Born Wild {Completed}

Gravity

Chapter 6

-Three years pass-

I wake up with a crick in my neck from sleeping on the hard ground. I panic for a moment, wondering where I was, but realizing I was in the round pen. I stand up and greet the morning sun, I am sleeping in the round pen because today we are getting a new horse. I lay down, again, and roll in the sand before hearing,

" Oh come on Ellie, today is your birthday. It's time to clean up not dirty it up!" Molly sarcastically tells me. She snatches my halter from its hook and ties me up to the hitching post, I enjoy my grooming, when I hear a voice that brightens my day.

" Good morning Willow, how was your sleep?" Wildfire asks, poking his head out of his stall.

" Uncomfortable!" I whinny, waking up Domino.

" Shhh, don't wake up Fire! She is in a bad mood, I can sense it!" He nickers. Molly puts all of them in the pasture, even Fire.

" Get away, I want a drink first!" She shoves Bella away,

" Fine, miss grumpy!" Bella snorts, I get put in the front pasture alone, the other horses get put in the back pasture, next to the cows. I graze for half an hour, when a Steve's dark blue truck pulls up with a horse trailer, the new horse is here. Steve jumps out and kisses Zoe, the vet, his fiancé.

Her belly has popped out and rounded. When he unloads the horse, a blue roan stallion emerges from the back of the trailer and gets tied up to the hitching post. I whinny, welcoming the stranger, he whinnies back. After letting the roan sniff the other horses from the round pen, he didn't like Wildfire or Domino, Zoe holds on to him while Steve opens the gate and let's the stallion in it. It's the one beside mine. He trots around gracefully, stops at the end of the fence and nickers to me.

" Hey, beautiful come here!" He nickers.

" Hey," I nicker.

" Where you from, why you here?" I ask politely.

" I'm from north of here, I am your birthday gift from the guy called Steve." He tells me.

" What do you mean, my birthday gift?" I ask, chewing some grass.

" You will find out, how old are you turning?" He asks, shaking his head.

" Four" I snap.

" That's my age! Happy birthday! Why so mad?" He asks, playfully tugging my long forelock.

" None of your beeswax!" I snap, turning and galloping away. I lay down on the other side of the paddock, trying to get things through my head.

Molly steps in and I jump up, she is holding out something, it's an apple covered in my favourite oats! I canter over to her and gently take the apple from her flat palm, trying not to bite her. She strokes my head with a soft touch, I look into her blue-green eyes, and play with her hair. She clicks on my lead and brings me to the others, and let's me see my friends.

" Willow!" They all call, even Fire.

" Who is that?" Fire asks, shoving Linco to the side.

" I didn't catch his name, but he was pretty charming." I say, overwhelmed from all of the bodies closing in on me.

" He doesn't seem nice!" Wildfire exclaims.

" It's okay Wildfire!" I announce. We all hang out, an hour or so later they all get taken to their stalls, but I get put back in the front pasture.

" Hey, sorry I didn't catch your name. My name is Gravity."  He introduces himself.

" Willow, sorry that I snapped, I get like that sometimes." I apologize, he nudges me with his head. Steve walks in Gravity's pasture with a orange halter for him, and Molly walks in with my blue halter.

" Hey girl," she says with a sweet tone, slipping my halter on swiftly.

" We are going to take you to meet Galaxy, the roan stallion." She explains, leading me out, she means Gravity. What does that mean?

We enter a smaller stable where Olive, a mare we had, entered with a black stallion and came out behind the stallion half and hour later. There is a small box looking thing with only the frame and a padded head rest.

" You are going to be a great mom!" Molly whispers in my ear. Oh no! I can't breed with this stallion. I hardly even know him! I toss my head and pretend to spook at something, knocking down Molly. I nuzzle her in apology, she gets up, dusts herself off and leads me to the frame. She leads me through and ties my lead to a wooden post behind the metal bar, as if she has done this many times before, I fidget around, trying to escape but there is no way out.

Wildfires POV
I wonder what they are doing, I wonder, thinking about Willow. I finish up my hay and lock my knees to fall asleep, I hear Fire's fast breathing, she won a race today and just got put in her stall.

Willows POV
I walk out, scared about how Wildfire is going to take this. He is still a stallion and is very protective of me, if he can even touch that stallion he would try to kill him. Anyways, Molly has a routine for me, she closes the door behind us and unclips my lead. She lets me pick which stall I can sleep in, she opens all the free ones, but I always pick the one beside Wildfire. I quickly and quietly finish up my hay, trying not to wake Wildfire. I fall asleep that night thinking of Wildfire. I don't know what it is but I still like him, but now I have Gravity's foal, I shouldn't tell him.

In the morning, I wake up and everyone is up and eating their flake of hay, I jump right into eating it.

" Where's Hilary's mom, I never see her." I ask, swallowing another mouthful of hay.

" She has passed, she got killed in a horse accident." Bella explains.

" Oh, how?" Wildfire exclaims, sneezing his morning sneeze.

" They were on a rescue trip with Molly to save Linco from his previous owner, he abused Linco by not feeding him enough and hitting him hard with his whip with a metal part at the end. The very last time he was hit was in the neck, it injured him so bad, his vocals were torn. They got him home but when Janet, Molly's mom, went back for another horse, the horse reared and came crashing down on her head. Molly was such a wreck," Bella says intensely.

" Linco was in bad shape too, the vet could cut his vocal cords and save his life or euthanize him. Steve chose to cut the cords and save Linco's life, that's why Linco doesn't say a word." Bella ends it with a snort, it's all silent when sleeping Domino let's out a fart. Everyone nickers at him in amusement and it wakes him up.

" What did I do?" He asks, looking around at everyone. I am the quiet one here, not saying a word.

A/N
Pretty intense stuff hey?
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-Acacia102
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