Madness Has Made Our Family

Household Pets?

I am jostled awake and hear everyone talking.
Opening my eyes, I see that I am In a van with Anne and the Flock. Looking to my sides, I see that I am in between Iggy and Fang. I sit up with wide eyes and regret it. Something in the van smells really bad.
Putting my hands over my nose, I sink back down in my seat.
The movement alerts Iggy and Fang that I am no longer asleep.
"Belle? What's wrong?" Fang asked, giving me a worried look.
"Either Gazzy is living up to his name, or something died." I say, gagging at some intervals.
"I did nothing!" Gazzy says from the seat behind me.
"We are just at McDonald's getting dinner." Anne said as bags of death were passed into the vehicle.
"Ummm, Belle, you might have morning sickness." Angel said from behind me as the food was passed around.
"I ordered a few burgers and some fries for you with a coke." Anne said, handing me a bag and a drink.
"Thanks" I say and in the process, manage to smell what the contents of the bag are.
I gag and pass the bag to Fang while drinking the coke.
"You need to eat." Fang said, trying to hand the bag back to me.
"*gag* you said hamburger?" I said questioningly
"Yes, why?" Anne replied
"1, vegetarian. And 2, cow, is not the only animal in that." I say and continue drinking my coke.
"What do you mean 'Cow isn't the only animal in it'?" Anne asked
"There is horse and an animal I don't recognize." I say
Everyone's eyes widen and they stay silent for the rest of the ride.

Wow.
That is the only way I know how to describe Anne's house. As soon as Fang got out, I jumped out of the door and lie down on the green grass.
"Oh nature! how I've missed you so!" I say, laying on my stomach, petting the ground. My response was wild flowers blooming all around me, causing me to giggle.
"Belle!?!" I hear Anne yell
I turn over onto my back and sit up.
"Yes?" I say with a smile and head tilt.
"You aren't allowed to lay on your stomach." She said, walking to stand next to me. When she saw the flowers and grass that had grown and wrapped themselves around my legs, her eyes widden.
"How did this happen?" She asked, sitting down and messing with the plants.
"I can communicate with anything that has a life force and can control the elements....plus do a few things to people's minds." I say swiftly.
The Flock decide to join us a few seconds later.
"Anne, why'd you flip?" Gazzy asked
"Belle was laying on her stomach." Anne said and I turned to face her
"That's an old wives tale. If my m-nevermind. It's just there to scare expecting moms." I said, I had almost mentioned my mom.
Angel gave me a look but Anne was the one to speak up.
"How do you know that?" She said, I gave Angel a 'help' look.
"Can we go see the horses?" She asked, changing the subject for me.
"Yeah, follow me." Anne said and stood up, walking towards the back of the house.
Angel stayed behind to walk with me.
"What were you going to say about your mom?" She asked once we were out of earshot.
"*sigh* when my mom was killed, she was 9 months pregnant with twins. So I remember everything about her pregnancy, expecially how my grandmother fussed at her for sleeping on her stomach till she was 3 months pregnant..... nothing went wrong with the pregnancy, so me being mutant, I know I can lay on my stomach for at least 2 months." I say, putting a hand on my flat stomach.
"Why only 2?" Angel asks
"You never know, I could have twins. It's a possibility, just an inconvenient one." I say and look down as a sudden thought comes into my mind.
"No." Angel says, reading my thoughts.
"But what's going to happen, when I have a baby and we are being chased?" I asked fustratedly.
"We will protect you. You are part of the Flock. Your baby or babies are as well and we protect our own." She said sternly, gripping my shoulders.
"We won't leave you behind." She said and pulled me into a hug.
"Okay, but you have to help me with parenting." I say jokingly, causing both of us to burst out laughing.
"We should probably catch up." She says, looking at the figures near the barn.
"Okay, but I'm walking. My back already hurts..... I wonder if my mom's back pain started this early?" I say and start walking.

"You call these house pets!?!?!?!??!?" I hear Gazzy exclaim as soon as we get to the barn doors.
"I have a dog aswell." Anne said, petting one of the horses.
A wave of pain flashed between my shoulder blades making me grip the wall harder, but as soon as it came, it left. I moved my hand to see a dent from my fingers.
Oops.
I walk up to the solid black horse.
"That's Jack, he's got temperament issues a couple of years ago and hasn't let anyone ride him." Anne said and faced Jack once more.
I looked into his eyes and we communicated for a few minutes before nodding in agreement.
I went into his stall only to have someone pull me back out by my arm.
I squeaked in surprise and pain since another wave of pain flashed.
"He has temper issues! He is unpredictable and I don't want him to hurt you." Anne said, trying to be stern.
"He doesn't have temper issues, his saddle just hurts." I say and walk back into the stall.
I climb on top of a few hay bails to reach the peg that Jacks saddle is on. I try to lift it off the peg, only to realize that I am not tall enough.
"Phouy. Can someone help me please?" I asked with innocent eyes.
Fang sighs and walks in with a nice little eye roll.
He lifts ot with ease and sets it on the lower of the bails.
"How could you not lift that?" He asks
"I have the upper body strength of a sloth with muscle problems." I reply and struggle, but manage, to flip the saddle over.
"*gag* Anne, how long has it been since you washed this?" I ask, I swear it just moved!
I can hear Angel trying to hide her giggling.
"Never. So it's been about 2 years since it was used, but 5 years since it was washed." She said
"So you had a saddle pad?" I said hopefully.
Please, please, PLEASE, say you have one!!
"Nope." She said, popping the p.
"Okay, the issue was, saddle sores and." I pause to grab the object from the saddle, "there was a cactus on the underside of his saddle." I say and hop down.
"So I still can't ride him?" Anne said fustratedly
"You can if you get a new saddle and saddle pad...... bareback works as well. Plus, I can always ride him." I say with a hopeful smile.
"Maybe tomorrow after we go shopping." She said and my face fell as Nudges Squeals filled the barn.
"At least you didn't say no." I say and walk out of the barn.