The House!

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(Sandy's Pov)

The two Ubers dropped us all off at the Liberty Trails Horse riding service station, then left in a hurry to pick up their second group of passengers. Criss looked around the stables behind his sunglasses while his free arm was wrapped tightly around Kacie. Sully was trying to bullshit with Klayton by betting him that he would look better on a horse than him, which was rather comical I might add because of all the guys here seeing tattooed rock n rollers and mohawked crazy asses would be the last thing I would ever expect to be on a horse. Mickey and Criss however would probably look very sexy on a horse. But I wouldn't ever say that out loud with Criss's ego, because he probably already knew it. Two guys stopped my heavy thoughts when they asked us if we were there for the full day trail ride or the weekly ride.

Sully shook hands with them both and said we were there for the week ride as he showed them both the tuition fee for all ten of us. After the purchase was made a young lady came around and snapped matching bracelets on each of us and asked us to follow her to the horse paddock where we could choose our mounts. Criss snickered at his own joke and said he only had one filly he'd mount and she was standing in front of him. Kacie smiled at him as she poked him in the chest with her elbow and told him not now. Once we were inside the paddock we all began looking thru all the different horses they had and kind of mingled with each of them to see which ones temperament matched us.

Mickey ended up choosing a Dapple Grey gelding, Mark grabbed a Chestnut with two white stockings, Sully picked out the tallest white gelding in the stable, Missy chose a light sorrel mare with thin blaze on her forehead, Rachel picked out a beautiful blood bay mare with a tiny diamond on her forehead, I finally ended up picking out the pretty palomino mare with four matching socks and a wide blaze on her face. Klayton picked out the biggest Appaloosa gelding any of us ever seen before we think it was part shire or draft horse of some kind. Abby ended up choosing a red roan mare after the hard decision between it and the liver chestnut. Kacie came out from the other side of the paddock walking out with a huge black and white paint overo gelding. Abby looked at her and asked her if that horse was a little too much of a horse for her to handle, and that the trail guides specifically said that mares were better riding for us ladies to ride and she grabbed a huge gelding to ride. Criss wrapped his arms around Kacie and told Abby that Kacie was very good on horses and she could pick any horse she wanted. Criss turned around and pulled out a huge black gelding with white blaze and four matching socks and said he was so riding this guy. Soon as all our mounts were picked out several of the hired hands took them to the gear room and had them all saddled up and prepped for the trail. They handed each of us saddlebags and a bedroll to put our stuff in to take with us, then told us that most of the time we would have arranged sleeping spots on the journey but one and possibly two of the nights might be like old fashioned camping because we would in fact be in the middle of the wild areas in England with no civilization around until we moved further along the trail.

The tour guides were helping some of the other people that would be joining us on the tour get into their saddles and give them the crash course on riding because none of them have been on a horse. But the funniest part we laughed the hardest on was when Abby tried mounting up, every time she got one foot in the stirrup she would pull the rein and the horse would turn in a circle while she was still trying to get on the horse. Finally Kacie slid out of her saddle and held the horse and jokingly told Klayton to give her a push up in the saddle or we would be here all day and never leave the stables. Once Abby made it in the saddle she was good to go. Kacie went back to her horse and did one graceful leap from behind the horse and landed in the saddle then leaned over and gave Criss a peck on the lips and asked everyone if they were now ready to ride because we all were wasting daylight. Criss chuckled as he headed forward to the external gates and we all followed out in a line of two. For the first part of the day we pretty much kept to our coupled selves without being talkative with the other members of the group, we would stop our horses every now and then just to look at the landscapes or to take a few pictures. It wasn't until one of the guides told us we would be making our first dismounting stop for us all to stretch our legs and to walk the horses a little bit to keep us from getting saddle sores.

 That's when the other people decided to introduce themselves to us. The first man was slightly an older man with a grizzly beard and kind of hefty set, he gave us all a semi friendly wave as he said his name was Seth. The second man was a little bit younger very tall and slinky looking he shook all our hands and said his name was Kyle. The third person was a woman a quite a bit older than any of us but still young enough to ogle at our men and really annoy us, she just gave us a fake giggle as she told us all her name was Cathy, then she pointed to the other female in the group and said she was her younger sister and her name was Rosie. The last one to introduce himself to us was quite an exotic looking guy he was shorter than Criss and Klayton, but taller than Sully his eyes were greenish brown and he had long wavy dark brown hair, he was a new age emo punk for he was just covered in body piercings and tattoos but u could tell they were either self done or very cheaply done, he also wore thick eyeliner around his eyes, but I noticed on his finger nails instead of black nail polish he used permanent marker to color them in. He was definitely something to look at.

Criss snickered and told me that he kind of reminded him of himself when he first started out. Kacie and I both looked at him then toward the punk and told him not hardly, because when Criss was goth he looked scary but sexy at the same time, this dude looked dark evil and weird, but we all dropped our thoughts when he came over and without contact he said hi and that his name was Tommy Lee Etienne. We all exchanged our names back to each of them in return and told them all that it was nice meeting them and being on the trail with them all. Then of course there was our two tour guides that we all new by name already Megan and Daniel.