The A Circuit by Georgina Bloomberg

Author:Georgina Bloomberg [Bloomberg, Georgina]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Published: 2011-09-02T20:00:00+00:00

ELEVEN

Kate was thinking back over everything she’d done wrong in the lesson when Fitz slid onto the bench beside her. “What’s up?” he asked, nudging her with one elbow. “Something wrong with your pizza?”

“Huh?” Kate blinked at him, then glanced down at the untouched slice in her hand. “Um, no. Just not very hungry, I guess.”

She set the pizza down on the bench and wiped her hand on a napkin. The tack room had turned into a party. The pizza boxes sitting on the big bandage trunk in the center of the room were half empty. Summer and Marissa were over by the bridle wall laughing at something Zara was saying, while Dani was leaning against a saddle rack talking to Tommi. Hugo, Chaucer, and a couple of the other dogs were circling like sharks, hoping for their share of the pizza.

Fitz crammed the rest of his slice into his mouth. “Food of the gods,” he pronounced after he’d chewed and swallowed. “So you and Fable ready to kick the eq world’s ass, or what?”

Kate grimaced. “If I keep riding like I did today, I couldn’t even win a short-stirrup class.”

“Come on.” Fitz licked tomato sauce off his fingers. “You did fine. Even Jamie would’ve had his hands full when Fable was in that kind of mood.”

“I don’t know about that.” Kate stared into space, in too serious a funk to pay much attention to the way Fitz was leaning toward her, their shoulders almost touching. “I feel like Jamie has all this faith in me, but I’m not sure I can live up to it, you know?”

“Jamie’s not a moron,” Fitz said, tossing a stray bit of crust into Hugo’s eager mouth. “If he thinks you can do this, who are you to question him?” He grinned.

Kate forced a weak smile. “I guess. But everybody’s wrong sometimes, right?”

“Ah, Kate. So beautiful and yet so down on yourself. It’s tragic.” Fitz shook his head. “I think maybe it’s time for a reality check. You weren’t around yet when I started doing the eq, which means you didn’t get to see me the time the judge called for us to ride without stirrups in the flat phase and I fell off. At the walk.”

“Really?” Kate stared at him, not sure whether to believe him or not. “What’d Jamie say?”

“He pretended he didn’t know me. For like a week.” Fitz grinned and stood up just long enough to grab himself another slice of pizza. “Then there was the time I had to do a rollback to a skinny vertical. My horse decided it would rather swerve past the second jump and jump the first one again, backward this time. I ended up hanging halfway off his neck over the top, and on the other side he bucked me off into a bunch of flower pots that were decorating another jump.”

This time Kate was pretty sure he had to be exaggerating at the very least. But Marissa had turned to listen. “I remember that,” she said with a laugh.

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