Rodeo Love

Chapter 5

 The next two days went by very quickly Sara met Aimee at the barn on Saturday, and they loaded up Jag and Red The girls headed out, with Josh, Matt, Mike and Ian riding with the hands to the rodeo.  when they arrived they unpacked and prepared for the show, the rough-stock had arrived at the arena the night before.  Saturday Sara raced in two heats, and getting a second and third place respectively Sara and Aimee went into the dash for cash well on Sunday.  Both horses were well rested and ready to race on Sunday, Sara pulled a first place finish out of the hat with Aimee placing third.  The girls settled the horses in to the trailer for the trip home, Willy would be hauling the stock back to the ranch and then returning for the dance in the evening.

    Sara and Aimee grabbed their bags and headed over to the stands to watch the rest of the show.as they reached the stands Sara and Aimee moved to Join Josh and the guys.

    "You guys kept busy today I gather?" Sara looked at the guys, each of them was sitting on a giant plush toy, she smirked at them. "Who'd you steal them from?"

    "We won them. at the midway. because we rock." Ian looked at her... the guys all puffed up.

    "Well this is Aimee, my best friend.  Aimee this is Ian, Matt, Josh, and Mike... they're staying in the bunkhouse." Sara pointed at each other guys respectively and introduced them to  her best friend.

    "Nice to meet you." Each of the guys stood and shook Aimee's hand. Matt shoved his huge plush teddy bear over and Aimee took a seat between him and Mike.

    "So you guy are the musicians? what do you think of our little paradise?" Aimee smiled at Matt.

    "It's so different from anything we've ever done, I love the lay back attitude." Mike leaned forward bracing his forearms on his knees.

    "Yeah, we pretty much keep it low, Dd you get to watch many of the events?" Aimee pushed her hand though her wavy chestnut hair.

    "We saw you guys running the barrels that was pretty cool." Ian bubbled taking a handful of popcorn and shoving it into his mouth.

    "Hey Sara, want to share a leg?" Josh moved over on the plush elephant he was sitting on and exposed one of it's thick grey legs.

    "Sure." Sara smiled and plopped down on the elephant's leg.

    "Congratulations on your win." He leaned back onto the elephant's bulbous head and grinned at her.  His blue eyes sparkling.

    "You always look like your either going to do something bad, or already have and I just haven't figured it out yet." Sara poked his arm. "And Thanks, I'm sure can find something to do with the money."

    "Maybe I am planning something, Or maybe you just wish I was planning something." Josh wriggled his eyebrows and flicked his tongue ring on his teeth.

    "Don't be a pig." Sara slapped his arm and giggled her copper skin flushing.

    "Look Sara, there's Bruce." Aimee pointed to the ring. She glanced over at Her friend, Sara was blushing and giggling. Aimee raised and eyebrow at her, Sara didn't ever blush, and she definitely did not giggle.

     Bruce rode in on a bay gelding, he held his pigging string between his teeth. he manoeuvred the thick horse into the chute.  backing the gelding up, they watched as he nodded and shot out of the chute just after the calf. The horse was flat out, and the hazing horse ran beside the calf and pushed it towards Bruce's horse,  Bruce swung his rope and dropped a neat loop around the calf's neck, his horse slipped his hind-end into the soft dirt of the arena and stopped. Bruce was off the horse before it had come to a complete stop and at the calf, he picked it up and dropped it onto it's side, then he picked up three legs and looped twice, tying them together. throwing his hands up he signaled time and walked back to his horse.