Free rein

7: When you hold me

"I saw what you did," Pin says. I stare at him confused, is he talking about Apollo? "If this about Apollo I don't want to hear it," I say. "No, You and Apollo are amazing together. I was wrong to try to separate you." he reasons. "Then why? Why separate us?" Pin's gaze falls to the floor. "Well, it's not like you've been here for a long time. You've only been here for a week and are you supposedly know everything?" I stare in shock struggling to see this side of Pin. I feel tears forming in my eyes. I can't let anyone see me like this, weak. Without thinking I jump over the fence and jump on Apollo bareback grabbing small pieces of his mane.

Apollo freaks out, rearing up and jumping over the fence. Apollo gallops not knowing what or where he is going. Leaving me with no control. But I just sit there, holding on to Apollo for my life, trusting him so much that I have been blinded by my surroundings. I thought Pin was better than that. I thought he was my only friend here. At that moment I start to question myself, 'what if he isn't my friend and he is just being nice to me?' The only reason I am so lonely is that I've pushed everyone out of my life at home, this was supposed to be my new start, make friends and forget about my crappy life at home, but of course, I haven't changed, I've just pushed everyone here away also. I'm just the 'new girl from Australia', not anyone's friend. I guess I really am just like my mother. Apollo here is my only friend, the only one I can trust. I now realise that Apollo is galloping not knowing this terrain. I don't know this terrain. Apollo rears up and I slide off landing on a large rock. I reach out for Apollo his dark body turns into a blur along with his surrounding. I feel dizzy. Suddenly there is no colour.

I see a horse, not Apollo, a different horse. A bay coloured horse neighs. "Sarah. Sarah, wake up." A voice calls faintly. I feel a warm strong arm lifting my upper body up, my body against theirs "Sarah thank god you're awake." I slowly lift my head an inch. "Ouch," I say resting my head back down. " You had a pretty rough fall." A familiar voice says. I turn my head, its Pin. I use all my will power to move out of his grasp he looks at me with soft eyes. "You seriously should stop moving." I ignore his words and continue to move out of his tight grasp, no luck. "I'm so sorry. I shouldn't have said that." I hear pin mumble. I stop and take a deep breath. I have a weird feeling going through me, a warm feeling that I can't explain. I look deep into the hazel eyes, which is staring into my deep brown eyes.  "I shouldn't have lashed out at you. I just worry about you." he breaks the eye contact looking away. "um uh" I stutter, unsure what to do or say. Some words are best just left as they are, I think. "Where's Apollo?" I say weakly. Pin looks ahead. "He is right here." I look up at Apollo's direction as quickly as possible. I use all of my strength to get on my feet, wobbling like a foal taking its first steps. I fall backwards feeling a strong pair of arms grab my back. "You should really take it easy. I'm taking you to a clinic now." Pin says practically dragging me the opposite way of Apollo. "No, I have to see Apollo. Let me go." I say struggling. He stops beside the bay horse, I lean on the horse for balance. "I'm calling Marcus to take you to the clinic. I'll take Apollo with me." He says, untieing a halter and lead from his saddle. "No, Apollo won't trust you. I'll have to do it." I say leaning attempting to snatch the halter. Pin sighs. "Fine." He says offering his hand. I shake my head and slowly make my way to Apollo, a young gelding appaloosa, staring at me. I can tell he is worried about something. I hold the halter in my left hand just like before. I touch Apollo's forehead "I'm so sorry about before. You don't have to trust me but please you need to put this halter on." I say as I put the halter over his muzzle and clip it in place. I smile and hug him. "Pin here won't hurt you ok? He will take you home." I would ride Apollo but I've heard many stories about people riding with concussions, let's say they don't end well. 

A car pulls up behind me. I'm leaning on Apollo's back for support. "She fell off without a helmet. Take her to the nearest clinic, she can barely walk." Pin says. Marcus walks up to me, he grabs my arm and we slowly walk towards the car. Pin grabs Marcus' arm and whispers something in his ear, I can't hear anything but I know it was serious. Marcus nods his head reassuringly, "What did he say?" I ask. Marcus smiles, shaking his head. I silent walk to the car constantly looking back to Apollo. Marcus opens the door for me, I am sitting next to Marcus on the passenger seat. "What were you doing on that horse?" I look out the window watching pin and Apollo walk away. I hesitate, "I don't know. I wasn't thinking straight." I say. Marcus sighs and starts the car. "Aren't you supposed to be at the academy?" I ask watching as his face grows more serious. "Yea, but I'm taking a holiday," he says turning to smile at me. I smile back, "Ok," I reply. "But seriously you could've been hurt, that horse is dangerous and-" "What do you know about that horse? That he's restless? Out of control sometimes?" I say cutting Marcus off. I can down and continue, "He was scared, trapped in the small paddock, being labelled as wild or dangerous. All he wants is some comfort and you just make him worse." I see his face, he's shocked. "I-I'm sorry, I guess you just don't know the real story." I look at him confused. "Well, I believe that horse was abused and that explains why he is so afraid of humans." he sighs. "You may think you have a connection with him now, but trust me he will act upon you. He could hurt you." I look at Marcus then out the window. I just can't imagine Apollo hurting me in any way.  "How would you know that?" I saw defensively. "I was just like you" He replies. What is that supposed to mean?

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AN// So I'm writing this book to share my love for the Netflix series Free Rein. I would like to thank everyone who has read my book this far. We have actually reached 100 reads and I'm so excited to improve my writing for everyone interested in my book!

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