Welcome to Hickstead, home to both Seven Oak Stables, and Blue Acre - two rival stables. Both offer opportunities for their clients to reach the highest level of excellence. Each stable differs from the other, so choose wisely and never forget, loyalty is everything... Meanwhile as the stables battle it out, there's trouble brewing at the university. Be careful, if you don't pick a side you may get caught in the cross-fire...
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Jace reclined back against a tree, music blaring in his ears, not giving two tosses about the world around him. So far he'd managed to avoid getting himself into trouble and even turned up to his few classes on relative time - impressive for him. He felt good for once, especially now that he was sat focused on drawing in his old sketch book. It was one of his rare good days, something that didn't show through. He hadn't squabbled with his brother's during breakfast, hadn't pissed off his father, actually got to school. Admittedly he hadn't done his class work because he couldn't focus on the letters, but he'd turned up at least.
Hell, he hadn't even had a smoke since getting up. He was doing good. That's what he felt, he was almost sure about that. And he hadn't seen anything either! It was just a really good day. He was even smiling as he worked on the image in his book, the art work not nearly as dark or depressing as some of his other artworks. He was happy, content for the first time in a long while and whilst he didn't understand why he suddenly felt this way, he wanted it to stay for a few days at least. He didn't care if his brothers thought that there was something wrong with him or not, it didn't matter, he could breathe - there wasn't that unbearable weight on his chest that made everything hard to deal with.
was she supposed to be at the university? no, she wasn't. but did she want to be at the school she was supposed to be at? absolutely not. she hadn't wanted to leave the house this morning, she'd been content just staying at home watching movies and talking to the friends she'd been forced to leave behind when they'd moved to this middle of nowhere town. as soon as she'd been dropped at the gates she'd waited until her mother had driven away and her brother had gone into the building before she'd high tailed it away from there and she'd gone looking for something to entertain her. she'd changed out of her school uniform, having packed casual clothes into her bag rather than her schoolwork so she'd changed into that at the local park. thank god for gross public toilets, it seemed they were good for something at least. she ruffled her hands through her hair, checking her face in the mirror before she walked out of the building and walked to the university to try and find some cute university boy to talk to.
when she got there, it wasn't long before she spotted a face she knew, a face she'd been warned to stay away from and a face that made her just the slightest bit curious. she knew his family too, who didn't? there was an energetic blonde boy in her school who seemed to have the intelligence of a three-month-old puppy and the energy to match, one who was just a year below her and then another in the year above her. she couldn't think of any of their names though, she just knew they were related because of gossip. she liked gossip, she partook in gossip but she wasn't stupid enough to believe something at face value, even she wasn't that dense. she fluffed her hair a litte as she crossed to where he was sitting and she couldn't help but smile as she came to stand next to where he was sitting. "so is it a scenery picture or something more sinister?" she asked, not sure what answer she was hoping for.
"So is it a scenery picture or something more sinister?"
Jace jumped and yanked the headphones out of his ears, looking up somewhat startled as he noticed someone near him. He wasn't used to people coming near him, unless it was his brothers looking for a fight or the students that didn't like him and had something they wanted to do to him. He was stunned for several moments before he managed to reply.
"I-uh..." he scrubbed at his eye for a moment. "Portrait... of my dad, back when he used to fight."
He offered the black and white image towards her for a closer look - it was a decent, relatively accurate image done in black and white, almost done in some ways yet still lacking the face of his father - a detail he was still struggling with.
