Hollow woods School for equestrians [Discontinued]

Chapter 7

Daniela's POV

And I woke up in someone's arms, I couldn't open my eyes but all I knew is that who ever was holding me, seemed to care about me...that rarely happened. I didn't want to wake whoever it was up so I just cuddled with him. "Good morning Dani, how are you feeling?" That was Ace's voice....and then I remembered that guy from last night, and how Ace saved me. It all came back to me. I moved my wrist and it hurt like hell. I opened my eyes and looked directly into his eyes. "Good morning Ace, I'm feeling fine." Those words, "I'm fine" they didn't mean what they were supposed to mean. "Well that's good." He said, not letting me go. I could of stayed like this all day, in his arms...it felt amazing. I slowly broke away and got up. I heard him turn on his side and he said. "You're beautiful, you know that right?" If only you knew what my arms looked like, I said in my mind. "I guess so." I walked into the bathroom and stared at myself in the mirror. Fuck...fuck fuck I said over and over in my mind. I didn't know why I was saying this but I was. "You okay?" "I'm fine." Ace got out of bed and looked at me. "I think I'm gonna go, your okay right?" "Yup, I'll talk to you later, Bye Ace." "Bye Dani." He said and walked out my door. Then...I started crying... "Why are you crying?" I said to myself over and over. I sunk down to the bathroom floor and held my face in my hands. I took my sweater off and stared at my arms. "Who could love a girl with scars...." No, stop. Don't think about it...don't don't don't. What was I doing. I just woke up to Ace, he called me beautiful and here I am calling myself worthless. I started crying harder, and harder until I couldn't cry anymore. I walked into my bedroom and looked at myself in the full mirror. "I'm ugly." I said flat out. I always called myself that, I didn't know why, but I did. I took a shower and changed into my black skinny jeans, a red tee shirt that said "Outcast." On it. I let my long brown hair be wavy and did my makeup, slipped on my red converse and most importantly, put on my favorite zip up hoddie.

I skipped breakfast and went to class early. Classes went by fast and I ran down to the stable to see Dex. I saw Ace tacking up Napoleon and of course giving Dex little pats. When I walked over to Dex, I saw Ace putting racing tack on his horse. "Um, don't we have a cross country lesson today?" I asked. "Nope, that's tomorrow, today we have a racing lesson." I knew everything about racing so this would just be a review for me. "Oh, ok. Meet you by the track." "Yah, sure thing!" With that he walked away, leading Napoleon behind him. I walked into the tack room and saw a girl with long blonde hair talking to her two friends, they were in front of my tack spot of course. "Hey, do you mind moving so I can grab my tack..?" I asked, trying to be polite. "Haha and who are you loser?" The girl with blonde hair asked, flipping her hair over her shoulder. Ugh great, another bitch to deal with. "I'm Dani." I said through gritted teeth. "I'm Sasha, aka top rider here, racing, show jumping. You name it, I'm better at it then you are." She said with a smirk. She kept looking me up and down and finally moved out of my way after I stared her down for five minutes. I grabbed my tack and hurried away to Dex. I groomed him and tacked him up. The good thing about racing lessons is that we didn't need to wear anything specific, I loved that.

I walked Dex over to the track and saw Ace standing next to Luke and Alex. I guess they race too. "Are you sure you're not gay man?" "Totally not, Acer." Luke said and they all laughed. I pulled my sleeves down, mounted Dex and walked over to them but didn't say hi cause I didn't wanna interrupt. They continued to talk not noticing me at all, I played with the reins and looked down at my hands. "Why am I so stupid.." I whispered softly to myself. "You're not stupid." I looked up and to my left to see a guy with brown hair and deep green eyes looking at me with concern. "I'm Noah, and who might you be princess?" I felt myself blush a little at his comment. "I'm Daniela, call me Dani." "Nice to meet you Daniela." He said smiling, which I found extremely attractive.