A story, lol

[Tiffany]

Okay, so im gunna try writing this, tell me wat u think. I can take the truth.

   Fifteen year old Emma Harper sighed as she watched her young Thoroughbred-cross canter wildly around the ring. She stood in the middle, watching her buck. Maybe my friends are right, she thought.Maybe I won't be able to train her enough to break her. Her parents had bought Willow for her about 4 months ago. Ever since then, she'd kept her at her father's boarding stable, Cantercrest. Which was on the same property as her large Victorian-sytyled home. Her father was well known across the country for training horses and teaching riding lessons. All her life, she'd watched her father train everything from miniture Shetlands to big Clydes. Quiet to frisky. Gentle to Firey. Emma had even helped her father out, when he needed the horses to get used to more than one person working with them but now..she'd lost all hope in her self.
   "Need any help in there?" Emma heard a voice calling from gate.
   She turned and saw seventeen year old Todd Jenson leaning against the gate. Todd was one of the five stablehands that worked at cantercrest and by far, Emma's favourite. Not only because Todd had to be the hottest guy in the world. He had straight dark brown hair that fell into his chocolate brown eyes and a muscular body. He was nice, too, and funny, and smart, and new everything about horse! To Emma the list went on and on. But one reason why she could never be more greatful to the boy was because, either than her parents, he was the only one who thought she could succeed with Willow. She shook her head. "No thanks," she called.
    Hunching her shoulders and dropping her gaze to show a less threatening posture, she walked towards the filly. Immediately she calmed down and started to trot towards her owner. Despite her fiery personality, Willow loved people and Emma especially. The pink thing in Emma's hand; however, not so much. As soon as she realized Emma had a saddle pad in her hand, she turned on her hindquarters and bolted the other way.
    Emma sighed and walked over to the gate to meet Todd. "Here,"she said handing him the pad.
    "Hey," he said softly,"you'll get her eventually,she's only two."
    She nodded glumly.
    "Come on," he reassured her. "You don't plan to break her 'til she's three right?"
    "Of course not!" Emma exclaimed, aghast that anyone would ever break a horse before three.
    "then you have a whole year to get her used to tack!"
    She smiled greatfully at his enthusiasm. "I guess your right."
    "She's been here for four months and when she got here, she knew nothing. Now, you've got her to pick up all hooves easily, lead her with no distress, have her tied and be crosstied. Along with, you know, not getting spooked at sudden noises," he added teasingly.
    Emma blushed at the last part. Although she was an amazingly graceful rider, she wasn't at grooming. she had  a tendency to drop her brushes. But it worked out for her this time. With the sudden noise of dropped brushes, the sound of platic bags and a few other noises along the way, Willow was just about immuned to most sudden noises.
    "Anyway," he said. "You're doing an amazing job. Maybe put the saddle pad on the gate of her pasture or the door of her stall, so she gets used to it."
    She knew what he meant. Willow thought of the blanket as a threat. And just like picking a horse's hooves where it takes away their natural instinct to flee, it would take time to get used to. "Thanks but i think your just saying im doing good."
    "and why would I do that?"
    "Because either than my parents, your the only one who says that."
    "And who tells you your not? Your friends?"he asked rolling his eyes.
    "Yes."
    "What do those girls who come here twice a week to ride their horses who are already groomed and ready to go know about training horses?"
    Surprisingly she couldn't take that offensivly. Her friends did only come about twice a week to see there horses. And although, they were good riders, they didn't have a good bond with their horses and to Emma, that was the best part of riding.Plus, her friends had bought their horses already professionally - by Emma's dad- broke. They were rich just like Emma, but the difference, Emma cared more about the horses than the prizes they brought."Well they think they know everything?"
    "If anybody here knows everything about horse it's me,'' he joked but then added more seriously, "and you."
    "Whatever." emma didn't want him to know how much she loved him praising her.
    "You are. You have no idea, do you?"
    "No idea about what."
    Todd blushed. She hadn't known and now he'd have to tell her. "you know that Equestrian university?" He paused, so she nodded."Well,  the guy who's head of the riding department was here last week when you were jumping Timmy and he asked your dad if you were trying out for the Olympic team."
    She rolled her eyes. "No, he didn't"
    "Yes. Im not lying to you, at all. Your really great Em. Ive saw you ride over 4 foot jumps with no saddle and not even inch a bit out of where youre supposed to be!"
    Emma smiled in an attempt to hide the blood creeping up into her cheeks. "I got to end this on a good note, so I'm going to lead her around for a bit. Are there any chores left?"
    Toddshook his head. "Just evening feeds and your dad wants all the horses in tonight it's supposed to rain."
    "Okay, I'll be doen in twenty. will you take this thing"-she pointed to the saddle pad-"with you?"
    After he agreed, she grabbed her lead line and headed towards Willow. She had stopped running around a little after Todd and her had started to talk and most of her sweat was gone. She stood quiet as Emma attached the line to her halter. Without hesitation the young horse went forward as Emma did and stopped immediatly when her owner did. Maybe Todd's right. She's come a long way in four months.

Sorry if it sucked and sorry about bad grammar and such, I just kinda made it up as i wrote it. Please tell me what you think, if you guys like it ill put more on
    
  
    

[Tiffany]

so, im sick and have NOTHING to do, lol. So im gunna add more...lol
Here i go

     After settling Willow back into her pasture after a good grooming, Emma headed towards the barn's feed room. She entered the large double doors of the barn, sucking in the familiar fragrance of freshly layed shavings. She loved the barn. It had thirty stalls in total. Twenty-five 12' by 12' box stalls, three straight stalls and two 18' by 12' stalls that were used for Cantercrest's pregnant mares. There was an office, a tack room with room for each horse to have its own spot for tack, blankets and accessories, and a feed room. In the office and the feed room there was a book that contained what each horse ate, what it was allergic to and whether or not it took medicine or had a salt-lick in its stall. Emma smiled. Her mother had done that one day. her mom owned her own catering service but when she didn't have any appointments, she tended to organize things. It was her hobby and her most annoying quality.
     She entered the feed room to see all five stablehands filling that evening's hay nets since the horses were coming in. She took her place beside Todd and began to help them.
     "So it's supposed to rain?" Adam, the youngest stablehand next to Todd and emma who didnt really count.
     "I guess," Todd said, then he turned to Emma. "how'd it go with Willow after I left?"
     "Good," Emma answered. "she listened really well, and she pretty much picked up her hooves before I even asked for them."
     They all nodded. "Thats good," Sam, the blonde hand, replied.
     "Yeah but she's still afraid of the saddle pad."
     "Put it on her stall door for an hour tonight," Alex suggested.
     "But if she gets too spooked at it, take it away,"John warned.
     Emma smiled at them. Maybe Todd's not the only who thinks i can do it, she thought, thankful to have such great friends.
     Then, her father walked in. "You guys ready to bring them in?"
     They all set to work until all twenty six horses were settled into their right stalls. They then attached all of the hay nets before they met back in the feed room to start mixing the feeds. They each had about about five horses to feed and they fed the same ones each night so that they wouldn't have to check in the book to remember what the horses ate.
     "You know, I wonder what this stuff tastes like," Todd pondered as they each mixed their last dish.
     Emma shook her head."don't try it if it's as bad as the horse treats!"
     "She's not my daughter," her father joked to Sam.
     "If you didn't have me, you would have no daughters who like horses." She was referring to her older sisters Vicki and Sylvia.  Although she'd lived near horses all her seventeen years, Sylvia had too timid of a nature to even think of going near an animal bigger than her Golden Retriever. Vicki on the other hand only went near them when they were fully tacked or their stalls were already clean. But even when she did go near them, she wasn't as good of a rider as her younger sister. And now that she was sixteen, she preferred  driving a car.
     "Girl's got a point." Todd laughed.
     "If only you were my son. At least then id have two horse genious children."
     Everbody laughed. Then Todd winked at Emma. "I don't think i'd want to be your kid."
     she blushed, even though along with everybody else, she knew he was kidding. Or atleast thats what they thought.

 I gotta go eat,. lol...ill type more later maybe lol

[Tiffany]

    "Not this again," her father muttered only half joking as he headed out of the feed room.
    Grabbing Willow's feed, Emma headed towards the filly's stall. She couldn't exactly blame her father for that comment. Todd had once dated her sister Vicki. Although he'd been a great boyfirend, Vicki wasn't a great girlfriend.... She'd always bossed him around and then when she needed his help Todd would come to the rescue. Emma had been the one who'd been there to comfort him when he was raging on about her sister. The relationship ended about a year earlier when Vicki had snuck out to a party she hadn't been allowed to go to and after she got totally wasted she called Todd to come pick her up. He came and after getting into a huge huge fight with her, he drove her home. Sadly her father had woken up to see Todd sneaking the drunk Vicki into the house. Her father had flipped out and threatened to fire him. Luckily after guilt catching up to her, Vicki told the truth of what happened and Mr. Harper had a lot of appoligizing to do.
    "you know it's meanto stand in front of a horse with food in your hand,"Todd teased.
    Emma glanced down at her hands and there was Willows food. and infront of her was Willow, throwing her head angrily. "Sorry, girl, " she murmurred, placing the feed in her stall.
    Emma walked with todd to his truck. They chatted about the horses and different ways to work with Willow. "I'll see you tomorrow then."
    "See you."
    Emma watched his truck disappear down the long driveway.

    "And the weather today will be -" Emma smashed her hand down on her alarm clock. Last time she puts her alarm on the radio setting. After getting dressed, she headed towards the barn. Two of the stable hands were off today so she figured the faster the chores were done, the more time she'd have to work with willow.
    The first thing she did was start mixing her feed. Once she finished them, she moved on to the other hands' feed. Todd was the first one to arrive."Hey," he greeted as he walked in the feed room door.
    "hey," she replied absently. Besides focusing on puting what was supposed to be in the feeds, in the feeds, Emma had her mind on her riding lesson today. although, really since she was probably better than her father, she didnt need lessons, she still took them. She had convinced herself it was to spend time with her friends; however, deep down she was trying to hide the true reasons. To show up her snobby friends. Even though she knew she was better, she hated being cocky about it and she felt terrible about her reason for taking lessons.
    "Worried about today?" Todd asked, after a few moments of silence.
    She half-smiled. he could read her like an open book. "Its not the lesson," she admitted. "they're going to stay and watch me work with willow. Honestly, i think theyre only going to stay in hopes of getting to see me screw up."
    "Some friends."
    "I know you don't like them. but do you have to hate them?"
    '' Sorry, Em. but  theyre so annoying."
    "well, lillys not that bad. She can be mean and judgemental and rude and... anyway, she cares about Darla atleast." Lilly was Emmas favourite. Although, she didnt always think about it first, she did care about her horses safety.
    The rest of the day flew by. And before Emma knew it, it was time for the lesson. Like always, her friends showed up early enough so they werent late but late enough so they wouldn't have to tack up their own horse. Emma was riding her dad's Thoroughbred mare, Jenny. While Ashley rode her Arabian gelding Prince, Lilly rode her Thoroughbred-Clyde-cross mare Darla and Kit rode her blue roan gelding Jazzy. Today, it was a jumping lesson. The course set up was a simple bright orange upright, a in-and-out combination set 2 strides apart, an oxer decorated with flowers so the show horses would get used to them in competition and the final fence was an intimidating wall that was  was onlt a few strides out of the corner. Today will be fun, Emma thought sarcasticly, thinking of the complaints her friends wouldnt stop throwing out after the lesson.
   however, the lesson went by pretty innocently. They warmed up, and despite a the aspect of it being a jumping lesson, they worked on the flat for about 20 minutes. Ashley, like always, strggled with the basic figure of the twenty-meter circle, lilly struggled with bending the strongly built mareon the serpentines and, at the trot, kit found it challenging to keep the right diagonal on the figure eights. But the most typical of all their lessons, emma went though perfectly, throwing her friends sympathetic glances when they expected them. The jumping part was a bit worse. Jazzy had a timid nature and needed a rider who would encourage him before a jump, which was something Kit wasn't capable of. So, when he refuseed she would get angry. Then, ashley had gone off course a few times, blaming the 'challenging' lay out. lilly, despite her early bending troubles, had a good lesson. with the exception of a few knock downs. Emma, had knocked down a total of one pole - the out part of the combination.
     Finally it was the last time around. Lilly went first. Which is where her major roubles began. Emma watched her closly as she headed for the first jump. Her friend was in a good postion, the take off was too early but they cleared it nonetheless. The two were doing great on the stretch to the combination but when theywere getting close, Darla lengthened her stride. It didnt affect the first jump but the takeoff had been too large and had screwed up the striding for the rest of the combination. luckily, Lilly had her head on straight and swerved, ignoring the jump. At any point, if Darla wouldve jumped she wouldve took the jump at an uncomfortable angle. Which probably wouldve lead to a serious injury. Although, Ash and kit thought lilly was crazy, Emma respected her for it.
    Kit went next. The last course had been the highlight of her lesson. She went clear. Although, Mr. Harper had had the most to criticize about. Kit thought that he was too hard on her. And maybe he was a bit. but she never focused on everything. She either focused completly on the jumps, completely on her seating or completely on her horse. If she just balanced everything out, she'd do a lot better, Emma thought.
    Ashley still hadnt figured out - or tried to figure out - the course lay out. Once more she went off track. Sending her poor horse to the jumps in the wrong order. She didn't clear any fence except the wall.
    Finally, it was emmas turn. She sent jenny towards the upright in a collected canter. The mare flew over the fence, over jumping. She landed on the wrong lead and Emma quickly did a flying lead change on the well-trained mare. the combination went by well, as did the oxer. When they were turning the corner towards thhe wall, Emma encouraged her with her seat and legs. Jenny had a tendency to slow down at corners and even though she was near bomb-proof Emma realized that any horse would be a bit spooked at  that fence. She finished with a clear round.
     "Well that sucked!" Ashley complained as they groomed the horses after the lessons.
     "I know! Talk about hard fences." Kit handed her untacked horse to todd to put away, thinking she was doing him a favor.
     Emma kept her mouth shut as they complained. She had though the jumps were quite simple and she knew her dad had set those jumps the way they were to help the girls with their weaknesses.if they would realize that and work on them instead of thinkin they were perfect, they might actually win more ribbons.
      "Look guys," Emma said eventually after she finished with jenny, " I have to go work with  Willow...Ill see you later?"
      The hopeful look on her face disappeared as Lilly said,"are you kidding! We want to watch.''
      "See if youre doing any better," Ashley added haughtily.
      Ouch! Emma thought.
      She went to catch willow. luckily the horse behaved well even with all the viewers.

Um....yeah..lol...i know it sucks

[maddie]

i dont have time to read it right now dear but i will later i promise

[Tiffany]

haha, lol thanks

[maddie]

iv read bits and peices here and there  and i like it