Along For The Ride

chapter 11

i looked out over our farm and smiled. watching a herd of wild horses galloping in the distance. the alpha herded his mares into a group then dropped his head to graze. i closed my eyes and leaned against the railing. my mom was pregnant im finally going to get the sibling that i wanted. ill get to teach them too ride, and to barrel race. ill have someone to watch and to ride with.

i sighed and opened my eyes, climbing ontop of the railing . i grabbed the roof and climbed up onto it. making my way to the top i sat down, and watched the stars. hmnnn i wonder what a good baby name would be? maybe ally or Iris or cayton and jimmy. i yawned at started to make my way down.

i walked into my room and leaned down to look under my bed. i pulled out an old worn out phot album. i opened it and sighed leaning against my bed. in it were pictirues of me and scout barrelraceing, and my dog Ben. i really missed him, he passed away last year. he was our choclate lab, and also helped herd the horses when we couldnt on horseback. i also retired Scout last year because he was getting really old and i wanted him to pass away in peace.

closeing the album i placed it under my bed and climbed into it closeing my eyes after turning off the light i drifted slowly off to sleep.

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i woke up too the ringing of my alarm clock, also known as my parents yelling at each other. i groaned and sat up hurrying to get changed. i pulled on some blue jeans and a plaid shirt that i tucked in. pulling on some ugg boots i ran into the bathroom and brushed my teeth, pulling my long blonde hair into a braid, i rand downstairs.

my parents stopped shouting at each other when i walked in falling into a uncomfertable silence. i grabbed a piece of toast before practicually running out the door. once i was out i i heard them yelling at each other again. i ran down the porch steps and all the way into the barn. i opened up the feed containers in the office and started placeing feed into the stalls, i then went out to get the horses.

i walked towards the fence with Beau,Aslan,Scout, and melody in it. reaching the fench line i noticed that something was terribly wrong. it looked like the horses had gotten into a fight, the ground had been upchucked everywhere. i jumped over the fence and started whistleing calling the horses. Melody and Scout came troting up later followed byBeau, he started to grab my sleeve and pull me deeper into the pasture i followed him and started running when i heard frantic winnies. i ran into the woods and found Aslan stuck in some branches with a large claw mark down his wither.

he called out in pain and thrashed around. i ran up too the palimino to get him out of the branches. he was truely stuck, i had to break branches here and thier then he was finally out. i was horrified at his claw mark, it means that a wolf tried to use the horses as prey. i gasped at that resolution and tugged on his main leading him out of the woods into the pasture so i could take a better look. the other horses ran upo and started nudgeing him and winnieing too him.

i opened the gate and herded the horses out the immediately walked into the barn smelling the feed. i opened all. of thier stalls and led them into them were they started chomping away. i ran out and grapped a small dish tiowel getting it wet with water. running back in i started wipeing down aslan. thankfully he wouldnt need stitches. i sighed relieved and put some disinfectent on his wound then wrapped it up.