Blue Spring's Riding Academy---Starting New

Showdown or Show-up?

Blair's POV.

Payton and I walked side by side, still holding hands. Every second of that lesson was the literal most awkward thing I've ever done or been in. Don't get me wrong, I loved it when he would call me princess, but something about it just felt weird. Maybe it was because we weren't dating but acting like we were? Maybe it was something else. Payton and I walked up to the dorm and walked inside. The second we heard the door shut behind us, I let go of his hand. The two of us made small talk on the way up to our room. We got up to our room and went our separate ways to get cleaned up. The dorm had two bathrooms, so I took one and grabbed a shower.

After cleaning myself, I got dressed in my black Adidas sweatpants and my camo green crop top that said "Ellington YENT Caption'' on the back and grabbed my black jacket to go over it. Stealing a quick look at myself to see if I looked ok, I noticed how showy the top was. It came to a stop a few inches under my bra and showed off my somewhat formed abs and curves. I smiled at my reflection, not minding how much I was showing and walked out of my closet. I blow dried my hair and grabbed my black running shoes. I walked out of my room and into the living room. I took a seat next to Olivia and her and I started talking about what we were going to do for the testing tomorrow. School wouldn't start for another week, but all students were required to come the week before school for sport testing. Jonah soon joined us and Payton followed a minute after.

After a little bit of talking, I looked at my phone to see the time and saw that we had 45 minutes until the dorm meeting. The four of us were dressed somewhat nice, but not really. We continued to talk for another half hour, the TV was on in the background, and once it hit 15 minutes until the meeting, we all started walking down. Before we walked in, I zipped up my jacket because I didn't want to show off too much. We walked into the dorm common room and saw Alex sitting down in a chair waiting for everyone to show up. There were a decent amount of people in the common room already. I looked around and snagged a couch for the four of us. We all sat down and resumed our conversation from earlier. After a little bit, we all heard the door open and in sashayed 6 girls, all decked out in Glen Ridge riding shirts, expensive looking riding boots and perfectly white breeches. Everyone in the room looked up at them and they just smiled and tried to look sexy but failed miserably. The four of us watched as the rest of the girls in the room looked at the 6 who just came in with jealousy and the boys looked at them with lust evident in their eyes.

I looked over at the other three and we all shared a look and burst out laughing. Alex looked over with a questioning look and I mouthed that I would tell her later. Everyone's heads snapped around to see who was laughing and saw us. Jonah and I were laughing so hard that we both fell off the couch and onto the floor, making the four of us laugh even harder. Finally, we calmed down enough and Alex started the meeting.

"Hello everyone and welcome to Blue Springs Riding Academy!" Alex said with a smile. "By now, I would imagine that all of you have met your dorm mates and have settled your horses in, but if not, I'll be reading off the dorm numbers and who's in them." Alex continued to talk about the school and it's background and eventually she started to read the names of who all were in the rooms. I didn't really pay attention until she got to the top floor. "And on floor five, dorm number 32, we have Olivia King, Jonah Willows, Payton Drake and Blair Willows. That concludes the dorm room placements. Does anyone have any questions?" Alex asked. One of the girls from earlier stood up. "Yes Amanda?" Alex asked. "Why does dorm number 32 have mixed genders? I thought that was banned." Her snobby voice sounded like nails on a chalkboard. Alex looked over at me as I stood up. "Amanda was it?" I asked. "Obviously." Amanda said. 

"Hi. I'm Blair Willows. You might know me. My parents are the richest people on the west coast. The reason why there's two guys and two girls is because we're very close friends and my parents paid the school a little extra so we could get that dorm. All of us are also in the same room because frankly, none of us wanted to deal with you." The whole room looked at me in shock. Not many would recognise me because my parents rarely took me or Jonah out with them, unless it was to a fancy restaurant to meet with a rich client of my parents. Payton, Jonah and Olivia all stood up, and flanked me. As I walked over to the door to leave, I unzipped my jacket, showing off my top and body, not caring how many guys, and some girls, were looking at me. I slipped the jacket off and handed it to Olivia and she put it on.

The back of my shirt was clearly visible due to my long black hair being in a high ponytail. "And in case you still don't recognise me, my titles might help. I looked over to Jonah and he stepped up to me. We've done this a lot, so he took my hand and at the same time we said, "We are the Willows. Best riders of the undefeated Ellington Stables." I had my own part here "I was the captain." I paused as Jonah said "I was her second in command." We went back in sync. "We are the undefeated. We are the top. We are international. We are your downfall. We are the trailed. We are the victors." Jonah and I looked her dead in the eyes and said with no emotion in our voice. "We are the Twins. We are your enemy."

 Then Olivia and Payton stepped up. Olivia took Jonah's hand and Payton took mine. They both started to talk in sync. "We are the followers. We are the students. We are the watched. We are the defenders. We are the newest." Payton paused as Olivia said "I was third to them." And she waited as Payton said "I was the enemy." Jonah and I looked to our sides, seeming as how Jonah, Olivia, me and Payton all had the nickname of "the fallen" because we all left our old stables and "fell". All of us knew exactly how to say it. We looked around the room, all eyes were on us. "We are The Graced and we are The Fallen." All of us then released our hands and turned around. Jonah and Payton went first, followed by Me and Olivia.

None of us knew exactly how to explain what just happened. Normally Jonah and I would do that, but when Payton and Olivia joined, It became something new. Due to that, I began to wonder if we would get the nickname of "The Fallen" or something like that. All of us knew that there would be rumors going around. Somehow, none of us were phased by that fact. We all knew that none of it would be true. But I knew that if Amanda made the advanced team, or heaven forbid, the YENT, that she would try to get on top. I looked at my friends once we got back to our room.

"No matter what happens. We will be on top. No matter what this school throws at us." I said.