Childhood Memory (Finn Shelby)

Part 12

"Tommy? Can I steal Finn for a couple of days?" Elsie questioned the man as he was doing paperwork at his desk. He looked up slowly at the blonde girl who was practically bouncing on the spot.

"Why do you need Finn?" He asked.

"Well, you know my new horse, I named him Hellion, anyway, I wanted to go back and spend some time back at home, and I want Finn to help."

"Alright but only a couple days, we need Finn here so don't wear him out" Tommy then shooed her out of the room.

Elsie smiled and went to find Finn. She walked around the streets where she usually would find him and then walked to the Garrison to see if he's there. "Finn!" Elsie shouted as she spotted the boy, he turned and only just stabled himself as Elsie launched herself on him in a hug.

"Woah, why are you so happy?" He asked, drawing back.

"Tommy said we could go back to mine for a few days to train Hellion and the other horses" Elsie rushed.

"And Tommy's allowing that?" Elsie nodded her head, enthusiastically, "when do we leave?"

"He didn't say; I'm assuming it's going to be tomorrow morning. I couldn't wait to tell you" she beamed.

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The first thing Elsie did when she arrived back at her house was dragging Finn towards the stables and into the changing room to get into riding gear. Unfortunately, now that Hellion was there and she has client horses too, there wasn't a free stable for Elsie to change in. "Finn, if I get changed in here with you, promise you won't look?" She questioned with her riding clothes in hand.

"Promise" Finn said, turning his back to her. He heard her rustling around and then he took his hat off, he suddenly realised there was a mirror, and she spotted Elsie in it. Finn flushed red, quickly averting his eyes and changed himself. As he was pulling his trousers down to put on breeches the door opened, he immediately pulled them back up.

Both teens froze like deer in headlights, but Elsie quickly snapped out of it, covering her body with her dress, both teens staring at John who had kindly drive them down. "Finn, this isn't the most romantic place to fuck a woman" was John's response to the situation. 

"John, we weren't fucking. Get out" Finn said, pushing the man out of the room.

"I was just going to say I'm leaving and that you two should have fun, but I see you're already having fun" he chuckled and left the room.

"I'm so sorry about him," Finn said, briefly looking at Elsie before turning back around so she could change.

They changed rather quickly, most likely in fear of being walked in on by someone else. Elsie spotted one of her stablehands and walked over with Finn following her. "Where's Hellion?" She questioned, as she looked into his now empty stall.

"Roland just went out on the gallops with him, he's calmed down with Roland, but if someone else tries to go near him, he rears up."

"Huh, that's unusual. I'll have to check him" Elsie then looked at her client's horses, "have they been on the gallops yet?" She questioned, and he shook his head. "Finn, you can take Rosie, and I'll take this new one, what's his name?" She looked at the bay horse and stroked his nose.

"Rodeo," the stablehand said.

"Thanks"

Elsie and Finn began saddling up the two horses, Finn learnt quickly as now he was able to saddle up the horse properly with barely any mistakes, even though Elsie had to help adjust his stirrups. Finn also managed to get on Rosie without the use of a bench.

They trotted over to the gallops and saw Roland and Hellion. They came galloping over before going into a trot when he was closer. "Elsie" Roland smiled, "I didn't know you were coming back."

"I decided to come back and spend some time with Hellion and to bring Finn along with me" Elsie smiled looking at the ginger boy, "I think he could be a perfect jockey," Elsie said.

"He looks a bit tall to be a jockey," Roland said.

"Well that doesn't matter, but he's great at riding" from getting all of the compliments from Elsie, his cheeks and tips of his ears tinged red.

They all decided to go on the gallops together, Elsie won the first "race" they had, but soon Finn was beating them both, Elsie just told him he had the better horse, and he scoffed and said it was pure talent.

All three horses got washed, fed and watered while Elsie and Finn prepared Paint and Holly for a ride. "Hey, Finn?"

"Hmm?" Finn hummed as he finished putting on Holly's bridle.

"Would you like to learn how to ride bareback?" She asked.

"Is that where the horse doesn't have a saddle?" He questioned.

"Yep" Elsie smiled.

Finn agreed "why not?" and began taking off the saddle he had put on Holly.

"We'll keep their bridles on for now, but I could teach you another time how to ride without a proper bridle and only a piece of rope."

So Elsie and Finn spent several hours messing around and riding bareback around the surrounding field. Both teens had managed to fall off their horse a couple of times, as they were also jumping bareback, which even Elsie wasn't good at.

They didn't complain as they just laughed and smiled. They got back to the stables, sore, stiff and filthy but with massive grins on their faces. "I definitely need a bath after that" Elsie said after putting Paint into her stall which Roland had already placed her food and freshwater in, he did that with Holly's too.

"Same here," Finn said, ruffling his hair which sprayed out dust and dirt and a few bits of small leaves and twigs. "Hang on" Finn pulled out a twig from Elsie's hair.

"Thanks"

Both teens, instead of getting changed in the stables, they just left behind their riding hats and just grabbed their clothes and walked back up to the house. Elsie told one of the maids to prepare a bath for herself and one for Finn in the bathrooms.

Elsie showed Finn the bathroom he'd be using, and she went to the one closest to her bedroom. She placed her old clothes in a basket and chose a new outfit to put on after the bath.

The bath was ready, and she stripped and climbed in, sighing in content as the heat soothed her sore muscles. She spent a few minutes just relaxing in the bath before she cleaned herself or her hair, she managed to pull out a few more leaves or twigs out of her blonde hair.

Once she was done cleaning herself, she got out and placed on a bathrobe, drying her body and spending time attempting to dry her hair. Once she was mostly dry, she placed on her clean undergarments and her dress. She decided to leave her hair loose as it was still damp and she couldn't be bothered to put it up.

She left the bathroom and went to see if Finn was hungry, she went to knock on the bathroom door when she heard a moan? She backed away from the door, embarrassed, she then swiftly walked away and down to the dining hall. Was Finn... Touching himself? Elsie shook her head, clearing any of those thoughts away, no he probably wasn't, she reasoned, she was probably hearing things.