Sage jumped when he heard the kick....but it wasn't a horse kicking, so it wasn't his job to go see what it was. So he pretty much just ignored it. He was done feeding by then so he went to grab one of the horses he had to exercise and brought it out to a jumping course.

Chloe walked up to her father. "Yes father" she half asked. He told her how grace wanted to ride bolt for the month. "No way. There's so many other horses, she doesn't need any of my four." She argued. Her father told her enough and that she would ride bolt. Chloe glanced at grace who was snickering beside her father. Chloe walked off to bolts stall. "I'm not letting her ride you" she told him stroking his neck.

grace-

grace stood prions as father told Chloe off. "Thank you daddy" she said. But just as she said that whiskey Pippa and spark galloped away to the forest again. Grace screamed as the horses ended up splashing mud on her top.

chloe-

chlo was sick of this happening so she put a bridle on bolt and vaulted up. She cantered until she was near grace and her father. She looked at her father disappointed and galloped after her horses

Sage had been trying to ignore the girls bickering and just focus on riding the horse he was on, but they were rather loud. Well...the one was loud. The one he didn't know. He'd heard her name but he didn't remember it. He didn't exactly care to. He winced when she screamed though, rather annoyed at the shrill noise. His sensitive hearing made it give him a headache and he sighed, running the horse through the course once more before cooling her off and then dismounting and walking back to the barn. He'd have to go past the loud sister....he'd just do his best to ignore her.

Chloe stayed in the woods for a while before heading back. She put the horses in the pasture. She rolled her eyes as grace came running up. She was leading bolt to the wash bay to rinse him off.

grace-

grace ran up to Chloe and bolt. "Give me my horse." She yelled. She tried to grab the reins but Chloe moved him. "Stop it" she yelled again

chloe-

chloe had had enough "bolt isn't your horse. And your not getting him" she yelled back and ended up slapping her hard. Grace ran back to their father and Chloe put bolt away. That's when her father called her name angrily. "Yes fath-" she stopped as she felt a hard slap across her face. Her father had never slapped her before or even yelled. She stood there shocked and then turned and started walking off. "Where do you think your going" he father yelled. "Away. And you don't decide who touches my horse" she yelled back

Sage had jumped when he heard the sound of a slap, though it was just the nicer one hitting the loud one, so he had to admit it was sort of satisfying to see her run off. He chuckled to himself and then jumped again when a louder slap noise made him yelp slightly in pain. Man, what was it with people hurting his head today? Stupid wolf hearing. He sighed and put the horse away, grabbing an ice pack from the tack room and wandering over to the girl, handing to to her. "Might not hurt now, but it will once the adrenaline stops," he told her, leaning on the stall door next to her.

Chloe took the ice pack. "Thanks" she said sounding upset. He father would be furious.

-grace

grace looked at their dad. "Daddy you can't let her talk to you like that" she said. Their dad just got in his car and left. Grace started ordering people around.

Sage grunted and nodded, wondering what else to say. After a moment of rather awkward silence, he sort of just bit his lip and nodded to himself before turning to leave.

He heard the louder one bossing people around, and he changed his paths to go around her. She wasn't gonna boss him around...but he also didn't want to hurt her of get fired. He needed this job.

Grace saw the hot stable hand. "Where are you going" she asked. "Go tack bolt up for me" she demanded. Just as she said that Chloe walked out.

-Chloe

chloe heard grace yelling at sage. "Leave him alone" she said she she walked pass. Chloe went to take bolt to the pasture. She let him go. That's when she turned around to see grace looking pissed. Chloe had rugged the horses and left them out in the pasture. Grace had gone inside the cabin so Chloe made a small spot ti sleep out of the hay. She managed to fall asleep but she was shivering.

Sage threw a look at the girl and really sort of just pointed at Chloe, who already had bolt. "She's my boss, not you," he muttered, continuing his job and grabbing the last horse he had to exercise. By the time he was done, he noticed Chloe asleep on the hay. He sighed and moved to place a blanket over her before going to get his own horse out. It was late, and he was definitely tired, but it was the only time he got to exercise the stallion.

Grace was in the cabin trying to call their father. She got no answer. She ordered door dash and told an old stable to get it. She sat there eating and waiting for Chloe to walk in.

chloe- chlo flinched a little as the blanket was placed over her. She half woke up but fell back asleep pretty quickly. She half heard hoof beats and thought it was just someone bringing in a horse they had forgotten