Unexpected

The beginning

Laura's brown hair blew over her pale face in the light breeze as she sauntered down the deserted street thinking of the day ahead at school, ignoring the giant gulls rading the bins ahead. A lose paper from a news paper drifted across the pathement grabbing Laura's attention. The front cover read:

Horse for sale!
If not bought within a week will be put down!

Laura's heart sank. How could someone do that! She thought outraged. A perfectly healthy animal and someone would just kill it because there was no room. Laura had always loved horses. Ever since she had helped her cousins train their horses back in Poland before moving to England for a better live. But it had always been a dream of hers to have her own horse and then you got people like that who killed them off for simply having too many. That made her very soul ache.

That night she begged her parents to buy the horse but the answer had always been the same: no. The horse from the newspaper had played on Laura's mind all day and night and as she passed the farm where the horse was the next day coming home from school she had made a decision. She simply couldn't leave a healthy horse to die for no good reason. She had to set it free. It was better to have even a 50% of a chance that none at all. Her heart hammered against her ribs as she snuck over to the 3 stables which stood beside the vast fields. Thankfully there was no one else there and it was easy to see which horse she was after. He was even more beautiful than she had imagined. The only pure-white horse in the stalls. Ignoring the constant voices in her head screaming at her not to do it. She slid the stable door open and simply walked away.

Laura cut through a few fields on her way home. She couldn't believe what she had done. She'd never done anything like that. But what surprised her the most was that the beautiful white horse was following her, nudging her side with its nose. It had probably been starved of attention so Laura talked to him and petted him for a while. By the time she was nearly home she was trying to get the horse to stop following her. If her parents saw the horse she would be in big trouble. Her house was in the middle of the country. Finally the horse seemed to leave her alone and she felt the utmost relief. After saying hello to her little sister who came leaping into her room Laura settled herself down with some homework. Her sister Molly was nine, four years younger that her and far to hyperactive for Laura to concentrate while in the same room.

All was finally quiet once she had gotten Molly out of the room. All except for a light neighing which she thought was her imagination at first. But no this was getting too loud for it to be her imagination. Laura stood up and peeked out of her window at the many acres of fields. And there he was. Staring up at her. The snowy-white horse, glistening in the summer sun. And she could feel it. This was the beginning of something.