Dear María
So I Just Ride
JACK'S POV
"Oh, I forgot to mention... in two weeks I'll be going to San Diego a for a few days, maybe a week?" my heart stopped, I was watching María Mussons' new video. She was coming to the US? Oh my god, we had a show in San Diego in two weeks!
" ...There's this stock horse reining competition my cousin is competing in, so I'll be there to support her, feel free to come, it would mean a lot to me if you gave your support as well. The competition will be held in... I think it's called the Rancho Los Amigos, yeah, that is. I'll be tweeting the information when this video uploads, so yeah... Thanks for watching! If you've liked this video, give a thumbs up, don't forget to subscribe for weekly videos although I tend to miss some -sorry- and see you next week, bye!"
God, she was so damn cute! At the end of her videos she'll always end up saying that, with a high-pitched voice that wasn't annoying, it just made her look more adorable, and with a smile on her face, she covered the camera with her hand and the video would end there.
I've known about her since I got a tweet from a fan telling me I should read this fanfiction she wrote, I told her whenever I had spare time, I'd read it but I never did until thousands of people started to tweet me telling that I should and had to read the fanfiction, even Alex told me to read it, so I just read it.
It was about a spanish youtuber and I who fell in love and there was this problem and a fight and everything but ended together anyways, I thought that was bullshit, but, you know, just because I was curious, I anonymously messaged the author asking about how she came up with the idea of a youtuber and not just a random fan or a random person, and she told me that the youtuber in her fanfiction was real, she even sent me a link to her YouTube channel.
I was curious and started to watch her videos and, after watching them ALL, even the videos of her in her best friend's account, Ruben, another spanish youtuber, I subscribed and started becoming a fan of hers. I started following her on Twitter and stuff and found out more about her. I must admit I thought she was really cute.
She was very pale for being spanish, and had very light natural blonde hair (I discovered she was actually adopted from Norway when she was 5 months old, that explains her pale complexion), she was a professional tattooist and she had a horse named Stella, she also used the money she warned from competitions and such.
What I found more attractive were her eyes; they were bright blue, but slightly green around the pupil. On rainy days, they were either a very grey blue or a very grey green with blue around the pupil. I thought that was weird and cool and that was what really amused me.
Our fans have been recently working on ship names, like Jalex, but this time they'd come up with Jaría (yes, with the accent on the i, as María refused to let go of that spanish detail) or Mack. They used Mack more often, though.
I closed by laptop and left the tour bus to get some fresh air, I didn't notice I was still smiling until Alex pointed it out.
"What are you so happy about?" he raised an eyebrow.
"I bet he just found another fanfic of that youtuber he keeps stalking" Zack laughed and the others joined him.
"Actually, I didn't find a new fanfiction, but I discovered that María's going to San Diego in two weeks" I smirked.
"Dude, we're going to San Diego in a few weeks..." Alex replied. He thought of it for a second, "Oh, now I got it!" we laughed at Alex's response and started to talk about where should we meet up with her.
As we talked, the subject changed and I found myself talking about the Ravens with Vinny.
MARIA'S POV
“Come on, Olga, we’re gonna be late!” I shouted to my cousin, who was having a bit of trouble with her leggings. Unlike other girls, my cousing didn’t like wearing jeans, but as it was obligatory to wear blue jeans to the competition, she managed to buy some denim leggings which looked a LOT like real jeans, it even had fake pockets!
“I’m coming, just a second” she replied. She stepped out of the room, with her leggings and her cowboy boots and her favourite red checkered shirt. She looked beautiful; her long black wavy hair pulled up in a messy bun, her clothes making her tanned skin and her bright green eyes stand out a bit.
We got to the car we hired when we got to San Diego and we were soon going to Racho Los Amigos. I saw Olga bit her lip nervously.
“Are you nervous?” I asked calmly.
“What if he didn’t make it? What if I can’t participate because he isn’t here? What if-“ I cut her off.
“If he hadn’t made it, I’m sure Ori would’ve told us, don’t worry so much, Olga!” I exclaimed.
She was worrying about her horse again, ugh. If something had happened, Ori would be the first one to let us know!
Ori was my intructor’s nickname, his name was Oriol, he's been my instructor since I was 13, almost 14, he had always been very strict but very patient.
I looked over to her, she was still biting her lip so I leaned a bit closer and kissed her cheek.
“It’ll be fine. American reining competitions are no different to spanish ones, so don’t worry, ok?” I looked at her just to see her smiling, not nervous anymore, and I turned to face the highway, there were hardly any other cars except a big, long bus in front of us.
Olga worked at a western equestrian centre near Empúries, a little village near the sea in Girona, surrounded by mountains, and had learned to use a lasso and learned western riding instead of traditional English riding. She and her horse, Estrategos, and Stella and I did trips together a lot, we galloped across fields, near the sea.
We got to the centre and we were soon greeted by Oriol and the centre’s competition organizer, Walter.
“So, about your horse, hmm… Est-Estrateg- ugh, what? Estrategos?!” he struggled reading the horse’s name aloud. It was definetely the weirdest, most original and most complicated name someone could ever give to a living creature, no wonder my cousin chose it, “He’s over there, do you want me to walk you there?” Olga nodded and soon they walked to wherever they going, I saw her speed up with her arms open, she’d already spotted her horse. I chuckled and turned to Oriol, who looked at Olga aswell.
We started talking about my future possible competitions all over Europe when we were interrumpted by a shy, small teenager. She had brown, long, curly hair, the ends of her hair were dyed purple and she was wearing black skinny jeans and a blue Asking Alexandria shirt.
“Hi, sorry to interrumpt, are you María Mussons?” I nodded with a smile, "c-can I have take a picture with you?” she asked.
“Yes of course” I replied, and turned a bit to Oriol, who gave me the okay-i’ll-leave-you-with-your-fans look. He was already used to it and never complained. He started to walk away.
She took he picture and thanked me, soon, more girls and boys asked for photos.
When they were done with hugs, stories and telling me their problems and me giving them advice and everything, I pulled out my phone to check the photos they’d posted and smiled. When I looked up, I saw a few metres away from me four men. What caught my attention was a guy’s skunk, black or very dark brown and blonde hair. Oh, god. This isn't happening.
It was Jack Barakat, surely. Oh my god, Jack fucking Barakat! I started to blush, remembering my cousin reading aloud smut fanfiction about us and I blushed. When they looked at me, my inner fangirl started to scream, but I kept my mouth shut. Jack, Alex, Rian and Zack walked in my direction and people hugged them and took photos of them. Once they finished, they walked to me again, and other conversations around us quitened, at a normal volume now.
Jack stood in front of me, smiling like an idiot. God, he's so cute! He opened his mouth but closed it.
“Hmm… well, this is kind of awkward” I said, smiling. Jack’s position relaxed, “Sorry if I’m not speaking right now, I’m kind of having a inner-fangirl attack right now” I chuckled a bit, causing them all to laugh a bit. I breathed in dramatically, earning a chuckle from Alex and Rian.
“Well, I admit you’re not the only one here…” said Jack, blushing. Wait, blushing? Why?
We soon started to talk and we found ourselves talking about how long have we been knowing about each other’s existence. Suddenly, someone called through the speakers:
“Attention, please everyone! The competition will start in 15 minutes” there was a pause, “And, María Mussons, please your cousin needs you, please walk to the stables next to the lake”.
I turned to guys with an apologetic smile, “Sorry, Olga’s calling me, see you in a few minutes, ok?” I said, raising a bit my eyebrows at the end. They nodded and I walked away.
What has just happened? I asked myself as I spotted Olga having trouble with the girth of the saddle. I giggled when I saw her face trying to girth Estrategos.
"Need some help?" I said.
"Yes, please. This bastard isn't helping me at all" she playfully hit her horse's neck, before stroking his ears.
"Estrategos, you're not messing around with my cousin, are you?" I put myself in front of him and held his head and looked him in the eyes, "You know the consequences, do you?" He moved his ears backwards in response; if he messed up with Olga, he wouldn't have a carrot at the end of the day.
I giggled a bit and walked to the saddle. It took me a bit, since he was holding his breath, but once I was done girthing him, we headed to the arena.
"I won't wish you luck because you don't need it, but... good luck!" I smiled. She returned me a smile and walked to the side of the arena.
Once in the bleachers, Jack waved his arm and I walked towards him. I sat between Rian and Jack, next to Jack were Zack and Alex. Zack was smiling at me.
"What?" I asked, smiling. They all turned to me.
"Oh, nothing. Just that we didn't expect you to be so strong" Jack smiled at me. His sentence had a second meaning in my head, but I knew Jack didn't mean it like that.
"Yeah, I don't blame you, my skinny arms kind of betray me there" I sighed.
"How do you do it? I mean, that creature is three times bigger than you, it could squash you and kill you without blinking!" exclaimed Rian.
I kind of half-laughed at that. They stared at me.
"No, he won't. Horses may be very big and then times my weight, but they know what they're doing. If they notice you trust them, they will trust you and obey you. Well, sometimes..." I realised I was talking too much. "Whoops, sorry, I kind of tend to speak to much when it comes to this topic, sorry..." I trailed off.
"Don't be, it's nice to see someone talk about their passion." I grinned at Jack, who added "I really love to see the sparkle they have in their eyes when they do so" he smiled at me. I returned a smile.
Suddenly the speaker called my cousin, who came in with a strong canter.
"That's your cousin?" Alex asked, I nodded with a smile, not leaving my eyes from her.
She cantered to the center of the arena and asked for a nicely granted pause. They spun in the spot, quickly in both directions, leaving 5 seconds between each lapse. They cantered to the side of the arena and started to gallop, making a 40m circle, in each half of the arena. Then, they paused at the end of the long side of the arena, quickly doing a rollback (a rapid turn, immediately followed by a gallop in the opposite direction) and doing the same on the other long side
"Damn" Zack breathed out, his eyes wide and Rian and Alex had their mouths open.
Soon, they let a brown, young cow inside. Olga and Estrategos only had to catch her, which they almost automatically did. Olga had been taming and training with her horse so much, Estrategos already knew what to do and Olga only had to hold on to the saddle, or guide him with her hands, if he felt a bit lost.
When they show was over, they announced the winner and the runner-up. Olga won in the first place. She ran up to me, sweaty and smiling like mad, and hugged me.
"Olga, I love you so much and I'm sooo happy you've won but, honey... you stink" she chuckled and then her eyes met Zack's, and then she saw the rest of the guys.
"Oh my god, you're All Time Low!" she blushed, earning some laughing from the guys. "How ar eyou guys doing?" she smiled, and relaxed. Olga didn't need half an hour to relax in front of famous people, to be honest.
We started to talk about the competition until we heard a horse noises from behind, and someone shouted a "Hey, come back!" when I turned I saw Estrategos coming towards us, he didn't like being far from Olga.
"Oh, hey there, cutie" Olga turned and hugged her horse's neck, the turned to us again. "Guys, this is Estrategos. Estrategos, meet All Time Low" Alex and Jack laughed, catching Estrategos' attention. He only stared at them before pinning his ears back a bit, but then pinning them forwards again and then gave Olga a soft push with his head.
"Well, we should be going, really. We have a show in two hours and we have to go to do the sound check..." Rian began to explain. Jack had now a kind of sad expresion on his face.
"Are you guys coming to the show?" Jack asked, hope sparkling from his brown eyes.
"Yeah, actually" his expression lightened, "but first this young lady needs to take a shower, so we'll see you guys at the show" I finished with a smile. We waved goodbye and after putting Estrategos back to his temporary stable, we went to the car and headed to the hotel.
"Oh, I forgot to mention... in two weeks I'll be going to San Diego a for a few days, maybe a week?" my heart stopped, I was watching María Mussons' new video. She was coming to the US? Oh my god, we had a show in San Diego in two weeks!
" ...There's this stock horse reining competition my cousin is competing in, so I'll be there to support her, feel free to come, it would mean a lot to me if you gave your support as well. The competition will be held in... I think it's called the Rancho Los Amigos, yeah, that is. I'll be tweeting the information when this video uploads, so yeah... Thanks for watching! If you've liked this video, give a thumbs up, don't forget to subscribe for weekly videos although I tend to miss some -sorry- and see you next week, bye!"
God, she was so damn cute! At the end of her videos she'll always end up saying that, with a high-pitched voice that wasn't annoying, it just made her look more adorable, and with a smile on her face, she covered the camera with her hand and the video would end there.
I've known about her since I got a tweet from a fan telling me I should read this fanfiction she wrote, I told her whenever I had spare time, I'd read it but I never did until thousands of people started to tweet me telling that I should and had to read the fanfiction, even Alex told me to read it, so I just read it.
It was about a spanish youtuber and I who fell in love and there was this problem and a fight and everything but ended together anyways, I thought that was bullshit, but, you know, just because I was curious, I anonymously messaged the author asking about how she came up with the idea of a youtuber and not just a random fan or a random person, and she told me that the youtuber in her fanfiction was real, she even sent me a link to her YouTube channel.
I was curious and started to watch her videos and, after watching them ALL, even the videos of her in her best friend's account, Ruben, another spanish youtuber, I subscribed and started becoming a fan of hers. I started following her on Twitter and stuff and found out more about her. I must admit I thought she was really cute.
She was very pale for being spanish, and had very light natural blonde hair (I discovered she was actually adopted from Norway when she was 5 months old, that explains her pale complexion), she was a professional tattooist and she had a horse named Stella, she also used the money she warned from competitions and such.
What I found more attractive were her eyes; they were bright blue, but slightly green around the pupil. On rainy days, they were either a very grey blue or a very grey green with blue around the pupil. I thought that was weird and cool and that was what really amused me.
Our fans have been recently working on ship names, like Jalex, but this time they'd come up with Jaría (yes, with the accent on the i, as María refused to let go of that spanish detail) or Mack. They used Mack more often, though.
I closed by laptop and left the tour bus to get some fresh air, I didn't notice I was still smiling until Alex pointed it out.
"What are you so happy about?" he raised an eyebrow.
"I bet he just found another fanfic of that youtuber he keeps stalking" Zack laughed and the others joined him.
"Actually, I didn't find a new fanfiction, but I discovered that María's going to San Diego in two weeks" I smirked.
"Dude, we're going to San Diego in a few weeks..." Alex replied. He thought of it for a second, "Oh, now I got it!" we laughed at Alex's response and started to talk about where should we meet up with her.
As we talked, the subject changed and I found myself talking about the Ravens with Vinny.
MARIA'S POV
“Come on, Olga, we’re gonna be late!” I shouted to my cousin, who was having a bit of trouble with her leggings. Unlike other girls, my cousing didn’t like wearing jeans, but as it was obligatory to wear blue jeans to the competition, she managed to buy some denim leggings which looked a LOT like real jeans, it even had fake pockets!
“I’m coming, just a second” she replied. She stepped out of the room, with her leggings and her cowboy boots and her favourite red checkered shirt. She looked beautiful; her long black wavy hair pulled up in a messy bun, her clothes making her tanned skin and her bright green eyes stand out a bit.
We got to the car we hired when we got to San Diego and we were soon going to Racho Los Amigos. I saw Olga bit her lip nervously.
“Are you nervous?” I asked calmly.
“What if he didn’t make it? What if I can’t participate because he isn’t here? What if-“ I cut her off.
“If he hadn’t made it, I’m sure Ori would’ve told us, don’t worry so much, Olga!” I exclaimed.
She was worrying about her horse again, ugh. If something had happened, Ori would be the first one to let us know!
Ori was my intructor’s nickname, his name was Oriol, he's been my instructor since I was 13, almost 14, he had always been very strict but very patient.
I looked over to her, she was still biting her lip so I leaned a bit closer and kissed her cheek.
“It’ll be fine. American reining competitions are no different to spanish ones, so don’t worry, ok?” I looked at her just to see her smiling, not nervous anymore, and I turned to face the highway, there were hardly any other cars except a big, long bus in front of us.
Olga worked at a western equestrian centre near Empúries, a little village near the sea in Girona, surrounded by mountains, and had learned to use a lasso and learned western riding instead of traditional English riding. She and her horse, Estrategos, and Stella and I did trips together a lot, we galloped across fields, near the sea.
We got to the centre and we were soon greeted by Oriol and the centre’s competition organizer, Walter.
“So, about your horse, hmm… Est-Estrateg- ugh, what? Estrategos?!” he struggled reading the horse’s name aloud. It was definetely the weirdest, most original and most complicated name someone could ever give to a living creature, no wonder my cousin chose it, “He’s over there, do you want me to walk you there?” Olga nodded and soon they walked to wherever they going, I saw her speed up with her arms open, she’d already spotted her horse. I chuckled and turned to Oriol, who looked at Olga aswell.
We started talking about my future possible competitions all over Europe when we were interrumpted by a shy, small teenager. She had brown, long, curly hair, the ends of her hair were dyed purple and she was wearing black skinny jeans and a blue Asking Alexandria shirt.
“Hi, sorry to interrumpt, are you María Mussons?” I nodded with a smile, "c-can I have take a picture with you?” she asked.
“Yes of course” I replied, and turned a bit to Oriol, who gave me the okay-i’ll-leave-you-with-your-fans look. He was already used to it and never complained. He started to walk away.
She took he picture and thanked me, soon, more girls and boys asked for photos.
When they were done with hugs, stories and telling me their problems and me giving them advice and everything, I pulled out my phone to check the photos they’d posted and smiled. When I looked up, I saw a few metres away from me four men. What caught my attention was a guy’s skunk, black or very dark brown and blonde hair. Oh, god. This isn't happening.
It was Jack Barakat, surely. Oh my god, Jack fucking Barakat! I started to blush, remembering my cousin reading aloud smut fanfiction about us and I blushed. When they looked at me, my inner fangirl started to scream, but I kept my mouth shut. Jack, Alex, Rian and Zack walked in my direction and people hugged them and took photos of them. Once they finished, they walked to me again, and other conversations around us quitened, at a normal volume now.
Jack stood in front of me, smiling like an idiot. God, he's so cute! He opened his mouth but closed it.
“Hmm… well, this is kind of awkward” I said, smiling. Jack’s position relaxed, “Sorry if I’m not speaking right now, I’m kind of having a inner-fangirl attack right now” I chuckled a bit, causing them all to laugh a bit. I breathed in dramatically, earning a chuckle from Alex and Rian.
“Well, I admit you’re not the only one here…” said Jack, blushing. Wait, blushing? Why?
We soon started to talk and we found ourselves talking about how long have we been knowing about each other’s existence. Suddenly, someone called through the speakers:
“Attention, please everyone! The competition will start in 15 minutes” there was a pause, “And, María Mussons, please your cousin needs you, please walk to the stables next to the lake”.
I turned to guys with an apologetic smile, “Sorry, Olga’s calling me, see you in a few minutes, ok?” I said, raising a bit my eyebrows at the end. They nodded and I walked away.
What has just happened? I asked myself as I spotted Olga having trouble with the girth of the saddle. I giggled when I saw her face trying to girth Estrategos.
"Need some help?" I said.
"Yes, please. This bastard isn't helping me at all" she playfully hit her horse's neck, before stroking his ears.
"Estrategos, you're not messing around with my cousin, are you?" I put myself in front of him and held his head and looked him in the eyes, "You know the consequences, do you?" He moved his ears backwards in response; if he messed up with Olga, he wouldn't have a carrot at the end of the day.
I giggled a bit and walked to the saddle. It took me a bit, since he was holding his breath, but once I was done girthing him, we headed to the arena.
"I won't wish you luck because you don't need it, but... good luck!" I smiled. She returned me a smile and walked to the side of the arena.
Once in the bleachers, Jack waved his arm and I walked towards him. I sat between Rian and Jack, next to Jack were Zack and Alex. Zack was smiling at me.
"What?" I asked, smiling. They all turned to me.
"Oh, nothing. Just that we didn't expect you to be so strong" Jack smiled at me. His sentence had a second meaning in my head, but I knew Jack didn't mean it like that.
"Yeah, I don't blame you, my skinny arms kind of betray me there" I sighed.
"How do you do it? I mean, that creature is three times bigger than you, it could squash you and kill you without blinking!" exclaimed Rian.
I kind of half-laughed at that. They stared at me.
"No, he won't. Horses may be very big and then times my weight, but they know what they're doing. If they notice you trust them, they will trust you and obey you. Well, sometimes..." I realised I was talking too much. "Whoops, sorry, I kind of tend to speak to much when it comes to this topic, sorry..." I trailed off.
"Don't be, it's nice to see someone talk about their passion." I grinned at Jack, who added "I really love to see the sparkle they have in their eyes when they do so" he smiled at me. I returned a smile.
Suddenly the speaker called my cousin, who came in with a strong canter.
"That's your cousin?" Alex asked, I nodded with a smile, not leaving my eyes from her.
She cantered to the center of the arena and asked for a nicely granted pause. They spun in the spot, quickly in both directions, leaving 5 seconds between each lapse. They cantered to the side of the arena and started to gallop, making a 40m circle, in each half of the arena. Then, they paused at the end of the long side of the arena, quickly doing a rollback (a rapid turn, immediately followed by a gallop in the opposite direction) and doing the same on the other long side
"Damn" Zack breathed out, his eyes wide and Rian and Alex had their mouths open.
Soon, they let a brown, young cow inside. Olga and Estrategos only had to catch her, which they almost automatically did. Olga had been taming and training with her horse so much, Estrategos already knew what to do and Olga only had to hold on to the saddle, or guide him with her hands, if he felt a bit lost.
When they show was over, they announced the winner and the runner-up. Olga won in the first place. She ran up to me, sweaty and smiling like mad, and hugged me.
"Olga, I love you so much and I'm sooo happy you've won but, honey... you stink" she chuckled and then her eyes met Zack's, and then she saw the rest of the guys.
"Oh my god, you're All Time Low!" she blushed, earning some laughing from the guys. "How ar eyou guys doing?" she smiled, and relaxed. Olga didn't need half an hour to relax in front of famous people, to be honest.
We started to talk about the competition until we heard a horse noises from behind, and someone shouted a "Hey, come back!" when I turned I saw Estrategos coming towards us, he didn't like being far from Olga.
"Oh, hey there, cutie" Olga turned and hugged her horse's neck, the turned to us again. "Guys, this is Estrategos. Estrategos, meet All Time Low" Alex and Jack laughed, catching Estrategos' attention. He only stared at them before pinning his ears back a bit, but then pinning them forwards again and then gave Olga a soft push with his head.
"Well, we should be going, really. We have a show in two hours and we have to go to do the sound check..." Rian began to explain. Jack had now a kind of sad expresion on his face.
"Are you guys coming to the show?" Jack asked, hope sparkling from his brown eyes.
"Yeah, actually" his expression lightened, "but first this young lady needs to take a shower, so we'll see you guys at the show" I finished with a smile. We waved goodbye and after putting Estrategos back to his temporary stable, we went to the car and headed to the hotel.
Notes
Hi, again! It took me a while to write this but bleh, here it is!
I'll try to upload the next one today, see you later!
Title credit: Ride by Lana del Rey.
@yeah nah
thankyou so much for your support C: i'll update as soon as this writer's block dims a little
2/16/15