My lucky summer

The begining

The alarm starting beeping loudly at 6:30am, Tom brooks opened his eyes slightly and groaned, but shortly after realised it was the first day of summer!
He lifted his clock and switched it off, jumped out if bed and grabbed his phone from the charger.
He went to the cupboard and slipped on his new pair of grey equiline jodpurs, his navy polo shirt and a black addidas hoodie and a pair of long socks from Shires.
He put his phone in his pocket and grabbed his navy champion helmet from the door hanger and ran downstairs. He quickly grabbed a cereal bar, a capri-sun and a £10 from his jeans pocket.
Slipping on his brogini riding boots he ran outside, locking the door behind him.
He sent his mum and dad a text saying he was going to the yard, took a selfie on snapchat and adding it to his story captioning it 'nrs yard 🐎' he hopped on his bike and cycled to stony brooks stables.
It was a coincidence that his second name appeared in the riding schools name, he thought it was cool, his instructor also the yard owner, was like a second mother to him, it was her who had given him the champion helmet and bought him the jodpurs!
A back story on tom, he didnt have much money, his family worked for everything they owned, he was only young, 12 years old at the time, his dream was to compete at the higher level of showjumping and compete for ireland in the olympics someday!
It was pushing it beyond impossible for someone like him, but he believed if he worked hard enough he could do it.
He arrived at the long bumpy laneway and cycled past the horse lorry and his trainers house, parked his bike beside the tack room and pulled the keys out of his pocket.
After reading the lesson scedule he grabbed a bucket with some feed in it, a leadrope, and he walked down the field.
He began by grabbing Sugar and Tottie, leaving them up, going back down to get sock and bailey, and finally, going down to get Sammy.
after leaving the riding school ponies in their stables, he began grooming them head to hoof, and tacking them up.
Theres was one lesson sceduled for today, he needed two ponies for that, so he let sugar and bailey stand for the lesson and he brought tottie out and lead her to the ring.
By now it was 8:30, he had decided to ride the tall chestnut mare as she was secretly his favourite of all the riding school ponies.
He began working her round the ring in a walk, encouraging her head to drop, he then picked up and bouncy trot and worked on her transitions into canter.
In the middle of the ring was a small cross pole, standing at no larger than 60cm, so he cantered her into it and she poped it, he did it the other way and walked her off down the lane. By now it was 9:15 and the livery children had started arriving so he left tottie in, and untacked her.
At stony brooks, tom was friends with most older people, but not the "cool kids" they didnt like him because he got to school in ponies for tanya (yard owner) and they didnt, despite the fact he had been riding 6 months...
He walked into the tackroom to leave tack in and the "leader" of the cool group fell silent and gave him a dirty look.
The yard had 5 riding school ponies, a few youngsters, tanyas eventers and showjumpers and then the adults livery horses, but we cant forget the 6 snobby show ponies.
Ashley kingston, the "leader" had been riding a solid 10 years and had three ponies on livery here, sophia atcheson had 2 ponies here also riding 10 years,both of them being very rude to tom, constantly bullying him about his money and family, but there was one girl in the group, who tom had overheard being teased for liking him, he didnt mind her but they had never properly spoken, her name was emily and she was fairly new here.
She had a bubbly dapples grey pony prince and she had bought him for his jumping talent, she smiled at tom and he smiled back as he left the tack back.
He left the tack room and the last thing he heard was "this is the last straw, just stop talking to us if you want to be friends with poor boy!"
The voice was undoubtably coming from ashley.
He heard footsteps behind him and he rushed towards Sammy's stable.
As he got to the stable a friendly head poked out, sammy was toms "own" he loved her, even more than he loved tottie, he would never own her but he liked to believe he did.
Sammy was a 15.2 4 year old bay mare with no markings except a star on her forehead, she nicked as tom tightened her girth and he led her out and hoped on, he decided he would hack along the trails as he had a few hours before he had to teach the lesson.
As he was walking along, he heard someone canter up along side him, he turned to see the one person he wouldnt expect, emily, he smiled at her and continued to work with Sammy's headset.
"Im sorry if you heard what ashley said back there, she can be so two faced" she said sadly
Tom turned and smiled again "its fine, im used to her by now" he said as he laughed.
The two began to talk the whole way to the lake, exchanging snapchat names and even taking a cheeky selfie with dog filters, they arrived at the lake and raced up the field, of course, sammy won, they cantered half the way back and walked the horses off.
After getting back to the yard tom hoped off sammy and put her away, smiling to himself as he untacked and brushed her down and then rode his other work in progress, sock.
After he had finished riding he put sock, sammy and tottie out to the field and taught his lesson.
By now it was 6:30, so he mucked out the stables, and locked up the barn and left at 7:00.
He cycled to the nearedt chippy and got himself chips and a burger and cycled home.
He got in at about 8:15 so he went straight to his room, took off his riding gear and got into bed, as he was eating, scrolling through instagram and editing, he got a snapchat notification saying 'Emilybbzx has added you' he accepted straight away and after not reciving any messages, he locked his phone and went to sleep....