chapter eight

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I fiddle with the strap of my brown leather back pack tapping my foot impatiently as Mrs Cadrock presented her welcoming speech to everyone.

"I'm pleased to see many returning faces and I'd like to welcome our two new scholarship receivers Kailey Rellen and Sally Josephs." She said smiling in my direction everyone turned around looking for the new faces as I looked down hoping not to be noticed. "Now if you have brought your horse with you I ask that you leave your luggage just in that grass area over there and begin unloading your horses and then follow Mr Peters to the stables. People who don't have a horse you will be assigned your boarding houses and then you will swap and you will receive your assigned horses for the year while the others get assigned their boarding houses." Everyone nodded in understanding before moving away either back to their cars or to Mrs Cadrock.

Ivan who was currently holding my mint coloured suitcase rolled it over to the grass area before coming back to the trailer to help me unload Gizmo.

"I hope you have lots of fun lil' sis." Ivan said hugging me.

"I'm going to miss you, make sure you visit as often as you can." I told him hugging him back.

"I will." He replied smiling.

"I'm going to miss you so much darling, remember to call if you need anything." My Mum said hugging me again.

"I will, thank you so much for giving me this opportunity Mum." I smiled.

"As long as your happy dear, now we have to go now we still have a 7 hour drive back home." She said with a sad smile.

"Ok." I sighed.

"Love you!" They called out from the car as I waved them off.

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"Hello everyone welcome to the stable, you'll be spending a lot of time here over the next couple of years so it's important you understand the rules." Mr Peters began. "Firstly I will assign you all a stable and a tack hook where you will keep your horses for the duration of your time here. You will be able to keep your grooming box, saddle, bridle, headstall and lead rope at your tack hook any extra gear you may have you must keep in your room." I had already thought that therefore I only was carrying a small amount of my gear. Mr Peters began reading off names giving them a stable number and tack hook number. "Kailey Rellen, Stable 16 tack locker 37," he read of smiling when he remembered who I was. I led Gizmo to stable 16 leaving my gear to come back for.

"There you go buddy." I said giving Gizmo a pat before I unclipped him letting him explore his new home.

"Hi, I'm Ally" I heard a chirpy voice from next to me. I looked over and saw a small girl with blond curly hair looking over a white pony's back.

"Kailey." I replied smiling "Your pony is adorable." I commented looking at the cute little pony who looked around 14.1 hands high.

"Thanks his names Chuck, what about yours he's beautiful!" She said admiring Gizmo.

"This is Gizmo." I replied back. "Did you wanna come find the tack room with me?" I asked hopefully.

"Oh yeah, I know where it is I've been coming here for 3 years, I can show you." She said giving me a friendly smile.

"Thankyou, I just have to back and grab my gear." I replied.

"So are you new here, I haven't seen you before?" Ally asked as we walked to the tack room.

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