I worked my but off on this chapter because its kind of like a filler one but it hints at why Lea was placed into the HARP program. That will be coming up soon i hope :D alright well enjoy and i hope to have the next chapter up by Saturday or Sunday the latest cause, im a slow writer:)
Chapter 5
Breakfast in the morning wasn't too bad. I mean it wasn't completely awkward. DJ looked a little bit more at ease and Brynna looked tried but everyone is in the morning. Sam and Jen looked pretty content with themselves, having survived the first night in the bunkhouse with us. I on the other hand was nervous for today and about what went on last night outside.
But I found comfort in the delicious smell of Mrs. Forster's cooking. It reminded me of home or rather of what used to be home. But of course we had to clean up again. Joy.
After, we all went outside to discuss the schedule for today.
Brynna started, "Alright, first Sam, Jen, and Jake will be teaching you how to tack up the horse. Then you will each be doing it by yourselves on the horse assigned to you."
"Cool! Which horses did we get?" I asked getting all excited.
"Well Lea, you will be working with Mystical Magic or Misty for short. She's a new horse that we got for the program. She's a little skittish, but you two will be fine together…"
Jake looked shocked, "You're giving her Misty? She's barely been ridden!" then he stopped, probably surprised at himself.
"Yes Jake I am. And that's why she will be working with you for most of the time. Now DJ, you will be working with Popcorn. He's the white mustang in the pasture. Jen will be instructing, while Sam demonstrates on Penny."
DJ looked sort of happy to hear that she would be working with Penny.
I didn't know how to how to take working with Jake for most of the time. Sam looked a little relieved though, probably because it wasn't DJ. And with that we got stared.
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Sam and Jen started off by moving Penny to the round corral, which didn't look too bad. Then they began to show us how to put a bridle on then the saddle blanket and then the saddle itself. And we had to tighten the cinch, I think she called it, and adjust the stirrups, which I didn't now how you could possibly do that while in the saddle. It all didn't look too difficult to do.
But that was until you actually tried it. I had to find Misty out in the pasture. Jake told me she was the steel gray one.
She was bigger than I thought but Jake said she was "just my size." I was 5'7 but that still seemed big to me. It had seemed easy enough but the entire time I was hoping she wouldn't get scared and trample me.
"You have to stop being so tense. She can sense that you're nervous and it makes her jumpy," explained Jake watching me intently.
"Okay," I said.
"Quit pulling her head down. Stop looking back at her, she will follow you where you take her." Boy was he bossy.
When I finally to started to feel calm, Blaze came running and barking off the porch of the house toward the bridge. It scared me and Misty too. She reared and I could see the white of her eyes. She was so frightened. I remembered what it felt like to feel that way. And knew I had to be the one to get her though it.
Jake came walking quickly toward me. But I tried not to notice. I was concentrated on helping Misty. I decided to put myself between her and the dog and the car whose music was blasting over the bridge. Then I tried calmly talking to her.
"Shh girl, it's alright. Don't let that big meanie scare you. You could probably squash him if you wanted to."
She looked kind of better but still jumpy. Whoever that was coming over the bridge was going to get a piece of my mind.
I quickly led Misty to the barn corral. It was then that I noticed that she had little flecks of gray all over her coat. "Oh, so that's where you got the name Mystical Magic," I said to her. "Well you are one of the prettiest horses I have ever seen."
I quickly shut the gate, careful to double check it was locked. I had to make sure that she would be safe in there and not get out. Then I stormed over to yell at the guy in the car.
But someone had beaten me to it. Jake was over there looking mad.
I ran over there and glared at him.
"What were you thinking? Coming in here blasting your music! Do you know how much you scared her? I could have been trampled!" I was so mad.
He had dark slicked back hair and wore baggy clothes.
"Whoa there sweetie. Slow your roll. I'm Darrell and I didn't mean to spook your horse." He looked at Jake, asking with his eyes, who was this chick.
I could have punched him right then and there. I just glared at him.
"Come on now sweetie, I didn't mean it. Now say you forgive me and we can move on," he said with a wink.
He was flirting with me, a girl that was just yelling at him. Well it wasn't working on me.
"Oh shove it! And I swear to God if you call me sweetie or honey or sugar one more time, I'm going to whack you!"
Jake braced himself to hold me back.
I turned to Jake. "I would like to go back to working with Misty. She so scared and she needs me right now."
He nodded and said, "Go ahead."
I walked back to the barn corral, but before I did, I gave Darrel a death glare.
Five minutes later Jake was bask and Darrell had left, thank God.
"How do you think Misty's doing?" I asked him concerned.
"She looks fine now. You handled that pretty well."
"Yeah well I would have liked to have punched Darrell."
He gave a short laugh. "I mean when Misty reared."
Wow a compliment. I did something right.
"Wow did I really?"
He nodded.
"Thanks," I said, shocked at myself.
I knew I should ask him about him and Sam, but I needed more information before I jumped to conclusions and I knew it wasn't the time.
So instead we continued on with the lesson.
Please dont forget to review! And Misty is a new horse which i could be writing a story about how the Forsters got her but i havent decieded yet. And just incase the name is in any other stories, I am sorry if your horse is named the same and i didnt steal the name I actually came up with it all by myself :D im am proud. loll alrighty then, dont forget to review