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1 day until camp
America's Pov
After the pack and I read my schedule we didn't know what to do. We all had different ideas on what we should do.
Kriss said, "We should show America what activities this camp has."
"All right," everyone agreed
"But what activity should we do," Maxon asked
"I don't know," Kriss said, "there are so many."
"We should do something that is summery," Katy said, "since it is summer."
"What do you think of, when you think of summer," Carter asks
"I think of water," Theo says
"Swimming," Marlee says, "We should go swimming."
"This place has a swimming pool," I ask
"Yay, this place has everything," Brian says
"Ahh, guys I don't think we should go swimming," Maxon says
"Why not Maxon," Kriss asks
"Umm well," Maxon said with a scared look on his face
"Yay, he's right," I say. If Maxon was uncomfortable with swimming then I didn't want to swim.
"We should do something else," I say
"Ok," Marlee says, "What should we do then… Oh wait I got the perfect thing that we can do."
"What," I ask
"You will just have to wait and see," Marlee says then she tells Kriss to cover my eyes and we start walking.
We were walking for about ten minutes when Marlee says, "Not much further."
Then I hear a noise. Not just any noise but the sound only a horse can make. Oh no is all I can think before Kriss takes her hand off my eyes and Marlee says, "Were here."
"Horses," I say with a fake smile, "this camp has horses."
"Of course it does," Katy answers
Kriss tells the stable boy that we needed 8 horses. He asked if we needed a tour guide but Kriss said that we would be fine and that she knew the area. Once he had all 8 horses saddled he brought them out to us. Everyone in the pack had chosen a horse and started to get on it. I just stood there awkwardly. Maxon looked back at me to see if I was on my horse and when he saw that I wasn't he sensed something was wrong and got off of his horse and came over to me.
"Is everything alright America," Maxon asks
"Yes," I answered
"Do you not like this horse," he asked
"No this horse is fine," I said
"Then what is wrong," he asked again
"The truth is that have never ridden a horse before and I am sort of scared of them," I say then look down ashamed
Maxon laughed, "Big strong America who I thought was afraid of nothing is afraid of a horse."
I just continue to look down and play with the gravel under my feet.
"America you have seriously never ridden a horse before," Maxon says
"Ok do you want the truth," I ask
"Yes," he says very seriously
"The truth is that I am not rich. I don't come from a rich family so I haven't tried a lot of thing like this," I say feeling more ashamed, "The only reason why I am here is because I got a scholarship. When I told you guys that music was my life I meant it. I play music for a living."
I was about to start crying when Maxon said, "America its ok. I dont care if you come from a rich family or not."
"You don't," I say
"No, of course not," he says
"Thank you," I say and hug him
Marlee finally noticing that me and Maxon are not on horses says, "are you two ok."
"Yes," I say. Im going to have to explain to my friends at some point that I'm not rich so why not do it now. Then I tell the pack what I just told Maxon. The whole pack was totally cool with me not being rich. It even excited them a little bit.
"Not being rich just means you haven't tried a lot of things we have. So you will get to try a lot of new activities this summer for the first time," Marlee says
"We can show you a lot of cool things," Kriss says
"Thank you all for being so cool about this," I say
"Just because you are not rich doesn't mean people are going to hate you America," Brian and Theo say
"See you have nothing to worry about America," Maxon says
"Ok thank you guys. Still can we keep this between us," I asked
"Of course America," they all answered
"This summer's going to be so much fun. You can try some new things for the first time and we can try new things," Theo says
"We will start now by having you go horseback riding for the first time," Kriss says
"Since it is her first time," Maxon says, " she can ride with me on my horse."
Everyone settles back onto there horse why Maxon leads me toward his horse.
I freeze up when we are close to the horse and Maxon says, " America come on it will be fine."
"America this is Clover," Maxon says, "Put out your hand and let her sniff it."
I stay where I am for a moment then I move toward Clover. I stick out my hand and she sniffs it. When she was done sniffing my hand I pet her.
"See America. The horse will not hurt you" Maxon says
"Ok now I am going to lift you up onto the horses back ok," he says
I take a deep breath then say, "Ok."
Maxon put his hands on my waist then lifted me onto the horses back like I weighed nothing.
"Ok America you are doing good now I'm going to get on the horse," he said
Before he could get onto Clover she put her front legs up and nahhed. Something had scared her. She was not supposed to be kicking her legs in the air.
"America hang on," Maxon said
"Clover calm down," Maxon said trying to get the horse to stop before I fell off of her.
Clover stopped when Maxon pet her face, "Thats a good girl Clover," Maxon said
"I already suck at this," I say, "I made the horse want to knock me off already."
"America that wasn't your fault. Something spocked her and it wasnt you," Maxon said sternly
"Now lets try this again," he said
He kicked his leg over the horse and got on. He was in front of me and he asked, "America are you ok."
"Yay, Im fine. You," I ask
"Great," he says, "Now what I want you to do is to put your hands on my waist and hang on so you don't fall off."
I did as he told me and put my hands around his waist. It was comforting.
Then he whipped Clovers rains once and clover started running and I started screaming. After about 30 seconds of screaming I realized this was not that bad. It was fun actually. I losened my grip on Maxons waist and started looking at the scenery. It was really pretty.
After about 5 minutes of clover running Maxon slowed her down to a trot.
Then I told him, "Thank you, I have faced my fear of horses. I'm not afraid any more this is actually quite fun."
"I'm glad you think it is fun America. Like I said you would be fine," he said
"Fine you were right," I admitted
"I hope I was right," he said, "do you want to try controlling the horse?"
"Yes. I do," I say with confidence
With one simple movement I was switched to the front of the horse and Maxon was in the back.
"You ready?" Maxon asked passing me the rains
"Yes," I say
Maxon put his hands on my waist and I leaned back into him a little. Then I whipped the rains to make clover go into a full on sprint. I was making the horse go faster then Maxon did and it was so much fun. After about ten minutes I slowed Clover down and leaned into Maxon all the way so my back was on his chest.
"That was so much fun," I said, "I'm tired now and I wasn't even the one running."
"So your first time riding a horse was a success," he said
I turned around to look at him. His hands were still on my waist. "Yes," I said, "I wish classes never had to start and we could just stay here like this all summer."
"I do too," he answered
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