Boot Camp

Sweet Dream's And Nightmares

Come on Abby you know this course we have been doing thing for two weeks now! Come on stop missing the jumps! I couldn't think straight there was so much pressure I knew I could do that course but I something was stopping me, I was thinking about a million different things at once and lost my concentration, before I knew it I was ten feet away from the jump, my reins were too loose and my stirrups on my toes, I lost all control, I didn't even ask at the jump, and then Ivey jumped and went straight through the poles and sent me flying over, as I was flying through the air I got a quick glimpse of Ivey, she was face first in the dirt and was about to do a front flip into the ground. One second I was flying the next I was hitting the ground, hard. "ABBY!!" It was my instructor, I tried to get up but as soon as I started to sit up I felt a sharp pain shoot through my body, it was my leg, it was broken. But I didn't care I wanted to see Ivey, I pulled myself across the ground with my leg dragging behind me, I got right next to Ivey and put my hand on her neck " no, no, no please no, please please please be ok," of course she wasn't ok she had just flipped over and probably killed her self, " no Ivey please, I am so sorry I knew I shouldn't have went over that jump but I got distracted, it's all my fault, I am such an idiot, please Ivey forgive me," I could feel tears rolling down my face and I latched on to Ivey and said " Ivey thank you, thank you for being the best damn horse I could have asked for and thank you for dealing with all my crap, thank you Ivey for being my baby, I'll never forget you." "Abby!" "Abby!" " Abby!" " Abby, come on let's go!" I opened my eyes and looked around, I saw Ivey next to me looking at me like was a baby and I had just woken up to see her for the first time. I turned my head and saw my sister Anna, "Abby come on move it  your gonna want to get inside it's time for breakfast!" Thank the freakin lord it was just a nightmare, but then I started to think, oh no what if I'm not cut out for this. What if I'm not ready and I'm pushing myself anyways! I don't wanna make a fool out of myself and I certainly don't want to hurt Ivey! So I asked the expert of not believing in her self " hey Anna, what if I'm not cut out for this whole boot camp thing?" " Abby, if your having any doubts about this it's only because your exited and nervous at the same time and those emotions are turning on each other, you were made for that place! You've been saying ever since you rode your first pony that your were gonna be jumping the hight of mom one day!" " haha thanks Anna!" " no problem, now come on come inside mom is making waffles!"

             TEN MINUTES LATER

I was scrolling through spotlight on Snapchat when I got another email, oh god what now I thought, I clicked the email and read it,

Hello, this is just a heads up email that you are required to be at camp by 3pm today, so make sure that you have packed everything and that you have read over your list to make sure you have everything! See you soon.

~ Bryers Creek Equestrian Boot Camp Association

NO, NO, NO, NO, NO!!!! I THOUGHT CAMP STARTED TOMORROW!!!! DAMN IT I GOTTA PACK EVERYTHING AND OH MY GOD THAT WILL TAKE AT LEAST AN HOUR AND I STILL HAVE TO BRUSH IVEY AND GET HER TACK IN THE TRAILER AND I HAVE TO GET DRESSED!!!!!!!

                       OH SHIT!

I STILL HAVE TO PICK UP RAYA  AT 12:40 AND I DON'T EVEN KNOW IF OLIVIA AND EMMA GOT IN YET!!!!!! I took a deep breath and then... 29 missed calls from Olivia and Emma, I cleared my plate and dashed upstairs, I immediately called them back while I picked out my outfit for the day, " hey guys so a bit of a problem, I kinda thought that camp started tomorrow and not today." " oh god well long story short me and Emma got in," " hey, that's great!" " ummm well we kinda sorta found out that u were driving with Raya and we don't exactly have a ride so..." " yes guys I will drive you but you have to be outside of your houses at 11:30 so we can get all the horses loaded got it!" " ahh yay thank you so much Abby!" " yea sure no problem hey I'm kinda really busy right now can hang up, correction I am really busy and I'm going to hang up!" " haha ok see you soon Abby!" " bye" " bye" ok by then I was hyperventilating I only had 2.5 hours to do everything so I went into super sonic mode I threw on my outfit, grabbed my phone and my phone charger and lugged all my suit cases downstairs, I practically jumped down the stairs, " ok mom so I was wrong camp starts at three and I only have 2.5 hours to do everything cuz I gotta pick up my friends, k, so no questions, a maximum of a 5 second hug but that's it!" " I am going to pack my whole life into huge trailer ok." I left the house running as fast as I possibly could, thank god the trailer was still here! I open a large door on the side and tossed my bags in and ran to the barn to get the blankets and coolers and folded them and put them at the bottom of another storage space in the side with saddle stands sticking out of the wall, enough for Ivey, Bella, Layla And Jasmine's tack to be stored on the way, I quickly grabbed my saddle, half pad, saddle pad, bridle and Ivey's breast collar and of course jumping boots and put them in, I looked at my phone 9:30, I still had two hours, I brought Ivey out of her stall and took her blanket off and took off her boots and knelt down and picked up her foot and started picking, after that I tossed my hoof pick in my bucket and started brushing her, when I was finally done I put my brush box in the trailer and started to pack my cleaning supplies. I put that in the trailer too and yet again checked my watch 10:35 ok that was a good time to grab my wallet and say goodbye. I walked back over to the house and said goodbye to my family and grabbed my wallet, I walked back out to the trailer, 10:50 that was my cue, I jumped in the truck and started it, and off I went. Ten minutes later I arrived at Olivia's house and there she was standing out front. I started to back up so she could get Layla in the trailer easier, I hopped out and said " hey girl what's up!" " not much, ready to start getting things in the trailer tho," " alright let's go." I helped Olivia pack all her stuff, and then she loaded Layla, after that we both got in the truck leaving us just enough time to pick up Emma. Another ten minutes later we arrived at her house. Me and Olivia helped her pack and then she loaded Jasmine. Yet another ten minutes later we got to Raya's house, Olivia and Emma hopped out and said in sync " guess who's going to camp!!" " ehhhh nice! See I told you guys you could do it!" After that we all got it the trailer and then we were off to boot camp!