Muted

Chapter 7

The next couple of days passed with me spending most of my time with Guardian, learning how to feed and brush him. He especially loves it when I feed him treats. I was even learning how to do chores around the stables with Jake. Ever since our talk, Jake has been going above and beyond trying to include me in any conversation he can. It warms my heart a little even though it races every-time he does it. Paige saw the way I drew Guardian's name on the stall door, so she said that if I wanted I could do that for all the horses.

As I walk towards the stable with my art supplies in hand I think about how everyone has tried to make me feel at home, well Tyler just ignores me but still. After spotting Jake mucking out one of the horse's stall, I made my way over to him. The crunching of dry hay under my boot caused him to stop what he was doing and sin around so fast a flinched back, both of us holding a hand to our chests.

"God Aurora give a guy a warning, would you?"

My face instantly heated with his friendly grin. Nervously I raised my hand to the dark wooden beam and gave it a gentle knock.

"Haha, very funny Missy," he noticed all the stuff I was holding, "Here to design the stall doors?"

I nodded and let him lead me to the first horse in the row of stalls on the left side of the stable.

"Okay so first here is Pixie, she is a little shy around newcomers. She's Adrian's horse but since he is always so busy she doesn't get out as much as we would like.

Then there is Copper, he is the oldest horse we have here. He won't let anyone ride him anymore. Try to put a saddle on him and he just bucks it off, so we gave up and just let him graze about, we don't have the heart to sell the old fella.

Next up is Flash. He is only young and loves to run but he is very obedient and gentle, that's why he is Sam's horse. He named him too, claiming that the white on his face looks just like the superhero Flash's lightning bolt.

Then obviously, there is Guardian. Next to him are Scribbles and Treble. They are Logan and Louis's horses. Scribbles is Louis's horse and is a lot calmer in personality, while Treble is Logan's and is a bit more mischievous.

After them is my horse, Lady Grey. As you can see I named her that because of her gray coat. Plus the white marks on her for head and legs reminded me of a crown and gloves.

Next is Tyler's horse Echo. Echo is pretty laid back and very obedient, he was the first horse Tyler helped break."

My eyes widened in horror as I looked at Jake. He noticed my expression quickly and rushed to explain.

"No! No, not like that! What that means is to train a horse to take a rider."

That made me feel a whole lot better as I nodded to Jake and gestured for him to continue with the introductions.

"Okay, after Echo there is mom's horse Madam, then Dad's horse Sir. They thought that it would be cute and that they would breed them together. Funny thing is, they wanted nothing to do with one another.

Next is Blondie, she's Alex's horse and loves just about anybody. Carson never took to riding he was more into machines if you couldn't tell." We both smiled at that. "I mean he helps out and stuff, and doesn't mind taking a horse out for a ride once and a while but it wasn't something he loved doing. That's why he doesn't have one. He just rides our client's horses to help exercise them and things like that. Well that's all I got for now, are you good to get started? Or do you need me for anything else?"

I gave him a small smile and shook my head. He lead me back to Pixies stall and left me to get started, once again reminding me to come get him or anybody if I need anything.