Briarwood Elite Riding Academy: Take the Reins

Chapter 15: Three Fingers Working For One Hand

I fought off the urge to let out an irate sigh but when I turned to look at who had interrupted us by chuckling my blood turned to ice in my veins and I could feel the color draining from my face.

Justin.

He stood aloofly by the entrance of the gazebo with a dark smirk on his face; his dark hair was tousled and his eyes gleamed as he regarded us. Just the sight of him made me fearful and extremely pissed off; all at the same time.

“Well, well, well.” Justin muttered, his smirk growing more crooked by the moment.

I could feel Ben stiffening beside me; his jaw was locked and his body was rigid like a stone statue as he glared at Justin. The boy who had only an hour ago been teaching a young girl with the demeanor of a teddy-bear was now contorting into his ultra-ego; tough and intimidating older guy.

“What do you want?” I croaked out; the tension was building around me and I could hardly take it.

“What? Am I not allowed to walk where I want now?” Justin spat.

“Give it a rest.” Ben snapped; “You’re clearly not one for frolicking so you must have come here for something.”

Justin narrowed his dark eyes at Ben before flitting them back to lock onto me; where they darkened a shade. Ben stepped in between Justin’s line of sight; blocking me behind his impressively tall back.

“I was following her.” Justin’s smile drew upwards but it was not happy or calming; at all.

My stomach plummeted downwards and I gulped.

“You’ve got a lot of nerve.” Ben growled; “I won’t hesitate on telling Sebastian how much of a little shit you are.”

Justin let out a bark of short laughter; “Go ahead and tell him. I didn’t say I was going to beat her up; I said I was following her.”

“Who? Why?” I stammered; my mind was in overdrive as a million incoherent thoughts flew about my mind.

Justin was following me? Why? Could it have to do with the note or did Chloe put him up to it?

“You look so dumb with that blank look on your face.” Justin scoffed smugly. “You still haven’t put the pieces together yet Canada? Or have you been too busy shoving your tongue down each other’s mouths to realize.”

Ben lunged forward with cat like speed knocking Justin down onto the wooden gazebo floor. Justin hit the floor with a thud and began spewing curses from his mouth. Everything from there began happening so quickly and all I saw were the two boys rolling about throwing punches and kicking at each other.

Horrified I rushed forward to try to grab Ben off of Justin who was now bleeding heavily from the nose. But before I could even touch Ben an outraged voice broke through the chaos and immediately halted all activity.

“Remove yourselves from each other immediately!” Head Mistress Hayes’s voice was three times louder and deeper than usual and she looked utterly pissed off.

Reluctantly Ben tore himself off of Justin; whom scrambled upwards onto his two feet.

“What in the name of god?” Head Mistress Hayes growled; “You boys acting like utter animals in my garden at my school? How totally disrespectful!”

“Head Mistress-.” I attempted to butt in but she silenced me with a killer look.

“If you so much as speak to me right now Ms. Thyme I will bring you in for charges as well.” Head Mistress Hayes growled lowly; I shut my mouth.