To Save Me

Chapter 1

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SIX MONTHS LATER 

Chapter 1  

I couldn’t take it anymore; I needed to get out, and get fresh air flowing through my lungs. I could barely see the road I turned onto, but I had to pull over. I stared straight down the long Texas black top road without seeing anything. My knuckles were white as I gripped the steering wheel of my 99 Dodge 1500 pickup. I closed my eyes, took a deep breath and thought to myself

 ‘It’s over, you’re half-way across the country he won’t ever look for you’

Opening my eyes I realized I had pulled over in paradise. A paradise designed especially for me. Horses were staring at the truck over the barbwire fence in the pasture next to where I had pulled over. The green spring grass was swaying gently in the wind around their hooves. A deer ran swiftly from the trees to a thicket across the pasture probably never even glancing my way, running from something, a buck maybe.

I forgot in that simple calming moment why I had pulled over and why I had run in the first place. I found myself stepping out of the truck never once making sure no other cars were coming down the road like I should have, but nevertheless making my way to the fence line where the horses stood. As I came closer the more entranced I became. There were four there all staring curiously at me, a stranger to their land. One a mare and probably the leader of the herd; was white with a roan coloring in spots along her back. She had blue eyes and I could tell the sun was beginning to irritate her sensitive skin. Her head was pinkish, sunburnt already in the beginning of May. She was more bold than the rest and as I got closer stuck her head over the barbwire to check me out further. Next to her was a tall black gelding that when the sun hit him just right had a dark red tint to him. His eyes were kind and gentle and his lip looked like Bubba’s from ‘Forest Gump’ suggesting he was probably older than the rest. On the other side of the mare was another gelding not as tall as bubba (the black one) but still taller than the short little mare. He was a sorrel coloring and had one brown eye and one baby blue. The last horse on the other side of bubba and standing a little farther down was also a sorrel color but was just as tall as bubba. In that moment he reminded me of the donkey in ‘Winnie the Pooh’.

I don’t know when I slipped through the barbwire or why but I plucked a few green strands of grass and held it out tentatively to Eeyore. He never once moved his feet but stretched his neck and head until he could reach his mouth to my hand where I held the outstretched grass. I giggled when he sucked it up like a vacuum and slowly reached my other hand for his muzzle. He allowed me to gently rub his muzzle and forehead until noticing his friends were gone began listening for where they were and why. I watched uneasily as his ears twitched back and forth, always returning to behind him in the trees. With every passing moment he got more and more uneasy until finally he nudged me with his head to the side and took off to find his friends.

I took that as my cue to get off of whoever’s property this was and to return to my truck. As I was slipping out of the fence I turned to look one last time at the pasture that gave me the peace I needed in that moment. What I saw when I turned to look back was a large coyote trotting through the pasture. When he turned direction suddenly and began trotting in the direction of the road. Towards me, I don’t know as much about coyotes as I do horses but I do know that they don’t hunt during the day meaning this one could be sick. But it looked like a happy, peaceful creature so much so that I didn’t immediately head for the driver’s side of my truck when it got to the barb wire fence. (Yes, I know that I sound completely insane, what woman in her right mind wouldn’t be scrambling for any kind of door when a possibly sick predator was running toward them.) Finally my brain kicked back into drive and I backed slowly away from the creature while it stared at me curiously with its head cocked to the side and its tongue lolling out of its mouth. A curious creature indeed, because once it hit the fence line it went no farther even though I was standing a mere three feet from it, backed into the passenger side door of my truck. It stood there until finally I opened the door, jumped in the truck, and slammed the door as fast as I could.

Sitting in the passenger seat I watched it for a few moments more before it turned and headed back for the trees. It was then that I realized I was smiling, actually smiling something I hadn’t done in nearly a month. I looked back into the pasture just one more time and thought to myself,

‘This is it, Grace, you’ve found someplace you’re ready to stay for a while. All thanks to a random pasture in a small town somewhere in Texas.’ 

Guess I had better find me a place to stay then and exactly where I am. My sisters will be expecting to hear from me soon too. Ugh I groaned, I wish I could just have stayed in that pasture that seemed so far from everyday life. Crawling over into the driver’s seat I started the truck and pulled back out onto the road where I was immediately met with a city limits sign reading:

Welcome to hope

Population: 742

Hope, huh, that’s got to be a coincidence…

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