Another School Day

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Dani hopped off the bus as her long brown curly hair followed her every move. It swayed back in forth in behind her with ever step she took. She looked around and took a step in the school doors and heard a big rush of noise. There were lots of people around and well she wasn't to good with crowds. She keeped a hold of her bag that was at herside and walked on threw to the office. She had to sign in and get all her books and all the rest of those things.

Once she signed in she got her locker # and all her books. She thought she would never make it becuase those books were heacy, but found her locker # and unlocked it and opened it. She put all her books in there and then looked around. There were people near her, but she really didn't talk. She looked at the time and it wasn't time for her first class yet, but grabed her book and went to go find her class until she bumped into some." Opps Sorry" she looked up and waited for that person to say something.

[Maggie]

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Layla waved goodbye to her older cousin Annie before closing the passenger seat door behind her. She smiled before pushing her bag up her shoulder more and walked off into the school doors of Whispering Sycamores High School. Layla waved to some people in the halls before reaching to her own locker, a girl beside her she didn't reconized opened her own and Layla smiled pulling back her brunette banana curled hair. She wore a pair of light blue jeans with some holes down the front and near the pocket. A white hollister t-shirt showed a seagul flying over the symbols HO, she wore a vavy and white scarf that matched the shirts look.

Layla wasn't too popular but deffinately was getting there, her boyfriend Clayton was a year older and so far she hadn't seen him yet. Oh well, she thought as she rummaged through her locker until she found the right books for her first three periods. She opened up her bag and set a book in before the girl that had been next to her bumped into her. Layla's book flew and a couple papers flew to the floor with a thud, Opps sorry. The girl had said as she looked up and Layla had bent down to grab her things. She gave a smile and waved a hand nasalauntly, "Oh its okay." She said with a little laugh to show humor and make the girl feel better. She grabbed her book from the school floors but the papers were still laying beside the locker doors.

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Dani bent down and grabed the papers that fell from the girl's books. She felt so bad for bumping into her. She handed them to her as she stood up and smiled." Hi Im Dani" She looked at her as she grabed her books from the floor agian. She was new and hated being new all the time. She looked at the girl agian.

She wonder about how it had been the first time she kinda moved here. She still didn't know anyone, but she had a dog and her horse here. She stared at the girl and wonder if she rode western. She looked really pretty though. So maybe she did ride western, most girl that rode western were pretty and all cowgirlie. She was a cowgirl, but never dressed up like those other cowgirls she only wore her ariats boots, wrangler jean, and her barrel racing championship buckle and belt with a shirt. She really didn't care what shirt she wore. She looked around and knew this place had to be big." This place is really big..How do you get around?"

[Maggie]

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Layla looked up towards the girl who handed her the papers and books and she smiled gratefully before placing them in her bag. I'm a clutz. She thought as she gave the girl a smile, Hi Im Dani. The girl said and Layla tucked a strand of her hair behind her ear. "I'm Layla, nice to meet you." She said as she took a binder from her locker and put it in her bag. Taking a glance at the picture of her and Monte in the paddock with the buckskin pony wairing a santa hat. She loved him in the picture, that bratty little pony. This place is really big..How do you get around?

The girl said and Layla shut the locker shut and locked it before turning back towards the new girl. "Yeah, you'll get used to it after a while thought. Do you know what classes your in?" She asked her as she slid the bag up her shoulder better and gave a quick hug to a friend that passed by before waving to the girl and looking back at Dani who stood across from her. She looked around her age, maybe a year younger or the same age. Back at Greenridge she could picture Annie racing around the barn and the two other stable hands helping her while the riding instructors were teaching the students or taking care of their own horses. She loved the feeling of jumping the cross country course with her new mount Lacey one of the new adoption horses Annie got a while back that Layla had trained on her own. The mare was tecnically western but with some help and good training she was making her way towards eventing and doing a great job Layla thought.

For a minute Layla wondered what the other girl did, did she ride? Does she compete? What style? There weren't many girls in the school that rode horses or lived on a farm even though it was horse country alot of the kids parents were into them not them. That kind of disapointed Layla at times knowing that the few horse friends she had, had come from competitions and competing or from back home in Kansas. You'd think Kentucky was all about the riding but some were just owners of race horses, that its. Layla always wondered what a horse was for if you couldn't even ride one? It was just kind of weird to her that people would get horses but never even look at one, only on race day just for the money. It was weird. Though there were some kids in the school that weren't like that thank god.