Hi guys! its up! for this chapter, i forgot to mension that Wyatt is out on the range doin cowboy stuff lol, and Gram or Grace is out..stayin the nite at a friensds lol. also the barn is far away from the house and the bunkhouse, so no one can hear anything!

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Louise Forster had no idea how much chaos would be caused when she agreed to let Jake stay the night. Maxine and Luke (Jakes parents) had a visitor, and there wasn't enough room, so she had asked Louise if she could have him, and Louise said yes. She now wished she had said no.

"But we're at war mom!" Sam had pointed out when Louise had told her that Jake was coming. "The enemy can't stay in the same house as me!"

"Sam, you are not at war. You be nice to Jake now. You should make up with him; if you say sorry, and then maybe he will," Louise told her.

"I haven't done anything wrong. Its all him. He should be saying sorry, not me. And I'm not letting him ride Jesse!" Sam had replied stubbornly. Louise sighed.

"That pony should be called Havoc. That's all its caused," she muttered as Sam walked away.

Then Jake had arrived. They first had dinner that was a complete disaster. Sam had made Jake jump, and spill his drink all over himself, and then he had kicked Sam under the table, so, not having long enough legs to kick back, Sam had lobbed a forkful of lasagne at Jake.

Then after dinner, they had squabbled over the remote, which had led Sam, when Jake won the remote, to run upstairs, and chuck some of Jake's stuff out of a window, and into a water trough...which had caused Jake to...and so on all night. Finally, Louise snapped, and sent them both to bed.

***

Sam was sitting in her room. It was very late now, but she didn't care. She was listening intently for the opening of a door, or the creak of the stairs. Because she knew what he was going to do. She also knew that he didn't know that she knew, and therefore he didn't know. She dwindled on this point, wondering if she knew that he didn't know that she knew would mean he didn't actually know what he was going to do as he didn't know that she knew...

She went around in circles for a while, thinking about this point, when she heard the stairs creak. She immediately jumped-silently-to the window, and waited a few seconds; she wanted to catch him in the act!

***

Jake headed towards the barn, hoping nobody had heard the stair creak as he had crept down. He went into the barn, and headed to Jesse's stall. The pony was lying down, but scrambled up when Jake approached.

"Hi boy. We're just going to have a little walk around the yard..." Jake murmured, letting himself into the stall, and offering the halter to Jesse to sniff. He slid the halter onto Jesse, and led him out of the barn. Jake was pretty confident in his riding abilities, but he still knotted the lead rope to the other side of the halter, as an improvisation of reins. He was just about to vault on, when something hurtled out of the darkness.

"JAKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKE! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Sam shrieked, colliding into him! Jesse threw up his head in protest.

"Sam? What are you doing out here!" Jake hissed angrily.

"Ha! I knew what you were going to do! You didn't know that I knew though, which would really mean that you didn't know, and so you didn't know what you were going to do, because I knew that you didn't know!" Sam exclaimed proudly. Jake look totally and utterly baffled.

"What?" he asked.

"Ha! See! I figured out your plan! Anyway, that's not the point! The point is Jesse is mine! Mine, mine mine, mine..." Sam carried on saying mine, and to prove her point, struggled to vault onto Jesse, using Jake as a mounting block, which resulted in Jake getting severely kicked.

"...mine, mine, mine, mine, and mine!" Sam declared proudly from Jesse's back.

"Sam get down!" Jake hissed, feeling scared that she would get hurt.

"Ha! No! Just because you can't Jake-"

"Sam, it dark! And you could get hurt!"

"I don't care! And I won't!"

"Sam-"

"Read my lips Jake! Jesse. Is. Mine. My own!" but just as Sam said this, hoof beats of a herd of horses could be heard galloping past the La Charla river. Jesse's head came up, and he bolted toward the herd, tired and frightened of the two children's argument.

"JAKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKE!" Sam screamed as Jesse bolted.

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