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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maddie girl has just informed me she wants to take ballet. how is that different from her hip hop stuff she already does
credit @ shadow
TWENTY FOUR | CROSS COUNTRY INSTRUCTOR | CARLY HANNAH WELLS MADDISON RYAN | 7 TRACE RYAN | 4 BENJAMIN RYAN | 4 XAVIER RYAN | 4 ASHER RYAN | 1 AARON RYAN | 1
jake watched everything unfold with interest and also amazement. it unfolded in something of slow motion but he just watched, if the groom was worth his wait in salt he wouldn't need someone to bail him out of the situation, it might not have been the safest but it was something self inflicted with the way he'd been working the horse. it wasn't like the horse wasn't working because he was being lazy or just energetic, any boob with half a brain could see it was also because he didn't trust the hand on the rope. luckily what this groom made up for in the lack of brains was a decent sprint on him and jake watched as he bailed out as quickly as he could, dropping to the other side of the fence safely and jake shook his head a little. "you don't like the horse, do you?" he asked as the groom stood up and dusted himself off. though jake took his attention off him and put it back onto the reason he was here.
it seemed that it was then monster noticed he was even watching because suddenly those dark eyes were on jake and he felt them doing their best to read him. now he wasn't moving as fast jake could see the marks that hands had laid on him before and it made his blood boil that someone could do that to any animal, much less to a horse. he'd dealt with difficult horses before but there was never any reason to do this. he didn't make any sort of moves as the black stallion moved towards him slowly, as if they were each sizing each other up and trying to work out what each other was about. he felt the breath from the horse on his arms and he smiled slightly, the slight tickling sensation working through his arms. "well look at you." he said softly as the horse turned to walk away from him.
he watched him for a few more minutes until he made a choice, one that might have been stupid but he had this sense that if he didn't threaten the horse, the horse wouldn't threaten him. he was also just as fast as the groom so he knew he'd be able to get halfway up the fence before monster got to him. "lets see if we can get that rope off you." he spoke, just as softly as he had before. he didn't approach the horse, he just turned to the side slightly, holding his hand out in front of him to see if he could peak the horses interest enough for him to come over and investigate what he was doing.
TWENTY FOUR | CROSS COUNTRY INSTRUCTOR | CARLY HANNAH WELLS MADDISON RYAN | 7 TRACE RYAN | 4 BENJAMIN RYAN | 4 XAVIER RYAN | 4 ASHER RYAN | 1 AARON RYAN | 1
jake really didn't like it when horses suffered because people were stupid. he'd never imagine blaming a horse for actions that clearly weren't caused by nothing, unless it was jupe. jake would blame that horse for anything if he could. but that didn't mean he'd hurt him, withhold care or do anything to make him suffer or scared of his surroundings. he'd grumble, roll his eyes and complain but he'd treat him like any other horse he had. when people couldn't do that it angered him. so that's why he was here today. to check out a horse that sounded like it had just been put into bad situations and blamed when they turned ugly. he and carly had talked about it, decided they could take on another horse, at least for a while to see if it worked. at the very least jake could provide him a safe home, safe handling and round the clock care while he took the time to find someone who could look after the horse properly.
he was directed to the yard the horse was in by a groom that didn't really seem to like the horse. was everyone here against the poor animal? he knew what had happened with the stablehand at blue acres. his brother's girlfriend had been one of the paramedics that had saved his life and taken him to hospital so he'd heard about the gist from her, not details or names but he'd heard there had been a kid hurt by a horse from her. the rest of the horse people in town had spread the details around. he ran his hand through his hair as he walked into the sunlight towards where the large black horse was being worked and even through the fence jake was impressed by the way he moved. he reached the wooden slats of the round yard and he climbed up onto the first rung to lean his arms onto the fence quietly, he didn't announce himself but he didn't try to hide himself either. he couldn't help but smile when there were a few bucks thrown in and it seemed that he was running without regard to who was holding the rope, and the poor groom looked like he was just trying to keep up with the horse as best he could.
TWENTY FOUR | CROSS COUNTRY INSTRUCTOR | CARLY HANNAH WELLS MADDISON RYAN | 7 TRACE RYAN | 4 BENJAMIN RYAN | 4 XAVIER RYAN | 4 ASHER RYAN | 1 AARON RYAN | 1
jake pressed his hands to his heart in mock hurt as ben said he'd have rather he'd stayed home. "but then i would have missed out on the chance to make you shit yourself." he said with a smirk as he reached past the headrest to flick his older brother on the ear lightly. there were perks to being in the back seat and bugging the driver, he couldn't turn around and retaliate, at least not without pulling over and taking double the time to get home from here. "oh there is nothing more to it, you're just biased benny boy." he said as he glanced out the window to see where abouts they were. he couldn't remember the last time he'd sat in the back seat of a car. though it was rather cramped sharing the back with blankets, tack and whatever else ben had stashed in here.
he felt ben's hand slap his face as he tried to steal some of his drink again and he mock gasped. "violence! mother dearest would not approve." he said as he straightened a little and leaned his arms forward, letting the seatbelt slip to his waist as he leaned his arms against both of the seats in front of him, sitting the exact way he often stopped his daughter from sitting like in the car. "she drinks coffee .. i have a thousand children. coffee doesn't work on me anymore." he said with a smirk. "soda works much better." he said as he made a quick grab for the drink again, determined to snatch it from ben now more for the fun of it than to get the actual drink. "if anything's going to take me off of this earth, it's going to be carly." he said with a grin. "i don't think a car would dare take that honour away from her." he joked, but he was very aware that death was a very real part of life.
TWENTY FOUR | CROSS COUNTRY INSTRUCTOR | CARLY HANNAH WELLS MADDISON RYAN | 7 TRACE RYAN | 4 BENJAMIN RYAN | 4 XAVIER RYAN | 4 ASHER RYAN | 1 AARON RYAN | 1
he grinned as he listened to them in the front seat, loving how easy it was for them to slip back into their usual banter. he and riley had been so rough on ben while they'd been kids but they'd gotten better as they'd grown up. now the three of them could give and take with the best of them and they knew that all it would take was a phone call to rally them to arms. "yes mum." he said as he rolled his eyes as ben reminded him about his seat belt, pulling it across his chest and clicking it in and then tugging on it a little so he could prove to ben it was done up. "happy?"
"have you met that horse? it's whole personality is jerk." he said as he rolled his eyes. carly and the boys could do anything they wanted to the stupid animal, but for some reason whenever jake came near he was all teeth, flat ears and flying hooves. "everyone prefers carly to me, she's much prettier." he laughed as he started to lean forward as he thought about grabbing ben's drink. "hey, you were dropped too. i have vidid memories of ben dumping you off the couch when you were a baby." maybe a slightly exaggerated memory, but who were they to know.
he just about had his hand on his brother's drink when his hand was swatted away and he narrowed his eyes, taking it as a challenge as he strained against the seatbelt to lean as far forward as he could, managing to grip his fingers onto the straw before his brother could get his mouth onto it. "now now benny, mother always said to share." he said with a smirk.
TWENTY FOUR | CROSS COUNTRY INSTRUCTOR | CARLY HANNAH WELLS MADDISON RYAN | 7 TRACE RYAN | 4 BENJAMIN RYAN | 4 XAVIER RYAN | 4 ASHER RYAN | 1 AARON RYAN | 1
in hindsight, it hadn't been a great idea. okay that was a lie, it had been a bad idea before he'd done it but it had been well worth it. he knew that ben was a safe enough driver that they wouldn't crash, he'd picked his moment when they'd been almost standing still so he could argue that it wasn't that bad. he couldn't help but laugh as he saw the coke spill over ben's pants. "this is news to you?" he responded to the twat comment as he felt the glare of his little sister and he turned to look at her better. "he never drives more than ten miles an hour anyway!" he grinned a little as he shifted slightly so he was more comfortable now he'd reveled himself there was no need for him to stay uncomfortable.
"oh no, that horse is just an asshole." he couldn't help but laugh as ben said that carly had better not be hiding back here with him. "you think she'd have let me come if she knew what i was planning? she'd have tied me to the radiator to stop me." he loved her and he knew she loved him but he was also aware that there were parts of him that drove her insane, this was probably one of them. "i'll tell blair that ben agrees with you about carly being better." he joked, teasing both of them as he reached through to the front seat to see if there was any drink left in ben's coke.
TWENTY FOUR | CROSS COUNTRY INSTRUCTOR | CARLY HANNAH WELLS MADDISON RYAN | 7 TRACE RYAN | 4 BENJAMIN RYAN | 4 XAVIER RYAN | 4 ASHER RYAN | 1 AARON RYAN | 1
it had been really really hard for him to keep his mouth shut for the whole trip. it hadn't dawned on him that he should do this until earlier that morning. he'd known riley was getting home today and that ben was picking her up and he hadn't been sure if he'd be able to get to the airport so he'd not made plans to go. but as fate would have it, he'd been able to swing the day off by swapping shifts with someone. he hadn't bothered to tell ben what he was doing, after all it had been all too long since he'd messed with his brother. their last conversation hadn't been one that had allowed him to joke and while he was glad ben had talked to him, it would feel great to get back to normal. well normal for them.
it had been a hell of a job sneaking into ben's car without him knowing, planning that had gone without a hitch, squishing his tall frame into the back seat, pressing himself down into the gap between the front seats and the back seats and covering himself with a few of the horse rugs ben had in his car. he lost count of how long he'd been in the car when they finally stopped at the airport and by some miracle ben hadn't seen jake's hand at all when he'd snuck it out from under the blankets to stop the drinks from toppling over while ben had been driving.
it had seemed like an eternity from when they'd stopped at the airport to when ben and riley had actually gotten back into the car and while jake had thought this was a great idea, he hadn't really thought it all through. he hadn't thought about needing the bathroom, being bored shitless and before he could think of how to jump out and surprise them he felt ben start pulling out into the queue. well that hadn't taken long. he waited until he felt the car stop again and he took his chance, just in time to hear riley talk about being their favourite sister. he hadn't felt the car start to move again so he took his chance, sitting up suddenly and sticking his head through the gap of the front seats. "i think we both much prefer blair." he joked as he turned his head to look at riley. "surprise." he said with a grin before he turned to look at ben. "you need to wash this shit, it smells worse than jupiter does on a good day."
TWENTY FOUR | CROSS COUNTRY INSTRUCTOR | CARLY HANNAH WELLS MADDISON RYAN | 7 TRACE RYAN | 4 BENJAMIN RYAN | 4 XAVIER RYAN | 4 ASHER RYAN | 1 AARON RYAN | 1
if i woke up next to -- leo "what the fuck happened at the stables last night ...."
TWENTY FOUR | CROSS COUNTRY INSTRUCTOR | CARLY HANNAH WELLS MADDISON RYAN | 7 TRACE RYAN | 4 BENJAMIN RYAN | 4 XAVIER RYAN | 4 ASHER RYAN | 1 AARON RYAN | 1
TWENTY FOUR | CROSS COUNTRY INSTRUCTOR | CARLY HANNAH WELLS MADDISON RYAN | 7 TRACE RYAN | 4 BENJAMIN RYAN | 4 XAVIER RYAN | 4 ASHER RYAN | 1 AARON RYAN | 1