Chapter Two: Trust me

Disclaimer: Based loosely off of material that has been created and is owned by Lauren Brooke.

Ty's POV

"Hey!" I greeted Amy when I saw her cleaning out Dakota's stall. "How's it going?"

Amy looked a little startled, "Oh, hey. It's going pretty good, how 'bout for you?"

"It's going." I smiled

"That's good."

"Yeah." There was an awkward silence. "Well I should probably get working then."

"Guess so."

I walked off to the other end of the barn and began taking water buckets out of each stall, dumping them out, and refilling them with fresh water. Once I was finished giving the horses their water, I got Beans' tack from the office and brought it over to his stall.

"Hey there Beans." He snorted at me and continued eating. I entered his stall and lifted his head so I could put his halter on. I slipped the halter over his muzzle and up onto his nose careful not to irritate any old injuries. Beans was a seven year-old Palomino who was found tied to a tree in the middle of the woods only two months ago. While he had been tied up, Beans had obtained several injuries on his head when he tried to break free from his halter.

After I tacked up Beans I walked him out to the North riding arena and clipped a lunge line to his halter. I told him to walk and he started moving in a circle around me. When he completed his second circle, I told him to trot.

When he was warmed up, I let him walk into the middle of the arena, where I was standing, and I unclipped the lunge line. I got on and started riding him around the ring. As I rode, I knew that he was ready to be sent to a new home.

Amy's POV

A week later

"Do you have all your school stuff yet?" I heard Grandpa ask while I was eating lunch.

"No," It was the time of year I always hated, the end of summer.

"Didn't I ask you to go and get it last week?"

All his questions were kind of getting annoying, "Yes Gramps but you know how it is, I got busy with…"

He stopped me, "Amy, your education always comes first."

"What does this have to do with getting an education?" I heard myself say. Why am I getting so mad at Grandpa all of a sudden? All he's trying to do is make sure I'm ready for school.

"The supplies you need to get are what help you get an education."

"Okay fine, I'll try to run into town tomorrow or sometime this week." Grandpa was not the reason I was so stressed out. It was Ty, I still kept having dreams about him and in the mean time getting no sleep. He's having this effect over me that I can't explain.

I finished my turkey sandwich and put the plate next to the sink. I felt a little guilty for being so rude to Grandpa so I decided I should apologize.

"Its okay kiddo, just try not to get so mad next time I'm trying to help you." He said after I apologized and gave me a hug.

I hugged him in return and walked out the door and headed for the barn. I saw Ty standing for where I was headed so I decided I'd go check on the horses in the near by pasture before going into the barn. Lately I'd been doing a pretty good job of avoiding Ty at all costs.

I saw Ty had moved onto do other things so I walked into the barn and checked to see if all the horses had water. All of them did so I decided to work with a horse named Midnight Rider. Rider was a black Tennessee walking horse. He had a great structure and a lot of potential but he's had trouble trusting people because of abuse by a previous owner. I've tried nearly everything from putting special herbs into his grain and water to even sleeping in his stall with him to show him that I'm not going to harm him but nothing has worked.

"Amy?" Ty had just walked up to the arena I was working in. I stopped Rider from trotting around me and walked over to Ty.

"What's up Ty?" I asked trying to look confident.

"Nothing, I was just wondering if you figured our how to help Rider yet." When he talked I noticed a certain sparkle in his eye that was never there before.

"No not yet." I kept looking at his eyes wondering what had changed them.

"What if we try saddling him up?"

"Alright, I guess we could try it."

"I'll go and get his tack." I really wasn't sure how well this would work considering Rider freaked out every time he saw someone with a saddle but I wasn't going to disagree with Ty.

Rider's eyes immediately filled with terror when he saw Ty walking towards the arena with the saddle. I held onto the lunge line tightly while Ty kept walking forward.

I guess Ty saw how worried I looked because he said, "Just trust me okay?" He looked at me and I knew I could trust him. Ty started walking slower but that didn't seem to help Rider at all. As Ty came closer, Rider only freaked out more.

"Ty, I don't think this is going to work."

"Just let me try something." Ty took one last step towards Rider and then set the saddle down on the ground. Rider looked at it and bent his head down to sniff it. Once he figured out it wasn't anything that could hurt him he settled down. After this Ty slowly picked it up, letting Rider take in exactly what he was doing. Eventually Ty was able to slip on the saddle pad and then gently slide the saddle on. Rider, to my amazement, was fine with all of this.

"How did you know this would work?" I asked Ty as we walked back to the barn. I urged Rider to walk faster to keep up with Ty who was carrying the tack we had used.

He smiled, "Just guessed." He stopped smiling for a second and looked at me. It wasn't the way he normally looked at me though. He looked like he wanted to tell me something.

"Amy…" He trailed off.

"Ty?"

He stopped walking, "Can I kiss you?"

"Amy?"

Shit not another dream! "Yeah?" Now I'm daydreaming about this too?

"I just wanted to say thanks for trusting me. It means a lot."

"Oh no problem," I said honestly.

"No really, it must have been hard trusting me out there. I mean he barely trusts people right now and you let me skip ahead to trying to put a saddle on him."

"Well I guess I did think you were a little crazy at first."

He laughed, "Yeah, I kinda figured that by the look on your face."

"Did I really look that scared?"

"Nah, I can just tell when your scared."

I was shocked. He knows when I'm scared!

a/n: there's chapter 2... hope u guys liked it and sry my chapter r kind of short i just kinda of wanted to update so u would have something more to read and sry if it sucks