Dude, Where's My Horse?

chapter 3

The next morning, everyone was getting ready for work today. They were at the horse stables, cleaning up horse poop.

"Oh, my gosh, I'm not doing this," Rhonda complained. "You can't make me!"

Chuckie was very disgusted and even sneezed from his allergies.

"Come on, guys, horses don't clean up after themselves." Jade told the others.

"Ah, I was born for this job." Phil smiled as he seemed to enjoy cleaning up the horse poop.

"You might wanna keep that to yourself." Rhonda deadpanned.

"No kidding." Angelica agreed as she was putting on make-up.

"Well, I for one refuse to get close and personal with horse dung!" Lil complained. "It'll ruin the foray of my jeans..."

"The life of a cowboy isn't all about fashion and fancy hats," Tommy pointed out. "We have to work up to earn it!"

"I know what you mean," Mike nodded in agreement. "Working on a ranch is never easy."

"I wish I could be strong like you, Mike." Lil sighed.

"Sometimes, you just gotta go with it," Mike told her. "I always told Lu and Og that."

"You worked on a ranch before?" Rhonda asked Mike.

"With my uncle, Jess Harper." Mike nodded.

Big Red, Little Red, Medium Red, and Belinda gasped at the name.

"You're related to him?!" Big Red asked.

"That's right." Mike confirmed.

"No way!" Belinda gasped.

"It's true," Scott agreed with Mike. "I've seen him in person."

"Me too." Jade added.

"Well, I'll be doggone." Big Red said out of surprise.

"Seems like you mean big shots for this kind of work lasso them." Chuckie said to Tommy.

"Come on, Chuckie," Tommy told his best friend. "You want the Reds, Scott, and Jade to think you're soft?"

"What about Rhonda?" Mike quickly added.

"Rhonda?" Chuckie repeated before looking to the rich girl of his dreams.

Rhonda was putting make-up on while looking at herself in the mirror.

"Leave it to Tommy to make shoveling manure a good rep." Susie deadpanned.

Belinda just giggles as Tommy smiled and blushes at the girl. Little Red saw Courtney shoveling the poop.

"Do you need any help?" Little Red offered.

"Umm... No thank you." Courtney replied.

"Man, Courtney's doing better than I expected her to." Mike commented about the rich girl.

"Dib, give me your shovel." Phil demanded.

Dib handed him the shovel and Phil growled and broke the shovel in half.

"What'd you do that for?" Dib asked.

"Rage." Phil scowled since Little Red was clearly hitting on Courtney behind his back.

"Why don't I help ya shovel, Blondie?" Little Red smiled bashfully to Courtney.

"Oh, no, that's okay, I really don't mind." Courtney told him.

"No, really, I can help you." Little Red insisted.

"No thank you," Courtney reassured him. "I can just ask Philly if I need any help."