Out of the Shell

Angel on earth pt.2

Minho's POV, following day

"Oh, believe me, you will love it." I gave girls a warm smile, knowing that will work on them. It did. They followed me to the bus stop and to the destination bus stop, they kept whispering something behind me, which I didn't really care about. 

 We made it there. It was a huge complex of many buildings and paddocks. Horses were all around. I saw the smile on girls' faces when they spot those big animals. "Oh look!!! A baby horse!!!" a couple of them called as a few employees, I guess, made their way around with horses and foals. Maybe this was a right shot. "Follow me, girls." I waved on them to give me attention instead of the horses. 

"Mr. Lee are we going to ride?" one asked. "I do hope so! Imagine me on a horse in a long dress like a princess!" another called. As we closed up to the main building of the complex something else caught girls' attention. "Waw!!! I wanna be like her!" one of them called and I looked the way only to spot the most beautiful creature on earth and I didn't mean the horse... 

"Look, Mr. Lee! I took a video of her. I will be like her one day." Elizabeth showed me her phone. It actually made me satisfied, knowing that Elizabeth, one of those spoiled girls from rich families, who never cares about anything besides her look, is actually interested. That rider then made her way to us and stopped the horse just in front of me. 

I'm actually tall for a Korean. I am 180cm (5'11''), the average for my country is 175cm for a male. This horse though was big, at least 170cm in shoulders which put the top of his head into approximately 195cm. He snorted and his breath fanned my face. The female sitting on him looked over at us. "Hello," she said quite shyly. "Hey." I smiled at her. "He is beautiful! What is his name? How old is he? What breed is that? How long have you been riding?" girls started bombarding her with questions on which she pulled on reins and horse took a few steps back snorting in disagreement as he was about to take a bite of grass. "Later. There will be time for that." I calmed them down. "More importantly, we'd like to sign for classes." I smiled back at her. She gave me a shy smile nodding on my idea. 

Then she threw her leg through around his head and jumped down. She looked pretty small beside that horse. But I'd say she might have been 160cm to 164cm. "Follow me." she said and led the horse while we walked after her. "Jenny, take Apollo to his stall." she handed reins to a girl that was near. So Apollo. Pretty name. 

Girls followed Jenny to the stalls while I went after that beautiful girl to the office. "Kang SooJin, nice to meet you." She bowed like it is polite in Korea. "Nice to meet you too. I am Lee Minho." I returned the bow. "So... you'd like to sign those girls?" she asked. "No, not only them. Those 17 girls are just 8th grade. That I'd like to sign for a 2h ride on Tuesdays. For Wednesday I'd like 9th grade of 14 girls." I smiled. "Oh, uhm, that would do." She nodded and wrote my students to the stables program. 

Then we went to the stables for my students. "We will start with the basics. You will all be assigned to a horse you will be riding through this semester." she said and started listing girls' names to horses. "Now you." she looked at me for a brief second. "Me?" I was confused. "Yes. Cinder will be your ride." she said pointing on the stall door where the soft eyes of a pretty horse looked at me. 

"Cinder is Gypsy Vanner or otherwise known as Irish Cob. Do you have experience with riding?" she asked, averting my gaze. "Does one ride on circus horse count?" I tried to joke, but she looked me dead in the eyes. "Anio! (No!)." she shook her head. "Well, then I am a novice." I shrugged my shoulders and chuckled. I wonder why she is so tied up like... "What breed is your horse?" I asked her trying to engage her into the conversation. "Friesian." she replied shortly walking over to girls to check upon them.