An awkward time (Clarib, closed)

[Rubyrocks loves Her Pony]

~SOPHIE~

I walked down to the stables in the cold morning dressed in my purple wellies, thick fluffy socks, cream jodhpurs and a really think riding jacket. I entered the stables and smiled at the sight of Star and Heart with both their heads popped over the stable door. They both nickered friendly as I came in and i smiled really happily.

I walked up to Star and fed her a carrot then went up to Heart and fed her a carrot. It was a cold morning but I knew it was going to turn out to be a nice day. I walked through to the next barn and got my wheelbarrow, pitch fork and poo piking things so I could clean my stable.

I brought my wheelbarrow back to Star's stable and put it to the side of the door. I then went to Star's stable, I got her head collar and went into the stable. I went over to heart and put the head collar on gently and then lead her out of the stable and tied her up outside to brush her and change her rug. I undid Star's rug and carefully pulled it off her and then hung it over the rack.

I brought my grooming kit back from the tack room and opened it and got the body brush out and started to groom Star, I went over her coat thoroughly and made it shine nicely. I combed through her tail, main and forelock. and then finished her off with some shinny hoof oil. I then rugged her up in a rug that would keep her warm in the field. I then untied Star and led her out to the field.

I arrived at Star's field and led her in and shut the gate behind me. I slipped Star's head of gently and she nickered friendly then nudged me. I smiled and patted Star happy, Star nickered again and then trotted off to the best patch of grass. I smiled and watched Star and then went back to the stables.

When I got back to the stables I hung Star's head collar up on the hock and then went into her stable and started mucking out. I cleared out all the droops and the wet then added some new shavings and then neatened up the stable by doing the banks neatly and then flattening the shavings on the bottom out. When i'd finished I went to put the muck on the muck heap and then came back and shut Star's stable door then went on to do Heart.

[••NARLA••]

For Joe, his new job was great. He loved helping out with the horses, and this was a great way to pay for his stay at Starry Skies. His job had only started a couple of days ago, and today was his first day that was gonna be a full day of work. He had worked for a few hours so far over the course of three days, and as he made his way to the lesson horse barb, he was pretty excited. He was first gonna tie each horse one by one outside and groom them. His first horse to do was Blueberry, the lesson horse he himself rode.

He was taking berry outside to tie her up, and was just doing so when he turned aroudn and saw Sophie. Sophie his ex girlfriend. He sighed, she would probabaly come over. So he settled down and started to gently run a brush over Blue's coat, giving it a nice shine to start with, using the body brush.

[Rubyrocks loves Her Pony]

~SOPHIE~

I smiled as I approached Heart and got her head collar. I slid the latch across and opened the door. I went over to Heart and patted her and kissed her gently on the muzzle. Heart nodded and nickered friendly. I smiled and slipped her Head collar on. I lead her out of the stable and tied her up to a piece of string attached to a medal hoop. As I turned to take Heart's fug of I spotted Joe outside with a lesson horse, I scowled and murmured something rude to myself about Joe. I got on with Heart and completely ignored Joe. I undid all the buckles and straps on the rug and then pulled it off gently. I then went over to my grooming box and took out the body brush and flicked over Heart, she was really clean. I then combed through her main, tail and forelock carefully and then my grooming was finished. I decided to muck out before turning Heart out in the field, I was going to see if Joe was gone by the time it was time to turn Heart out. I didn't even want to acknowledge Joe let along even speak to him.

I quickly filled a haynet for Heart to munch at while she waited. I started at Heart stable and her stable was quicker to clean, I took the wet and droops out and then took the muck on the much heap. When I got back Joe was still there, 'uggg' I thought to myself, I was going to go past and ignore him. I shut Heart's stable door, Took my grooming kit back to the tack room and put the rest of my things away neatly.

I then untied Heart and led her out of the barn as far away as I could from Joe towards the fields.

[••NARLA••]

As Joe finished off Berry, he neatened her up, before going indoors to fetch her rug. There was no way he was going over to Sophie. As she carried on with hefr own chores, Joe thought, 'thank god, she's not coming over'. Though, inside, Joe sort of wanted to speak with Sophie. He kind of missed her, and she was the best girlfriend he'd ever had.

As he brought back the rug, he carefully positioned it and then did it all up. He admired his work and agreed that Berry looked very smart in her lightweight new zealand rug. As he went to untie the slip knot, he noticed Sophie walk straight past him. Joe grinned to himself, at least he wasn't going to have to speak to her.

He turned Berry out quickly, ignoring Sophie as much as he could, then made his way back to the lesson horse barn to muck out a few more stables, groom some more of the horses, and turn them out.

[Rubyrocks loves Her Pony]

~SOPHIE~

As I walked past Joe, I didn't even look at him. I had no intention to even talk to him, Not after what he did to me. I walked down to the pastures and opened the gate carefully, Star was already in the field. Star and Heart shared a field, They were just like best friends.
I closed the gate behind me and led Heart further in the field. I stopped her and slid off her head collar and held it in my hand. Heart nickered friendly then trotted off over to Star. As Heart reached Star they neighed to each other and started grazing together.
I opened the gate so I could get out of the field that secured it behind me and walked back to the lesson horse barn. I scowled and rolled my eyes as I passed Joe not even acknowledging him.