Bridges Pole Ranch And Academic Centre | (PAUSED)

As Mrs. Wolf brought out a check list, she walked around while Jacob was training with his stud about barrel racing, something he barely touched but as his stallion went at angle to round the barrel, Jacob quickly switched to his horse's side and then back to normal, but as he started to finish his last round his horse touched the ground to lightly and fell hard, Jacob went flying but not far.

This grabbed Amy's attention since she was training her mare in the nearby dressage arena, something she didn't do but might as well would, but as she saw Jacob fly off of his horse, she stopped her horse and dismounted quickly. She ran over to Jacob as he was unconscious, she ran off to get Mrs. Wolf and get her to get Jacob to a hospital or something.

But as she and Mrs. Wolf ran over to Jacob, Mrs. Wolf didn't say anything but she picked up Jacob and carried him off to the Ranch, Amy followed as she grabbed Jacob's horse and brought him to his stall, the poor horse was hurt. So Amy put some pain killers and other medicines that helped a horse feel a bit better, then the stallion laid down and started to sleep.

Ava wasn't there as she was training the foal, but she did hear the news once Amy told her, Tyler, and Lilithe the heartbreak news.. "Oh that's horrible, I hope he recovers from his unconsciousness, and I hope he remembers what to do." Ava said worriedly, Tyler pulled her into a hug.

The little foal looked at the people in front of her, "I need to tell Leslie about this!" Ava said but Amy kept her from telling Leslie, "Ava, we know that she's been here for a year, but we shouldn't worry her about something that will blow away fast." Amy told Ava, but she didn't listen to Amy and she ran off to tell Leslie..

"Well there goes something to be a secret.." Amy said as she petted the foal, "Yeah but at least we can have a training horse for new trainers that want to come to our ranch and academic centre, or Mrs. Wolf's ranch and academic centre." Lilithe said to Amy, she sighed and so did Amy and Tyler.

The black arabian stallion was off being ground trained by a friend of Ava's for the rest of the hours that were still left in the day, it wasn't night yet, but it would be hard for everyone to see the black arabian in the night, but that would be for another adventure! Or day..

Anyways, as a friend of Ava's got done ground training the black arabian stallion, the friend put the stallion next to Leslie's horses stall unknown to them, but they didn't know anything and that the stallion was very friendly, if Leslie even knew about that but she didn't, anyways the friend notified Ava and that the group and other rider's exited the barn.

     When Leslie was finished spending one on one time with her mare, she brought her over to the stable. She put her in the cross ties, and gave her a quick brushing before sneaking in some peppermints, London's favorite. She then brought London to her stall for the rest of the day. Leslie had mixed up London's special feed that she got every afternoon to help with a number of things like her joints, performance, stamina as a few to name. Once London was chowing down on her feed, Leslie then refilled her water bucket. "There you go girl. More training tomorrow as always. I want to be as ready as we can be for that show coming up. Though I know you like training." she chuckled to herself before saying farewell to the mare for the time being. She'd have to make sure she's check on her again one more time before she left for the night.

     After doing all of that, Leslie walked back over to the jumping arena, and walked inside. She put the poles back up that were knocked down either by her or another rider. While doing so, she studied the jumps. The poles were set at a height that was a little higher then half of her own height. When she was on London the jumps always seemed smaller, but she just realized how high they jumped. She only remembered when she started to learn to jump let alone ride only 6 years before, "There. All the poles are back in their places on the jumps. I wonder if there's anything else that needs to be done." she said looking around. "I could clean my bridle, but that can wait. It's not that bad."

     Leslie was walking back over to the barn when Ava ran up to her. She wasn't really paying attention when Ava did, so it startled her. She felt terrible when she heard about what happened to Jacob, "How bad is it? Is his horse ok?" she asked. Working with horses was extremely dangerous, and Leslie hated it whenever she heard that a rider had a accident. Though she knew those things happened, "Well if there's anything I can help with, and I'm not doing anything I'd be happy to help.." she said as she started to get used to all the attention she'd been getting lately.

     Though it was strange to her. Why were all these people acting as if she was completely new here? She wasn't. Leslie has been riding here for the past year, and it was all strange to her. Though she was caught off guard when she was talking with Ava when she heard London in the barn. The mare was making some noise which was unusual for her, "I'm sorry, but I have to go see what's up with my horse...she never acts up in her stall." Leslie then finished walking over to the barn, and she walked over to London's stall, "What is it girl? There's nothing wro-" Leslie had looked over to see the arabian stallion in the stall right beside London's. No wonder she was acting up. She didn't like stallions. "Come on girl let's put you somewhere else for now...I don't want to do anything with that stallion without knowing his temper, or where to even move him." With that, she brought the mare out of the stall, and out of the barn. Leslie just decided it was best to put London in the mare pasture. "Who on earth would think it's alright to place a stallion right next to a mare?" she thought to herself.

(Oh and I forgot to mention, that I just did it now, but I won't edit the information yet. There are now dorms, it's a separate building and all the riders are assigned to a different dorm, kinda like high school, except horses! Also you can add this to the rp, if you want, I just give extra an rp when I post- I do not know why I do it though, but I'm used to it- anyways!)

When Mrs. Wolf walked into the barn, seeming to look tired, she flicked the light switch on and the horses got up to see Mrs. Wolf, she looked around the barn or seemed to examine it before grabbing a broom from the closet with the cleaning supplies for the barn, she closed the door and began sweeping at this time. But it was calming and she was humming as she was sweeping, making the horses sleep as she continued to hum and sweep the floor.

(Also it's night now, well almost close to it, most rider's turn in the night and the horses get to rest, so yeah-)

The arabian stallion still didn't lay down and go to sleep, so Mrs. Wolf put a halter on him and attached a rope and kept it in her hand, the stallion seemed to obey and stay still and calm as he heard and listened to Mrs. Wolf hum, enjoyed the music as he continued to move and listen to her pace. He was quite calm and nice to think of it since Mrs. Wolf got to tame the stallion- sorta..

Anyways, as Mrs. Wolf swept the barn to it's perfection, she put the broom back and closed the door, the arabian stallion bumped her arm and she started to pet the stallion, guess he's smart enough to know who or what had time to do something, especially Mrs. Wolf since she wasn't always busy and did everything before and after.

"You still worried about Jacob boy? Yeah I can guess that you two would be frenemies for awhile since he stopped you from breeding already bred mares, different ones, not all are bred but some are young. But I can tell that your smart enough to know that, oh and have you met my gelding of the barn? He's really friendly and sweet, perfect for newer rider's and trainer's in training, and other jobs that a kid needs here." Mrs. Wolf told the arabian stud, she then thought of putting name plagues up so that everyone knows where to put their horses, but she didn't say anything.

But as Mrs. Wolf walked the arabian around the barn he was starting to get used to being pulled everywhere, Mrs. Wolf thought of this as ground training but something that doesn't require lot's of attention, then the stallion stopped and he tugged Mrs. Wolf back and they noticed who walked in, the stallion was smart to look who it was now instead of later, but that was probably what every horse did. Anyways..

     Leslie didn't really do much the rest of the day. She left London in the pasture for the past couple of hours, and was on her way to retrieve her. Leslie opened the gate closing it behind her as she trekked into the pasture lead rope in hand. London saw Leslie coming to retrieve her from afar, and she took her time to walk over to her owner. Leslie was thankful the mare didn't make her walk all the way to get her as she attached the lead rope to the mare's halter, "Come on. It's getting dark. Best put you in your stall." she said before leading the mare out of the pasture letting out a yawn.

     As Leslie brought London back to her stall, she noticed Mrs. Wolf walking the arabian stallion around. Leslie's loose grip on the lead rope tightened. She pat London before undoing the lead rope as London walked in. She made sure she had enough feed and water before she headed in for the night. It had been a long day, and it was already dark out. As Leslie walked to her dorm, she tore down her iconic ponytail before opening her dorm's door. "Oh I forgot just how dirty I had this place," she sighed. Though she'd have to take time on a rest day to clean her dorm. 

     Instead Leslie just took her riding clothes off, tossed them on the floor, and changed into her pajamas. She looked out her window at the barn before crawling into bed. Unfortunately, no matter how hard she tried to sleep, Leslie just couldn't fall asleep that night. Her mind was just too active to let her do so. She couldn't stop thinking about how strange everyone was acting around her the past couple days. It was like they didn't even notice her until the previous day. "There has to be something going on here that I don't know about..." she sighed as she got out of bed. 

     Leslie just threw on some boots, and headed back outside. Maybe it was just that she was worried about Jacob. She hadn't heard of anything other then what happened previously that same day. Leslie walked over to the barn and checked on London refilling her water, and gave her a couple peppermints. She sighed before heading to the tack room deciding to just clean her bridle. She couldn't sleep anyway, so why not just clean it? She grabbed what she needed including a small lantern, and got to work cleaning the bridle just outside London's stall. London though was curious why her owner was out here at night, but she didn't mind. The mare just stuck her head out of the stall watching her clean the bit and bridle while falling asleep every now and then. 

     Leslie looked up at London and decided to just clean the bridle in the stall. It was big enough for her to do so, and London seemed to enjoy it since she kept trying to distract Leslie so she would get attention, "London stop it. I'm trying to clean the bridle," she muttered. Though before long Leslie had accidentally fallen asleep in London's stall for the night in her pajamas.

When Mrs. Wolf put the arabian back into his stall, she went over to check list the other horses, but when she heard something moving in Leslie's horses stall, she looked over the window and saw Leslie sleeping there, so she fetched a pillow and some blankets and she had laid them on her. Making sure she had enough warmth just in case it got cold out, rarely cold..

Anyways, she then walked back to her house as it was turned into a ranch, then some rustling was heard as well as a little neigh, "Oh no, did the little get out again?" Mrs. Wolf said to herself, she went over to the noise and gasped at the sight she saw..

When Ava woke up, it was strange to her, but as she heard running coming to her dorm she stood up with a bat in her hands for protection, but Mrs. Wolf bursted into the room and grabbed Ava quickly in her pajamas and the two left the building and both ran to the barn silently as Mrs. Wolf told Ava that Leslie was sleeping in her horse's stall.

But as the two quietly walk into the rider's lounge, the two look at each other, then Mrs. Wolf left the rider's lounge as Ava had the key to unlock it or lock it. And so, as Ava left the rider's lounge, she locked it, and went back to her dorm, she also made sure that Leslie didn't hear any of this "Silent Commotion" going on.

Anyways, as Ava went to her dorm, Lilithe came out and asked her why did she and Mrs. Wolf leave and then she came back, Ava was hesitent on telling Lilithe but then she softened up and told her what she and Mrs. Wolf did..

"Lilithe, promise not to tell anyone?" Ava asked Lilithe and she nodded her head, "Alright, so, Mrs. Wolf found something.. Well a creature, it sounded like a little foal to her but.. It wasn't and it's being locked in the rider's lounge for right now, this is a really horrible time to even have another adventure, but Mrs. Wolf doesn't want to freak anyone out, so the creature will be locked in the rider's lounge. At least until we can hide the creature in a better spot.." Ava told Lilithe as they were standing out in the hallway..

"So is that why you and Mrs. Wolf rushed out of your dorm and down to the barn?" Lilithe asked Ava and she nodded her head, "But the creature.. Mrs. Wolf doesn't know what it is yet, so she's taking it to the vet, the next day.. Since tomorrow is just more training, but she'll post a notice on the barn door. But for right now.. It's night and I'm tired from all that activity. So good night!" Ava told Lilithe and the two departed for the night.

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The next day~✨ Mrs. Wolf was up early as she was handling the arabian stallion again, this time she was gonna train him with loose jumping as she saw the intelligence last night, but if he excelled at the loose jumping, then he would do fine as a show horse!

But as Ava was feeding, grooming, and watering her horse for the day, she looked over at the rider's lounge, a bit anxious if anyone was gonna try and open the door, but she calmed down when Tyler came over and comforted her since he saw her tremble a bit. "Any word on Jacob since we last heard Ava?" Tyler asked her, she looked at him from a glance "No, Mrs. Wolf hasn't updated me on that-" the creature started to scratch the door and Ava froze up as Tyler went over there to see what it was..

When Tyler clicked the knob, the door didn't open and Ava held out the keys in her hands, she held the keys tightly.. "Why did you lock the door? What type of creature is in the rider's lounge?" Tyler asked directly into Ava's eyes which made her fidget a bit.

Ava's horse pushed Ava slightly and the two rode off as she rode her horse bareback this time, and they didn't go train, instead they left for the forest nearby..

Last edited on 2022-11-07 at 15:01:08 by Lizzy

     Leslie vaguely heard someone come into the stall that night, but she was far too tired to see who it was. Though London didn't seem to mind that Mrs. Wolf stepped in for a couple minutes, so Leslie didn't worry. Things would have been different very different back at her old barn. The people there weren't the kindest, and she was glad she got out of there when she did, or something may have happened to her or even her beloved horse. Though she had fully fallen asleep by the time Mrs. Wolf and Ava were in the barn.

     When the morning sunlight peaked into London's stall and into Leslie's closed eyes, she woke up. Leslie yawned as she rubbed her eyes after sitting up. Her eyes had to adjust to the light when she realized where she was, "Can't believe I did that again...what is up with me?" she sighed. Leslie looked up at London figuring she had enjoyed the company during the night. Then Leslie looked at herself, "Pajamas and all...best get to my dorm without anyone notic-" she paused when she noticed the pillow and blankets in the stall. She didn't remember bringing them, but oh well.

     Leslie stood up and stretched for a good minute or two since sleeping in a horse stall wasn't always the best bed in the world. She walked over to the stall door, and was about to open it when she heard voices nearby. It sounded like Tyler..and Ava. Before she knew, Ava was galloping out of the barn on her horse, "Now what was all of that about?" she wondered out load to herself when she overheard the word "creature". Now this only put more questions in her head. What were they hiding from her? Something wasn't adding up, and she was starting to get fed up with it. She'd figure it out sooner or later, so why don't they just tell her?

     Leslie carefully peeked out of the stall to make sure the coast was clear, before carefully walking out being sure to close the gate behind her. Then Leslie ran for her dorm, "They can't see me like this. I look like a hot mess." Her hair was all over the place, she still had makeup on from the previous day, and she had shavings and hay all over her hair and pajamas, "Not my favorite pajamas," she sighed.

     When Leslie got to her dorm, she quickly fixed herself up as quick as she could. She brushed her hair, and put it in her iconic ponytail. Leslie put on tan jophers, and put on a long sleeve magenta riding top. Then she zipped up her knee-high riding boots. Perfect. Now she looked presentable again. Well she had to fix her small amount of makeup. After that she headed back to the barn like nothing, and fixed up London's stall from the night before. 

     After she cleaned everything up, and put things where she belonged, she stopped short. She looked at the riding lounge, but stayed away. Though more and more questions grew inside of her head. Eventually, Leslie just couldn't resist but to walk over to the rider's lounge. She looked at the door, and hesitated before putting her hand on the handle, but the door was locked. What she didn't know was that someone was watching her.

(This might be a turning point, but I don't know, so I'm not sure!)

As Mrs. Wolf yawned and walked into her office for filing paperwork, she had a sense of someone near the door, so she got up and ran to the barn, fast like lightning, fast.. Like a horse.. By the time She got into the barn and looked around to see anyone, she watched Leslie try to open the door, she was still and quiet, and she put her arms into a folding cross, and she had a mad face on..

Tyler was off training and such, then someone walked over to his arena, Tyler heard a voice speak to him and he turned to see Jacob standing there.. He was holding crutches under his arms, and it looked like he broke his leg, "I should've looked out for that ambulance before sitting in the street." Jacob said to himself, he sounded humble.. Tyler looked at him, dismounted his horse and ran up to hug him, "I missed you so much! No, WE missed you so much! Leslie was also worried for you.." Tyler added on at the end, Jacob blushed and looked away. "Oh~ You developed an early crush if you were blushing~" Tyler teased, Jacob just frowned at him.

"Whatever, just help me to the barn, and how's my horse doing? Is he being a good boy?" Jacob asked Tyler, he just smirked and helped Jacob into the barn slowly..

As the two boys entered the barn, the black arabian stallion started neighing at Jacob's return, the stud then tried to break out. Mrs. Wolf shouted at the stallion then ran over to him, she then realized that Jacob returned "JACOB!" Mrs. Wolf shouted very motherly towards him, she gave him a nice, relaxing, comfortable bear hug. "Hi Mrs. Wolf, it's been long since you took me to the hospital, but thanks for taking care of me for the first part.." Jacob smiled, his personality seemed to change.

Then.. The door to the rider's lounge started to pound.. Multiple sounds were coming from the lounge.. "Leslie get back!" Jacob shouted protectively, he ran with his crutches and in front of Leslie he went and when the door opened.. A murky, black, abyss, of mass, was standing in front Jacob and Leslie, the mass took the shape of a great big wolf.. "Oh crap nuggets.." Mrs. Wolf said, everyone just looked at her like she knew something that they didn't.

As the mass looked at Jacob with it's blue eyes, it started to move unconsistent to it's speed or how it stood with wobbly legs, then as it got near, Jacob and Leslie backed up more, the creature of mass lunged at them but then.. Mrs. Wolf sliced it with her- SWORD?! The weapon looked like that of a samuria's, "Okay what in the eclipsed world are we in?! And HOW DOES SHE HAVE A DANG SWORD?!" Jacob shouted, he was confused, worried, and mad all in piece.. Everyone felt the same way..

Ava then came with Lilithe and Amy as they were on their horses and were laughing away until their steeds saw the creature of pure mass right there as it laid on the floor, breathless.. "Gotta make sure it's gone." Mrs. Wolf said as she swung again to make sure that the creature didn't get up, everyone just stared at her as she made the sword vanish right before their eyes.

"OKay/wait/ what?" Amy, Lilithe and Ava asked as they saw most or partly of everything revealed to them, Mrs. Wolf just got out Tyler's clydesdale mare and tacked her up into some driving equipment, then she tried lifting the creature into the wagon which was unsuccessful, so she requested everyone's help, including Leslie if she wanted to help, Jacob couldn't with his broken leg but he still helped even if he was hurt. It was pretty inspirational to everyone..

     Leslie heard pounding coming from the rider's lounge as she attempted to open the door. That was until she got the strong feeling someone was watching her. The chill that ran down her spine informed her of who it was without even having to turn around. Mrs. Wolf. Leslie sighed. She just about had enough of this. Enough of all the secrets everyone had been keeping from her. She was just about to turn around and ask all of the questions that had kept her up at night until she heard Mrs. Wolf say Jacob in a motherly way. 

     She turned around seeing that Jacob had in fact returned. She felt a bit better about everything knowing he was fine. Well maybe not entirely. He did have a broken leg. It would heal over time so she wasn't concerned about it. Leslie was then distracted from the return until she heard pounding from the lounge. Leslie slowly turned around as the door burst open. She didn't even look at Jacob as he came running over. She was too horrified and in shock of the large wolf. So much so she couldn't even say anything, but try to get away. 

     That was until Mrs. Wolf pulled out a sword from nowhere and killed the beast. Leslie stood there looking at the creature as she could feel her heart pounding against her chest. She was like that for a good minute or two before she turned and looked at everyone, "I knew you guys were keeping things from me! You all started acting like I just came here a few days ago. I've been here for a gosh darn year already! I think I deserve a explanation. And maybe I should have gotten one a long time ago." she said clearly still in shock and anger. 

     Though she changed entirely when she noticed London. London had seen the whole thing, and started to break out of her stall. Not to run to Leslie's aid like most times. No this time, this time, it was because she was frightened. Leslie and London once had a accident involving wolves in which the both of them were hurt. They both recovered of course, but Leslie could never bring the mare back out to the woods after the accident. It didn't take long before the stall door gave out, and the mare just galloped out. 

     Leslie watched this, and was running over when London broke out of the stall. "London!" she yelled as she tried to go after the mare, but it was no use. She was too fast, and Leslie wasn't the best at running far distances. She fell to her knees watching the mare gallop away, "LONDON! Come back!" she called, but it was no use. By then Leslie was already in tears as she curled up on the spot hiding her face into her knees as she sobbed, "Come back London..." she muttered.

"I-. . ." Mrs. Wolf didn't say anything and just ran to Leslie and tried to calm her down and stop her from crying, "I knew that everyone was treating like you were new, but it wouldn't matter as this barn is full of things that are far and near the border of life, even death can bring things back.. Anyways, Ava and Lilithe will look for your horse, alright? I'll make sure she'll return to you unharmed, and if she was- harmed, then I'll get the aid kits from my office and get her in perfect condition. These woods don't have wolves, so your horse is fine, until she is ready to return. That is how horse's work, they work like us, except being quadripedal; four-legged, can't research if your lookin' for a perfect place for everyone." Mrs. Wolf told Leslie as she was telling her a true story.

By then, Ava and Lilithe were far gone looking for London, Tyler grabbed a broom and began sweeping the floors of the rider's lounge, Mrs. Wolf looked at Jacob as he was limping over to her and Leslie, he smiled brightly and happily. "Now then, it's been a few days, correct? Then we only have two weeks and a day left before the show starts, and we better be ready in tip top shape." Mrs. Wolf as she got up and lowered a hand to Leslie to help her get up, she smiled happily and she acted so kindly to everyone, including Leslie.

As a random rider came riding into the barn, their horse a palomino, splashed, clydesdale, stallion to be correct. Mrs. Wolf tortted over to the wagon and the rider gave her a small box covered in wrapping paper, she smiled happily and then looked at Leslie with the brightest smile ever.

Then she walked over to Leslie, handed her the gift, inside was something that she didn't know yet. But it was a horse with an emerald engraved in the gold and silver chained necklace, when put it light it shined like rainbows, legend has it that if it touched sunlight and pointed in the direction of a rider's lost horse, the rainbow would attract the horse back into the barn..

But Mrs. Wolf didn't say anything about it but only told Leslie that it was a special necklace for a use, something magnificent! But her smiling only made the rider drive their horse off into the other side of the barn with the woods looking bright and healthy!

"Hey Leslie? Why don't you open it up when Ava and Lilithe get back and they say that they can't find your horse, London right? Then only then, you will open the gift and hold up the necklace, it has some mystical properties. Made yours truly! But I'm not telling you how I did it, magician's secret!" Mrs. Wolf said happily to Leslie, she then walked off to the black arabian's stall and had pulled him out.

Everyone was confused until she brought him up to Leslie, "Don't worry, I got something to show you on his other hind quarter~" Mrs. Wolf eerily said, her mystical manner made everyone curious, including Leslie. As Mrs. Wolf turned the arabian to the other side, she pointed at a marking, no one knew what the marking symbolized except for Mrs. Wolf..

"Now this barn and ranch may have you questioned it, but you'll find the answers if you look deep enough, and that includes getting used to everything that goes on, even if you've been here for a whole year now, everyone knows where they belong. And they know what to do with members that they don't really want to talk too, so what I'm saying is that everyone ignored you until now~ I may have more riddles in stock, but some are easy and other's are harder to figure out, but when new things happen and it's been a year.." Mrs. Wolf paused and looked at the stallion, she then looked back at Leslie, seeming like she wanted her to finish what she said.

"Oh and you'll see new horses pop up every now and then, my good old' friend brings them over to be a little wild and then ships them to me, so if you see a hall of fame somewhere pop up. I suggest giving it a look at, it might have more information that your looking for, and more ways to understand this wild, wild, free world and barn we are in." Ava added in as she brought her calico kitten out, but it seemed different, very different.. Something was odd, more odder then it was..

Anyways, as Mrs. Wolf patted Leslie on the head, Jacob stood next to her and offered her a handshake, a friendly handshake actually! "Friends? Also don't mind Tyler making weird faces over there.. He is just thinking something different.." Jacob pointed over at Tyler who was making faces like they were to be..

"I hate it when he does that, he thinks I have a crush on someone when I don't, well- most girls find me repulsive because of when they get used to me, y'know, my old friends that I was forced to go to a academy with ONLY girls and NO boys! It was infuriating to me, no boys to talk too, no interest in going. Until now when I have three amazing female friends, you could guess that the girl with lilac hair over there is Lilithe as she, Ava and Amy are always together. They don't just talk about horses and other things, they do many other activities too, it might be worth joining their group. Their also friendly like me and Tyler, even though we're the MOST known boys here. We usually ask anyone if they want to be friends, we understand if they don't want to be. Like you- um- name? I had that crash with my horse, so I ALMOST forgot about everything, so I don't know your name yet." Jacob said to Leslie, all the information must have flooded her head and mind.

Anyways, after that long talk, Ava and Amy came back but instead of going to Mrs. Wolf, they reported to Leslie of any news for her horse. Which there was no information found about the horse in the woods, they assumed that she went deep into the forest then, Mrs. Wolf turned around and told Leslie about the necklace and then smirked like she still knew but didn't reveal nothing.. Except "Something spectacular will happen! So use it now!" Mrs. Wolf told Leslie, then she walked next to her to watch what was gonna unfold..

     Leslie didn't even attempt to look up for awhile. She knew how scared London was. She was just as scared when the creature had broke the door. Flashbacks of the accident had flooded her head as well as all the questions she had. She thought this place was normal, but boy was she wrong. Way wrong. Eventually she was able to mutter a couple of words, "I know London...she's long gone by now if she saw that..creature...we were in a accident involving wolves a few years back..." she sighed burying her face even more.

     Only hearing about the show coming made her tear up more. How was she supposed to show let alone jump when her horse was missing? Forget all of her valuables. London was the only thing she cared about. The only thing she had left. She had no family except for that horse. If anything happened to London while she was gone, Leslie could never forgive herself. She almost lost her once, she couldn't loose her again. That was enough pain as it was seeing the mare almost shredded to pieces. Leslie shivered at the thought.

     Leslie eventually looked up at Mrs. Wolf and the box she held in her hands. She merely nodded and hesitantly took the box. She looked at it, and desperately wanted to open it, but she listened Mrs. Wolf's words even though she had a large amount of info pouring into her head. Leslie knew she could be quite shy and unapproachable since she spent all of her time with..London, but for everyone at the stables to completely ignore her for a whole entire year like she was a ghost? That was too far. She didn't deserve that, at least she thought she didn't. 

      She looked up at the stallion as Mrs. Wolf brought him out. He was rather gorgeous with that black coat of his, but she never noticed the marking on his side. Leslie didn't really say much. Just the shock from everything and all the information being poured into her head. Well it only gave her more and more questions, not answers. Soon she heard Jacob's voice. Leslie slightly looked up at Tyler, but only for a quick moment. Her eyes kept going to the woods, and the box she was given. 

      Leslie mainly listened to what everyone told her. She listened to Jacob. Right the accident he had a few days before. She understood forgetting things. The same happened to her when her and..London had the accident. Though it seemed Jacob remembered everyone else, but her. Oh yeah she was "new" in all of their eyes. Had they all really ignored her for a entire year? Now they were all over her. Leslie couldn't quite trust them fully. Leslie slowly got back up on her feet and didn't even attempt to look at anyone, but she quickly answered Jacob, "Leslie.." 

     That was when Leslie heard returning hooves hoping to see London, but she frowned seeing it was just Ava and Amy returning. Leslie trembled on the inside hoping no harm had come to her beloved mare. She looked at Mrs. Wolf then the decorated box she held in her hands. Leslie took a deep breath before slowly removing one of her hands from the box in order to open it. Her hand shook as she opened the box to see a necklace. It was a horse with a emerald engraving. It was beautiful, but when she grabbed it, she noticed a aura of a rainbow. "What's a necklace going to do to get London back...?" she asked shakily looking up at Mrs. Wolf. She wanted nothing more then to just run into her dorm and hide away, but she didn't want to make a scene since everyone seemed to be watching her.

     London had galloped for quite awhile until she couldn't no more. The mare breathed heavily as she looked around completely terrified. London just walked further into the woods not wanting to stay in one place. She missed her rider, but she was lost. That was until she noticed a strange light coming from somewhere behind her. London stopped and turned around. She hesitated, but she eventually started walking towards the light. It was like she didn't have a choice, but to.

*Mrs. Wolf giggles to herself, her giggling only made herself seem more suspicious* Mrs. Wolf looks around the barnbefore deiciding to look back at the light that she could see, for some reason..

"Well there we go, I can sense that your horse spotted the light, even though you may or may not see it, but the horse with the emerald engraving casts a beautiful light of rainbow that attracts even the lostest of the lost horses, whoever the rider was or is, the horse would still go towards the light." Mrs. Wolf said to Leslie, standing next to her confidentely!

"Now hold it a bit higher into the light, it should glow more and you should be able to see it, and in the mean time.. I'm gonna go prepare.." Mrs. Wolf says as she starts to leave, the only rider or rider's feel how Leslie feels, and that would be Jacob and Ava, but they kept quiet and started to cry.. But they cried silently..

And as Mrs. Wolf left the barn completely Tyler ran after her, he tried to not take any attention from anyone that was watching Leslie holding the horse with the emerald, though Lilithe went to the other side of the barn and ran out there for a bit, Ava knew what she was doing and it was going to be a bad idea.. She just knew it..

Though when Mrs. Wolf left the barn, Jacob scooted a bit more next to Leslie, taking her nervousness and replacing it with how calm he was, but he just thought, and it doesn't mean that it would be true. Anyways, as Jacob thought about the year when everyone ignored Leslie, he felt bad.. Even Ava, Lilithe, and Tyler wanted to talk to her but Mrs. Wolf never allowed it, making both theirs and Leslie's socialness a bit star struck, they didn't know why Mrs. Wolf didn't allow it for a year.

Maybe it was because she had plans for her? But whatever the case was, Mrs. Wolf always had plans for something, whether it would be about Leslie, or it would be about something else, regardless..

Anyways, as Tyler caught up to Ro- Mrs. Wolf! He began talking to her about everything, and including about the past that has gone on even before Leslie came here, but that's the reason that she won't ever get an answer too if Mrs. Wolf doesn't let her give her questions, but everywhere it has those answers, it's just hard to see..

"Tyler, you really need to understand what life gives you, even if it's about something else, you need to find those answers that you and everyone else is looking for, including Leslie. For sure. But it has been awhile since an answer was plopped into the barn or stables, so I better make sure that you and everyone else gets their answers." Mrs. Wolf says as she opens the door to her office and then disappears but she shortyl reappears with a new answer.

Tyler looked at the answer in his hands as he was given to him, Mrs. Wolf smiled at him and shoed him off to share it with the other rider's and Leslie, but he was uncertain of what it was, but he ignored the feeling and started walking back to the barn as he was looking at the thing in his hands sometimes..

     Leslie just looked at Mrs. Wolf with a confused look. Did she say something? How was a necklace supposed to bring her horse back? It didn't make any sense just like everything else that has happened the last few days. It was all too much for her, and she just wanted to hide in her dorm and think over everything. Though she knew she couldn't since it seemed the attention was always on her. 

     When Leslie first came to Bridges Pole, she got no greeting from anyone. Instead, she had to find everything herself while everyone just acted as if she wasn't there. She found a empty stall and just put her horse in it. She didn't know if someone else was using it or not, but how would she? At that time, Leslie was struggling mentally and physically because of her old barn, and yet no one went out of their way to even ask if she was ok. There were many times when she almost left, but something told her to stay. She had hoped she made the right choice, but right now it wasn't looking like it.

     London walked toward the light. Well she didn't really have much of a choice since she was being dragged to it. The mare was still quite spooked from the whole ordeal with the creature, and she halted for a moment when she saw the barn. Though that light didn't care and kept drawing the mare to it. She snorted wanting to run back into the woods. London soon emerged from the trees.

     Leslie sighed as she looked at the necklace. Over time she could see a small light that looked similar to that of a rainbow. She felt Jacob get closer, and even though it was a bit unsettling, her body just couldn't move. Not with everything that's happened. She was about to give up when she heard whispers, so she looked up about say something when she noticed the horse far in the distance. "London..?" she muttered, "London!" she called as she dropped the box and the necklace. Leslie ran as fast as she could to the mare wrapping her arms around the mare's neck once she reached her, "I thought I lost you.." she mumbled as she buried her face and tears in the mare's chest. 

     Though Leslie could tell that she was still spooked..real spooked. She sighed as she pulled herself away from London. She began checking for any injuries starting with her legs, but there were thankfully none. After that, Leslie went right back to hugging the mare, "I'm not letting you out of my sight..." she muttered. Leslie had planned on training that day, but at that point it wasn't going to happen.

As Tyler peered around the corner, he smiled as Leslie found her mare, he then walked into the barn, everyone shifted their eyes from Leslie to Tyler. They were curious on what he was holding, Jacob jut sighed and smiled happily at Leslie as well, but his gaze shifted from her to Tyler as well, Amy ran up to Tyler. Very curious but cautious, she didn't know the right question so she asked all of them, "What is it? And why does it look like that?" Amy asked whatever Tyler was holding, but he gave no clear answer as well.

"Well, whatever it is, can you ask everyone else? I'm currently gonna train with Ava on jumps with her horse, so that would be lovely for you to show it to everyone else!" Amy said happily, Jacob used his crutches and wandered over to Tyler, signaling that everyone else should.

As Amy walked over and watched Ava mount her horse, she mounted her horse as well and they used the other side of the barn to go around Leslie's moment, they didn't want to bother her, nor anyone else wanted to take away the moment. So as Ava and Amy trotted over to the jumps, Amy dismounted and lowered the jumps a bit, just so that their horses were use to jumping lower jumps and not higher jumps.

"So what do you think about Leslie's moment with her horse? Is it adorable and able to make you cry?" Amy asked Ava, but she didn't answer that one since Ava was thinking about something else, Amy knew what she was thinking about, and she felt the same way.. "Your thinking about Winter aren't you?" Amy looked at Ava, she could see tears form again..

"Oh Ava, I know how you feel, we just need to get over her-" Ava looked at Amy, as she interrupted her.. "WINTER WAS MY BEST FRIEND! How dare you for saying that! I loved her dearly, and you pretend not to just think Leslie acts like her?! How insufferable are you?! I cared about her, while you just ignored her once in a great while! She showed worry for you! She showed fear when you got jealous for no reason! I WAS TRULY A BEST FRIEND! WHILE YOU WEREN'T!" Ava started crying again, and this time she made her horse get directed to the dorms as she fled the arena..

Amy sighed and thought about what she did with Ava and Winter, the memories flood back to her and she began to cry as well, but she mounted her horse and sat on the saddle, perfect balance as she holds her legs and buries her face.. She remembered what she did to Winter, and that was.. Being a horrible friend to her..

Amy then looked up at the sky and sighed, "God, Ava was always right, I was a horrible friend to Winter.. No wonder why she left without warning, and no wonder why she never liked me back except Ava, I was truly the one to blame for having Winter leave.. I hate myself now.." Amy said to herself, tears began growing more as she directed her horse to the barn.. She then looked off the direction of where the road curved and where it bent to get to town. Or at least where it linked to it..

Amy thought of finding Winter, but she was the one to leave without warning, so she must've moved towns or something, because Amy knew that she would never come back three years after she left. She just knew it.. So Amy just got her horse to face the barn and she went to it, Amy dodged the moment that Leslie was having with her horse, and Jacob was about to wave hi until he saw Amy's face buried with tears, she didn't care at this point.

"Hey Tyler, what's up with Amy? And why is she crying? I've never seen her cry this much!" Jacob asked Tyler, he looked at Amy and realized what she was crying about, "Oh it's just her and Ava's best friend Winter, they were always a trio until something happened with Amy and she became distant with Winter but not Ava, so she started to ignore Amy and hang out with Ava more. I don't what happened after that, but Ava told me that Winter left without reason or warning, so we never figured out on why she left." Tyler told Jacob, everyone heard that and looked at Amy worriedly, Jacob was just sad that Ava's best friend left her..

     Leslie was too busy burying her face in London's chest that she didn't even realize all the rider's gather around Tyler. She didn't care anyway. The only thing she cared about what keeping London safe, and in her hands. After a long couple of minutes, Leslie decided to pull away. She was too protective of that horse. She was never the same whenever something happened to London, and it clearly showed. Though she could sense that London was still fidgety from the whole ordeal with the creature. 

     Leslie couldn't stay right there forever with London still spooked. She looked around for something she could use to bring London back to her stall since she wasn't wearing her halter, but there was nothing. She sighed, "Ok London...I'll be back in just a second...just please don't go anywhere," she begged before quickly running to her stall to fetch the mare's halter and lead rope. Leslie was so relieved to see that London didn't move at all once she got back. 

     Since London was still spooked, Leslie carefully put the halter onto her, "It's just your halter girl. It won't hurt you or me," she said calmly as she managed to get the halter on. Then she attached the lead rope, and started to lead her back to the barn so she could be placed back into her stall. Though Leslie suddenly remembered the stall door was shut once she neared the barn's entrance. Unfortunately London wasn't ready to go back into the barn as she reared pulling the lead rope from Leslie's hands, "Not again!" she sighed as she chased after London.

     Lucky for her, London only galloped a short distance away instead of galloping deep into the woods. Leslie had let out a sigh of relief as she warily grabbed the lead rope again. Now what was she supposed to do? London refused to go into the barn, her stall was broken, and Leslie just about had enough of everything at that point, but she did her best to keep herself together until she was alone in her dorm. 

     Instead of bringing the spooked mare back to the barn, Leslie brought her to the pasture. At least she knew she'd be fine there as she watched the mare for awhile. Though it concerned her seeing London simply just trotting around the way she was. "Oh London...I never imagined just how scared of those wolves you were until now..." she muttered to herself before she noticed the box and necklace in the dirt. She sighed and walked over picking up the objects. Leslie was sure to clean off necklace knowing Mrs. Wolf would have killed her for dropping the necklace in the dirt. After cleaning it, she placed it in the box, and just put it outside London's broken stall.

     Leslie peeked out of the barn at the pasture watching London. She sighed walking back over as she climbed over the fence, and sat down in lush green grass. Tears came to her eyes again as she watched her beloved mare. There was no way Leslie was going to be able to continue to train if London never got over seeing the creature, and at that point. Leslie wasn't even sure if she wanted to show. So much had happened, and she couldn't trust anyone here. Not after they completely ignored her for a year. Especially when she needed someone. 

     None of them deserved her trust. Not Mrs. Wolf, not Ava or Amy, not Tyler, and not even Jacob. After awhile, Leslie just gave up watching London. The mare wasn't calming down. Instead Leslie just dragged her feet to her dorm with her head down. She opened the door, and locked it before going to go sit on her messy bed pillow in arms. She needed to be alone, and think things over. Occasionally she looked out of her dorm's window at the pasture to see London continuing to trot around anxiously. When she heard someone knock on her door, Leslie just muttered, "Go away." Not wanting to look at anyone or let alone talk or listen to them.

As Mrs. Wolf peered around the barn to see Tyler still answering questions that he couldn't even say, she walked up to Tyler and gently grabbed the object that she gave him, she touched something that made the object go click and it started to unwind itself. Everyone was amazed at the ordeal of everything, "Now I know that this year was a rough one, and that you all completely ignored Leslie last year, I can see it on her saddened face." Mrs. Wolf told everyone, they were all starting to question themselves when she said that, how did she know? She wasn't here last year, Mr. Wolf was here last year..

Tyler felt guilty for not talking to Leslie, and so did everyone else, they all thought that she hated them all, then Tyler had a great idea and he rushed off to get Mrs. Wolf's tools for it. Mrs. Wolf just smiled at what he was doing, she could tell what he was doing by just the smile alone..

Then as Tyler rushed to London's stall, bringing out the tape measure and measuring the stall door and the stall itself, he just measured everything and calculated the math in his head, he smiled and laughed to himself, then he pulled up the clydesdale mare and hooked her up to the wagon. Then he quickly drove her off to the woodsmith, everyone had the idea after he measured the stall and it's torn off door.

"I'll call Tyler now, Jacob go fetch Amy and Ava, Ava is probably in her dorm. I saw Leslie run off to her dorm as well, I am called "The Silent Night" after all, I am quiet to the bone." Mrs. Wolf told everyone as she walked off to her office.. Jacob had two rider's help him fetch Amy and Ava, but they were friendly rider's!

After Mrs. Wolf got back from calling Tyler, she saw Amy and Ava next to Jacob, but on different sides she didn't mind it as she placed two necklaces on them, Jacob had no clue what was happening anymore.. "This is our little secret, everyone else out. NOW!" Mrs. Wolf shouted at everyone else to get out, and which the other rider's did, Ava fidgeted when she saw Mrs. Wolf yell at the other's, she got a bit scared and nervous..

"Now, let's get to work.." Mrs. Wolf said eerily, Ava started to fidget more and more, "Oh don't worry Ava, I'm just gonna heal Jacob's leg or foot, depends on where it hurts! So that he can get back to riding very soon!" Mrs. Wolf said being very happy-like, then in a blink of an eye Mrs. Wolf really did heal Jacob's foot because after she did that she wanted him to stand on it, he did and he walked around! "Now just don't run yet, you still need to let your foot do the rest of the healing, now run along now!" she told Ava, Jacob, and Amy to shoo but they just waited to help fix the stall and stall door up.



But after Tyler returned with the wood planks, Mrs. Wolf opened the barn door back up and everyone poured into the barn again, Tyler and some rider's took turns getting the wood planks off of the wagon, while the clydesdale mare was getting unhooked from the wagon and the driving tack on her.

Mrs. Wolf was relaxing in the rider's lounge as she peeked her head out of the door and saw that everyone was fixing up the barn, London's stall and her stall door, everyone else also fixed up the other stalls to be a little larger, every other horse that was in their stalls had been switched to the pasture.

Mrs. Wolf just smiled and minded her own business again, then she realized that she finished fixing up the rider's lounge, then she quickly dashed to her office and she grabbed her purse, she then pulled out her card for storing her money, then she quickly dashed back to the barn.

Meanwhile Ava was in her room making loud noises and destroying it, she then took some medicine to help calm her down, she did still felt very bad for not talking to Leslie a year ago, she wanted to talk to her but Jacob, Amy, Lilithe and Tyler wouldn't let her talk to the new girl a year ago.. But as she calmed down shortly after, she set everything back in place and even knocked on Leslie's dorm again, then she wrote a letter or actually a note and slid it under the door for Leslie to read.

Then she went back to the barn and she saw it getting fixed up by the rider's, they even fixed up London's stall and attached the stall door again, this time it had different colors, and different engraving's, different symbol's and etc etc. Ava was in pure shock and amazement, completely lost in the barn that she didn't realize that the barn was finished being fixed up!

Ava looked at a stall and saw how big it was now, "Wow! two meters bigger then it's original self!" Ava said in utter amazement, she didn't realize that the horses were put back in the stalls, and all of them were next to each other, even the stalls had plagues now! The first horse was the black arabian, the next horse was London, still spooked but she gently put her hand on the mare's muzzle, trying to calm her down. Then she pulled out some sugar cubes, and some carrots for the scared girl..

"It's okay London, I'm Ava! The girl that your rider- or owner is friends with! I'm not gonna hurt you, nor wouldn't even dare too!" Ava said as she was trying to calm down the mare, then after the mare had gotten more attention from a familiar face? Ava left London's big stall and went to scout out the rest of what was new in the barn..