You Don't Know Me

Chapter 10| Horses

9:00am. Dammit! I'm gonna be late. Another reason for Mr. McGuire to hate me. I have science first period on Mondays. Great.

I skate faster then stop when I arrive. I run quickly, I'm late and soaked because of the rain.

The rain has ruined my hair making it all wet. I put my hair up in a messy bun so it isn't that bad.

I quickly go to the front desk to sign in and head to my class.

I head to my locker, get my things and go to Mr. McGuire's classroom.

I knock on the door and it swings open revealing Mr. McGuire's face. His very pissed off face.

"Why are you late?" He grumbles. "I had to find a way to school, I had some family issues travel wise" I explain. Basically my dad and my brother Thomas are the only one's with cars.

Thomas usually drives me to school before he goes to class but today he had to be at school early for a special assembly/meeting thing with his soccer team and my dad left early for work. So I was stuck without a ride. Brian was over at a friends house so he was getting a ride with them.

Mr. McGuire mumbles something I couldn't make out under his breath and let's me in. I come inside and ignore the stares that I'm currently receiving. I sit next to Brent and pull out my notebook and pencil case.

"What happened to you?" Brent whispers to me holding in a laugh.

"Don't ask" I mumble and he doesn't he just laughs. He laughs!

Really! UGHH! Does this look funny to you?!

I ignore him and try to understand whatever language Mr. McGuire is teaching the class in.

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"I'm so hungry I could eat a horse" I groan very un-attractively making Brent laugh. "Remind me to never bring me to my stables" He chuckles.

We just came from art class which is another class we have together.

"Stables?" I repeat in a dumbfounded expression. "Yeah, you know horses, riding" Brent teases as if I'm stupid.

"I know that you moron!" I say punching him in the arm "I didn't know you had a stable?" I correct.

"Well I do, you should come sometime" Brent says sitting next to me at a lunch table. "Didn't you just tell me you would never bring me there?" I chuckle.

"Were you serious about eating a horse?" Brent says as if where he's getting to is obvious. "No" I say confused. "Neither was I" Brent says in a 'duh' voice.

"But seriously, you should come. You would like it" Brent says taking a bite of his sandwich.

"Well I do like horses" I admit. "See, good guesser" Brent smirks. How does he do that? He just guesses and gets it right. Am I obvious. Or is he really a good guesser.

"How do you do that?" I ask Brent after swallowing a bite of salad. "Do what?" Brent asks looking at me. "You know, just guess things about me" I shrug.

"I don't know, I just guess" He shrugs as well and takes another bite of his sandwich.

"Hey Brent?" Will says sitting down across from me. Jake and Josh do the same. "Hey" Brent says looking up.

Will, Jake and Josh all give me a confused look. I read it as 'what-is-he-doing-here?' and I reply with a shrug. Reading faces (especially guys' faces) is like my talent.

Weird, I know.

For the rest of lunch we just talk. And Brent offered to show me his stable after school, which I accepted. I've always wanted a horse. Don't ask why I just did and kinda still do.

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"How many horses do you have?" I ask as we walk on the path in between the house and the stable. "four" Brent says as he goes to open the stable doors.

The door swings open. Brent let's me in and I see gates with adorable horses behind each. Each gate has a plaque with a name on it.

A chestnut brown horse has the name Charlie. A black horse with white feet has the name Prince. A grey horse with small white spots has the name Storm, and a completely white horse has the name Sadie.

"Aww, they're so cute!" I gush walking over to Sadie and rubbing her neck. She moves her head down so it's easier to pet her. "She likes you" Brent says behind me. "She does?" I ask. I don't really know the signs of a horse liking someone.

"Yeah, I've never seen her do that" Brent says grabbing some saddles off a wall and setting it down. He does whatever he needs to prepare to go riding. When he has the saddles ready on the horses he leads Prince and Sadie out of the gates.

"Are we going to ride?" I ask petting Sadie again. "Yeah, you can ride Sadie and I'll ride Prince."

"Okay. Um... how do I get on a horse?" I ask. Brent chuckles. "Here I'll help you." He says coming to me and tying up Prince's lead to a post.

"Put your right foot in there then hold on here and swing your left leg over" Brent explains. I put my right foot in the loop thing of the saddle. I have no idea what it's called. And I grab onto a thing that's on the saddle. I also don't know what that's called.

"Now what?" I ask Brent. I actually don't know how I can do this. "Just lift yourself with your arms and your right leg and swing your left leg over the saddle" Brent repeats. I do what I'm told and I make it onto Sadie.

"I did it!" I say in victory. "Hold on let me get on Prince" Brent says going to Prince. I watch how he just climbs the horse as if it's the easiest thing in the world.

He's obviously very experienced.

After a while I finally learned how to do all the basics and I even learned how to trot. Brent told me he could only teach me western riding since he didn't do English riding.

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"Thanks for letting me go riding. I had fun" I say to Brent as he pulls into my driveway. "Anytime" Brent smiles. I exit the car and walk up to my front door. I turn around before going inside and I wave goodbye. He waves back then pulls out and drives away.

I get inside and immediately face Brian. "Was that Brent?" Brian asks with a smirk. "Yeah" I say slowly. His smirk widens. "What?" I ask. Whatever he's thinking it's wrong. 

"I thought you said it was just a project?" Brian says leaning against the wall. "It is" I lie. Okay so we were done the project and all we have to do is present it. My brother doesn't need to know that.

"Where were you?"

"At Brent's house" I say kicking off my boots. "Were any adults home?" Brian asks seriously. "Ugh Brian don't even continue. I don't want to know!" I say going upstairs.

"Ooooooo" Brian teases making some weird kissing noises. Why are my brothers so weird and gross. Yet again every guys I know is like that.

I go upstairs to follow my night routine and then go to sleep. Brian is not going to let this go. I'm glad Thomas isn't home too often otherwise he'd be on my nerves as well.