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Post by cowgirl on Jul 27, 2009 21:52:34 GMT -5
As Katie sat high in the saddle, her hazel eyes scanned the arena. She sighed in relief, and whispered to her steed, “Looks like it’s just us boy.” Sitting back up in the light weight English saddle after patting the large beast’s neck, she slowly turned her horse to face a jump. She really wasn’t into the English riding much, but it kept here and her horse in shape. She took a deep breath then clicked her tongue and dropped the reins letting her horse walk forward. Once more her clicking stroked the warm air around her. In reponse her horse picked up a smooth trot and carried his head in a perfect angle. He moved calmly to the three foot high jump. Kaite remained calm and rested her hands on the saddle until he got closer. She kept her eyes locked on the fence post right behind the jump. ‘Two more strides…’ She thought calmly and kept her eyes fixed on the fence post. She felt him start to gather his muscular body, at the same moment Kaite leaned up and placed her hands on his dark mane as he pushed off from the ground. Her heart leapt into her throat as they cleared the jump. As the landed Kaite sat back in the saddle and allowed him to trot closer to the fence post. Her voice was soft and excited, “Good boy! Whoa.” Her hand slapped his thick neck in pure joy as she praised him. “Maybe we should raise the bar up next time. Either way, I think we’re almost ready to really crack down on our training!” Her hazel eyes seemed to light up as she thought of doing her dream. She smiled happily and bent down to kiss his neck . |
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Post by Desert on Jul 28, 2009 16:55:01 GMT -5
Can You Hear Me?
Can You Feel Me in Your arms?
Holdin My Last Breath... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This was one of the first days without Sawyer at his side. His friend was in Virginia. A place Alex was never ever going to go to. Never to go back to the state where his life fell apart. Sawyer had said that he might be gone for about three days. Alex told Sawyer that if he ran into Alex's parents to tell them he was dead. Forever loyal Sawyer was ok with that. Even though he didn't seem to understand why. He had left that morning. Alex decided to spend his time with the horses. All of them. For today he was going to work on training the black yearling, Moon.
The colt was fiesty as Alex tought him that tack was ok. He was learning fast. For a break, Alex was just going to lead him around. Even though the little stud wouldfollow anyone even without a lead rope. He decided to take his mare Pure Bred Pain. The mare was actually willing to go. He tacked her up and hopped on. She actually moved! Alex beamed at his mare's progress. Moon trotted happly behind them. Streatching his neck out to greet every horse he saw.
Coming up to the arena his hyness kicked in. There was a person there. A girl, and even worse, a pretty one at that. He swallowed his pride and egged Pure into a trot. She whinnied to the buckskin stallion and paced herelf. Moon mirrored her whinny and tossed his head. Alex sized up the stallion. He seemed to be a whole hand smaller than Pain and Moon. Pulling Pain up to the gate he looked up at the girl once before walking pain into the arena. Moon tarted to fidget behind them. He bucked and Pain didn't like it.She called to the colt who quickly quieted down. Alex dug his heels into Pain's lean barrel. She moved into a lope as Alex led her around the arena.
His way of training a horse was different. He clicked his tongue to pure and directed her over a foot jump. For her it was just a leap. He stopped and watched as Moon figured out the jump than went over it. He stopped beside the spotted mare and nickered. It took the colt a moment to fiure the jump out but he was good. His training that Syra had giving him was paying off. He smiled, reached over and touched the yearling's withers. "Good boy"
He paused to look up at the girl jumping the horse...A quarter horse. Pain seemed totake notice now, being the stallion obsessed mare she was. She whinnied to him again. Throwing her mane. Alex hid his face and urged her into a walk. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Safe Inside Myself.
Are All My Thoughts of You.
Sweet Raptured Light, It Ends Here Tonight Tags ~' Alex, Kaite
Word Count ~' Don't care
Muse ~' ok
Music ~' ---
Notes ~' Bah! This post isn't as good as I thought it would be
Lyrics ~' My Last Breath- Evanescence |
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Post by cowgirl on Jul 28, 2009 17:29:01 GMT -5
Kaite calmly looked up as a guy she didn’t know and two horses entered the ring. She looked down at Knight to see his reaction to the horses. Knight’s ears were pricked and his large head was turned in the direction of the mare, and foal. He was careful to keep one ear pointed back to Kaite, but as the other horses nickered all concentration on Kaite was lost. His powerful body shook with the deep whinny as he replied to the others. He stopped his hoof and turned a large brown eye to look at Kaite as if asking to go see them. Kaite watched the guy on the black mare jump the small obstacle and a smile touched her face as she watched the smaller horse follow. She knew she should probably talk to the guy, but he looked busy. With a small shrug Kaite turned Knight to face the jump again, after doing that she carefully slide down from the saddle and walked to the jump. She glanced back to see Knight standing still his head low one ear on her, the other on the mare. She snickered teasingly and he seemed to throw her a nasty look. She just smiled and carefully moved the jump up to four feet. She knew Knight could make that jump easily. She smiled and mounted up and sat tall in the saddle. She carefully threw a glance at the guy riding the mare, she was careful to keep her face hidden behind her hair. She hadn’t really looked at him until now. ‘Wow…’ that’s about all that came to her mind. She flipped her hair to shake off the feeling that hit her body like a train. She fixed her eyes carefully on the fence post on the other side of the arena and clicked her tongue to single Knight. His movements seemed too careful to graceful, and Kaite knew what was up. She quickly put pressure with her right leg on his rib cage and he quickly side stepped, and tucked his head to his chest. He knew better than to pull a stunt like that. She pulled lightly at the reins after he had taken four steps to the left and he halted and lowered his head. She could tell he was trying to be sheepish now that he had done that. She looked up calmly at the guy riding the mare and flashed a slightly shy smile at him, then carefully clicked her tongue and advanced slowly toward him. She carefully kept her eyes on his horses, and her own steed. Word count; 434 Music; Hero-Skillet |
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Post by Desert on Jul 28, 2009 18:39:40 GMT -5
Can You Hear Me?
Can You Feel Me in Your arms?
Holdin My Last Breath... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Moon squealed happily at his success on jumping. He was going to be a champion no doubt. Just like his mum, Mourn. He watched the paint mare in front of him clear another jump. Alex seemed to have trusted him without the lead rope. He trotted and pushed himself off the ground. Another one foot jump cleared. He trotted with his head high. Pain nickered to him. The mare was like his other mother. She was a Paint though. He was a black Andalusian. He tilted his head and glanced over at the girl and her stallion.
He wanted to walk over ther and greet the buckskin, but a whinny from Pain distracted him. He lunged forward into a full gallop. He was training all day. Why not a little fun. His buvked as he ran off his energy. He was a yearling. One that deserved to have his play. He heard Alex laugh quietly. The human stallion leaned forward in the saddle. His hazel eyes following the frisky foal. Even though Moon wasn't really a foal anymore. He was growing into his form.
Aex couldn't help but laugh. Syra would've pushed Moon hard. Alex on the other hand knew that every young horse deserved a break. But Pain's instinct said otherwise. She bolted after Moon. Easily catching him. Alex just went for the ride. When the two horses slowed he relaxed. Pain heaved a sigh. Her ear swivled around to listen to the stallion. He was a short stallion. Shorter than her at least. Still he was a stallion. Luckily Storm wasn't here. The black Arab wouldn't started a fight with the Quarter horse. Ignoring her orders. Pain turned back into her old self A pain in Alex's ass. She stopped dead in her tracks and snorted. Suddenly she didn't want to move. She wanted to stand there and gve her master a hard time.
Alex was wearing spurs thank god. But there were the pros and cons of the situation. When he nudged her. She threw a fit. Tossing her large muscular body into the air. Luckily, Alex came prepared for her antics. He learning this little trick from Sawyer when he was handleing Khan, one of the worst tempered stallions' at Shady Lane. And he was the biggest, standing at 18 hands. Alexleaned back and tapped her shouldersthree times with his heel. His quick hands tapping her flanks. In the confusion of hands and feet in the wrong places, she stopped her tantrum and snorted.
Alex smiled triumphantly and sat tall. Placing his feet back in the stirrups. He looked over at Moon. He had trotted all the way to the other side of the arena. He already learned his lesson about getting near pain when she decided to get difficult. Alex smiled and clicked his tongue to get Pain to move.
Nothing. He tried again....Nothing. He shook his head and gave her flanks a good kick. She threw her head and screamed in protest. Typical pain. Alex loosened the reins giving her freedom to move wherever she wanted to. Like always. She didn't move. Rolling his eyes he dismounted and took ahold of the reins. She didn't like that one bit. She whinnied and reared. Alex took a step back. He was absoloutly silent. Pain gave him a dirty look. She wasn't going to move no matter how hard he tried. She didn't want to move. She was perfectly happy right here. She lowered her head and bared her teeth. Her ears pinned.
Alex raised his hands "Fine! Have it your way Pain, you're more stubborn than Evean on a bad day! You're more stubborn than anything." he muttered to his horse. Pain shook out her mane than yawned. Resting on her left hind leg. Alex rolled his eyes and turned on his heel. Moon was standing there by the gate His head high and alert. Alex looked over at the girl and her horse. He probably looked like an idiot on not being able to handle Pain very well. The mare never listened. She got lazy or too hyper. He looked back at the mare to see her following him. He smiled "Give up?" he asked stepping to her side and patting her neck.
Alex loved his Pain. He just didn't love her temper. She nickered and allowed Alex to mount. He kept the reins loose. Giving her freedom to wander. Only directing her away from the buckskin. Moon decided to come up. He touched his velvety nose to Pain's shoulder. Pain stepped away and moved herself into a trot. On impulse, Alex began to post. Raising and lowering himself with ease. Her looked over to see the girl smiling at him. She smiled back. Pulling back on the reins to slow his horse. Moon was glued to Pain's side.
Alex's smile faded. What was he going to say to her? What if she knew who he was? What if she reconized his face and called the cops? He hesitated his body becoming tense. Pain jumped to the side and whinnied at the sudden tension in her master. She thought she caused it. She raised her head proudly and looked at the stallion as they made their way over to the trio. Alex's eyes went from the girl to her horse. taking in all his features. good onformation. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Safe Inside Myself.
Are All My Thoughts of You.
Sweet Raptured Light, It Ends Here Tonight Tags ~' Alex, Kaite
Word Count ~' 893
Muse ~' Running around
Music ~' ---
Notes ~' WHOOT My first decent post today!
Lyrics ~' My Last Breath- Evanescence |
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Post by cowgirl on Jul 28, 2009 19:58:29 GMT -5
Knight nickered at the show the mare was putting on. He flicked one ear back at Kaite and heard her giggling. He loved when his maser was happy. He stiffened and put both ears back when he saw the male human get off the mare. He hated people, but this male didn’t seem bad. He had heard the affection in the male’s voice as he spoke to the mare, maybe he wouldn’t be bad. He hadn’t beaten the mare when she had thrown a fit. He knew one thing for sure this mare was not his type. He would never do that to Kaite. She snorted softly and looked to the colt by the gate. He clearly was smart enough to run from the mare when she was being bitchy. He kept one ear tilted toward Kaite the whole time they walked closer to the two horses and human male. Kaite hopped he hadn’t heard her giggling as his mare planted her feet and glared at him. Kaite smiled and tried to fight her shy side as her and Knight got closer. Suddenly it hit her, what was she going to say?! Her heart picked up speed as she frantically thought of what to say to this handsome guy. She settled on the classic greeting, hello. She sighed inwardly as she noticed his smiling fading. She wondered if it was her fault. Maybe she had done something to upset him. She took a deep breath and spoke her voice was clear and strong, yet sweet, “Hi, my name is Kaite. I’m new here.” She flashed him a shy toothy smile and looked up at him. She realized that both of his horses where larger than Knight in the height area, but she doubted that any horse of his could measure up to Knight in the muscle area. She looked over the beautiful horses and smiled at their healthy coats. She looked once more into the face of the guy she was talking too. Her hazel eyes showed that she was happy, yet shy. As a second thought she slowly extended her right hand for him to shake. Word count; 357 |
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Post by Desert on Jul 28, 2009 22:31:29 GMT -5
Can You Hear Me?
Can You Feel Me in Your arms?
Holdin My Last Breath... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Pain looked to Knight and nickered a message that easily said "I'll be good." Moo trotted around the mare. Touching her neck everytime her passed. Alex froze. His whole body seemed to shut right down. He couldn't trust her, he couldn't trust anyone without Sawyer around. He forgot how to speak. Brown hazel pools didn't even speak.
Pain whinned at her master looking over at him. He snapped back into attention. No one at the ranch hurt him yet. He'd trus this woman, for now. "I'm Alex. I've been here for...a while." his voice was shy and very quiet. He didn't dark make eye contact.He just wanted to melt. To run away. "I'd like to welcome you then." he looked up only to smile shyly.
He hesitated, looking at her hand. He was having a panic attack in his mind. He didn't know if she should shake her hand or ignore it. What if she was a hunter. and undercover cop...! No, she couldn't be. He extended a now pale white hand and shook hers. It was only a moment before he took his hand away and hid his face. What was he going to do now? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Safe Inside Myself.
Are All My Thoughts of You.
Sweet Raptured Light, It Ends Here Tonight Tags ~' Alex, Kaite
Word Count ~' Don't want to know
Muse ~' Ouch
Music ~' ---
Notes ~' BAD!
Lyrics ~' My Last Breath- Evanescence |
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Post by cowgirl on Jul 29, 2009 19:11:44 GMT -5
Knight chopped his bit a couple times as the male human touched Kaite. He didn’t like this one bit. He hadn’t even been able to get a clean sniff of this male and he was touching his human mare! He let out a low snort and stopped his large disk like hoof and flattened his ears to his head menacingly. He would take none of this physical contact crap. He side stepped quickly, and stopped about a foot away. He tossed his head and turned his blue eye to look at the male human. Kaite was surprised at the reaction Alex gave her. She didn’t even stop Knight from side stepping. Her hand subconsciously slapped his neck hard, but other than that her eyes dropped slightly. What had she done to get a reaction like that? He seemed guarded like she had beaten him physically before this meeting. She looked at his hands then up at his face, a half worried; half curios look on her face. Her voice was soft and a slightly nervous, “Did I say or do something wrong? I apologize for whatever I did. I didn’t mean to be too bold or cocky…” her voice slowly started to fade as she realized she was rambling. Her cheeks took on a slightly pink look to them as she looked away from his features and his horse. She slowly started to twirl Knight’s thick mane between her fingers. She always felt stupid when she did something wrong. She looked up into his face trying to give him a small soft smile. She was really trying to be a nice person, but she was having a hard time with him being this way. Word count;284 Muse; bad |
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Post by Desert on Jul 29, 2009 22:22:12 GMT -5
Can You Hear Me?
Can You Feel Me in Your arms?
Holdin My Last Breath... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ DAMNIT ALEXANDER! PULL YOURSELF TOGETHER! he screamed at himself. He was acting like an impolite fool. He felt like one, too. He griped Pain's leather reins and frowned. Wat would Sawyer do? He would talk to her. Tell her what was on his mind. But no! Sawyer was a member of an A-list family. He was a celebrity....Well a blind stand up comic that liked to make fun of celebrities. His best friend knew how to talk to people. Even if he was a little shy.
He'd trust her. Alex bit his lip and looked up with sorry, hazel eyes "D-don't be sorry. You didn't do anything wrong." he spoke quickly, just wanting to get it over with. "It's me...I'm uh............." his voice seemed to freeze he choked back a scream, "I'm not a very......social person. I uhhh have trust issues." he hesitated now thinking of all the posibilities of what she would d next. Pain shifted her weight from under him. He made quick eye contact. Interested in her expression. "I should be the one who's sorry." he whispered.
Damn! He sounded so stupid! He felt like a child, lost in the market. He gnawed on his cheek, waiting for her reaction. He kinda kept his gaze averted. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Safe Inside Myself.
Are All My Thoughts of You.
Sweet Raptured Light, It Ends Here Tonight Tags ~' Alex, Kaite
Word Count ~' 209
Muse ~' Dyig slowly
Music ~' ---
Notes ~' Crappeh post
Lyrics ~' My Last Breath- Evanescence |
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Post by cowgirl on Jul 30, 2009 0:13:29 GMT -5
Knight pricked his ears slightly at the sorrow in the male’s voice. He bobbed his head for a moment then took a step closer to the mare and reached out to sniff her flank. He had noticed the little colt running around her, but wasn’t too worried about him. He breathed the mare’s scent in deeply then slowly and carefully moved his head closer to the human on her back he sniffed once at his leg, but only smelt horse. The he slowly moved his creamy muzzle to the male’s hand. His nostrils flared with the scent of him. He breathed in deeply a couple times then let out a short lived squeal and pulled his head away. Kaite listened to his words and heard the real meaning to them. He was hiding something, but she wasn’t worried about it. Everyone had something to hide. She nodded softly as he spoke of trusting issues. Her words where soft and gentle, “It’s alright. I don’t expect you to tell me your deepest secrets right off the bat, or at all.” She smiled up at him hoping to lighten the mood with a little humor. She jumped as Knight let out a shrill squeal, her hand instantly slapped his rump and she mumbled so he could hear her in a firm voice, “Now see here Mister, you are the one that sniffed him, he didn’t even move! Leave him alone.” Knight cocked his ears back as Kaite planted a firm hand on his hip. He dropped his head ashamed of himself for acting like a foolish yearling. He stood placidly looking down not meeting any animal’s gaze. He kept one ear on Kaite, the other on the male. Kaite looked back to Alex her cheeks showing her embarrassment. “I’m sorry about Knight, he has trust issues too.” she spoke calmly and watched Alex’s face to see if this brought up any unwanted feelings. She didn’t want to make him anymore uncomfortable than he already was. Her hazel eyes turned to melted chocolate in the summer sun, and her hair shifted around in the refreshingly cool breeze. She watched his short hair ripple like way water in a bowl does when you very softly blow air on it. She sighed softly to herself as she looked over his face and upper body. Word count; 389 |
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Post by Desert on Jul 30, 2009 23:33:54 GMT -5
Can You Hear Me?
Can You Feel Me in Your arms?
Holdin My Last Breath... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ He let a rush of air escape his lungs. He was glad she understood.. He noticed the stallion reaching out to sniff him and his mare. He held out his hand and smiled at the pretty buckskin.
"Thank you. Besides, my deepest secrets won't make any sense anyway" he managed a weak smile. But hey! It was a smile right? He stayed perfectly still as Knight hopped to the side. Pain bobbed her head and whinnied to the yearling. Moon trotted up beside her and stood quietly. Alex chuckled "It's alright. Pain here has issues all around." of courseit was a truthful joke. Alex loved Pain. He loved her a lot. Even when she acted up. She was getting better, though. She didn't throw him much anymore. He loked into her eyes and waited for a response. He kinda trusted her now. She didn't seem all bad. Maybe he could be friends with her. It would be so much easier to speak with her is Sawyer, Syra, or Evean were here. He hated being on his own. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Safe Inside Myself.
Are All My Thoughts of You.
Sweet Raptured Light, It Ends Here Tonight Tags ~' Alex, Kaite
Word Count ~' LOW
Muse ~' 
Music ~' ---
Notes ~' M muse is slowly giving way
Lyrics ~' My Last Breath- Evanescence |
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Post by cowgirl on Aug 1, 2009 17:31:15 GMT -5
Knight looked placidly at the mare. He was surprised to feel Kaite shift to the left the drop to the ground. He turned wonderingly to look at her. What was she up too? He felt the girth drop free and he took in a deep breath and relaxed as her fingers worked in careful circles where the saddle rested on him. He loved when she did this. He let his head drop and his body relax all tension leaving his body. He closed his eyes but kept his ears moving in slow twitches catching each sound. Kaite slipped carefully down off of Knight’s back and looked up at Alex. She smiled up at him happy to see him more relaxed. “So I saw.” She said with a small laugh, “She is a very pretty mare, so is your foal. Is it ok if I touch them? I won’t lose a finger, or a tooth?” She smiled teasingly up at him then went back to work on her t-touch running her fingers in small circles over Knights back, neck and shoulders. She glanced up at Alex a couple times, still a little nervous and shy to be alone with him. She looked at knight a playfully slapped his shoulder. He opened one eye and looked at her then nickered, a soft laugh. He was so relaxed that he didn’t care at all. Word count;231 Muse; YUCK! |
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Post by Desert on Sept 7, 2009 11:49:48 GMT -5
Can You Hear Me?
Can You Feel Me in Your arms?
Holdin My Last Breath... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Pain kept looking over at the yearling. The tall black stud just kept trotting around. The freak. She threw her head and called him over. Moon trotted around and nipped at Pain's mane. The mare lifted her head and snorted. Alex slowly dismounted and stood in front of Kaite. Still thinking if Pain wouls allow a stranger to touch her. Most of the time, she didn't let anyone touch her.
She seemed content and distracted but, Alx wasn't one to take chances with his horses. He frowned "I don't know what Pain'll do to you so, you can touch Moon. If you can catch him." he said softly with somewhat of a smile.
Moon stared at the smaller stallion and whinnied at him. Pain nickered at Moon and tossed her mane. She acted like a woman! Stubborn and demanding ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Safe Inside Myself.
Are All My Thoughts of You.
Sweet Raptured Light, It Ends Here Tonight Tags ~' Alex, Kaite
Word Count ~' Too scared to know
Muse ~' Bleh
Music ~' ---
Notes ~' Bleh
Lyrics ~' My Last Breath- Evanescence |
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