My Wild Mustang

Chapter 1

*Photo of Ying Yang on the side or at the top*

"Get up Sage, the horses need you." My father Joe calls from my bedroom door. I groan and unwillingly pull the covers off of my tired body. I rub at my eyes, pulling back the curtains and opening the window, I let the sounds of the ranch float into my room. Horses are out in the pasture grazing and I see Lewis walk out of the barn. "Hurry up and get down here lazy bones!" He yells out laughing, I playfully glare at him before turning back into my room and looking at myself in the mirror.

My black curls cascade down my face in a frizzy mess. My green eyes that were usually bright and shining we're now dull and incrusted with sleep. My clothes wrinkled and there was a crust of drool hanging from me mouth. I laugh at my appearance, before turning around and going into the bathroom and turning on the shower. Turning back to my room I grab a pair of faded jeans, a grey tank and a red and white checkered button up alone with a bra and underwear, laying them on my crumpled black sheets I sleepily walk back into the bathroom. Taking off my clothes I lazily toss them into the hamper and climb into the shower.

Letting the hot water soak my body, I stay in the same position for 2 minutes before doing my usual routine. Jumping out I wrap a towel around my body before carrying on to my room. Drying myself off I throw on my clothes and then towel dry my hair. Quickly running the brush through it I run down the stairs two at a time while tying my hair up in a messy pony tail.

"Morning." I say popping myself down on one of the kitchen counter chairs while grabbing an apple. "Morning sweetheart," my step mother Christy says glancing up from the newspaper, "your fathers just left you better hurry." "Thanks mum." I say kissing her cheek and heading out the door.

"Oh! She awakens!" Fay and Kayden say jumping into stride with me, I laugh and elbow them both. "Back to work." I snap playfully pushing them away, they laugh but go back to what they we're doing and I head to the barn.

"What have I got today Lew?" I ask as I spot Lewis looking at the schedules, "uh, you gotta take Ying Yang out on a tour of the ranch this morning and then go see your dad," he says, "Ying Yang is in stall 2 on the left." "Thanks." I say giving him a smile as I walk over to the 2nd stall.

I look inside to see an average sized black and white mare. "well aren't you a pretty wee thing." I coo walking into her stall, she whinneys and nudges my pockets for treats. I laugh and hand her a sugar cube as I hook on her lead.

"Come one girl." I say pulling her out of the stall.

She follows behind me obediently her heels clucking along the dirt ground. I lead her out to the pasture and she let's out an exited grunt as she sees the other horses. "You can see them later girl, now come on." I say pulling her the other way she grunts again and resists alittle but I keep a firm grip and she reluctantly follows. I lead her around the whole farm, showing her the houses and the barns and everything that we have. Finally we get back to the pasture and I unclip her lead shooing her off to interact with the other horses, smiling as she takes off.

Walking into the barn again I place her lead back on the hanger and go find dad.

After 5 minutes of searching I see him with a few other riders yelling out times to a rider on one of our geldings that was also new to the farm.

"Hey dad, Lew said to come see you once I was done taking Spots on a tour " I say as I come up beside him.

"yeah! Could you take Ying Yang on a trail ride? We had Stanley try her out in the ring yesterday and she's got a lot of stamina and is a lot faster than some of our horses, I was thinking of putting her into the Southland Horsing Champs this year." He says as he passes the stopwatch to one of the guys and turns to face me.

"I can do that. Ill go gear up now." I say as I begin to walk away.

"Be back before lunch Sage." He calls after me, I raise my hand up letting him know I got the message and I head into the barn grabbing a helmet, lead and a saddle.

"Ying Yang." I call as I place my helmet on, she whinneys and makes her way over to me. "Ready to test your skill today girl?" I at saddling her up. I mount up and softly kick her back legs, she takes off into a walk and I lead her to the start of the trail track, it's a couple metres ahead of the forest line.

Tightening my grip on her reins I crouch down a little lower and give her legs a good kick and she takes off in a full gallop towards the trees.

Hey. Sorry it's short but this is kind of just a filler sort of chapter just to let you know what this story is about and yeah, hopefully the 2nd chapter will be a bit longer. I'm sorry if there are mistakes as I am writing this from my S4 and not my computer. I will be writing most of these chapters on my phone so I'm sorry if there are some mistakes, tell me and I'll fix them. Any who, I hope you guys liked the first chapter, constructive feed back and criticism is allowed but please don't hate, I'm only 14 remember and I do not know everything. Yet anyway kidding! Anyway thanks.

- Katelyn