding all excited.

"Daniel. It's later. I'm tired. And I have to get up early. Why don't you come to the show tomorrow and we can talk then. I'm going to bed. Bye," Amy said and hung up. Daniel had called her the past three days talking about ways she can buy Storm.

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Amy slowly made her way to the house. As she walked in the front door she took off her barn boots and went into the kitchen where she saw Ty sitting with his head down.

"You okay?" Amy asked coming up behind him and placing a hand on his back.

He looked up at her with his green eyes "Amy, we have three news horses coming tomorrow to be retrained and rehomed,"

"Umm...okay?" Amy said not quite catching on.

"They are suppose to be here around two. And I'm cming back to get you at three. So I don't know how I can get everything done and get ready for three new horses," Ty said really concerned.

"It's too late to scratch from the show now. And Ashia has been working so hard. I'm really looking forward to tomorrow. What if I can get Daniel to come and get me and Ash so that you don't have to leave and then go back to get me later. It will save a lot of time. And I can get back as soon as it's over and not have to wait for you to come back and get me. Plus there is some stuff I have to talk to Daniel about anyways," Amy said praying she wouldn't have to cancel tomorrow.

"That just might work. What do you have to talk to him about?" Ty asked.

"Oh, nothing that important. I'll talk to you about ti in the morning. You need to go home and get some sleep. I'll call Daniel. I'll see you tomorrow afternoon. Good night Ty," Amy said.

"Good night," he said walking out the door. As soon as Amy heard him pull off she took her cell phone out of her pocket and hit the send button twice.

"Hello," she heard Daniel say.

"I need your help," she said.

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Amy did not want to get up at five a.m. but she knew that she had to get Ashia's mane braided and get everything ready for the show. She pulled on a pair of dirty jeans and a t-shirt. She ran down to the front door and slipped on her boots and ran to the barn.

"Good Morning," she said to Ashia. She hooked the lead rope onto the mare's halter and lead her to the cross-ties. There she quickly but carefully braided the mare's mane. After she was done she groomed the mare until her coa was shining under the dim barn light. She placed a blanket on the mare to keep her from getting dirty. She put the mare back in her stall and went to get al her tack. Daniel would be here at seven so they could get to the show grounds by nine. Amy's class started at ten. Amy quickly got Ashia's sadle, bridle, saddle pad, trailer pads and a grooming kit. She grabbed some lavender oil incase Ashia seemed nevous. She layed everythig out in front of Ashia's stall and ran back inside to take a shower.

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Amy was dressed in tan breeches, a white button down shirt and navy blue hoodie. Over her breeches she had on sweat pants to keep her breeches clean. And Amy had her navy blue riding jacket on a hanger to put on when she got there. She finished fixing her light brown hair into one long french braid going down her back. She grabbed her competition helmet and wen back down stairs. She poured herself a cup of coffee and waited for Daniel to get there. At exactly six he pulled into the driveway with a horse trailer behind his red pickup truck.

"Hey Daniel. Thanks for doing this," Amy said giving him a hug.

"No problem. Where is the horse? I'll go ahead and load her into the trailer," he said.

"She is in the stall with all the tack in front of it. Her travel wraps are already on," Amy said. She walked back into the house to get her helmet and jacket. When she came back out daniel was leading Ashia into the trailer. Amy placed her stuff in the truck and went to get the tack. Daniel came by after her to get what she couldn't pick up. Once they got everything loaded they got in the truck and drove off.

"Really Daniel. Thanks for doing this. I know that it is way out of your way," Amy said looking at him with a kind smile. She then leaned her head agianst the cold window and watched as the trees went by thinking about the show. She closed her eyes adn imagined herself on Ashia flying over jump after jump and then re-entering the ring with a blue ribbon. HEr eyes shot open when Daniel hit a bump in the road. Her hit hit the window as a sharp pain went through her head "OWW!!" she yelled automatically putting her hand to her forehead.

"Sorry," Daniel said with an apologetic look on his face. "I didn't see that."

"It's okay. I'm fine," she said leaning her head back to avoid any further injury. With a throbbing pain in her head she listened to the radio as her and Daniel rode in silence.

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An hour later Daniel pulled into the showgrounds at Meadowville. This was Amy's all-time favorite place to show. They was always a small crowd but they cheered like they were a hundred time bigger.

"Wow, it's been a while since I have done this," Amy said lowering the ramp down.

"You'll be great. Do you want me to get out Ashia and you go tell the judges that your here?" he asked.

"Sure. I'll be right back," Amy said with a smile jogging off.

When she reached the judge's stand she looked at the list.

"And you are?" a short bald man in his mid-forties said to Amy.

"Amy Fleming riding Burning Ashes." She said as she watched the man check her off. She then ran back toward the truck.

"Here she is. She sure is a beauty," Daniel said handing Amy the reins. He took off her travel wraps and balnket. Amy quickly grabbed a soft brush and brushed her over once.

"I'm going to go warm her up. You wanna watch?" Amy asked.

"Of course," he said following them to the practice ring. Daniel closely watched the mare and college girl. He noticed how Amy always made it look like he was one with the horse. He had always admired her for that. He loved her riding style. It reminded him alot of how he rode. As he watched the white Quarter Horse so some figure eights and lead changes he noticed Amy looking a litte distracted. Or either Ashia wasn't getting the right signals. He couldn't tell, but he did know that if they kept it up then it would for sure mess them up in the ring. "Amy!" he called to her.

"Yeah?" she called back pulling Ashia to a stop and then asking her to walk over to Daniel.

"Are you okay?" he asked. "Either Ashia isn't getting the right signals or you look distracted. I couldn't tell."

"No, Ashia is doing fine. It's me. I just have this killer headache. And I guess I'm confusing her," Amy said with a sorrowful look on her face.

"Cheer up. I just didn't want that to affect you in the ring. I have some Asprin back at the truck. Stay here and I will bring you some and a water bottle," he said before sprinting away.

As Amy sat there on top of the 15.2 hand mare she looked around. She hadn't been in a show in ages so she didn't really know anyone on the circuit. She patted Ashia's white neck and then began doing t-touch out of instinct. Soon Daniel was back.

"Here you go," Daniel said handing it to her at teh same time he was grabbing hold of Ashia's reins. Amy quickly popped the two white pills in her mouth and chugged the water. "This girl hasn't even broken a sweat yet. She is in really good shape. Most horses are always sweeating right after they come back from an injury," Daniel noted.

"Yeah. She's fanominal!" Amy sad smiling. And it was the truth. Ashia was an amazing horse. But Amy still wished it was Storm she was sitting on, not Ashia. "I'm going to pop her over a few jumps. Then I'm going to go watch the people in my class before me. It starts in about fifteem minutes, " Amy said looking down at her watch.

"Okay. I'll go save us a spot by the rail. See you in a few minutes," Daniel said waving and walking off.

"Come on girl. We can do this,"Amy said turning the mare around. Amy was going to take advantage of the fact they were the only ones in the ring. She trotted Ashia around about four jumps and then went back and jumped them. Like it was a mini-course. Ashia was really on top of her game today. Amy wished she was on top of hers to. After about ten minutes off walking around or trotting over a few jumps Amy slowly felt the headache going away. She then exited the ring and went to find Daniel.

A/N-SO here is the next chapter. Sorry it took so long. But I had a little trouble. I hope it tunrned out okay. And I want to thank rainpaint for helping me with this chapter. Please review. Thanks :)