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Post by Sonya Williams on Jul 13, 2009 22:31:39 GMT -6
Come on, come on, take your hit
I'm just a rebel without a cause
Come on, come on, bring it on
You just want to see me fall
Blake wasn't sure what was going through his mind when he stormed away from the endurance course. Adrenaline thudded through his system, fists clenched, brown eyes stormy and Tucker trailing along by his reins. In his wake, Blake left a senior with a broken nose and bloody lip, the teacher calling at him to stop and sending students to get the school nurse. For his part though, Blake couldn't hear a goddamned thing. He was buzzing on adrenaline and out for blood. His jaw was clenched so tight it was painful but the pain felt good. Why was he so mad? Nobody insulted Blake or his family and got away with it. Plain and simple. All it took was a rich boy attitude and Blake was out for a fight. Stopping suddenly, Blake hiked his foot into Tucker's sturrip and swung himself up into the Thoroughbred's saddle. Tucker snorted and tossed his head, startled by the rough mount and easily sensing his rider's stormy emotions.
"I've had enough of this damn place" Blake growled. "We're outta here."
Kicking Tucker's side, Blake got the stallion from a standstill to an all out gallop. The speed, power, movement, all of it felt good but not as good as slamming his fist into that bastard's nose and knocking him on his ass. Blake's hands tightened on the reins. He wanted to go back and let Tucker dance on the guy. He wasn't even sure what the comment had been but all he knew was it had set him off and that was all he needed to know. Of course the fight had sent horses snorting and dancing which had detracted the teacher, giving Blake just enough time to set the guy straight. Oh man, he wanted to go back there and keep wailing on him but, the whole academy staff would probably be out to get him now. The whole thing felt distinctly like trying to escape prison.
Instinct must have been what led Tucker to the trails. The stallion followed the path, Blake not really paying attention to his surroundings at all. He was too busy having a mental argument, trying to decide if he should go back and face the music, go back and throttle the senior or just keep running until Tucker couldn't run anymore. So far, the running option was winning and it had a big lead. He was sick of these rich boys that thought they were tough and these prissy girls that giggled and gossiped more than they took care of thier horses.
It was this distracted thinking that was Blake's undoing. He was totally and completely unaware of the fallen log until it was too late.
His eyes widened and Blake tried to brace for it but Tuck was already airborne. Blake overbalanced and went flying over Tucker's neck and head, crashing into the trail. Rolling with the impact, Blake tumbled just off the trail, face up and a new cut above his left eye to match the other marks of his scuffle with the senior. Of course doing a face plant on a trail from a galloping and jumping horse left Blake stone cold, out like a light since he'd ditched his riding helmet when he'd fled the class.
Tucker neighed and danced near his fallen rider, rolling his eyes and swinging his head. The stallion wasn't about to hang around for long but he had been trained to not leave a downed rider. Still, his naturally impatient nature was fighting the training. The barn was nowhere in sight and Blake had had Tucker galloping for a reason. The rough landing from the jump hadn't made the horse's temperament any better either. Wandering to the side of the trail, Tucker walked around the fallen tree, heading toward the barn with an empty saddle. He didn't get far before the bay stopped, ears perked toward the sound of horse hooves.
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Post by Kaye~Twins~Koby on Jul 14, 2009 7:57:59 GMT -6
.x.Kayleigh Rae Swift.x.
.x.Blind but not without insight.x. Free period, what a good thing because Kaye had well and truly had enough of stuffy classrooms for the day, she knew that most of the other kids were in their equestrian classes but she didn’t have any of those today, and besides she was only enrolled in Dressage. Yes she could do jumping or even barrel racing if she wanted too, but being blind she didn’t want to push things to far.
It wasn’t that she couldn’t do those things she could, it was that on top of moving to a new school and having to deal with new people she didn’t want the added stress of trying to learn and teach Junior a ton of different courses. For now trying to learn one without being able to see was enough of a hassle, no instead she had decided to spend her free lesson on the trails where there were no teachers breathing down her neck criticising her technique. No students whispering about her behind her back, little did they know she could hear them just fine thank you very much.
No out here on the trails it was just her Junior and Kara, enjoying the freedom of riding, as the birds chirped and flittered through the tree’s. She didn’t wear a helmet today, something she would have been yelled at for back home or even back at the school but no one had been there when she saddled up so she was safe for the moment. The sun filtered down through the tree’s and caressed her face as she rode, the wind whipping at her long tresses.
Kaye was feeling so light and happy that she didn’t hear the other horse cantering toward them to start with it wasn’t until she heard something large being launched into the bush that she realised there was someone else out on the trails. By the sounds of it their ride wasn’t going as smoothly as hers was, she urged Junior to go faster until she heard Kara yapping, and she heard another horse nervous on the trail.
She pulled Junior up who whinnied at the other horse she presumed it was his way of offering some comfort to the horse. Naturally Kaye had no idea who the horse belonged too, what it looked like or even exactly where it was. She slid from the saddle, instantly Kara was at her side, but she was edgy, as Kaye followed her the dog kept walking off a bit fast then coming back. Torn between sniffing at the fallen rider and making sure her owner made it over to them without tripping herself.
When Kaye was finally close enough to the fallen man Kara yapped again, and Kaye knelt down feeling around before her hand found someone’s leg. Kara was at their head sniffing and whining Kaye could just imagine the dog pressing her cold nose against the persons face. Kaye moved slightly and soon realised she was close to the persons head know.
“Hello are you ok?”
She spoke into the air around her, but there was no answer, she felt for a pulse it was there thank goodness but they must have been knocked out, otherwise they would have answered her right? Why was she the one that had to come across the unconscious person, what was she supposed to do? She was blind for goodness sakes. She did however know some basic first but did that count when it came to unconscious people? And did they have any broken bones? How was she to know she couldn’t see if any of this persons limbs looked out of place, and she wasn’t about to see if she could feel anything out. That would be real easy to explain if they came round wouldn’t it, as if so not going to happen, instead she reached forward and found the persons face, they were male she thought, she could feel the slight sign of stubble on their chin.
Not really knowing what else to do she grabbed their shoulder and squeezed it, while calling out to them again trying to get some sort of a response from them. He didn’t seem to have a helmet on and she couldn’t help feeling that she was stupid for not wearing one as well, if he had been wearing one he might not be out cold right now.
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Post by Sonya Williams on Jul 28, 2009 20:27:15 GMT -6
Ugh...what happened? If the throbbing in his head was anything to go by, Blake could drag up an answer or two, half formed as they may be. Either he was passed out somewhere, had gotten into one hell of a bar fight or he'd been trying to train Dancer. Tucker didn't throw him...hadn't thrown him since Blake had first tried to ride him. But wait...hadn't he been riding Tucker? Maybe something had made him fall off? Something was holding his shoulders and Blake was starting to swim his way back to conciousness. It was harder than it sounded but at least now he could hear the fuzzy, muffled sound of somebody talking. To him? Maybe. Probably. Well, probably should get his eyes open before somebody freaked out.
The first thing Blake remembered was that eye opening was bad for his headache. Flinching slightly at the light and groaning, Blake tried to roll away from the light and close his eyes again. Wait a second....
It all came flashing back like somebody had hooked his memory back up to his brain. Class. Fighting. Running. Trails. Tucker. Jumping. Shit!
Blake sat bolt upright like he'd been shocked. His dark brown eyes snapped open even if it made his head throb but, he had to find Tucker. All around him, Blake saw the world jerk and twirl a hundred times faster than it was supposed to. Ugh. Blake's stomach rolled. Somebody stop the world, he wanted to get off. Putting a hand on the ground to keep himself from falling backward again, Blake looked to his right and nearly choked. Kaye was kneeling next to him, her guide dog and horse not too far away. Beyond Kaye was a nervous looking Tucker but Blake's eyes zoomed in on Kaye, probably because she was closest.
"K...kaye!" Blake yelped, trying not to jump because it would just make him nauseas. "W..what are you doing here?"
His most intelligent response ever? Most definitely not. Good for having fallen off his horse? Not bad. At least focusing on Kaye was helping him stop from vomitting on her or passing out again. If he'd come around alone, Blake probably would have been ok with just passing out again. Not like anybody would miss him up at the school. Even Kaye wouldn't have noticed right? It wasn't like he was exactly popular. The teachers would probably be glad to get his ass outta the school as soon as possible. A riding accident would just be too convenient. The school owner probably wanted to skin his hide and probably ban him from even riding for the next three weeks. God...he'd probably be on mucking duty for the next month.....
Blake nearly gagged at the thought.
Ok no thoughts of horse crap while feeling ill...not good. Uh...
Putting his head in his hands, Blake bit back a groan. If his head would stop throbbing then they'd be getting somewhere. Yeah, that would be nice.
"Happen to have any aspirin?" Blake asked, not looking at Kaye. It wasn't like she could see him looking at her or not looking at her.
Over near Junior, Tucker snorted and shook his neck making his bridle jingle slightly. His eyes were rolling slightly but he was settling down, having followed Kaye and Junior back to his rider. Stomping a hoof, Tucker gnawed on the bit, swishing his tail wearily, eyeing the dog with mistrust. Tuck had never been a fan of animals, sometimes even not fond his own species.
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Post by Kaye~Twins~Koby on Aug 13, 2009 8:35:46 GMT -6
.x.Kayleigh Rae Swift.x.
.x.Blind but not without insight.x. For a long while Kaye knelt there, squeezing gently at the persons shoulder and calling out to them, or maybe it just seemed like a long time. Either way she couldn’t sense any sort of reaction from them and she was getting worried. Her mind was running all over the place wondering if she should jump on her horse and ride as fast as she could back to the stable and try to find someone to help. But the thought of maybe not being able to find them again had her worried about that idea. It wasn’t until Kaye heard whoever was on the ground stirring that she relaxed slightly, thoughts of running for help pushed to the back of her mind, she heard as part of their body left the ground with quick movements, as if they had been startled.
It was a moment before the person actually spoke, as if they didn’t know where they were or something, but then if they had been unconscious as she suspected then it only seemed logical that they would be feeling a little disorientated. When they did speak however she recognised the voice instantly it was the boy she had ridden with the other day, the one who had stupidly removed the snake from the trail with great risk to his own health and now here she found him unconscious on the ground. A soft grin couldn’t help itself as it crept onto her lips as he spoke, what are you doing here? Hmm well that was a conversation started wasn’t it, though she couldn’t hold it against him, she had just found him sprawled on the ground.
“Well Blake, I actually happen to go to school here and funny thing, I tend to like riding on the trails during free periods, I think the accurate question is why are you on the ground unconscious my friend, I suppose that’s Tucker back there prancing around nervous.”
She said humour laced her voice as she spoke, and as she mentioned the guys horse she flicked her finger over her shoulder motioning to where she could hear three sets of four legs, two of them horses and one dog, lingering in the background. It wasn’t like Kaye was heartless or anything but you had to admit that I was kind of funny when people were disorientated to taunt them a little bit especially when normally they put across the image of being so sure of themselves and their actions.
“You know what I think I left it in my other saddle”
She answered his second question with a sarcastic sigh, of course she didn’t have any aspirin she had left everything in her room, her books, her bag, her purse, even her phone was in there on charge, she had not had any intention of social interaction during this free period she had just wanted to have an hour to herself, with nothing but the clothes on her back weighing her down.
Kaye could hear one of the horses acting nervously and knew it wasn’t her junior, she remembered that Kara was over there and not all horses were as easy with her being around them as Junior was. Light quick whistle left her lips and she soon felt the cold wet nose of the dog nudging at her, she hoped that having Kara closer to her and away from Tucker that the other horse would calm down some, she would really like to find out what had happened, obviously they had been riding she could hear the jangling of the bridle of Blake’s mount.
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OOC ;; Ok took me long enough but I finally found some muse to post  |
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