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Taehyung- horse riding

hello im back again for another chapter. Full disclosure for anyone still worried about me: im totally fine. My bruise from the seatbelt is healing much quicker than i expected, and mentally im surprisingly alright. I still feel a slight anxiety whenever i go out in a car, but its not that bad really. And i do still get flashbacks of the accident but it's not like those flashbacks make me feel anxious or down in anyway. I just sort of look back on it like "damn. that was crazy" and move on. It still feels kinda weird to just carry on with my life like this after an accident like that. but still, life goes on, the world carries on turning. Anyway, on with the chapter. I did originally want to do a little chapter for taehyung (as in taehyung as a little), but then i remembered this other idea i had and it just inspired me a bit more, so im going for this one. I did use to go horse riding regularly, so i think i know all the lingo (innit) but if i get something wrong, i apologise, and feel free to correct me. Also i will be calling it 'horse riding' and not 'horseback riding' cause im british and thats what we call it and it takes less effort to write so ye.

🟣TAEHYUNGS POV🟣

One of my favourite things about filming Hwarang was learning to ride a horse. In the end, i didn't have any horse riding scenes, but i still love that i got to learn, because it is really fun. Unfortunately with busy schedules and such i don't get to go often, but whenever i get a chance, i take it. Like in Bon Voyage, i always go riding if i can. This year we went to the UK for Bon Voyage. Wales to be exact. It's a nice place, and different to the places we've been before. I love the scenery, and since our producers know how much i love horse riding, they said we could all go. This will be the first time we've all been horse riding together, since the last time at malta Yoongi wasn't there, so im excited for all seven of us to go riding. (lowkey though im sad yoongi wasn't there for the horse riding cause i want to see him horse riding hehe) 

The best thing about horse riding is going fast, cantering or even galloping, it's just so thrilling. Even though it can be dangerous, as long as you know what you're doing and you trust the horse, its really fun. Horses really are beautiful animals.

I talk excitedly all the way to the stables, perhaps going a bit overboard and info-dumping, but im excited! can you blame me? I only get to go riding once a year at best, so i have to make the most of it. The others seem either nervous or indifferent, and it annoys me that i can't share my excitement with them, but hopefully once they get started they'll see how fun it is. Especially yoongi. He seems to be extra nervous, probably cause he's never done it before, and hes not a huge animal person either. I assure him its ok and he can just stay at a walk the whole time, but that doesn't seem to ease his nerves.

We arrive at the stables, and already the scenery is beautiful, big green fields with grazing horses, other students having lessons, some jumping. It only makes me even more excited. The stables back up onto a forest, where they often go for hacks (which is just riding out), and its where we'll be going today. While we get checked in i go and say hi to the horses in the stables, stroking their soft gentle noses while listening to their soft breaths. I didn't know this, but turns out we're getting the full experience today. We get to help groom and tack up (tack = saddle and bridle) the horses before we ride them and so i get extra excited. I've always wanted to help tack up. We each get the help of an instructor, who help us groom and tack up the horses since we've never done it before. My instructor leads me to maddie, a beautiful chesnut coloured horse, who seems calm and gentle. He hands me a sugar cube and helps me feed it to her, and her soft lips tickle the palm of my hand and makes me giggle a little. We enter the stall and the instructor hands me a brush, telling me to brush her main coat. He explains it all simply and visually, which im greatful for, and we both brush her together, until she's clean. I then brush her mane while the instructor brushes her tail, since thats a bit more complicated to do.