The next morning, Melody woke up (still in her clothes), not quite remembering what happened last night. She turned her head and saw Brian sleeping next to her and it all came back. She smiled and slipped out of the bed carful not to disturb sleeping beauty and straightened herself out. Brian didn't wake up at all.
"Yeesh, he's worse than Desteny," she whispered.
She left the bedroom, to phone her parents so they didn't panic. She told them she had slept over at a friends house, it was the half truth at least. When she came back into the bedroom, Brian was STILL slepping.
"Enough is anough," said Melody. She ran over to the bed and jumped onto it.
"What? What? Where's the fire?" asked Brian, sitting straight up in bed.
"Right in my heart," said Melody, kissing him.
Brian rubbed his eyes and looked at her. "What was that for?"
"I've learned from sleeping over at Desteny that's how you wake up a sleepy head," laughed Melody.
There was a knock on the door.
"Get changed out of those clothes while I answer the door," said Melody.
"Yes mamn." Brian saluted and climbed out of bed, sleepily.
Melody walked over to the door and opened it to see Nick there.
"Hi," he said. He looked at her, still in the clothes she was wearing last night. She smiled and raised his eye brows.
Melody smacked him in the arm. "Don't look at me that way, nothing happened, like that anyways," she said.
"Sure" he said slyly.
She gave him a dirtly look.
"You want to tell Brian to meet us in the downstairs cāfe for breakfast," asked Nick.
"Why don't you tell me yourself?" asked Brian, coming to the door. "Where's Desteny?"
"Still sleeping," said Nick, confused when Melody and Brian started laughing. "Melody jumped onto the bed this morning. She told me that's how she wakes Desteny up when she sleeps over," explained Brian.
Nick laughed and said "I think I can find a better way of waking her up," he smiled slyly.
"See ya in the cāfe," said Brian as Nick walked next door to his room.
He opened up the door and walked in. He shut it quietly behind him and walked into the bedroom. He sat down next to Desteny on the bed and kissed her gently. She smiled and shifted her weight only.
"Time to take drastic measures," said Nick, smiling. Last night, he had learned that Desteny was very ticklish. He went down to the bottem of the bed and took one of her feet and he started tickling it. Before he knew it, Desteny, half asleep, was shaking her foot and leg. She woke up and looked at Nick, still trying to get her foot away, asked "What do you think you're doing?"
Taking a more firmer grip, Nick answered "Waking you up."
"Because it looks like you're trying to look up my dress," laughed Desteny.
Nick blushed, and starting tickling her more. Desteny started laughing and tried to pull her leg away but Nick had a good grip. She finally twisted her leg and pushed him off the bed. He landed on the floor with a thud.
"Hey!" he cried, standing up and smiling.
Desteny crossed her arms and smiled at him and said "You've been talking to Melody haven't you?"
Nick laughed and nodded his head. "Get ready. We're meeting them downstairs in the cāfe in a while." He left the room to get something.
Desteny quickly got up and straightened out her dress and Nick came back. They went out the door and walked down to the cāfe. They spotted Melody and Brian at a table in the cornor. They walked over and sat down. Both of the girls felt very funny wearing dresses in the middle of a hotel cāfe on a Saterday morning.
"Nick, I expected you to have a black eye or something. Desteny gave me a black eye once when I tried to wake her up," said Melody, smiling at Desteny.
"You deserved it though," said Desteny, inicently. They laughed.
"So what do you guys want to do today," asked Brian.
Melody looked at Desteny. "We should take them to Cassie's." Desteny smiled and nodded her head. "Wait a minute. What's Cassie's?" asked Nick, eyeing the girls suspously.
"Our favorite place to go," answered Desteny.
Nick and Brian looked at each other worried, think it was a clothing store. "Oh no," whispered Brian.
"This is Cassie's?" asked Brian, surprised.
"Ya, what did you expect?" asked Melody inicetly.
"Well, when you said the name, it sounded like a clothing store. Not a riding stable," said Nick, looking around the stable with excited eyes.
"You're disapointed? 'Cause we can take you to a clothing store in you prefer," asked Desteny, smiling.
"No way," cried Nick and Brian at the same time.
"Hey Melody. Hey Dest. Want your usual horses?" asked a cute, young guy.
"You bet Tony, but we'll get them," said Desteny.
Tony then noticed the guys. "Hi, I'm Tony. Are you guys with the girls?"
"Yup," said Nick, wrapping his arms around Desteny's waist.
"Well, I'll help you get horses then," said Tony. Nick and Brian followed him down the isle.
Desteny and Melody walked as fast as they could to the stalls of their regular horses.
Desteny's horse came up first. She was a beautiful chestnut quarter hores filly that Desteny had helped break.
"Hi Magicbeauty. (that's my chat name by the way) How are you today?" Desteny asked quietly.
Magicbeauty threw her head over the stall door and nuzzled Desteny, making her laugh.
Melody continued a few stalls down to Playfull Lass's stall. Playfull Lass was a beautiful palomino filly that Melody had also helped break.
"Hey Playfull, how....hey!!!! Where's Playfull?" cried Melody.
Kevin, another stable hand and close friend came up (not the kev in the band).
"Sorry Mel. Tony must have forgotten. Playfull is at the vet. She threw a fit yesterday and smashed into the mounting block," explained Kevin.
"Is she alright?" asked Melody, worried. Desteny came up behind her leading Magicbeauty.
"She's gonna be ok. You'll have to ride another horse. How about the new horse we just got. He's really green but I know you can handle him. By the way, glad to see your ok Desteny. You had the whole stable worried."
"Thanks Kevin," smiled Desteny, as she clipped Magicbeauty into the crosslines. "Where is this new horse?" asked Melody.
"Two stalls sown," answered Kevin. Then he left.
Melody walked to the stall Kevin pointed to. Desteny who's curiosity always got the best of her, followed.
They looked over the door and gasped. Inside was gorgous black young stallion, with one white sock and a white star on his forhead. He looked full blood Thoroughbred and was well musuled.
"He's beautiful," said Melody, staring at him.
The young horse swung over to the door and sniffed nervously Desteny and Melody.
"I better go get Magic [sound familer? :o)] ready," said Desteny as Melody clipped a lead line onto the colt's halter. She looked at the name plate. "Midnight Trouble," read Melody. "Well, I'll just have to see how much trouble you really are."
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