Bits and Books{Equestrian School Romance}Semi-lit

[SouthernComfort]

~Natalie~

{Bentley - 19 - English}

She looked up and saw the boy standing there in his cowboy hat. She smiled at his compliment at Bentley and she reached down to pet them. "Thanks." She said, looking back up at him. She nudged Bentley closer to the fence and she stopped next to the guy. Bentley reached his head over and knocked the boys hat off his head. She best out laughing, dropping her reins on the horses neck. "I'm so sorry!" She said, a hint of laughter in her tone. She backed Bentley up a little bit to were he could just get his head over the fence. It was pretty easy for him considering her was almost 17 hands. She smiled down at the boy. "I'm Natalie." She said, reaching down of Bentley to offer a hand for him to shake. "You are?" She asked, looking at him.

[A V I K S T]

~~{Liyah Honey Thorpe}~~
~~Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow~~
Liyah quickly slipped the tack onto the Silver Bay stallion and gave him a quick pat on the neck. She opened his stall door and lead him out before closing the door behind her. She lead him a little way away from his stall before lightly vaulting into the saddle. With him being only 15"2, compared to Lilli, who was 16"2, he was tiny. She slipped her feet into her stirrups and patted the stallions neck as she wrapped her legs around his belly and squeezed gently, asking for walk. He responded instantly with a nice forward walk and she turned him towards to trails. She smiled to herself as she felt the stallion instantly get excited, and as they got closer to the trail path her let out an excited whinny. She laughed, Come on boy she said to him, lets go riding

[Moved </3 D:]

{Greyson - Ignus}

Grey laughed softly as Bently knocked off his hat. He stooped down to grab it, and ran a hand through his disheveled short brown hair. "It's alright." He said, a broad smile. "I'm Greyson, or Grey for short. Nice to meet you Natalie." He said, reaching up and grasping her hand in a handshake. He touched Bently's nose gently, his smile widening slightly. "You're both reallly amazing. I was watching. I don't know hardly anything about English riding though." He said, shrugging almost apolgetically. He looked up into Natalie's face, his clear blue eyes meeting her gaze.

[SouthernComfort]

~Natalie~

{Bentley - 19 - English}

She laughed slightly. "I've ridden both western and english." She said, amazed at how bright his eyes were. "And thanks. We both worked really hard to get here." She said, almost ashamed that she had to work at all to get here. She thought for a second. If he could teach her more about western, she could teach him more about english. "I have an offer for you. You teach me more about Western on your horse. And I'll teach you more about English on Bentley." She said. It sounded like a pretty fair deal to her. She hadn't ridden western since she worked on the ranch. When she stopped the cattle herding she started riding english and bought Bentley.

[Moved </3 D:]

Grey's smile widened and he nodded. "Sounds good, though I'm hopelessly terrible at English. You'll have your work cut out for you." He warned with a note of amusement in his voice. He laughed softly and nodded again. "Do you want to start now?" He asked, his head tilting to one side slightly. He had a tendancy of cocking his head to one side when he was asking questions. It looked kind of silly, but almost cute in a puppy-like way. He didn't really know that he did things like that, but Grey had a few odd tendencies and habits.

[SouthernComfort]

~Natalie~

{Bentley - 19 - English}

She nodded. "Sure we can start now." She dropped her stirrups and swung down. "You want to go first or should I?" She wanted to give Bentley a break because he had done jumps which always tired a big horse like him out. Bentley didn't really seem to be tired though so if he wanted to hop on now it would be fine. She grabbed Bentleys' reins and stood in the deep arena dirt. She imagined he already had to good posture and everything down. Mostly with western it is just working on getting them to use to reins and to pull to your hip not outward or neck rein.

{I ride western and english in real life which is why I know all that because those were my major mistakes learning english >.< }

[Moved </3 D:]

( Lol, I ride just Western. I know very little about English. XD Though, I'm pretty new to Western... I never really rode until this year. )

{G.r.e.y.s.o.n // Ignus - Western}

"How about I teach you Western first? Looks like he could use a break." Greyson said, patting Bently's cheek gently and smiling up at Natalie. "It won't take me long to get Ignus ready." He said, nodding and continuing to smile. He had been planning to take Ig out for a ride, but this would be much more fun, he thought. Grey had helped his younger sister and her friends learn and improve in Western often, and was a pretty good teacher.

[SouthernComfort]

~Natalie~

{Bentley - 19 - English}

She simply nodded. She turned Bentley around and walked him out of the gate, walking up to Greyson. "Want to help me un-tack him? You will be amazed at how light these saddles are compared to western ones." She said, a hint of amusement to her voice. She smiled at him and started laughing as Bentley put his nuzzle on her helmet and was licking her helmet. She took her helmet off and pulled her medium-length blonde hair out of the low ponytail she had it in. It fell on her shoulders and her bangs flopped across her face. She quickly took a bobby pin and pinned her bangs back. She started walked Bentley to the barn. Once she got there and put Bentleys halter on and tied him up, She unbuckled his saddle but left it on while she went and put her helmet and bridle up. She looked at Greyson. "Take the saddle off." She said, grinning. She wanted him to feel the weight difference between a western and english saddle.

{I've been riding Western for 4 years and English for about 1}

[Moved </3 D:]

{G.r.e.y.s.o.n // Ignus - Western}

Greyson watched Natalie with his clear blue eyes and a smile on his face. When she instructed him to take off the saddle, he nodded and went over by Bentley's side. Undoing the cinch, he made a move to pull the saddle down from the horses' back, and let out a surprised sound as the saddle slid into his arms. "Holy cow! That's crazy!" He said, laughing at himself as he hoisted the light saddle onto his shoulder with ease. "This is so much better than Western Saddles." He added, grinning.

[SouthernComfort]

~Natalie~

{Bentley - 19 - English}

She laughed. "Told you it was a lot lighter. Makes it easier to throw on bigger horses like Bentley." She added. She untied Bentley and put him in his stall while Grey put the saddle on the rack. She enjoyed having company around a big stable like this. In a place like this you rarely saw anybody. She fed Bentley a carrot and rubbed his face. She walked out of the stall locking it behind her. "So where is your horse?" She asked while waiting for Grey to appear from the doorway of the tack room. She wondered if she actually had a new friend and how good of a teacher he actually was. It was going to be hard for her to adjust back but she hoped it would be fun. She was curious about what kind of horse he had though. She knew it had to be a ranch horse of some sort.