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Connie Janet grinned from ear to ear and just as suddenly as before had the wind knocked out of her from the heart felt hug from her best friend. She wished she'd take notice of the look on her face so she could be forwarned of these sudden, but wonderful hugs. She's so quick! Like Lightning! We should call her horse, Thunder and her, Lightning. She laughed at her inside joke. Willow was all emotional about getting to keep her horse, and it was causeing Janet's own eyes to well up. Janet was glad she wanted to keep the horse on the ranch. Janet took note of Willow's red face. She laughed and new she understood the clue Janet gave her. "Yeah, he's perfectly fine, and yes, he was born that way. It happens, now and then." She said with the shrug of her shoulders. The star? Willow was saying the exact same thing Janet was thinking. She needed a star instead of the blaze, it fit her better. "You're very good! Yes, he's 17 Hands." Janet caught a glimpse of curiosity in Willow's eye's as she suddenly looked into her own eye's. She turned to face the tracks as they were going through the countryside. Uh-oh, she knows I'm cooking something up... "Shoot!" Janet smiled as she thought again of her daydream about Willow and Lance at he Alter kissingat their wedding. "I can't tell her that!" Janet thought as she heard Willow ask what she had up her sleeve. "I'll just come up with something plausable that I know she'll believe. And, it will be the truth, cause it's what I'm thinking of now. Janet thought hopefully. Janet looked at Willow in the eye's and said with an innocent smile. "It's not that I'm trying to talk about him. You asked what his name was, cause you forgot it. And, I needed to tell you the horse was being trained for you, and it just happens that I asked Lance to train him, so it would be taken care of specially, cause he knows you're my best friend and he would make sure everything was done proper. But, while we're on the subject of Lance, He wants to run your horse against his to clock his speed. So, you can either race me on his horse, or race him on his horse. What ever you want. You can be thinking of it. The race won't be on the track, but the open range. I'll take you around it after we get settled in. It's beautiful country." Janet saw the gleem in Willow's eye's and was sure she was hooked by the challange.
Willow was almost giddy with happiness. She loved a tall horse. Their gait was always so long and graceful at the canter and the gallop. The rider hardly seemed to move in the saddle. Willow laughed to herself, as she wondered how Brutus would take to an English saddle. She wondered what Janet would think of an English saddle! "Hey Janet..." Willow asked, "does Brutus prefer a nice strong cup of coffee or a nice cuppa of sweet ENGLISH tea?" Willow giggled as she waited for Janet to catch on to her prefered riding style.
Moving on, Willow thought long and hard about the race Lance wanted to take place between Brutus and Goliath. "Umm, Janet? Would you be awfully upset if I raced Lance instead of you? I mean, I'd race you later, of course, but I'd love the chance to beat Lance on his own horse!" Willow was a very competive rider; actually, she was competitive in evrything she did. She was lucky to have found a friend such as Janet, because Janet, too, was an awfully intense person as well. It was a sort of give and take relationship between the two best friends. If Willow won at something, it was more than likely that Janet would wind-up beating her the next time around. Jealousy wasn't even a consideration.
As Willow watched Janet and waited for an answer, she noticed a quick smile come and almost immediately leave Janet's face. It was almost comical. She had been right; Janet
was up to someting, and that something had to do with Lance... "Hey Janet?" Willow asked her now serious friend. "Does Lance have a girlfriend?"
Willow burst out laughing at the surprised look on her best friend's face. She's been right in her assumption... Janet was trying to play matchmaker!!!