KhanRose Riding Academy

Chapter 21: Looking for the wrong reason

Cam and I sit down in the soup restaurant, and I gulp and check my phone, a nervous tick of mine.

"You all ready to order?" A girl comes over.

"The potato soup please" Cam asks.
She nodded and turns to me.

"Water. That's all" I say quickly dismissing her.

I look up to see Cameron looking at me with skeptical eyes.

"Water. That's all. Water."

"Yes, I'm not hungry." I say even though I am starving. I should be used to no food soon.

"What's up with you. Anytime anyone is near you you don't eat. It's like your starving your self to lose weight or something." He said laughing.

I stare blankly at him, then it hits him.

"You're not, wait. El. You're not.. You are! Your starving your self!" He says leaning on the table.

"Ca-" I start but he interrupts me.

"Why?! What's the reason for this? How long? How? Tell me everything!" He demands getting madder and madder by the second.

I feel something come over me, he's doing that thing where he owns me again.

"No! I'm not telling you anything! I don't have to! I'm leaving!" I said, getting up and walking out.

I pushed my way out side and run to my dorm. After walking up the stairs and changing, I run back down to the one place I know I have to go, to Sterling.
Sterling greets me with a happy neigh and places his head on my shoulder. His warm brown eyes look into me and say "Let's ride"

I placed him into a pair of cross ties and get my tack out of my locker. Brushing his bold red body, it lures me into a happy hum of my favorite song. I hear the radio playing, and a song that I love comes on and I start to dance around Sterly and brush him. He enjoys it and watches me curiously. After putting on my slate grey saddle pad on, I put my half pad and saddle on and pull the girth on. He opens his mouth for the bit, and once the bridles on, we are making our way to the outdoor ring.

His sweeping trot strides take me around the extra large ring. Colorful jumps decorate the sand, and I work on Sterling letting his head get low in a hunter kind of frame since the hunter horse show is coming up and, even though I'm in the EQ class, I still don't want to look out of place. His ears flick back as I talk to him.

"There ya go. Just relax. Good boy." I say.

After cantering him, I start on a few jumps. He takes me over perfectly, but with a buck at the end. I start to feel dizzy, and get off. After trying to walk to the barn, I realize I can't go any farther. Things start to get disoriented.

"Hey are you ok." A soft and gentle voice asks. I look up to see a boy with dark brown hair spiked up slightly and a horse behind him with Sterling also behind him.

"I'm.... fainting." I say weakly.

"HELP! HELP!" He yells, and picks me up before blackness hits me.

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I woke up, in the nurses room with a foggy head.

Where am I.

Oh yeah, I fainted. No food.

The nurse walks in and sees me awake.

"Hey darling. Sit up and drink this apple juice. I also have a chocolate cup cake for sugar and some chips to for you. Here." She says giving me a cup with golden liquid in it.

"Thanks" I croak out at I gulp down the savory liquid.

"You have two young men out side waiting for you. One who brought you and the other I'm not sure who he is." She said, taking the drink away from me.

"Send them in." I say.

She nods and goes out the door, seconds later Cam and my savior come out.

"Hey" I smile and see the new guy come up to me. Before he can say any thing Cameron pushes him out of the way and comes up to me.

"Are you ok?" He asks.

"I was before you pushed the other kid outa the way!" I snap.

"Well I just came to stay with you. You can leave." He turns to the boy.

"Oh-okay" be stumbles and starts to walk out.

"Aye kid. Don't mind him, he's going to leave right now. Come back in, I want to meet you." I said, and his distinctive gray eyes meet mine.

"But-" Cam starts, but I say "No. Leave. I'll talk to you when I want." With that he grumbles, and leaves.

The kid comes up and sits on the edge of my bed. He's about my age, and has fair skin and straight teeth. His eyes are gray, and seem to look great against his cobalt blue v-neck shirt and gray skinny jeans along with black vans. This guy had style.

"I'm Luke, and you are?" He asks me. He has a soft voice, and seems like a nice guy.

"Ella Grace, or just El." I reply sitting up.

"So, why were you in here anyways?" He asks, a soft smile on his face.

"I fainted like you know, but because I had been starving my self all week." I said as I looked down at my hands.

"I'm sorry. I get it, I used to struggle with stuff like that. Cutting, depression, you know." He said, and looked at me with a soft look about him. He shows me a few scars on his side, and I see his chiseled abs along with the muscles on his arms. He has a beautiful 6-pack...

"Wow." Was all I could mutter out.

"Big eyes just for scars I see, or for this?" He says again lifting his shirt and showing off his absolutely lovely abs and then I slide my eyes down to see that he has a V line... I just feel my eyes getting bigger before I unhappily pull my eyes up to his equally as beautiful face.

"So I put the horses up after I dropped you off."

"STERLING! Is he ok?" I ask with tears pricking the back of my eyes.

He quickly replies "Yes he is. Hey it's ok. I promise"

I nod and say "Sorry about Cameron. He thinks he owns me. Sorry about him. He got all mad that I didn't tell him."

"It's ok, I get it. Why did you start? If you don't mind telling me!" He quickly added.

"A girl called me fat. So it bothered me so I did something about it"

"Your like really skinny though. How much did you weigh before you started?" He asks with a sad look in his warm eyes.

"95 pounds" I gulp.

"You were so small! If you only weight that much then you have no reason doing that to your self. Listen, I know I just met you, but you need to promise me you won't continue doing this to your self.

"Ok" I say with a sense of determination.

"Good. How does it sound if you get my number and we go out to dinner and a walk in the woods tomorrow evening?" He asks.

"That sounds great."

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After getting Luke's number, leaving, and telling Scar all about my little "no food thing" after meeting up with her at the dorm, she was more than happy to help me get ready for my date with Luke.

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