Second Chances - BxB

Chapter 5

- Kenji's POV -

After a few hours of mucking out all the horse stalls, cleaning the tack, re filling the water troughs In the paddocks and fixing a broken fence by my self! I finally sat down for the first time today, I was exhausted.

What is the point of having hired help if they aren't going to help! I don't even know where he went. My mom told me to start on the stalls and gave me a list of jobs that needed to be done so I figured Matt was going to help me or I could start showing him how do some of the chores around here but he never showed up. I bet my mom let him go and unpack his things and relax in room and left me to do all the work as a form of punishment.

Don't get me wrong I love doing the work, I just hate when people slack off and I could of used a hand. Samara always slacks off, she likes the riding just not the chores and she had to work today anyways, normally my mom helps me but shes probably to busy giving Matt the grand tour of the place and showing him every individual fork and spoon in the god damn house.

My mom called us all to dinner at six and made us eat at the table together to make Mathew feel more welcome but it just made me extremely uncomfortable. My mom kept trying to make small talk but no one was really interested, Samara was to invested in her phone and Mathew was probably plotting out his plan of murder right as we speak.

"Kenji you barely touched your food." My mom said after noticing I was just poking at it with my fork.

"Im not hungry."

"Eat." She snapped at me

"I said Im not hungry." I got up from the table, grabbed my shoes and left the house in a pit of anger.

It seemed that now no matter what I say or do my mom gets mad at me for it, ever since he came here, it's like she's expecting us to be the perfect family but were far from it, what does she think our sed "perfectness" would rub off on him and poof he will be all good two shoes. Yeah I wish.

I walked to the pasture and grabbed Duke, walked him back to barn, groomed and tacked him up and took him for a ride.

There's nothing that calms me down more then a good ride with Duke.

Half en hour into my ride I saw Mathew appear at the Arena doors as I was finishing the last couple jumps on the course. After clearing the last jump I brought Duke to walk and pat his neck, satisfied with our ride.

"I thought riding horsies was a girl's thing." I heard Mathew say to me as I let Duke cool out.

"Nope." I simply answered.

"What kind of name is Kenji anyways? It sounds Japanese, like do your parents not know any fucking english names?"

"Well Im sorry that my name doesn't appeal to you." I said in a sarcastic and annoyed tone, does he have to comment on everything about me.

"What ever pony boy. Your mom sent me out here to come find you, might as well give my self some entertainment while I do. So tell me, does your girlfriend ride ponies to?"

"I don't have a girlfriend." I watched from the corner of my eye as he kept that stupid smirk plastered on his face.

"Kinda figured. Who would date a kid that smells like horse shit and plays in the pony pen."

"Fuck you!" Duke flung his head up and reared, spooked from me yelling. I dropped the reins by accident and grabbed his neck trying not to fall but next thing I knew my body hit the ground. Hard.

And this is exactly the reason you don't yell around horses.

I sat up and dusted the dirt off my clothes, I looked up at Mathew ready for any stupid comment he had to say to me. I grabbed Duke and walked him over the arena doors, Mathew silently moved out of the way so I could get past.

"One to many falls of a horse and that's why your so stupid eh? To many hits to head." And there's that so deserved comment.

"What is that the best you can come up with?" I heard him chuckle. At this point I didn't care what he had to say, I just ignored it. I untacked Duke and put him back into his stall and went to return the other horses from the pastures to their stalls.

Mathew just watched from the side as I brought all the horses in and I continued to ignore any nasty comment he had to say to me. His first day being here and Im already his target, I was right, he's just an asshole, I'm not gonna give the effort to try and help him if he wont even try for himself.

He's a hopeless case.