Horse Whisperer (Hiatus)

Chapter 3

Sally and Sam looked at each other for a few seconds. This can’t be good. “Luna. We have been  thinking and talking to each other about you.” Sam said after a minute. “What is it?” I asked quietly,  scared for where this was going.  “Honey, as much as we love you like our own child we are worried about you.  You don’t have a lot of friends. You barely go out. We know that it’s hard for you to trust people after what happened but it’s been 3 years. At the barn you look scared around others and you even glare at them.” Sally said sighing at the end.

“Well, I can’t help it. I’ve tried and you know it. I’m still going to counseling for it. Nothing is working.” I said with my voice slightly rising. “We know but we thought of a solution.” Sam said raising his hands up a little like a small surrender. “And what’s that?” I saw them look at each other which means one thing. “We are sending you to a horse academy boarding school for a year. Just for you to trust others and if it doesn’t work you can go back to the public school. If it does work and you like the place then you can continue going to the academy.” Sally said in a slow but quick way.

“Fine. But like you said, if it doesn’t work I go back to the public school that I hate. So I will try harder there so that I don’t have to come back to that nasty school.” I said standing up and heading towards the staircase. “I’ll call you down for dinner.” Sally said. I gave a quick nod and headed up the stairs. I laid down on my bed and stared at the ceiling. I can’t believe that I’m going to a boarding school. Let alone a HORSE ACADEMY one. I repeated this in my head until I fell asleep.

DREAM

It was raining and the sun was just setting.  I was walking towards my mom’s grave. I saw someone there at her grave. I started to walk a bit slower and the person looked up at me. It was my dad. “DAD!” I yelled and ran towards him. But when I got there he was gone. I looked at my mom’s grave and a red rose was there. So that’s how that gets here. I thought to myself. I put down the roses I had in my hands on her grave and sat down on the cold wet ground between my mom’s and dad’s graves. I looked at the detail on my mom’s grave and then I looked over to the right and saw my dad’s grave. I put down the white lilies on his grave and stood up. “I love you guys.” I started walking home and there was the same person at my mom’s grave following me. I managed to figure out that it was a man.  I turned down my street and saw that he was still following me, so I started to walk a bit faster. When I turned around and saw that he was going faster I started to run. I got to my house and ran to the front door. He was running up the sidewalk. I was trying to get the key in the door and he was coming closer to me. When I finally managed to get the key in the door he reached towards me and then he-

I woke up and was breathing hard. I looked over at my alarm clock and saw that it read 6:30 p.m. "I slept for 3 hours?" I said out loud to myself. I stood up and walked into my bathroom and fixed my hair. Then, I walked out onto my balcony and sat down on my therapist like couch. I looked out into the distance and saw the sun set between the mountains. I looked down at the koi pond and tried to make out the fish swimming. I sat there making out each and every little detail in the object I was looking at. I was lost in my thoughts when a knock on the door brought me back to reality.