You, Me: Us

2. Hunted

The main group running Bright Fields had a little meeting in the courtyard where Zoe set down three different newspapers that were published about what happened at the open day.

"'Wild horse Rampage,' 'Bright Field Stampede,' 'Mane event is a NightMare," she read off.

"They are creative," Lainey hummed and Daniel rolled his eyes, shoving her a little. She had dropped off Heather's jacket that morning at the mayor's office and it was not looking good for them.

"The Mayor can't just come onto our island and threaten one of our wild horses," Zoe said, determined.

Jade looked a little confused, "how did she get elected. She's new to the island. You have to have lived here for at least 12 months to be able to run." It did seem a little sketchy. There was no way that her and her daughter had lived here for that long since her daughter didn't know anything around.

"Well, either way, we know she's serious," Susie told them. "She almost caught me last night and I had to apply for her internship to cover my tracks." They chuckled a little bit and Mia turned to her with a teasing smile.

"Only you, Susie."

"This is all my fault," Zoe sighed and Danny laid his arm over her shoulder. "I'm the one that suggested inviting her to the open day and then made her mad."

"Now she's going to have an innocent horse put down," Gaby said solemnly. No horse deserved that. It should be when they're in pain and need it.

Pin shook his head, "no if I find it first." He turned to leave and Lainey looked at him with a smile. She loved how much he cared about all the horses, it was one thing you could never change about it.

"Wait, Pin!" Zoe called out. "You saw that horse yesterday. She was–"

"Provoked," he interrupted her, grabbing his saddle for Elvis. "She wouldn't act like that unless she was sick. I'm gonna track her down and find out what's going on."

"I'll come too, let me just grab the med kit, see what we can do while we're there," Lainey told him and went to the office.

"Wait, I'm coming with," Zoe said.

"Me too," Gaby agreed.

"Me too," Jade smiled at them.

"We can't let you take on a crazy horse on your own, can we?" Zoe asked him as he looked at them shocked.

Lainey smiled at them as they all went to get tacked up. She was taking out Sparkles since Priscilla had gotten to the point that she couldn't be ridden anymore. Pin had to pull Elvis away from her stable and she laughed at him. "You could help, you know?"

She shrugged and pet Elvis's mane as they got him away from her. "So, are we taking her back to your place?"

He nodded, "I was thinking we could keep her in the shipping container until we know what's wrong with her."

"Sounds good, maybe while we're out there we'll see the moor pony from last summer," Lainey suggested and Pin smiled at her. "From the original horse hospital."

"Maybe, but let's go, I want to find her as soon as possible." Lainey nodded and waved goodbye to her horse sadly as she went to Sparkles who she had already tacked up.

They set off to the field by the castle. Weirdly, Gaby was on Raven and Zoe was on Monty and it seemed that Raven really only liked Zoe.

Once they got to the woods, Raven did not seem to like the way Gaby was handling him. "Everything okay, Gaby?" Zoe questioned.