Juliet's Moon

Chapter 1 'New Moon and Juliet'

A/N:Let me explain a bit. I thought of this when I was thinking about my story Ripped Pictures and Taylor Swift's song 'Love Story'. I love the name Juliet and I wanted to use it so I came up with this story! My main Characters name is Juliet Taylor, She's 15 years old, She rides English(she likes jumping), she's the daughter of a famous horse breeder Charles Taylor. Her mother left her and her father when she was young. Her father and her live in San Francisco, California. How does this come into Phantom Stallion? Well Charles is friends with Sam's aunt Sue! Read and find out what happens when everyone meets!

It's Wednesday September 1st, 2009. Around 4:30pm.

Juliet Pov

I focused on the jump ahead. It was just a small oxer but if Moon knew that my attention wasn't entirely focused on him and the jump he would buck.

1, 2, 3. I counted on and pushed my arms and body forward with Moon as he flew over the little jump. He landed with a soft thud and I smiled. We had been having great jumping days this past week. Moon hasn't bucked once!

I mentally 'knocked on wood' as they say. A big show for me and Moon was coming up soon and we could not mess up!

I brought Moon to a trot and trotted to the middle of the outside arena. "Good Job Juliet!" Said my instructor Tristan. Tristan was 30 years old, had been working for my dad for 10 years and had gotten his instructor license 7 years ago. He had been teaching me ever since. He had light brown hair and blue eyes. He also had a fit body and a lot of girls at our barn thought he was cute. He was more like a brother to me.

"Moon has been great this week. I'm hoping that's a good sign for the San Francisco Finals!" I said to Tristan dismounting.

"I think you'll do just fine. As long as your focused on Moon and the jumps ahead. Just work a bit on your jumping position your hands are a little low." Tristan suggested.

I nodded. "I'll try to work on that before Saturday." I told him.

"Alright. Well I'll see you here at 3:30 tomorrow. I've got to get going, Molly has an appointment. We get to find out the gender of the baby today!" Tristan smiled. His wife Molly and him were expecting their first baby.

"Well text me when you find out!" I said smiling at him. He shook his head.

"No need. I'll be over tonight. Your dad's invited us over for dinner. I'll tell you then. It's only a few hours away." Tristan said.

I started to lead Moon away. "Good luck! I hope you're having a girl!" I shouted back to him.

I heard him groan. "Don't say that! I want a boy! Molly wants a girl!" Tristan said walking towards his truck.

I laughed and walked into the barn. "Good Afternoon Juliet!" Called out our stable manager, Matt from his office.

I walked over to his office door. "Afternoon Matt." I said. "How are you?" I asked.

"Good. Good. Your father ran into town to meet Sue." Matt said.

"Okay. Well I'm going to put Moon away, is there anything you need help with Matt?" I asked.

"Yeah. Could you exercise Tiger for me? Jamie said she won't be able to make it—she has to work late again." Matt said, talking about one of our boarders. Jamie was a 40-year-old lawyer who had a 14-year-old paint horse that she boarded here. I would usually ride Tiger for her if she was working on a case.

"Sure! I'll just put Moon in his stall and grab Tiger. What does she want done today?" I asked.

"She just wants to work him with his walk, trot, canter a bit. Just to keep him in shape." Matt said.

"Okay. See you later Matt." I led Moon three stalls down and he followed me into his stall. I shut the door and untacked him. I gave him a kiss and left the stall I hung up the tack right outside the stall on the racks.

"Hey Jess!" I called out to one of the stable's helpers. Jess was our 19-year-old helper, he had worked here since he was 14 years old. And after he graduated high school he continued to work here while going to the San Francisco College. He was like my older best friend.

Jess looked up and smiled. "What do you need now you slave driver?" He asked with mock anger.

"Hey! I'm no slave driver! But can you feed Moon for me while I ride Tiger?" I asked smiling back at him.

"Sure! No Problem! I'll do that after I finish putting Pixie and Dust in the field!" Jess replied.

"Thank you!" I yelled to him as I opened Tiger's stall door. I grabbed a few brushes on my way into the stall. "Hey Tiger boy. Jamie can't make it so I'm gonna ride you today."

I gave Tiger a gentle pat on the neck and then started to groom him. 10 minutes later I had him tacked up and was leading him to the arena.

I put my foot in the stirrup and swung up on Tiger. "Okay boy let's just walk for a couple of minutes." He started walking. I wanted to make sure he was a bit warmed up before I trotted or cantered him.

A few minutes later I asked him to trot and he eagerly did. I waited a few minutes before asking for a canter.

He had a smooth-rocking-horse-canter as people called it. I smiled as we cantered past the jumps, I wish we were jumping them but Jamie only wanted him to w/t/c.(A/N;if you don't know—w/t/c is walk, trot and canter..lol)

I exercised him for an hour before stopping and walking towards the barn. I stopped Tiger and dismounted him before leading him towards his stall. I took off his tack in the barn aisle, he wasn't sweating at all. It was the beginning of September so it was starting to cool down a bit.

I led him into his stall and checked his hay and water. Then I closed the stall door and walked towards Matt's office. I knocked on the open door before walking in.

"I just got done exercising Tiger and he did good. I just thought I'd tell you." As I said this I heard a truck pulling in.

"Thanks Juliet. That's all I had for you to do, I have to get back to this paperwork." Matt said.

"Okay. Bye Matt." I said leaving the office.

I walked out the barn door to see who was coming and it was my dad. "Dad!" I shouted at him as he got out of his truck. I threw my arms around his neck.

"Hey Juliet!" My dad said as he swung me around. "How was your day sweetheart?" My dad asked as he put his arm around my shoulder and led me towards the house.

"It was good, Dad. Tristan gave me a lesson on Moon and Moon didn't buck or refuse the jump! And then I exercised Tiger for Jamie, 'cause she won't be able to make it until later tonight and I just saw you coming." I told my dad.

"That's good Juliet! I can't wait to watch you and Moon in the San Francisco finals! I'm sure you'll do great." My dad said opening the front door. "Tristan and Molly are coming over today after Molly's ultrasound if Tristan didn't tell you."

I followed him into the kitchen. "Tristan told me. I told him I hoped he was having a girl." I said laughing.

"Oh Juliet! We want a boy, not a girl." My dad winked at me. I just rolled my eyes. "What should we have for dinner tonight?"

"Um...How about some fried chicken? Tristan said Molly was craving that today, so we could fix it for her!"I suggested.

"That's a good idea Jules." My dad affectionately used his nickname for me. "Don't you have homework?"

"Yeah. I'm finished, but I think I'm going to go in my room for awhile." I said walking up the stairs and down the hallway to the last bedroom, that was mine.

My room was a pretty turquoise color. It held pictures of horses I took, posters, I had a computer, a stereo and a pretty big TV. My bedsheets had 'Carolina Panthers'(my favorite football team) on it and was turquoise and black and had a panther on them. I went over to my stereo and put my CD and played the song 'Good Girls Go Bad' By Cobra Starship.

I stood up on my bed and started dancing and singing along.

"I make them good girls go bad! I make them good girls go! Good girls go bad, good girls go bad!" I was singing. "I know your type—your type—You're daddy's little girl, Just take one bite—one bite—Let me shake up your world! 'Cause just one night couldn't be so wrong, I'm gonna make you lose control."

The next song came on and it was 'Here in your arms' By Hello Goodbye. I smiled and fell back on my bed and went over to my computer desk. I quickly turned it on, and then it went to the login screen. I typed my password and it went to my account. (a/n; I don't know how to describe a computer turning on. And all that...lol)

I decided maybe I would get on AIM and see who's on. I signed in: Cali_Eventer

I saw a couple of friends I met at horse shows were on, and my long distance computer pen pal, NevadaCowboy, was on.

I smiled. Me and Nevada_Cowboy have been computer pen pals for a year. He obviously lived in Nevada, he said a small town called Darton. He had his own Quarter horse, named Chocolate Chip, he had 5 other brothers, he was in his junior year of high school,he was 16 at the end of September he would be 17 and he was part Shoshone. He was pretty awesome. (a/n; who does this sound like? : p)

NevadaCowboy: Hey!

Cali_Eventer: Hey! What are you doing?

NevadaCowboy: Nothing, just got in off the range. Rounding up cattle for sale. How about you?

Cali_Eventer: Just got done riding. I rode Moon over a course for the competition and exercised one of the boarders horses.

NevadaCowboy: That's cool. Nervous about the finals?

Cali_Eventer: Kind of. I'm afraid that Moon will buck and go crazy. I will have to keep my attention completely on him!

NevadaCowboy: Yeah. I wish you all the good luck. : )

Cali_Eventer: Thanks! How's Chip these days?

NevadaCowboy: He's good. Threw a couple of bucks today, but I got him under control.

Cali_Eventer: Now Chip wants to be a bronc! Now Moon can be the sensible horse. ; p

NevadaCowboy: Yeah right! That crazy Thoroughbred could never be more sensible than my Chip! Quarter horses rule!

Cali_Eventer: Hey! Just because Moon is a Thoroughbred doesn't mean he is crazy! Moon is very calm for a TB! Quarter Horses are stubborn and don't listen!

NevadaCowboy: Chip listens! All the time! He is not stubborn!

Cali_Eventer: Okay, you tell yourself what you want to... : )

NevadaCowboy: Lol, so how is school going?

Cali_Eventer: It's pretty good. But if it wasn't for Photography and music it'd be horrible!Lol. My math teacher hates me!

NevadaCowboy: I'm sorry. How's gym going for you?

Cali_Eventer: Okay, except this new boy in class seems to want to knock me down a lot, you should see the bruises! How's school for you going?

NevadaCowboy: Good. I'm going to try out for the football team, if I have the time and I really like my wood shop class. Gym's okay, math sucks, English is okay, art is awesome and the FRA is alright. (FRA=Future Ranchers Of America...haha)

Cali_Eventer: Awesome, I think it's so cool you're an artist! I bet you're great at it.

NevadaCowboy: I drew a picture of Moon for you.

Cali_Eventer: Really?

NevadaCowboy: Yeah from the picture you sent me of him, I could send it to you.

Cali_Eventer: Please do!

NevadaCowboy: Okay, I'm sending it now.

I heard my mail 'click'. I opened the e-mail and downloaded the file, then it popped up on my computer and I gasped. It was so beautiful, it was Moon jumping over a jump, from different angles.

Cali_Eventer: I love it! You are great at Art! I'm so printing it off and putting it on my wall with my photos!

NevadaCowboy: Really? You think it's good?

Cali_Eventer: Yeah! It's awesome, Cowboy.

NevadaCowboy: Thanks Cali. Crap, it's dinner time for me, Mom's yelling for me. I'll be on later, will you?

Cali_Eventer: Yeah. I think my dad's calling me too, I'll be on after dinner and feeding the horses-in 1hr and 30mins. Lol!

NevadaCowboy: Okay, talk to you then, Cali.

Cali_Eventer: Alright, talk to you later Cowboy.

I signed off my AIM and put my computer into 'hibernate'. I ran out of my room and into the kitchen. It smelled so good. "Mm. Smells great Dad, what did you need?" I said.

"I think Tristan and Molly are here. Can you go answer the door?" As he said this, we heard a knock at the door. He smiled at me.(It's like 7:30pm now)

I jogged to the door and when I got there I pulled the door open. Standing there was Tristan with Molly, who was 4 months pregnant and starting to show a bit. Molly was very pretty, she had long, dark brown hair, brown eyes, she was pretty short, like 5'2, and she was usually very skinny. Molly was a jockey for Tristan's fathers stables, Tristan was never much for horse racing, he liked eventing/jumping more, but Molly loved racing.

Molly had a competitive side, but she was very nice to me, and most people. She was usually happy and optimistic and she liked to ride a lot!

"Hi Molly!" I said quickly pulling her into a hug.

"How are you Juliet?" Molly asked excitedly. I saw she held a little piece of paper, that I knew had the ultrasound picture which told the sex of the baby.

"I'm okay...Come in you two!" I said leading them into the house and then to the smaller dining room. It had a small, rectangle, light oak table for 6. The room right beside it was the big dining room, it had a long, dark, polished wood table that could seat at least 20, for special occasions.

Molly and Tristan took a seat on the left side of the table and I took my regular seat on the right across from Tristan. Tristan and I were up by the top end seat, Molly by the lower bottom end seat. My dad came in carrying a big plate of fried chicken, legs, thighs, breasts, and tenders. "Mmm. Charles that smells so good, I've been craving fried chicken all day!" Molly said. I grinned.

"Well you can thank Juliet and Tristan for that. Tristan told Juliet earlier that you were craving it and Juliet suggested we have it for dinner." My father smiled and winked at her.

"Oh thank you Juliet!" Molly gasped.

"No problem." I said.

"Don't I get a thanks? I told her you were craving it!" Tristan protested. Molly leaned over towards his ear and I swear I heard 'you'll get yours later.' which would be why Tristan was smiling so much.

I rolled my eyes. Wow. I thought. "Juliet can you get the mashed potatoes and biscuits?"My dad asked.

"Sure." I replied getting up.

"I'll help you." Tristan said.

I grabbed the mashed potatoes and Tristan grabbed the biscuits and butter and a knife. We walked back into the dining room and sat down, while setting the food down.

"Alright everyone. Go ahead and eat." My dad said. I grabbed a biscuit and Tristan gave me some mashed potatoes. Then I reached and grabbed some chicken strips.

"So Molly are you going to tell us what the baby is?" I asked very curious and excited for them. They both grinned.

"Well we're having a girl...and a boy." Molly announced. My eyes widened.

"You're having twins?" I half-squealed. Twins! A girl and a boy!

"Yes the doctor said something was wrong and I was getting a little too big too soon, so while he was doing the ultrasound we realized we heard two little heart beats! Tristan almost fainted." Molly giggled. Tristan laughed with her.

"Well it's one thing that we're having a baby—but now we're having 2! Which by the way I am very happy. You get your girl, I get my boy." Tristan smiled.

"Congratulations you guys!" I said getting up and hugging them both quickly.

"I too have to congratulate you two!" My father said shaking Tristan's hand and giving Molly a hug and a kiss on the cheek.

My dad and I sat both back down. Molly and Tristan looked at each other and they had a silent conversation. Then Tristan looked at my father and I. "Charles...We wanted to know if we have your permission to make Juliet the god mother of our children." Tristan said hesitantly. I dropped the spoon of mashed potatoes I was holding.

But my dad was beaming. "As long as Juliet says yes, I have no problem with it."

"I have no problem with it! I'd love to be the babies godmother!" I said smiling.

"Good. Then it's all settled, my brother Christan is going to be the godfather..."Tristan said looking at my dad and he looked like he was about to say 'sorry' to my dad but my father held his hand up.

"No need to explain, I wasn't expecting to be the godfather, but if you would of made me that I would have been honored. But I understand, I'm sure your brother will be great, he's a very responsible boy." My father said to Tristan.

"Thanks." Tristan gave him a smile. "My brother was really happy and excited that we named him the godfather."

…...

1 hour later(8:30pm)

Now that dinner and dessert were over my father and I were heading towards the stables to help with feeding. My father walked towards the stallion barn while I headed towards the 'in-training' barn. My horse, New Moon, aka Moon was stabled in here since he was in training. Even though he was a stallion, he didn't act like one much around me or anyone, he was a big sweetheart. The only time he ever got horrible with anyone is when another stallion 'challenged him'.

I walked into the barn and I saw Jess and Matt in the feed room. "Hey guys." I greeted them.

"Hey Juliet." Jess replied. Matt smiled at me.

"I was thinking maybe I should increase Moon's grain up a bit, to maybe a full scoop?" I said to Matt, looking at the feeding chart.

"You could, he's getting worked more so he probably wants more, slowly give him more so he won't colic." Matt suggested.

"Okay, I'll give him a bit more tonight and then some more tomorrow and so on right?" I asked.

"Exactly." Matt said. I looked again at the feeding chart and saw Tiger was getting a full scoop of grain.

"Maybe you should talk to Julie about maybe reducing Tiger's grain to maybe 3 quarters of a scoop or maybe even a half of a scoop if he won't be getting exercised as much, so he won't gain lots of weight." I suggested. When I turned around Jess had a smirk on his face, and Matt was smiling. "What?"

"You are going to make a great stable owner when you get older." Matt said.

"Thank you. Now Jess what's your problem?" I said.

"You sound just like your father." Jess said and I beamed. Literally.

"That is awesome! That you think I'm like my dad." I said to Jess.

Jess just smiled at me.

…...

30 minutes later(9pm)

I was in Moon's stall. I sat down on some clean bedding as Moon ate hay. I was so nervous about this Saturday, Moon has been great but who's to stay he won't be up to his usual antics at the show? If I didn't win this show, my father would be disappointed, I would make it to nationals, and then championships. Then I would never get to be on the USA riding team for the Olympics.

I sighed. I wish I could just ride western. That's right me, a English jumper wanted to be a Western rider. I wanted to have the rodeo life, I love watched cowgirls barrel race and rope. In that big western saddle, cantering with Moon on the range that NevadaCowboy so many times described.

Oh crap! I forgot that I was supposed to get on the computer after dinner and feeding! As I got up my phone started ringing. It was a text from NevadaCowboy, I had given him my number and I had his. During school and in the car we would text.

From: NevadaCowboy

To:Cali_Eventer

Hey did you forget about me? : (

I laughed out loud. Patting Moon and giving him a kiss I left the stall, headed towards the house. It was pretty dark out, but I could see all the stable lights shining and I ran towards the house. The dark really freaked me out. I've always been afraid of the dark, even if that's childish.

I opened the door and walked in. I heard the TV in the living room on and I walked in there first, my dad was watching a football game. "Go 49ers?" I said looking at the TV.

My dad smiled. "It's Seattle at New York Giants." My dad said.

"Oh." I said uninterested. I liked the Carolina Panthers, they were my favorite team. "Well I'm going to my room. Night dad." I got up and kissed his cheek. My father gave me a hug.

"Night Jules." He said.

I walked up the stairs to my bedroom. As soon as I got there I went to my computer and turned it back on, it started quickly and I went to my AIM.

I heard someone IM and I smiled. It was NevadaCowboy.

NevadaCowboy: So you didn't forget about me. : )

Cali_Eventer: -laughs- I could never forget you.

NevadaCowboy: You're laughing at me? Thanks.

Cali_Eventer: Kind of. But in a good way. I'm glad you care if I get online or not!

NevadaCowboy: I'll always care.

Cali_Eventer: Aw. : )

NevadaCowboy: My brothers would laugh if they would read our conversation.

Cali_Eventer: Why? It's not that bad is it?

NevadaCowboy: They would think so. And as the second youngest they love to tease me.

Cali_Eventer: Huh. I'm the only child so I don't know how that feels. But I bet it sucks.

NevadaCowboy: Yeah. I'm supposed to be this tough, cowboy type who doesn't feel anything. They also think I shouldn't show any affection to Chip either, but I love that horse.

Cali_Eventer: Guys. Lol

NevadaCowboy: I wanted to tell you something Cali...

Cali_Eventer: What is it Cowboy?

NevadaCowboy: I'm coming to San Francisco this Friday!

I held back a excited, but nervous scream.

Cali_Eventer: ! Awesome!

NevadaCowboy: I know! Do you think we could meet in person?

I bit my lip..I really wanted to but I'm nervous...I could meet him in a public place...the show grounds!

Cali_Eventer: Sure. We could meet at the show grounds. It's called San Sun Show grounds.

NevadaCowboy: That's cool. Jake's friend and her family is going and they invited us all to go with them. The friend's aunt lives in SF. And she knows someone who's going to be in the show.

Cali_Eventer: That's cool! So then you'll be there already! Are you going to dance later on that night too?

NevadaCowboy: Sam, (Jake's friend) said something about a dance, I wasn't planning on it but if you are then I will.

Cali_Eventer: We could meet there, it's about an hour and a half after the show.

NevadaCowboy: That would be great. I'm excited to meet you.

I smiled. I was excited to meet him too, could you have feelings for someone you've never met?

Cali_Eventer: Me too!

NevadaCowboy: Is it a formal dance or is jeans and a t-shirt allowed? Lol. ; p

Cali_Eventer: Men/boys can wear jeans/formal pants and a shirt. Girls-skirts or dresses.

NevadaCowboy: Good. I won't exactly have to dress up.

Cali_Eventer: Haha you Cowboys, worried about dressing up.

NevadaCowboy: Holy crap—it's like 11! My mom is so yelling at me right now for not being asleep. I'll talk to you tomorrow! Night Cali!

Cali_Eventer: Night Cowboy!

I signed off my AIM. Then grabbing my Pj's I made my way to the bathroom, I brushed my teeth and then brushed my hair out and braided it, and splashed my face with water. I changed into my pj's, which was a pair of shorts with a panther on it and it as turquoise and black color, with a tank top.

I quickly climbed into my bed and turned the light off and went to sleep, dreaming of my horse, Moon.

…...

A/N; Hi everyone. Yet another PS story. Ideas just keep popping up! This time I'm doing an English rider though. Well I thought I would post this and see what everyone thinks! Do you like it? Do you want a 2nd chapter? Who's NevadaCowboy?(Lol—you gotta know this!)

Please Review and tell me what you think! I'll post the 2nd chapter if you like it. : )

From: QuinnandSeth'sgirl15