Galloping Hills Academy Book 1: Secrets

Chapter 6- The One

          I woke up the next morning and Katelynne and Sadie weren’t up yet, so I decided to get on Connect. I crawled out of bed and looked at my alarm clock, 7:00, oh well; I guess it’s just my habit of getting up early.

          I walked over to the computer and sat down in my comfy purple desk chair and turned on the sleeping computer. It bubbled to life and I brought up Connect. I had a message from someone, I opened my messages and my mouth hit the floor when I saw who it was from. It was from, none other than, my major crush Carson. I read it:

          Dear Natalie, I know you liked me for a while and I kind of ignored it, but the truth is, I really like you. If you still like me back then I will apply to Galloping Hills for the second semester so we can be together. I wanted to wait until you were gone because it was too hard to do it face to face. I’m sorry I treated you like I did for so long, but I was trying to hide my true feelings.

                             Sincerely,

                            Carson ♥

 I read it four times trying to comprehend what I was reading. I sat there and I had to think about what I was going to say, I wanted to date him more than I wanted to date Edward, but I didn’t want to risk ruining our friendship. I thought about it and I new what my heart was telling me to do. I quickly typed my message before I changed my mind.

          Dear Carson,

I do still want to date you, you have been on my mind and I really want to see you. I hope that you get accepted. But you are amazing at basketball, horseback riding, and drag racing. I can’t wait to here from you and we should video chat sometime soon, call or text me anytime.

           Sincerely,

   Natalie ♥

I heard Sadie start to get up and quickly shut my laptop and turned around to face her.

"What are you doing?" she asked in a tired voice.

"Just checking my email." I replied. I didn't want to tell her that I was emailing another one of my crushes and kind of cheating on Edward.

"Want some hot chocolate?" I asked her.

"Sure." She mumbled. "How do you manage to get up so early?"

"It's just natural." I replied. She moaned as she got her clothes and went into the bathroom to change. I let out a sigh of relief, thankful that she wasn't suspicious of anything, because that was way too close. Just, what was I going to do about Edward and Carson?

I got up to go to the common room as Sadie was coming out of the bathroom in a baby blue short sleeve shirt and jeans.

“Want to come with me and help, because you know making hot chocolate is so hard?” I said teasingly.

“Sure, let’s make a cup for Katelynne too, I’m sure she will be up in a few minutes.” She answered groggily.

We walked over to the common room and then I saw HER. Isabelle was sitting on the couch laughing into the phone. She looked up at us and gave as an angelic smile. She hung up and walked over to us.

“I guess you listened to me yesterday when I said you needed to practice more. I’m thinking that you’re heading to the barn in a few minutes to practice your ass off just to try to fix those beginner mistakes you know you still make.” Isabelle said still with an angelic smile across her face.