First Meetings (Natalia)

[dylancooper]

Dylan had decided to skip lunch, probably not the best idea considering if he was hungry he tended to get more annoyed and Dylan was a ticking time bomb on a normal day. Dylan didn’t want to deal with a room full of people, which was why he had also skipped his morning classes. He had spent the hours in the pastures with a copy of ‘On the Road’ waiting to be busted but so far he hadn’t been.

Dylan hadn’t gotten much sleep, he had gotten maybe a few hours before he was woken up by a nightmare. It wasn’t as if he had them on a nightly basis but he still got them and when he did they were always bad. The only bright side was the fact that he hadn’t woken any of him roommates up so apparently he hadn’t talked or yelled in his sleep. That was always a plus. After he’d woken up he could not get back to sleep and he felt sick. He had spent three hours laying in bed refusing to fall back to sleep before it was 6am and he could justify getting up.

Maybe going to the stables wasn’t the best idea, it could be the perfect place for someone to bust him on skipping after all. Dylan entered the stables going directly to Gazel grinning at her. She seemed happy to see him which was an improvement on the normal jittery behavior. He was about to open the gate when he heard footsteps turning his head to see who had arrived.

[Natalia Fraisure]

The fact that Natalia's school was on break was a good thing. It meant that Natalia could go and take care of the horses at Willow Brooke. It meant that she could take a break out of her horrible life and change the horses for the better. She had been worried about Gazel. It would seem that no one wanted her. She was just so wild. Though she was more of on the inside wild, scared, skittery. The same qualifications that Natalia had in her department.

Natalia had some carrots and a few sugar cubes. She had stopped by to see Bruce as well, now she was making her way towards Gazel's gate. When she stopped short at seeing a guy there. She immediately felt her breath pacen and grow a bit weary. She looked towards Gazel to see her eyes, and saw that it was calm.

Slowly she walked foreward, and noticed his head looking at her. "Hi." She said as she slowly came up to him and Gazel. She reached into her bag and pulled out some carrot sticks offering one to Gazel. Gazel immediately took it and started to munch on it. "You know Gazel?" She asked. She was almost hurt that Jared would give Gazel to someone else. It was sort of upsetting to the teen.

[dylancooper]

When he first saw the girl approaching he was a little worried, it was probably weird that Dylan felt so protective of Gazel in only a few weeks. He guessed that was why he had been assigned the horse, bonding over the shared abuse. He knew it was a little stupid, he felt bonded to the mistreated horse because of his own mistreatment but it was true. They were the same, scared and broken inside so they acted a certain way. Gazel was scared, nervous and jittery while Dylan was angry. It made sense to him at least.

That was why he was worried when he saw the dark haired girl approaching. ”Hey...” He responded to her hoping she would not approach. Dylan noticed the way Gazel had recognised her, and then happily ate a carrot stick that she had offered.

”Yeah” He responded nodding his head. ”I’m guessing you know her too” He stated more then asked, it was something that was pretty obvious. Gazel was nervous around most people with exception to some of the stable hands, she was too young for that. He hadn’t seen her around either, not that the fact meant anything. Dylan didn’t really socialize with anyone. ”How exactly do you know her?” He asked.

[Natalia Fraisure]

Natalia glanced at Gazel and clicked her tongue a little bit. She placed her hand on her nose, and gave her a kiss. "Hey there sweet gazel, are you having fun today." She asked as she rubbed the horses nose and fed her another carrot. She wasn't spoiling them. She figured that this guy might have had her as a horse now. Even though that would upset her very much. She loved Gazel. Gazel was sweet, even when she was shy timid, jittery, nervous.

"Yeah I know her, and she knows me." She said with a small little smile. She was still a bit nervous though she tried to not let it show. "Well my brother works here as a stable hand, and well on days I'm not in school I come and help out. Gazel and I have been friends for a while now." She said with a small little bit to her lip. "I'm Natalia, and you are?" She asked. She was doing it for the well being of the horse.

"She seems to like you, usually she runs the other way when someone other then I, Jared, or Marcus or the Stable hand comes here."

[dylancooper]

Dylan did notice the girl seemed slightly nervous, he didn’t comment. It could mean absolutely anything, maybe she was just bad with people, like him. As she talked about Gazel and her life, well he wasn’t completely convinced that she didn’t belong at a place like this. She seemed... he didn’t know. He wasn’t going to try and be sarcastic and annoying with her, mostly because he didn’t know how she would be respond. He didn’t want to get angry around the horses especially Gazel. ”Dylan, Gazel was assigned to me a few weeks ago when I got here” He explained to her. He was being way too nice, and it bothered him a little bit.

”Yeah, she was like that with me” He said, the trust he had with Gazel was still new. ”She refused to go anywhere near me” He said, that had kind of annoyed him at first but when it was explained to him about what happened to her. Well it still annoyed him but he understood. ”She’s only just started to like me, haven’t you girl” He paused looking at her for a second. ”I guess you know her history then?” He asked her before looking at Gazel again.

[Natalia Fraisure]

Natalia nodded. "Well thats good, I hope you take good care of her." She said hoping that the horse was in good and capable hands. She didn't really like whom had her before. It was one of those stable people that didn't take care of there horses. So they took them there at the Willows. "Don't hurt her, she'll work good and she won't be to finicky." Though she was sure Gazel would live up to her name. She was wild half the time. So was she, but Natalia mostly kept everything on the inside. It was deemed that she would have to do that, it was the safest way.

Natalia nodded, "She will live up to her name, needless to say." She spoke it softly. "Yeah I know her history, and I know almost every other horses history in here." She said with a small smile. "My brother and I tend to know them, You could ask him." She said with a small nod. Though she was sure that Jared mostly told him what was going on with the horse.

Natalia glanced towards him once more. "You seem real nice, she'll warm up to you." Natalia pondered for a bit, was she really talking to him. Was she going to give him more information about her then he could handle.