Galloping through life

Chapter 1

It was a rainy Saturday morning. Mom and dad were downstairs having breakfast making a lot of noise as always.

"God! You can't sleep a little more not even on the weekends in this house!" I thought to myself.

I couldn't sleep anymore due to the noise so I got out of bed, put some riding pants on and went downstairs.

[speaking norwegian]
"Good morning, darling" greeted me mom in a happy voice.

"Mornin'..." I greeted her back yawning.

"Hungry?"asked my dad as if he didn't knew I never ate in the morning.

"No thanks." I said giving him a small smile.

"Then sit down, we have to talk"

I froze.I taught about every thing i did in the past 2 months...from hiding my brother's alcohol for his damn parties to just not putting Bembi's halter in its place. Anyway, I grabbed a chair and sat down.

"Me and your mom won't be home next week." I immediately calmed down and continued to listen "...we have some business in Seattle. I expect you to behave. That means no  parties and no friends over...especially guys. Understood?"

"Yes, i promise." in my head I already planned all the parties that we'll have here...just wait till I tell Xavier about this.

"When are you leaving?" I asked curious.

"Our flight is tomorrow morning so we'll leave tonight. I know we're telling you a little too late but we didn't know till today neither." My dad explained sipping form his coffee.

"It's fine. I'm going to wake Xavier up and tell him the news too" I couldn't keep my excitement anymore so I ran up the stairs and boosted into his room.

"XAVIER WAKE UP!" I grabbed a pillow and tossed it at him. "Great news! Mom and dad won't be home next week" I gave him a cunning smirk.

"You for real??" His sleepy voice was heard.

"Yes! For real! Now get dressed you really have to take out your horse today, he was bucking like hell yesterday. Plus, I need your help there." I told him making my way back to the door.

"I can't. I promised Jordan I'm meeting him in one hour..."

"For god's sake Xavier! You haven't been at the stables the whole week! I had to ride your horse every single day and you know he's too strong for me. F*** Jordan!! Go, have fun! I don't even need your help anyways." and with that said I left the house hoping my anger would disappear by the time I get to the horses.

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Finally some peace and quiet. Fortunately no one was at the stables yet so I didn't have to put up with other people in this mood.
I took Bembi out of her stall and started brushing her shiny fur. I tacked her up and off we went into the arena.
To my surprise there were only my best friend, Ember and our trainer.

I started warming Bembi up. As I was cantering I hear our trainer putting up some obstacles and calling me:
"Kassy you're first! There are 3 strides between these two try and don't mess it up!"

And just like that my anger was back and Bembi definitely felt it. I could feel her getting tense and trying to speed up.

I hate it when people try making sarcastic jokes when it's clearly not their thing. Anyway, I tried to ignore her and concentrate on my riding.

"1...2...3jump1...2...f*** JUMP!" Bembi started bucking and playing around. I really wasn't in the mood so I stopped her immediately.

I worked at dressage until Ember was done with her training so I don't interrupt her jumping lesson...well acctually more to calm myself down. I had nothing to do all day so I had time to jump afterwards.

Right when Ember was done I started with the small jumps again. It was going really well so my trainer put up a short 1.20m course.
"Ok girl last combination. Easy.."

"Well done Kassy!" I heard my trainer say.

And just when I wanted to pet Bembi on her neck one more time my amazing brother showed up. Oh, and he wasn't alone...What the hell was Jordan doing here? He never comes to the stables he's afraid of horses.

Anyway, I ignored them...at least I tried.
"You did good there! A bit too far at the first jump..." I interrupted Xavier before he said anything that he would regret.

"Why are you two here?" I asked rolling my eyes at his comments.

"Well you needed my help, so here I am."  He smiled

"I said I don't need your help. At least, not anymore."

"Jeez Kass can't you just appreciate that he's here?" Jordan interrupted. Since when is he calling me Kass? 

"Why do you care Jordan?" I scoffed. "Just go fix your bike or something...take Xavier with you too."

"Fine. Just try to be home early I invited my friends over. " Xavier said turning away and leaving.

This party is announced to be very interesting, I could feel it.

Hi guys! I'm sorry if there are spelling mistakes, it's my first book ever and english isn't my native language.
Anyway, hope you're enjoying the story already!