A Country Girl.

chapter 3

After the dance Ty brought me home. "Do you want me to walk you to the door?" Ty asked "sure" I said with a smile. Ty walked me to the door and I opened the screen door then I turned around to look at Ty "Ty thanks so much for the amazing night I had lots of fun" I said "no problem I had fun too" Ty said as he grabbed my hand. I could feel my face grow hot as Ty looked into my eyes then all of a sudden Ty leaned in close to me and his lips met mine in a kiss and my face grew even hotter as Ty pulled back to stare into my eyes again "good night Hailey" Ty said as he let go of my hand "good ni..night" I stuttered but all Ty did was laugh and that made my face grow even hotter then it already was and Ty walked back to his truck and drove off and I was left there on the front step.

The next morning I went out for my early morning ride with Carmel. But when I got to the herd I noticed that 3 members of the herd were missing they were Caramel's son Max, peach, and her new born foal were missing and when I went to see Carmel I saw she had 4 large claw marks on her back and some smaller ones on her neck an around her face. I called Ty to meet me in the far field with majesty, Griffin and a first aid kit. About a half hour after I saw Ty come riding griffon with majesty behind on a lead and a first aid kit in his saddle bag. "What happened?" Ty asked as he brought Griffon to a stop next to me. "Max,peach and her foal are missing and Carmel has claw marks on her back and around her face!" I exclaimed " and she's really nervous". Ty got off Griffon and walked up to Carmel to look at the marks. "These are from a mountain lion, did you look at any of the others to see if they were attacked?" Ty asked "Not yet I was to worried about Carmel and the others that are missing especially the baby." I answered sadly.

Ty bandaged up Carmel as I looked at the other members of the herd for any injury. "No one else has any signs of injury they're just a little skiddish." I told Ty as we met up at the front of the herd with Carmel "good but we might have to take Carmel back with us and keep her in the stables until she's fully healed." "What about the rest of the herd we can't just leave them without a leader especially with a mountain lion around and what about the missing horses we have to look for them!" I yelled with tears in my eyes. Ty grabbed my hands and lifted my head so he could look into my eyes still full of tears "listen you don't need to worry I'll leave griffon out here with the herd for protection and we can look for the missing horses after we get Carmel back to the farm and on some antibiotics to help with pain and infection but trust me when I say that I will never stop looking for them until they are found" Ty said and wiped the tears from my cheeks.
When we got back Ty was with me on the back of Majesty with Carmel on a lead behind us. "What happened?!" Amy asked concerned "The herd was attacked by a mountain lion. peach, the baby, and Max are missing and Carmel was hurt trying to protect them." I answered as we walked to the stables with Amy and Grandpa to put Carmel in a stall with food and water. "When did this happen?" Grandpa asked "no idea" said Ty "it had to be some time late last night after me and Ty got back from the dance" I said "or before"Ty added "and we have to go looking for them before its to late" I said "well, you two take Majesty and blue to look for the missing horses me and Amy will take care of Carmel" Grandpa said with a smile as he took Carmel's lead. "Are you sure papa we can look after we get her set up" I said "no we'll be fine you need as much time to find those horses as possible" grandpa said "ok but be careful she hasn't been locked up in a while" I said turning around with Ty to get blue and Majesty "we'll be fine just go" he said shoeing us away. After about a hour of searching Ty said "Hailey it's getting dark and there's supposed too be a big storm tonight" "we have to keep looking we can't stop now" I replied "but Hailey we need to get back before the storm gets any worse and blue and Majesty are getting tired, we need to turn back" Ty yelled trying to be herd over the wind as it picked up speed "it's to dangerous to be out here in a storm" "I'm not going to just give up on looking for these horses their my responsibility and I'm not stopping till I find them".