&& you'd love to hide me

Without much warning, Kyo released a loud yawn, wordlessly expressing his feelings on his early arrival to the barn. In his mind, he was all revved up to ride, but his body just didn't want to move. So, without much surprise, he used the excuse of his horse not being fed as an excuse to simply sit in the chestnut mare's stall as she munched contently on her bermuda hay and alfalfa pellets. Of course many sensible people would take into account the fact that the ground was an extremely dangerous place for a human to be sitting, but the arrogant, narcissistic Kyo thought he was out of harm's way. In fact, that was his view on everything. Like the majority of teenagers, he just didn't think anything bad would happen to him. But, of course, you had to expect that. Especially from Kyo.

Shaking his head slowly, Kyo rose from the shavings, instantly brushing the dirt off of the work jods he wore. He groaned lightly as he bent down to make sure the cuffs of the pants were flipped up to avoid getting dirty and torn; the exact reason why he hated wearing jods. but jods were expected in the discipline he rode in; after all, breeches were a bitch to wear when riding in a cut back saddle, or at least his slippery cut back. Even full seat breeches didn't help much. But, on the contrary, he could ride a complete equitation pattern stirrup-less when wearing his jods. And that was just the way things worked. Kyo sighed audibly as his mare slowly lifted her head to see what he wanted, her ears tilting back as he reached for the leather halter he had brought into the stall. "Sorry, Emily, but you've had enough; time to work." Kyo yawned once more as he gently placed the halter onto the mare's head, clipping the plain, nylon lead to it and led her out of the stall, in the direction of cross ties.

To tell you the truth, Kyo wasn't a fan of cross ties or tying a horse to a pole, especially after seeing at least two horses flip over with cross ties and pull back on a pole. But he didn't hesitate to tie his own horse; no, this wasn't due to his view on being invinsible, instead he just needed to cross tie the horse. First, there wasn't a pole to tie him to and he didn't feel like tacking her up n her stall. After all, this would be his first time riding the mare at Cheval and he wanted to make a good impression, at least with his horse. This was the way he did things; he would always be the perfect gentleman around horses, but if you turned him loose in a school situation, he was simply bad news. But, for the moment, he was set on being pleasant, which was proved with the small grin and a quick word to the pink haired girl he passed on his way to the closest cross ties.

"Hey."

Kyo simply nodded in thanks; for those who actually knew how he usually acted, his barn behavour was amazing different, not to mention the fact that he was tired (more like half asleep.) Normally, he'd be more than talkative and, with this girl, flirtatious (he found her to be up to his standards.) But now, he was pilite (if that was possible) and careful with what he said. Yes, he was watching his mouth, though the girl's question caught him off guard, bringing him to forget his 'manners' (it wasn't like he had very good manners to ebgin with.)

"Fuck no....I mean, well...uhhhh, not really."

Wasn't it kind of obvious that he was lying? The slight blush rising on his cheeks didn't help matters much, either. Some form of a smirk was brought to his lips at her second question; she had gotten it right on the money. When he was six, one of his friends around the neighborhood dared him to try to ride a stray dog. Yes, it may sound cruel (for the dog, not for him) but the dog was rather large, so he agreed to it. Let's just say the dog didn't take kindly to the light weight boy trying to sit on his back and, after several rabies shots and fifteen stiches in his leg, Kyo developed his fear for dogs. The girl's question brought him to thik it voer, but Kyo decided against sharing it.

"You could say that; I'm more of a cat person, anyway."

Kyo shrugged innocently, tossing the brush back into the grooming box after speaking. Now he moved onto picking out the mare's hooves, set on keeping Emily busy before she tried anything. The mare, though already old enough to behave on cross ties, wasn't exactly trusted by Kyo to do such; yes, he was still worried about her flipping back when tied. And that was exactly what Kyo wanted to avoid; after all, Emily was the only thing in his life he actually looked forward to seeing every day.

Kyo sighed inaudibly to himself as the female spoke; yeah, the dog had made him blush...kinda. He wasn't exactly thrilled about their current conversation; not only had the girl figured out his fear (was it that obvious, anyway?) she had also seen him blush; something he was somewhat embarassed about. He just wasn't the kind of guy that blushed often. End of story. And now, after embarassing himself to this extent, he wasn't about to go further and let the girl hide the dog in her horse's stall.

"No, don't worry about it; I'll suck it up."

Kyo bit his lip after speaking, eyeing the dog cautiously before continuing with his words. "Oh, yeah, the name's Kyo," he added, flashing some form of a smirk after introducing himself. The smirk grew into somewhat of a grin when he heard her next words, shrugging innocently in a nonverbal response. "Yeah, they do that sometimes," he said, his tone playfully sarcastic. Kyo had a kitten of his own named Dae and, in his mind, she was the second best thing in his life (after his horse.) He had no idea how someone could pick any sort of a dog over a cat ever. After all, dog are just...well, in his mind, they were not only scary, but also annoying. Kyo could put up with meowing, but barking just pissed him off beyond all belief. He was jsut happy that his roommates didn't have a dog, or else he'd just about die.