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Andrew is a spoiled only child who attends Whitewater Preparatory School with his girlfriend Keanu. His parents focus all their attention on their one an only son trying their best to make him perfect Leo is a rebellious misfit who attends a local high school despite having enough money to attend Whitewater with his sister Keanu. Keanu forces her brother Leo and boyfriend Andrew to spend more time together as their families become closer in hopes that it'll straighten Leo out. However, the opposite seems to happen . Aleksander is literally an eastern European spelling of the name not a white moms creation. Keanu sighs as I push her curly black hair behind herear. "It's been a week." ' They'll show up," I say asl pack my lunch back into my bag. Normally I just grab food from the schools cafeteria but I knew Keanu wanted to sit outside under the big willow tree today. A light breeze pulls her hair from behind her ear as she moves to fix it. "The more time that passes that my parents do nothing, the worse the situation gets" 'Kea... I start but I don't really know how to finish. Well, not entirely missing but he hasn't returned nome in a week. Keanu's parents haven't done anything because they're not too concerned Keanu says Leo pulls things like this all the time but he's never been gone for this long I've dated Keanu eleven months but l've never met her brother. Supposedly they were super close growing up but he wanted to go to a public school closer to home and they grew apart 'It's all because of that b***h Stella," Keanu snaps suddenly switching from sadness to anger. "I've never liked that he hung around her. He doesn't isten to me when I tell him to quit hanging around that crowd." I lie down on my back still listening to Keanu "I could pay her and she'd never talk to him again. I bet she's that fake. Probably desperate for money. Leo tends to hang around those sketchy people." Keanu loves to talk trash on other girls, or anyone to be honest. "Okay well, let's get going," Keanu stands up and dusts off her navy blue skirt before readjusting her socks. She grabs her bag off the ground and waits for me to stand up and walk with her. As we walk to class she practices something for Latin class but I pay no attention The rest of the day goes by slowly but finally l'm walking in the halls with Aleksander You coming to tonight's game?" Aleks asks as he waves to a friend of ours in the hall with the arm that isn't wrapped around my shoulder. "Maybe. Tonight Keanu wanted me to join herin tennis practice. 'Doesn't she do that at four? And c'mon, tonight's a big game against Oaks. You used to be so heavily invested in the game. What happened man?" "School." 'School has always been tough. And y'know, when you were on the team you got out of plenty of school work so that's bull." 'Fine. It's school work, tennis practice with Keanu, and then my father forcing me to spend more time on the horse." We finally reach the doors leading out to the parking lot "Which speaking of."I snap my finger. "1 promised my father I'd be back by three.' He removes his arm and I start to walk away. "See signal a goodbye with my hand before whipping out my keys to my 911 Turbo S Cabriolet, in black Majority of the teachers here hate me and l'm not sure if it's because they're jealous of me or l'm just a brat. Likely both. Then again they hate us all, us teens could spend what they make a year on a car. Whatever, it's the last week of school,I don't see them for two months after this week. I'm an only child, I tend to be a little spoiled. Unfortunately, even though the positive is that I'm far more spoiled, my parents focus all their I'm an only child, I tend to be a little spoiled. Unfortunately, even though the positive is that I'm far more spoiled, my parents focus all their attention on there one and only offspring. Andrew Pollock, the only son to carry on the family name. I take the long route home in hopes to drag out the time l've got to get back. Eventually I get home A and park park in the driveway before heading towards the house where l'm greeted by my father. "Hurry up Andrew," he says. "Change out of your uniform and into riding clothes." barely say anything as I walk past him, kicking my shoes off at the door and ignoring him as he continues to lecture me about my bad manor or whatever. I quickly make it upstairs and down the hall to my room where I change before heading outside. Nano is a thoroughbred horse meant for racing He's my dad's horse but I usually train with him. My horse is an appaloosa but now that l've been practicing more !'ve been riding Nano because he is far more trained. Tack him up, will you?" My dad calls out from inside the stable. "Does he need to be groomed?" "No," he yells out. "Mila was by this morning, she mucked the stalls and groomed both Nano and Poppy because you never do." My father emerges from the stable and into the pen. "Practice a bit today and tomorrow l'll take them in the trailer to- "Tomorrow Keanu has a tennis tournament that I can't miss," I say already knowing he's going to get pissy. Vila is twenty three and she comes to the pen everyday to take care of the horses. She trains them and does everything with them because she can't afford to buy her own so we pay her to train them whilst she also gets to use them for competitions. She even named Nano 'Andrew, l've been extremely busy with work anc finally have time for all of this." When ! was youngerI did (and occasionally still do) competitive horse iumpine but dad wants me to take on something like National Hunt racing as if I had the time for that. He was never close with his dad but all his time was spent trail riding with his mother or training. He used to do endurance racing don't have the same interest, in fact I barely care for anything horse related but it's the only way my dad and I spend time together. "Yes I know dad but Ineed to go to this tournament." 'Fine. But you're lucky I like the girl. Speaking of, I spoke to her father just yesterday and we have dinner plans for Sunday so I expect you to be there.' "With Elijah?" "You refer to him by first name?" My dad snaps. "He insisted I do." "Yeah, yeah. Go tack up Nano," he says ! walk past him to my tack lockerinside the stables. Considering the stables are built on our property and not a barn shared with other people, we still have quite a bit of tack lockers. Nano is already hooked up to the cross ties so from the tack room I grab all the stuff I need and start to placing the saddle pad and putting on the saddle. Dad used to always yell at me for not putting the girth tight enough when lwas younger. My saddle would tilt while I was riding.l then work on the bridle and everything goes by sc much quicker thanks to Mila grooming the horse. 'C'mon Andrew!" He calls out. ! roll my eyes but finally finish tacking Nano and leading him outside. The pen is small and usually I ride out on the property because we have a lot of it. That or Mila takes them up to the barn but that's usually in winter so we can ride them indoors without freezing. i heard the door bell go off a minute ago and since then !'ve thrown on a nicer polo shirt and khakis. Nhen I walk downstairs Keanu's parents are there and surprisingly, so is a boyl assume to be Kaleo. I've dated Keanu almost a year and l've never once met the kid. He looks exactly like Keanu. The same black curly hair, tan skin and brown eyes. Ah there's Andrew," Elijah Medero points out to me. "Hey-" I make eye contact with my dad. Without him making a sound I know to straighten my posture. "Mr. And Mrs. Medero." Before Elijah can correct me and continue to insist I call him by first name, my mother ushers everyone into the other room leaving my father and Before I move to follow everyone my father stops me. "Andrew. "Yes?"l turn around He lowers his voice so that the others in the next room can't hear. "Elijah was saying that his son is quite rebellious and was hoping you would be a good influence to straighten his son out. "I-uh what? l've never even met the kid and he goes to another school?" "Your mother will have Mrs. Medero over for tea and l'Il invite Elijah out to golf and things. We all seem to get along nicely so I hope for this to become more of a regular thing." My dad is nearing 50 and now that he has his career and hobbies all figure out or he's retired from the ones that take up his whole schedule, like competitive racing, he's not got much friends. He met Keanu's dad from dropping me off at her tennis practice so many times. 'I don't have time to try and straighten out some delinquent teen, that's his parents job. They only have two kids, one of which is doing perfect, it shouldn't be that hard for them." "Andrew. You will do it. They just think you will be a good influence. You and Keanu are so good together." Yeah well l'm dating her. I don't plan on dating nim." I cross my arms clearly annoyed with what my father is asking me. "Well you'll be hanging around this family a lot more and his parents are forcing him to come here as well." He turns eighteen soon. I'm sure he'll run off. Which means I only have like six months or something having to deal with him Keanu describes him as a sarcastic asshole. Let's go find out. follow my father into the dining room where everyone is sat and all the food is already placec on the table. Luckily for me the empty spot is next to Keanu. I quickly move to sit down and listen in on the the parents gossiping. Keanu talks to me but I only half listen. Leo, who is across the table from me, is dead silent. It's so blatantly obvious he is dreading this whole ordeal. Later after dinner Keanu and I are sitting in the tv room where the huge tv is mounted on the wall and watching whatever cooking show is on. My parents are showing the Medero's the wine cellar down stairs. I can imagine my father is subtly trying to fit in somewhere all the trophies displayed on the shelves on the walls down there. "I won this one in eighty eight against Freddie something-"l don't remember the guys name but he hates that Freddie guy Then Leo walks into the room and immediately rolls his eyes at the sight of Keanu cozied up next to me, her head nuzzled into my neck. she lifts her head when she hears the footsteps "Leo. Come sit down." "When are we leaving?" He ignores her. 'I'm going to call an Uber. 'Dad will kick your a*s. Just sit down and quit acting like a little angsty punk." "Quit talking like you're a forty eight year old woman with tan skin, black hair and-" he starts to describe his mom. "I get it, mom annoys you but sorry I want you to socialize," she rolls her eyes "1 socialize plenty. 'Not with me," she sits up. "I'm not doing this now." 'This is the only time you can't run away so yeah we'll do this now," Keanu snaps at him. Part of me still can't wrap my head around the idea that Keanu has a brother. I mean, l've always <nown about Leo but l've known Keanu for years and never have met him. 'And come on. You've never met Andrew," Keanu says. 'I'm pretty sure Andrew is their sad attempt of trying to make me befriend someone rich. Why else would I be here." He crosses his arms and raises an eyebrows. "I mean, parents would never drag me here just to embarrass themselves in front of other rich people about their disappointment son." Guess Keanu was right, he is a little s**t. Keanu shakes her head and sighs, mumbling something under her breath in the process. 'Well. You seem to be stuck here so... cards anybody?"l ask. Part of me wants to tell this douche bag to fuck off and walk home but I'd never hear the end of it from my father. Leo c***s an eyebrows and glares at me like I just named the most ridiculous activity "It's a game,"| say to piss him off because he's pissing me off. "I know what cards is dumb ass." "Do you? Because you looked awfully confused by offer. "He's too stubborn to say yes so l'm saying yes for nim. Go grab the cards," Keanu says to me I nod my head before untangling myself from both the blanket and Keanu. I head over to a cupboard we have in the other room full of board games. They've collected quite a bit of dust because the only time we ever used them was at family get togethers. However, haven't been to one of those in three years. After my grandma died my father and his brother got into a big argument about something he won't tell me Igrab the Cards Against Humanity hoping that vould make this night less boring. Cards is rather boring, I don't know why I suggested it. return and sit down on the couch. "Let's play at the table," Keanu says before I even place the box down. She snatches it from my grasp and heads to the dining table in the other room. Leo and I follow. She starts to set up the game and I change the lights from dim to bright white. Then I close the blinds. 'Leo sit down would you," I can hear Keanu say to Leo in the dining room once l've walked into the kitchen. I grab a glass of water before returning to where Keanu has set up the game already. I sit down and she's handed me my cards. We end up playing for a little under an hour before Mr. and Mrs. Medero decide they've got get home Leo looks more then relieved and Keanu kisses me goodbye while our parents chat. "See you in class tomorrow," she says before stepping away and towards the door. "Say, Andrew you ride horses competitively don't you?" Elijah asks. "Ah yes I do." Inod my head. "I've been trying to get Kaleo into a sport for quite some time now. Would you mind taking the time to teach him to ride?" "No way in hell," Leo says and his dad. "Oh- uh sure I can do that," I say "That would be great," Elijah says. Mrs. Medero is busy chatting away to my mother. The two seem to get along nicely. "Okay Hannalore, let's go." Leo is the first out the door then he's followed by everyone else. My father follows them outside and closes the door behind himself. My mother turns to me and smiles. "You're so grown. And you couldn't of picked a better girl. Her family is lovely. Well, except that boy.' "Leo?" "Oh is that his nickname? What a rude kid. His parents mentioned that they hoped you would be a good influence on him." lfl weren't talking to my mom I'd roll my eyes "Now apparently I have to teach him to ride a horse. How does he not know how to ride a horse? Keanu loves to go on trail rides with me, how come whoever taught her can't teach him?" "Honey, his parents are trying for him to hang around someone his age that isn't a druggie." be honest he likely hangs around people who have less money, my mother acts like everyone in those bad neighborhoods could kill us. Keanu as well. She's mentioned that Leo's friends terrify her. lgroan at mothers comment before spinning around to head upstairs Not only have I struggled to fit spending time with Keanu and her tennis practice into my schedule but now her brother? What they're asking of me is ridiculous. Never the less, he'll be eighteen very soon and no doubts, he'll be gone. 'He's not all that bad,"' Keanu says. 'You're his sister, of course you think that. And why can't you teach him to ride?" 'We've gone over this plenty of times," she says as Leo starts walking towards us from the house, We're out in the stables. He refused to wear any of the proper clothing except an old pair of my riding boots. 'Can you go put Poppy on the cross ties-- y'know what, !'ll do it. You can speak to your brother," I say walking past Keanu. I push the block into the pen where he'll mount the horse. This is not going to be fun. I take Poppy out of the stable and clip him to the cross ties. "Keanu, you want to muck the stalls or teach Leo to groom Poppy?" '1'll muck. You have fun with Leo," she smiles as she walks into the stables. 'This is pathetic," Leo says. I'm not entirely sure how they convinced him to do this. From what Keanu has described, he does what he wants, and l'm pretty sure he doesn't want this. "I'm not exactly stoked about this either," I utter. "Whatever. Today just watch me groom and tack Poppy and you can try next time." He rolls his eyes when I say next time butI pretend to not of noticed. I start walking to where Poppy is and he follows. 'This," I say picking up a grey comb. "ls a curry comb. You use it in circular motion on the horse to loosen dirt and things from the horses fur" finish brushing Poppy and pick up the hard- bristled brush. "This brush you just follow the direction of their fur." Once l've finished doing all the grooming necessary I pick up the hoof pick to clean Poppy's hooves. "Don't stand directly behind the horseand if you are do not catch them by surprise. "!'m not an i***t," he groans. His arms are crossed and he's leaning on a wooden beam, making it quite obvious he's not enjoying this. Well, at least he's listening. "Sure, whatever just going over the basics." Keanu walks past me with the wheel barrow full of horse poop. Next I go and collect all the tack and work on tacking Poppy, making sure to explain all the steps to Leo Finally I grab the reigns from over Poppy's head and lead Poppy to the mounting block. I toss him my helmet before he gets onto the mounting block. "You're going to grab both reigns with one hand, Putting your left foot in the stirrup you're going to swing your right leg over." He looks at me like I'm crazy as he stands on the block holding the reigns. "You won't fall, I'll make sure." He sighs. 'What am I doing again?" "With your left hand hold the reigns and a bit of the mane. Grab up high so you don't have slack in the reigns."I move towards him and adjust the reigns in his hands. "Now left foot in the stirrup." He does so. "Then grab the cantle-- uh just grab this part of the saddle." I point to the cantle of the saddle. Keanu joins us in the pen. "Now lean in and swing your right leg overthe horse and into the stirrup into the other side." He does as I say without falling and surprisingly, gracefully: "The stirrups are so high up." 'Yes I know, you're on my saddle and I'm shorter then you," I mutter as I walk around to adjust the stirrups. "'And your knees are supposed to be bent." 'Talia, I told you to shove it up your a*s, Keany barks at Talia. Talia rolls her eyes at the comment. Talia has brown skin and black hair. She has hazel eyes that make her seem very sweet but she definitely isn't. "Your such a b***h some days, I don't understand how your boyfriend can stand you," she says as she starts walking down a different hall. "At least I have one," Keanu makes sure she's loud enough for Talia to hear, "God, what a brat." "What did she do?" Everything. She copies everything I do," Keanu rants. "She's literally trying to be me and I'Ve noticed the s**t getting a little too chatty with you.." I sigh not really caring. "Mind if I drive home with you today? Talia drove me." They'll be friends again by tomorrow. Calling each other besties. "Yeah." "Great. Mind also picking up Leo?" "What?" "Dad suggested we all ought to hangout more." 'No, your father suggested I teach him to ride a horse. I already see him enough in a week, plus this new found friendship between our parents." This is all very good. The more he's around you the less he's around his other friends. Like Stella." "Who exactly is Stella?" I ask as we reach the exit doors. 'This girl he's been friends with since he startec nigh school," Keanu starts. Keanu and Leo both went to private school when they were in grade school. Then in high school he went to a local high school. "They're probably dating, or fucking God that's disgusting. I hate her. I'm not too sure why Keanu absolutely hates Stella. She's brought it up many times and it's not just her strongly disliking Stella, it's hatred. Part of me feels it's jealousy because Keanu and Leo used to be so close then Stella came along 'He's got other friends too but I don't know their names. l've only met one of them and he's got bleach blond hair." I unlock my car and we both get in. "So anyway, l'm trying desperately for my brother to start hanging around us and maybe going to school here so please can we pick him up?" "Keanu, we have less then a year left here? And he can't just switch to a school like this. We have completely different curriculums and our school is a lot harder." "Okay yeah that's true but fine I just don't want him ending up dead because he D'd on drugs." "Fine. We'll pick him up," I say. "Great," she smiles. "lll call him." I listen to her trying to convince her brother into coming with us as well as telling me directions. 'Oh c'mon. We can make a deal? l'Il do something for you. Homework?" "Fine.l can do that." Then she hangs up. "One more turn," she says pointing to the upcoming stop light. Nhen we arrive at his school he's standing with two girls and a boy with bleach blond hair. "Orange bag and black hair, that's Stella," Keanu points. I see a couple heads turn at and looking at our car. I can imagine how awkward it'd be if I got out right now in my uniform. "There's the kid with the platinum hair and oh right, that blonde girl." "Honey, you've been out here for hours. You petter give Nano a break," my mother says as she walks up to the pen. It's real hot outside today as well. "I'm waiting for Leo," I say, hopping off Nano and walking up to her. Leo was supposed to practice riding again today. He hasn't ridden since last week when he got on Poppy for the first time. 'Leo and his mother have been here thirty minutes?" Mom says "Don't look to me.l don't know where he is." "Oh well. He's here somewhere." She turns around and heads back to the house. I shrug it off and head towards Nano who is just wandering about still fully tacked. I take Nano to the cross ties. "How long you been riding for?"l snap my head around to see Leo leaning in the door frame. I should really tell him about the yelling 'door' but I have a feeling he will ignore I ever mentioned it. don't know. Forever." Isay putting on Nano's halter and walking towards Leo. "Where were you?" 'Just out back watching.' "I- you were watching?" 'Yeah," he shrugs. "Was curious." run my hand through my hair as he wanders about looking at things. I get Poppy and start to get him ready as Leo asks a thousand questions of This time I have him lead Poppy out to the mounting block. After years of not using it, I'm surprised we still have it, and it's intact. I guide him through all the steps of mounting a horse and spend the next forty minutes continuing where we left off last time. We stop at around six, when the sun is starting to set. I'm sweating from being in the tight riding clothes all day and summer sun. 'This time watch me untack and l'm going to hand you everything to put away. He nods his head and waits for me. I explain what I'm doing as I go. After that he goes back to the house and I go to have a shower. "Hello?" I ask picking up the phone.lput it on speaker so I can put on clothes. "Yeah hey"' Keanu says. "Mind if I come over this weekend? I've been so busy this week with tennis and ! haven't seen you much." "Yeah that works. Aleks and Julian come over Saturday though so can you stand being around them for a bit?" "Yeah l'I suck it up so I can see you. Although l'm not sitting watching you all play video games." "We can play football out in the yard." "Oh wait you won't be able to see them anyway." 'What?"1 practically yell as I put on my shirt and hope my phone can hear me 'Yeah my dad wants to invite you guys onto the boat for a day. move to pick up my phone and hold it to my ear. 'We've already spent the last two weeks on it, why can't the parents just go?" "C'mon, I really like that they've become friends.' "Yeah okay I'll go." "Okay I gotta go," she replies happily before she hangs up. head back into the bathroom to comb my hair. t's still wet from the shower, consideringl only got out two minutes ago. Imake my way downstairs passing Leo in the iving room on his phone. When I enter the dining room the moms aren't there but I spot them on the patio outside enjoying the sunset, drinking tea. "Mom, pass the sandwiches," Keanu says. Mrs. Medero however is still distracted listening in on Mr. Medero telling my father about the small yacht. "So what's the model?" My father asks as he sips his beer. 'A twenty fourteen Azimut Mangello forty three Flybridge." It all goes through one ear and out the other. "Forty two feet and six inches long. Max speed of twenty two knots." 'Mom!" Keanu shouts to grab Mrs. Mederos attention. 'What?" She practically barks back "The sandwiches,"' she says holding out her hand lignore them and keep listening to Mr. Medero. "l'll show you the downstairs. There's three cabins and four beds all together." Mr. Medero leads my parents down the stairs. "Want to jump in?" Keanu asks as she takes off her dress to reveal a yellow bikini. smirk to her and she bends down to kiss me, slipping a bit of tongue. 'C'mon let's go," she says pulling me by my shirt Eventually she lets go and jumps off the side into the open water. get up throwing off my shirt and jumping next. When I surface I can hear her laughter. She swims a bit away from the small yacht and I follow. "How's teaching Leo to ride going?" "Eh,"' I say. "Surprisingly, he listens and isn't too difficult." "Ah wait till he's in a mood.' 'Isn't he always in a mood?" "Aha," she barks out a laugh. "You'll know he's in a mood when he's significantly bitchier then usual. He's such a diva too." 'And you're not?" "!'m a rich girl, of course l'm a diva. He pretends he doesn't come from a rich family and can be rather dry, yet somehow he is still a diva." She splashes me a bit before starting to swim back. "Anyway, I'm going to jump off again. C'mon." follow her back to the boat where we climb up the latter back on. '1 want to dive from the top." 'Thought your dad said not to do that," I say as we walk past them and upstairs to the top 'Listening to parents is boring. Just make sure you dive out." She barely finishes her sentence before she's jumped off the edge and dived in.