Always~ r5 fanfic

Chapter 14

"You've got to be kidding me." Ross said with a touch of fear in his voice.

We walked through the gates of the ranch and into the barn Rydel seemed giddy as the guys seemed a bit edgy. "Have you guys never been horse back riding?" I giggled, Rydel came up towards me. "They've never been around horses at all." She laughed, I looked back at them and stopped for a second. Falling back I wrapped my arms around Riker and Ross, leading them towards the desk where we pay.

I paid for everyone (I get a discount anyway since I'm here all the time) and went over to my favorite horse Thunder. He was a pure white stallion and absolutely loved me. "Hey thunder! How's my boy?" I asked, he whined and nuzzled my cheek. I opened his stall door and clipped a lead on him. "I gotta brush him out before we put the saddle on him. Then we can do your guys horses." I explained, trying Thunder down before getting out some brushes.

"Come on guys, group effort so it'll get done faster!" I said, tossing brushes at them. Riker and I took Thunders left side, Rocky and Ross did his right, Ratliff got the tail (he wasn't too pleased) and Rydel got to do his mane and took great pleasure in braiding it. Soon enough Thunder was clean as a whistle and I got his saddle pad, then saddle and bridle. I put it all on him and tied him outside by the trail that led to the endless fields to ride on.

"Okay guys! Pick your horses!" I said, Rydel went over to a beautiful palomino named Sugar and began to brush her down.

Ross picked a solid brown horse named Jamie.

Rocky picked a greyish horse named.. Rocky doesn't surprise me in the least.

Ratliff picked a horse named kitty who had black hair making it look like whiskers.

Riker picked a jet black horse named blackjack. You'd think blackjack was a boy but you'd be wrong. Blackjack also had quite the crush on Thunder, I didn't tell Riker that though, I'll let him find it out for himself.

Within 10 minutes and a lot of struggles with straps, we were all saddled up and ready to mount up. Which is going to be the funny part. I went first to show everyone how it was done, standing on Thunder's right side I put my right foot in the stirrup and pulled myself on easily. Everyone had saddle up pretty well except for Riker, who had Blackjack tied right next to Thunder who I was sitting on, ended up falling onto my lap.

"Whoa there cowboy." I laughed, pushing Riker back into his own saddle. Everyone was saddled and had helmets except for me since I've been riding since I was 2. I nudged Thunder to go forwards and we started off, I raced ahead of them before circling back around. "Oh come on guys I know you're beginners but go a tad bit faster!" I giggled, I think I could crawl faster then they were riding.

"Just nudge them a tiny bit and you'll go a little faster." I said, no one seemed confident in their riding just yet. Then Riker sped up a little, looking shocked with his eyes as wide as saucers. "I'm not doing this!" He said as he sped up to join me, Blackjack stopped level with Thunder, so close Riker and I were rubbing knees.

"Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you that blackjack has a crush on thunder, she prefers to be near him." I said, leaning towards and patting Thunder on his neck. "He's quite the stud." I said smirking at how thunder kept bumping into Blackjack. "I can see that, oh look at that! Let's go over there!" Riker said, pointing to the lake and nudging Blackjack towards it, forcing me to come too.

We came up beside the lake and sat their staring at it, it was gorgeous, sort of marshy and you could see fish bubbling all over. All of a sudden out of nowhere Blackjack reared and threw Riker before running off into the more wooded areas. "RIKER!" I yelled, jumping from Thunder and rushing over to him.

He was laying flat and seemed to only have the air knocked from him. "Please tel me that looked cool." He gasped, sitting up. "It did. I think a snake may have scared her." I concluded since that's the only thing blackjack was scared of. I helped Riker up and looked around. "I can't see Blackjack anywhere, I'll have to send a worker out to find her, youll have to ride back with me." The others were riding around in circles, I think, playing tag.

I mounted Thunder before helping Riker up behind me. "Hold on." I said, blushing insanely. Riker was pressed against me with his arms around my waist and I could feel his heart beating fast against my back. "Okay, let's go." I said, I didn't realize we'd gone so fear from everyone. I could feel Riker rubbing against me as we rode and realized how awkward a this is going to be to explain.

We ended up returning to the stables soon anyway since Ross was, of course, hungry. I swear he's either hungry or bored. Once the horse were put away we walked back to my car, I had run ahead to video tape them. Rydel came out first, rubbing her back, followed by the guys walking with their legs spread as if the horse was still beneath them. Rydel and I laughed until our sides hurt at this sight before finally climbing into the car.

Pretty good day I'd say all in all.