The next morning just felt like any other. "Rise and shine Stevie, another day another dollar!" my mom said cheerfully.
More like another migraine.
I got up, got dressed and headed out to school, I waved my mom goodbye as I walked down the street. On my way, I met up with Mike.
"Hey man, so, have you thought about your approach?"
"Your still going on about that?"
"I wouldn't be the one asking that sort of question since I'm not the one who's been talking how 'amazingly amazing' Jenny is for the past 'two' years." It felt like was about to blush at that cause I already felt my cheeks getting warm.
"Whatever, hopefully I'll be able to ask her out today, that is, if she's not in a rush to get somewhere again."
"Alright, but remember, tic-" I imidiatly stoped him there.
"ALRIGHT, I GET IT!!! MY CLOCK IS TICKING!!!" I said aloud full of anger, annoyance, and yet pride from my tone.
"Ok gees, just making sure you remember." Mike said, surprised at how I stood up for myself. I decided to change the subject as we headed towards school.
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Finally, lunchtime! Time to make my move. As I grabbed my lunch tray out of the lunch line, I saw Mike at a distance and he nodded at me, indicating me to go on ahead as planned. I nodded back to him as I went to look for Jenny. I find her at a lone table reading a book. Heading on over, I noticed one of the baseball coaches was putting up a piece of paper on a wall to my right. Once he left, I moved in to see what it was, and luckily, it was a list of people who made the team. Skimming through the names, I found my name amongst the others. I had made the team! It was just to good to be true! I quickly took off to where Jenny was all excited about what had just happened.
Upon arriving to my destination, I quickly slowed down so that I wouldn't crash into her for a second time. I slowly walked up to her.
"Hey Jenny,"
"Oh hey Stevie," she motioned to sit down next to her, this was good.
"I got some great news!" she said excitedly.
"Me too!"
"You go first,"
"Alright, I made the baseball team! Isn't that great!?"
"That's great! Anyway, now it's my turn. Remember yesterday I was in a rush, well I was going to go to hurry and enter in the young riders competition, and I got in, which means I have to go and practice after school," she said excitedly.
"Wow Jenny, that's amazing! Well I hope you win."
"Yea me too. So, I was wondering, do you uh... want to uhm... come by my house this Saturday and uh... go horseback riding with me?"
Oh my gosh, is she asking ME out? That's every guys dream to happen, I think.
"Yea sure, that sounds great," I said nervously.
"Great!" she seemed so happy from my reply. It felt good. Just then, the bell rang.
"Ok, so I'll see you this Saturday?" I asked.
"Yea, I'll see you later", she replied.
"Ok," once she was out of sight, I ran looking for Mike.
Luckily, we were both in study hall so I could talk to him about what happened. I finally found Mike talking to somebody. I quickly ran up to him.
"Dude, we need to talk,"
"What, what is it?" he said confusedly as he motioned to the person he was talking to to leave.
"I'll catch you later Mike," the guy said.
" yea," he said in reply.
"Dude, you won't believe what just happened with me and Jenny."
"What, did you ask her out?"
"Close, now call me crazy, but I think she asked me out."
"WHAT!!!" he said surprised from what I had told him.
"Yea, she asked me if I could come to her house on Saturday, and I obviously said yes!"
"Well lucky you then. I wish that kind of stuff would happen to me."
"Yup, so far, I've been having a great day, and boy I can't wait 'til Saturday!" We then headed on to study hall to continue on with the day.
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Saturday finally came rolling along and I was in the best of moods, knowing that I had a date with Jenny, the girl of my dreams. I quickly got dressed into something casual, ate some breakfast and headed on out. Unfortunately, I was stopped in my tracks right when I was already opening the door.
"Hey son, you're never up this early on a Saturday, what's going on?" It was my dad, and he was on to me. I did mention that I was going to Jenny's house to my mom, so I figured she would tell my dad, but something tells me she forgot. There was no point in lieing cause since I told my mom, he would ask her to see if my story checks out.
"I'm uh... h-heading to uh, Jenny's house. You know Jenny right?"
"Yes, your mother told me that you talk about how 'amazing' and 'beautiful' she is to your friend Mike," I felt a bit embarrassed from that.
"Y-yea, she told me to come over," I said nervously.
"Well you be careful, and don't get into any trouble."
"Alright dad, see ya later," I said as I walked out the door.
"Good luck son!" My dad replied with a wink as he went back inside the house.
What did he mean by that? I thought about it for a bit before I decided to just drop it. I got on my bike and a headed on to go see Jenny.
It took a while before I finally made it. I got off and walked up to the door to knock it. When it opened, a large man was standing in front of me.
"Uhm hello, is uh Jenny home?"
"Yea, she's in the stable with her horses again," he said with a firm booming voice.
"Thank you," I felt very uncomfortable until the man at last closed the door. A wave of relief swept over me as I went around the house and I headed on towards a barn.
Moving inside, I saw Jenny tending to some horse.
"I never knew how good you were at tending to horses." Jenny quickly turned to see that it was only me. She then chuckled at that.
"Very funny Stevie. Ready to go?"
"Yea, hey who is that guy? You know, he's big, had booming voice, kinda scary,"
"Thats my dad,"
"Oh man, I'm sorry, it's just that-"
"Don't worry, I understand. He may seem scary, but he's really not that bad once you get to know him."
I'll believe it when I see it.
"Ok then, so what horse am I getting?" I asked looking around at all the horses there were.
Dang, she must really like horses.
"You can ride Shadow over there," she pointed to a black colored horse. It actually seemed pretty cool.
I walked over to the horse to get a better look. Jenny then came to open the stable to attach a saddle on it.
"Alright, hop on." I did as she told me to do. Once I was situated onto the saddle it kinda felt like I was sitting on a bike. Jenny got on the brown horse she was just tending to a while ago.
"Ok just stay right next me," said as we both headed on out of the barn.
We trotted our horses along the perimeter of the ranch. It was nice having just Jenny and I talking about things. It was quite fun being with her.
"Hey I want to show you something," she said excitedly. "Follow me," she turned her horse and headed off towards the forest nearby. I motioned Shadow to follow. Jenny then took a path that lead deep within the forest and began to pick up the pace. I did the same in an attempt to catch up with her. She started to slow down which helped close the distance between us. I noticed that she had stopped in front of an old wooden house that looked like it hadn't been used in years.
"What is this place?" I asked.
"I'm only showing this to because I think your the only friend I can trust. Do you promise to keep it a secret on what I'm about to tell you?"
"Yea sure."
"This is my secret hiding place I like to go whenever I'm sad, confused, or even happy. Come on, lets go inside!" she motioned me to follow her again we both got off our horses and tied the reins to a nearby tree branch.
We went inside the old house. It was a dump, but what do you expect from an old house. "What do you think?" Jenny asked with a grin on her face while my face winced.
"Well, it's um... what's the the word I'm looking for? It's uh...great."
"I know what you're probably thinking, this place is a dump and it does look like it, but there's something about it that makes me feel 'connected, to it. And besides, it helps me cool off when I've had a rough time. You're welcome to look around if you'd like, I'm going to be catching up on some reading," she said as she took a book out from her bag she brought with her. I kinda grinned at that as she took a seat on one of the nearby chairs. I then turned to go into the room next to me.
Looking inside, all there was was a bed, and an old wardrobe. Looking into the next few rooms, besides the kitchen and the leaving room, they all had the same things as the first. Although, some hade closets and others had small desks, but there was one room that was a bit different than the others. This had a bust of a horse.
It seemed kinda odd that the bust would be here in the room and not in the living room. It did look like it be used for decoration. Moving in to get a closer look, I some how tripped and knocked into the horse head, causing it to full and well, bust. Now on the ground I turned to see what had made me trip, and it turned out that the board I was standing on had broke from my weight. I got my foot out of the hole when Jenny spoke up.
"You ok? What happened?"
"I'm alright, I just tripped, go back to your reading." I said trying not to concern her.
"Alright," she said in reply. I quickly turned to look at the damaged bust. Quickly rummaging through the broken pieces, I notice something within the pieces. Picking up the strange object, realize that the object was some sort of necklace.
I wondered why this would be in there, but then I figured that it was probably put there cause whoever owned it probably didn't want anyone to find it. Up until now that is. The object on the bottom of the chain was some sort of blue gem incased in metal, although it was hard to tell since it was covered in years of dust accumulation.
This will look way better once I wash it.
Then it hit me. Since Jenny's birthday was next week, I could give this to her as a birthday gift to show my love towards her, and plus, I wouldn't have to spend a fortune on a gift like this. Once I get this cleaned, it's going to look just like new.
I stuffed the necklace into my pocket as I went into the living room.
"Ready to go?" Jenny asked.
"Yup, you were right Jenny, this place is great!" I said to Jenny as we both exited the old house and got on our horses. On the way back I just thought of the look on Jenny's face when I give her that necklace. Boy will she love me for it, and that will be the greatest thing ever.
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