We stand up and Henry goes to a heal automatically. We start walking down the hallway and Asher turns around and says. " This school right here is such a good school.I think you'll really like it." I am already liking it, the wide hallways and how its so easy to navigate your way around the school. Ash says " How old are you Asher?" Asher looks at him with a confused look but continues. " Sir, I am almost 16. Why may you ask?" Ash looks at me and says. " Well being the good father that I am, I am just making sure that you are suitable for my daughter thats why." I look over at Asher and say. " I am so sorry for the way he has been acting he is new to this." Asher looks at me and laughs. " Thats ok." We go to the cafeteria. Asher says. " This is the Cafe, I am asuming since you have a service dog that you will be arriving here early with a friend to help you with lunch." I think about it and I think he is right. " I am sure you're right." I said. { I am just going to skip the tour }. We leave the school and go to the car, of course the boys are asleep. Ash puts on a JB song in the car as we are driving and the boys wake up and scream " TURN IT OFF ASH!" So Ash being the nice person he is, he turns it off. He looks back and says. " Well if you dinguses weren't sleeping I wouldn't put it on." I just laughed at them, i look at my phone and realize that its Thursday. Thank god I am wearing my riding clothes. " Ummm guys, my lesson is today." Ashton turns around and says " What time is your lesson normally?" I say. " Around 3 o'clock" I look at my phone and its 2:13. " Guys we better head there now." The boys look at me and a bunch of questions just come at me all at once. " Guys, one at a time. Ashton you start.'' " Um ok, have you ever fallen off a horse?" I think to myself. " Actually Ash I haven't fallen off of one but I did get kicked in the stomach by a miniature horse and get bitten and dragged by a mini, and a regular sized horse reared up on me whilst I was doing ground work but nothing too serious." Michael said. "They all have scary looks on their faces. " I say "Don't worry guys, these horses are well behaved, I'll even ask my trainer if I can have you guys cool my horse off by you guys just mounting on him and I'll lead you around, does that sound good?" They all think about it for a couple minuets and then say. " I'll be ok with that." So then we head to the stable and I unhook Henry from his lesh because my trainer has a viewing room and allows him to stay in there. We walk down the stable hallways and get to my horse. I say. " Here is Calum!" I pointed to his stall and made a clicking noise so he would peer around and see us.
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The boys looked at him in awe. Calum walks up to him first and he says as he puts his hand out for him to smell. " Hey buddy, I heard that you were named after me is that true?" Romeo ( it's Calum the horses show name ) makes a nickering noise. Calum says " I guess that means a yes haha." Cal backs away from the stall door and notices 2 different names on the stall. Cal looks at me and asked." Why are there 2 different names on his stall?" I say." Romeo is his show name but isn't his full show name and Calum is his regular name. I am going to get him tacked up now, why don't you go with Henry in the viewing room and i'll let you know when it is time to cool out ok?" They all look at me while I put his halter on and say. " Ok." They walk away and I look at Romeo and just let him talk to me through his eyes and his body language. " Awe boy i missed you too." I slip the halter over his ears and clip under his cheek. I open the stall door and make the leadrope into figure 8's so I can hold it better. I lead him to the cross ties and hook the ropes to both sides of his halter. I then go into the viewing room and get Henry because I let him chill out with us while we were tacking up. Me and Henry walked up to Romeo and Romeo did his little prance evertime he sees Henry. " Looks like everyone missed everyone." I said and laughed.I walk towards the tack room and grab grooming tools. ( brushes and hoof picks and fly spray.) And then I walked up to Romeo and grabbed a curry cone and started grroming his side in circles. Then Luke walks in. " Hey I noticed that you were doing this and I wanted to try, is that ok?" He says as he points to the brush." Sure, ill show you how to do it. So you put one hand on his side and the other on the brush and brush in circular motions ok?" He looks at me and says." Sure can't be that hard." He starts to groom Romeo and of course has no problem because he is so tall. I look at Luke's face and he looks like he is really enjoying it. " Are you enjoying this Luke?" He laughs and says. " I never thought that I would be able to work with a horse ya know?" I think about it. I say " It's actually helpful with anxiety and stress, and it helps you work with your peers and animals." He has a thinking face on and then says, " Your trainer was out with us, maybe i could ask to have a lesson?" I think about it and say, " You should, she would allow you to ride with me, that would be so much fun!" He looks at me and says. " Alrighty I'll be asking her now, bye have fun!" I look back as he walks out and say, " I will."
