Ellies blue eyes seemed distracted by the sight of her horse's golden patches shimmering in the sun, though she quickly looked unsatisfied when he went for a roll and stood up... black. Just love making life hard for me, don't you? She wondered about the gelding, rubbing her temples when she heard voice asking her something, "Hm...? Oh, yes." She paused, thinking about the question before looking panicked, "NO! I'm not serious all the time. And actually, when I want to be, I'm a lot of fun. Just not right now." She decided, shaking her head slightly, "Why?" She questioned, raising and eyebrow.

"well, you dont seem to laugh, o do much fun stuff. just raising your eyebrow." Sam laughed again as he watched Ellie's face turn to a look of disgust as she watched her golden horse come back a black beauty a he shook of the cold, dirty, black mud that he had rolled in. "you need to have some more fun, do some crazy stuff, go jump over logs, race flat out over the paddocks."

"Raising my eyebrow is an old habit of mine." She grumbled, looking at the fence she was sat on. "I laugh when I'm happy or exited, and I do what I need to... And I'd rather not jump in my western saddle on my barrel horses, thank you very much." She concluded before jumping off the fence and leaning against it. "I'm perfectly fine with doing what I do everyday." She added, pasing a frown onto her face.

"of course you are." he said. raising his own eyebrow, an old trick of his fathers. "wont you even try it?" he got that barrel racing could be fun too, but to him the joy of soaring over an obstacle was just glorious. "there are plently of english saddles in the tackroom, try it sometime." he said to thegirl, noticing her moody frown come over her face. he laughed happily to himself in te sunshine, basking like a lizard on a nearby large rock and enjoying the radiant sunshine.

"Maybe I'll give it a go, just when there's no-one here to watch me fall off." Ellie noted sarcastically, watching him in the sun for a moment. "Now, why are you so happy all the time? That's not normal." The girl asked curiously, tilting her head ever so slightly. She tried to be subtle when she didn't enjoy someones company, and be polite even if it was just a little, but that was proving rather difficult.

"hah, ill definitely be there to see you fall off" Sam said, smiling at the thought. "well i had a great ride, nero was awesome and him and i had a ton of fun, its as simple as that." he said. "and im happy whenever im with horses anyway, theyr'e my safe space." he said, thinking of how much Nero had done for him over the years. "you should try it sometime, being happy." he said playfully and sarcasticly.

Ellies face fell blank at his comment, murmuring something inaudible under her breath, "Safe place?" She questioned curiously. "I guess that's a good enough of a reason." Ellie replied with a soft shrug. "And like I said, I'm happy when I choose to be happy. Right now I'm not, because my lovely clean horse is now bay. And I'll tell you something, he's not meant to be that colour."

"yeah it is." he thought. "theres a plastic currycomb over there, try that on the mud, it helps," he said. "but horses love the ud, it cools and cleans them, though you wouldnt think so." he said happily, getting up iff the rock and leaning on the paddock fence looking at Nero, who walked lazily over, snuffling in Sam's pockets for carrots, apples, or mints. nero loved mints, he would do anything for thm. "well ou should try being more happy then. " he said to the girl. ""see over there?" he gestured at the XC course. "thats crosscountry, best feeling in the world. "

"Yeah, I'll sort him out later. He chose to do it to himself." Ellie informed him, hoping that some of the mud would come off before she took him in later on. She took a glance over to the XC course, rolling her eyes. "I'm not an imbicil, I know what cross country is I've just never done it before. I don't like the idea of falling off in mid air. Surely it can't be fun." She wrinkled her nose. "These horses have never jumped in their life, and neither have I for that matter, so never mind a whole course." She finished shortly.

"pffft you wont fall off if you know what youre dong. dont you fall off barrelracing?" he asked, curious. "and there is a lesson horse over there that does XC, try jumping him, get some lessons, who knows, I could even teach you," he said jokingly. "taught by the vey master of crosscountry himself." he said, laughing at his own joke.