Meat Free? (Connor)

[Connor Anderson]

“Yeah, I do. Lots of them at home, but only one’s really mine.” That was one of the most difficult aspects of living on a horse farm to explain to non-farm people. His family owned lots of horses, yes. But only Sona fell into the category of ‘his’. “And if they agree to send him, then yeah, you can meet him.”

As for riding him... well... Connor considered that for a moment. “Well... he can be kind of feisty. But maybe?” The last thing he wanted was for one of his new friends to be bucked off just because Sona felt the need to be obnoxious. “His name’s technically Solar Flare, but I’ve called him Sona forever. He was supposed to be a race horse, but he didn’t like it.” Which was the polite way of saying ‘he’s pretty much ADD and couldn’t focus on the track.’

The laughing made Connor glance back and forth between the twins as he tried to figure out just what was so funny. When they finally spoke, he realized what it was. Yeah, they weren’t lying. Their family was huge. He blinked before smiling shyly. “Okay, I get what you mean now. Definitely bigger than mine. Unless you count our horses. Then we beat you.”

His gaze wandered to the clock on the wall. “Maybe we can do something later, if you want?” He almost gave his dorm number, then realized it wouldn’t do any good if the twins lived at home rather than the dorms. “I could give you my number or something?” Now that he had possible friends, he was actually kind of excited about it.

(sure!)

[Jonathan & Jacob Bishop]

The twins, even though they didn't live on a farm, understood the idea that there could be multiple animals owned collectively by the family. And that having one to yourself was different. Of course this limited knowledge of this was based on their siblings pets rather than actually having lived on a farm. So it was a bit different.

After another glance up at the clock Jake nudged his brother and pointed up to it. They were already a few minutes late for their next class.

"We'd better get going," John said with a sigh.

"Can't wait to meet Sona though," Jake said. Obviously the twins had no worries about riding a feisty horse, even though they'd never ridden any horse.

"That'd be awesome!" "That's be awesome!" the twins said, grinning. Jake jotted down Connor's dorm number and phone number while John wrote down their cell numbers to give Connor. Sometimes really helped to be able to do two things at once.

"We'll give ya a call later," "But now we really gotta run." The twins smiled and waved goodbye before running off in the direction of their next class. Hopefully making new friends was a good enough excuse for their teacher about why they were a bit late.

(wrap for the twins)