Sass and Class (open)

[Ben Hall]

    Ben hung up Ram's lead outside of the gelding's stall after leading him out to the pasture after his riding lessons and traversed over to the White Oak Barn where Lady was. When he reached the mare, Lady was already pacing in her stall, anticipating that she would be let out. The mare grew bored easily, and Ben took note to find a new toy to occupy her once more. Grabbing the mare's yellow lead from where it hung on the stall, he opened the door and stood before it to stop Lady from barging at him. He led her out after him after clipping the lead onto her matching halter.

    Walking Lady out to the pastures, Ben had to walk rather briskly to keep up with Lady's long steps, and the mare was prancing a bit beside him. Her ground manners were usually very good, but she was not so antsy to get out that she couldn't help prancing, but at least she didn't pull ahead like other horses may have. Once they reached the second pasture, Ben opened the gate and stepped in with Lady before unclipping her. Lady immediately trotted off, passing Ram, who had stationed himself rather close to the gate to monitor who entered and left, and when hay came in. 

    The gelding pinned his ears threateningly as Lady passed, and in response, the mare pinned her ears as well, swishing her tail as if to warn the gelding. Ram was always trying to make sure that all the horses knew that he was at the top of the pecking order, but Lady was pretty sassy herself and wasn't going to take anything from the gelding. Stepping back out and latching the gate behind him, Ben stood with his arms crossed, leaning on the fence. Both of his horses were flashy and stood out from the rest of the horses.

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With all the fluster of transferring schools, especially to a boarding school, Jason needed a chance to press the pause button in his life. He had been trying his best not to get lost on the way to his classes, keeping up with the rigorous courses, and getting used to living by himself. After his last equine class, he hooked Tickle up in the cross-ties and began grooming him. After realizing that he had been brushing the same spot for the past two minutes, Jason decided that he needed a break. He quickly finished his grooming procedure, but instead of replacing his horse in his stall, he led the pinto out of Red Willow Barn. Even a short walk with his horse would help refresh his mind.

Tickle seemed hesitant as first, confused by the change in routine. However, the moment quickly passed as his curiosity got the better of him. Jason couldn't help but smile as his horse's ears swiveled back and forth so much that they resembled antennae. They might as well be, nothing gets past those ears. He thought. They made their way down past the memory garden, and Jason noticed a figure leaning on the fence of Pasture 2. He looked vaguely familiar, and as they drew closer Jason recognized him as one of the students in his hunter/jumper class.

The brown-blond raised a hand in polite greeting as the distance between the two males diminished to talking range. "Afternoon." Jason opened the gate and led his horse in. Tickle initially resisted Jason's attempts to turn his head back towards the gate, but after a short jerk of the orange and white lead, he remembered himself and obediently did as he was asked. "There we go. Good boy. You have fun now." Jason murmured, sliding the lead rope off of his horse's neck and slipping back through the gate. Tickle stood there for a moment, ears flicking as usual before spinning rather explosively and cantering away.

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 Evan's day had been quite outstanding with all her lessons but she was quite tired, leaving what she knew before at home felt strange but at least she was with Dreams. She walked to White Oak Barn to see her Gypsy mare. As usual Dreams peaked her head over the stable door when she heard Evan's voice. Evangeline took Dreams to the cross ties for a groom and as usual Dreams nuzzled Evan's hand in affection.

 When Evan finished grooming Dreams she took the lead rope off the crossties and took Dreams a walk. Dreams pawed the round excitedly when she got out of the barn. Evan watched as Dreams was looking around she seemed to be enjoying being somewhere different. Dreams whinnied when she saw the geldings and the mares in pasture 2. Evangeline saw two boys beside the gate to the pasture as Evan walked up to the gate and opened she said calmly to Dreams as her ears were going back and forth "be a good girl" as she unclipped the lead rope and Dreams cantered away to the other mares and geldings.

 Evan watched as Dreams made new friends, if only it was easy to make friends with humans she thought then she turned around and said "hi" to the two boys.