Claire was contemplating the activities and socialising events she might partake in that would fill her college break at home, she was looking forward to meeting her long time friends and relaxing following the end of a stressful college semester. She drove her car home on the day following the end of her second semester, she was keen to see her parents and brother whom she had missed terribly.
She had purposefully not driven home in her previous break so that she may become accustomed to her new life at college and find and maintain friendships with the other girls he shared her living facilities with, also she knowingly felt that had she driven home she would have had some reluctance to leave to resume a busy academic schedule as opposed to being pampered by her parents, being able to relax in the all too familiar environment of home and of course spending time with her friends.
Although Claire had established some good relationships with her fellow students and was getting along great with Evie her roommate, Although now she was excited to see her old friends whom she had known since childhood, her heart skipped a beat as she thought about the previous summer where she had briefly dated Dan the eldest son of her parent friends and close neighbours.
Dan had also gone to college but his younger brother Robert had remained in the Martin household and worked the small ranch and taken care their family's horses and cattle, including Claire's horse Zeus. Claire's parents maintained a busy agricultural business from the rear of her family home and had little time to take care of Zeus for her, so it had been decided before Claire left for college that the Martin's would take care of him and work him alongside their own stock.
As Claire took the last turn that led onto the ranch road and further beyond that her own family residence she took time to glance sideways to admire the Martin's horses all out to graze in the bottom pasture. Her eyes cast to the familiar athletic form of her black gelding, as her little car turned meandered the winding track Zeus let out a little snicker and started toward the railings dividing the road from the pasture, obviously excited to see her as she was him. He followed her car at a steady pace as far as he could and halted at the gate to the next pasture.
She could clearly make out Robert waving at her from the entrance to their horse barn, Claire stopped the car, got out to opened the gate to allow Zeus access to the adjoining pasture, before doing so greeting him with strokes and nuzzling against his muzzle. Returning to her car she drove up the track to the Martin residence, stepping out of her car and greeting Robert with a huge hug and kiss to the cheek. They were long time childhood friends and their actions produce nothing more than chatter about their time apart.
Claire swiftly glanced around searching the yard for Dan, but was disappointed to find he was not there. Rob wandered over to Zeus as he reached the yard gate and was haltered and led to where she stood, her disappointment that Dan was not home did not go unnoticed by Rob.
"Dan won't be home until tomorrow", Rob explained 'but we are all invited to your house for supper on Friday so I guess you will see him then". Rob asked if she would like Zeus to be put in her own pasture so that she may ride him that evening and she nodded as she climbed back in the seat of her car, waving a cheery goodbye she set off back on her way home.
Claire was warmly welcomed home by all the family including her grandparents who were all keen to hear about college life, her friends and her journey home, after many hours talking and eating supper Claire retired to her familiar room and bed exhausted by it all.
She awoke with a lazy reluctance listening to the household moving and realised she had fallen asleep the previous evening naked on her bed, she now languished in a supine position. Sleepily her hands trailed across her breasts causing her nipples to slightly harden, as she trailed her fingers over her abdomen she gently parted her legs and considered arousing her nipples further and softly slipping her fingers between her already wet womanly folds and finding the much needed sexual release that she seemed to increasingly need. However the increasing arousal soon ceased when Claire heard steps in the hall way and her mother call through her door to say breakfast was ready in ten minutes.
As she rose from bed she glanced out of the window down to the Martins yard to see Dan's truck already stationed there and although she could not see Dan she knew he would be keen to get into the saddle, Robert was expertly round penning one of the horses and had just greeted Dan home.
Claire showered quickly and dressed in her riding clothes and boots intent on riding Zeus down to the Martins and joining one or both on one of their familiar morning rides as she had done regularly for the past nine years.
Her mother over breakfast was intent on finding out her plans for the holidays and questioned her to the extent that Claire found herself becoming slightly irritated, explaining that she wanted to ride Zeus out and up into the hills early each morning, then take care of him so that she could have the whole day time to spend with family, friends and basically chilling out in the evenings, her explanations seemed to pacify her mother.
Once she had breakfasted she went out to the barn to find her father had already fed Zeus early that morning and positioned his saddle and bridle ready to be fit.
As she rode from the yard she could feel the familiar excitement increase as she rode down the slight incline to the Martins, She cussed to see that Dan and Robert were already astride their horses and mounting the steep incline at a steady pace toward the track that led up onto the first hillside and through the small wooded area at the rear of the Martin property.
Claire was a little disappointed that they had not waited on her or called the house to say they were setting off. She wasn't too phased by that thought because she knew if she quickened Zeus's pace a little she would soon catch them up.
As she started her ascent of the hillside she could just see the brothers enter the wooded area, knowing that they would keep to their usual routine and rest the horses in the sunny wooded glade before setting off, she didn't speed up any because their actions would allow her to catch up just in time to set off further up into the hills she kept Zeus at a steady canter.