Pretty Little Liars Next Generation

My First Big Show Jumping Competition

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My First Big Show Jumping Competition

14 year old Rosie Sophie Cavanaugh was participating in her first showjumping competition at the senior level. She had been competing at the junior level for the past four years. Her parents were so proud of her and all of her siblings for getting involved with activities outside of school. Her oldest sister Rochelle plays field hockey and hopes to one day take it to the professional level. Her older brother JT is a star player on the varsity basketball team and on the varsity baseball team. He also is the team caption on both teems and he hopes to play in university and maybe one day in the NBA or MLB. Her older sister Elizabeth does gymnastics lessons and dance classes. Although she just does it for fun and does not compete like her friend Deylia. Elizabeth had tried out for the dance company at school this year as well as the schools gymnastics team but she did not make it on to either one so she hopes to make it when she tries out for both again next year.

Rosies POV

I am competing in all different kinds of horse competitions. So far I have competed in show jumping, cross country, and dressage all in separate competitions. One day I hope to compete in the 3 day eventting competition. That is a big competition and over three days you compete in dressage, cross country, and showjumping. You are scored in each round and at the end of the three days are given a final score and you find out your overall score for the whole competition.

This weekend I have a show jumping competition. The first round is tomorrow which is just the qualification rounds and the finals are on Sunday. Today after school my parents are picking me up and taking me to the stables to get in one final practice. If I do good in this competition I can earn a spot on the three day eventting team for this summers big competition. It would be all training for most of the summer and then at the end of the summer the big competition would happen. This event is what I really need to participate in if I want to get in to equestrian competitions in university and maybe compete in the Olympics one day.

I am eating lunch in the school cafeteria and trying to mentally prepare myself for the next few days. I am sitting with my best friends Xanthe and Leo.

"Good luck this weekend Rosie." Xanthe said

"Good luck to you." Leo said

"Thank you for your support. Are you two going to come and watch me compete?" I said

"I wish I could be there but I am shooting my toothpaste commercial this weekend." Xanthe said

"I wish I could be there to but I have a Karate meet this weekend in Philly." Leo said

"That is okay besides my sisters, my brother, my parents, and my cousin will all be there for me." I said

"So you are not made at us for not coming." Xanthe said

"No, I am not mad at either of you." I said

"I would much rather come watch you but my dad would never allow it" Leo said

"Leo I thought you told me that your dad said that you could quite karate if you wanted to." I said

"He did but he also said that my lessons were paid through the end of the school year and my summer karate intensive camp was already paid for. Since he can not get his money back I can't officially quite unless I want to give him every penny that is in my savings account so he does not lose out on all the money he paid. I really wish that I could skip the meet and go watch you instead." Leo said

"Your dad is really hard on you. If I told my dad today that I wanted to withdraw from the competition and quite ridding completely he would be okay with it even though they would be loosing out on the thousands of dollars they paid for my horse and all the money they spent on feeding the horse, boarding the horse, the horses vet bills, the training fess, and all the competition fees." I said

"Well that is just because your parents are so rich that money does not matter." Leo said

"No it is because they care about their kids and they will do what ever makes them happy." I said

"Lately all my parents have been doing is fighting qbout money." Leo said

"I did not know that they were having money problems." Xanthe said

"My mom was just considered because my dad spends so much money for my karate and the only hope for Jayde to go to a good university is if she can get a scholarship and use her savings account to pay for everything else she needs." Leo said

"Well my parents have fought about money before." I said

"Your parents were probably just fighting about how much money they spend for things that they do not need." Xanthe said

"It is not like they were fighting about how they could not afford to put their two kids though university." Leo said

"Actually months ago my fathers company was going bankrupt and it got so bad that he almost lost the business. Then on top of all that Rochelle had gotten in trouble with the law." I said

"So it was really bad then." Xanthe said

"Yes at one point my siblings and I thought that my parents were going to get divorced because my dad had lied to my mom about how bad it really was. In fact she had no idea what was going on because he told her nothing about it until she found the bankruptcy papers that he was hiding." I said

"Well are they okay now." Leo said

"Yes at one point it was so bad that when my mom found out that he was taking their personal funds to try and save his company she got so mad that she stayed with my aunt Melissa's family for a few days before she came home and confronted my dad about it. Now they are just fine and acting like nothing happened" I said

"Let us know how your competition goes." Leo said

"I defiantly will." I said

"Call me and even if I am busy I will call you back as soon as possible." Xanthe said

Lunch was now over and I had a few classes left before my parents picked me up. I am also in the school sponsored 4H club but I have to miss todays activities because I need to get more show jumping practice in. My sisters said that there is also a school sponsored 4H club at their high school that I will go into next year.

When the school day was over both of my parents picked me up and took me to the horse stables to practice. When I arrived I saddled up my horse and took her out of the stall. I went to the arena where my coach was setting up the jumps. I had my horse walk around the arena a few times to get warmed up. Then I stared to go through the jumps with my horse.

We only practiced jumping for one hour which was half as long as my lessons were to not tire out the horse to much. Then I put my horse back in the stall and took her saddle off. I also gave her fresh food and water. Then my parents took me home.

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