Alone-Paige

[Megan]

What had attracted him to such a place? Bars were not the place that you would expect to see him, there was too many people for his liking. Now if he would have been with Brian you could say otherwise since as long as he was with somebody that he trusted he was fine. Brian wasn't with him though and was at some type of get together he was the one who had suggested that he go out instead of staying home alone. Sure Brain had probably thought that he would just end up going to the park and staying there for awhile before returning to the farm. His light brown eyes looked at all of the people for a moment before sighing and returning to the auction booklet he was reading. He was just curious about what horses Brian was thinking about buying that was all. Already he could see that he didn't like certain lines. There was one that caught his eye though it was a stallion imported from England who was by Touch Gold. Brian was looking into buying a stallion? One called Matador none the less of course it did state that the horse had won a grade two race before winning a grade one in England.

Amazingly, his right leg wasn't bothering him at all. Of course he knew why that was. That morning he had went back to the doctors office for the third time that week and once again he had timidly asked Brian to go with him. People were not his favorite thing to deal with and he didn't like to be alone with some strange person. At the last visit the doctor had made a break though though and now he had a brace on his leg. It bothered him slightly since he wasn't used to it just yet but it seemed to be helping. Although the doctor had still talked about surgery, he didn't want that at all. He knew that there was a chance that it could make his leg better and he probably wouldn't have to put up with the pain like he did now. Surgery just was something that he never wanted to go through.

One would wonder why he was also at a bar and not drinking alcohol. There was a simple answer for that, his pain medication prohibited it. Not to mention he needed to drive back to the farm. It still felt odd that he actually had a vehicle, of course this was coming from somebody who hadn't gotten their drivers license until they were eighteen. But out of the blue about a week ago Brian had given him the keys to his old truck and told him to think of it as a belated birthday present. It felt so strange to have a person who actually cared about him in his life.

[*Stampede*Trample]

Paige pushed open the dark brown doors, and strode straight over to the bar. Sitting down on the stool next to Rocky, she asked for a red wine. Mario, the italian bartender on shift that night smiled at the regular and poured the fruit-filled wine into a glass. He handed her the glass, and Paige paid up. She sipped at the alcohol, and flicked her hair behind her ear. She turned her head to look at Rock. Nice, she thought, he's handsome.

Work for anyone she posed the question to Rocky. She hadn't seen him before. She straightened the creases in her hipster jeans, and stared him in the eyes.

((Start hitting on her in the next post, speed it up a little! lol))

[Megan]

((ok will do and usually I wouldn't add more to posts but I'm musey when it comes to Rocky today.))

Once Paige spoke to him he was shocked, sure it was just a simple question but honestly most people had just ignored him. Of course maybe it was because he didn't look the same way he had just a few weeks ago. Tonight, he actually looked normal all of the scars were perfectly hidden and he had dug around in his closet until he found a pair of jeans that hid the faint lines from the brace. That was another thing that felt odd he wasn't used to having so many cloths. That was one of the many perks of living in a foster home, not. He hadn't been used to having so much until he had met Brian. Or rather Brian had taken him in without saying anything about the sorry state he had been in. His eyes wandered over to the woman next to him again, she was beautiful. She was staring at him though and it was making him feel very uncomfortable. Yet for some reason she had stirred up a long lost emotion in him.

"Yeah I'm a groom for Brian Rivers's Running Winds Farm. You certainly have a better career than me though I can tell. A woman like yourself must have some profession that is very high end." He said and wondered why the hell had he just said that? Of course it had slipped out of his mouth but still, he was amazed he could actually say something like that actually. Of course he had been around the backside enough to watch people try and win other people over. He didn't know how this woman even was that he was talking to but he assumed that she must be either a stable owner or some high end trainer who got thousands of dollars just for training one horse. "You also like to take chances, you're the first one to actually speak to me here. Which means that you are very...bold." He said and once again wondered what had came over him.

Obviously she didn't know who he was, did he really look that different? Of course over the past few weeks his weight had went up to a healthier amount. Plus he had been riding again for the first time in three years and he supposed that might have something to do with it. Surely she would now know that he was the usually quiet groom who worked for Brian though. Of course, he had only went to the track with him once after he had started to work for him. Still everybody probably knew what had went on at his last job and there probably still was some talk about it. If there was Brian hadn't told him about it, and he was glad that he hadn't. After being around him he had wished that he would have found him three years earlier. Then he wouldn't have had to go through what he had. He knew that she probably would be asking him what his name was and if that didn't give who he was away nothing probably would.