My name is Bella Alley. My hair is long, wavy and blonde. Some people say I have dazzling blue eyes, I am thirteen years old. My daddy died in a train wreck about two weeks ago and I am in a taxi on the way to my momma's house. We just crossed the state line into Colorado and I ask the gruff looking taxi driver up front "how much longer until we reach my momma's?". He grumbled something that sounded like "twenty minutes". I look out the window and watch the horses pass by and think to myself that I would like to have my own horse.
As soon as we got to the stop at a cafe, I got on another taxi that would take me straight to my momma's in the country. My momma lives in a large wooden cabin that is two stories tall. I get my bedroom on the second story, not to mention my own bathroom. The house is placed dead center in the middle of a big huge property with a sea of green grasses that wave in the wind, a small pond near the apple trees in the back filled with catfish and ducks, and a empty pasture where my daddy once kept his horse. His horse thunder had died while I was very young so I don't remember him much.
I walk up to the house and see mamma standing on the porch waiting for me, crying. When I reach the front porch, I walk up and let my hand slide on the handle bar, and all the memories come flooding back to me, for I haven't been here in so long. I remember running in the fields when I was four, I remember eating fresh, delicious red apples from the apple trees in the back and showing mamma the baby rabbit I found in the field when I was five. I embrace mamma in a bear hug silently and mamma says softly " I've missed my baby so, so much.". She steps back and says "look how much you've grown! Your so tall!". I just stand smiling at the ground as she embraced me in bear hug just like I did to her. "I've missed you too mama.". We walk inside of the house and I see the living room to my left with a big couch and a smaller arm chair and a large tv in front of them. To my right I see a dining room with a large and polished oak table with four chairs. In front of me is the stairs and the living room and dining room both wrap around the staircase and that makes the kitchen behind. I walk up the stairs and turn to my left to see three door ways. The one on the left leads to my loving mothers room, with a bathroom on the inside, and then middle door leads to a closet if old junk, the door on the right was the one I was so eager to see inside of. I opened the door slowly when mamma says " I cleaned it up for you a bit dear, just tided up a bit here and there, washed your bathtub, just that kind of stuff. You might actually want to tidy up a bit though..". I was just like my momma to do that after all, she is pretty much the definition of a clean freak. I walk in and she was not kidding. I walk in to see a beautiful bedspread layed over a queen sized bed, a hot pink dresser with purple polka dots on it, I painted it when I was seven, a empty closet where I placed my few bags of clothes, paintings of all kinds of animals hanging on the walls including snow wolves, grizzly bears and my favorite, a horse and her young foal. Then a door that was opened to reveal a beautiful bathroom with a sparkling white sink, toilet and bathtub. I asked my momma " How long did it take you to do this all?". She replied with "three days. I walked up to her and said thank you about what seemed like a million times and hugged her.
In the next couple weeks, I started school in a nearby middle school, started doing chores again, and every day on the bus, I would look out the window while one of my new friends Nancy sat next to me talking like there would be no tomorrow, and I would just sit there looking out the windows, and watch the horses galloping around their pastures freely. At school, they are way behind on my old school so I just took notes on stuff I already knew and doodled on the sides of my papers, most of the times horses. I have an extravagant talent of drawing. I can make a drawing look like a black and white photo with pencil, or a cartoon with water colors.
On a weekend in late fall, I was out in the woodland part of mamma's property exploring when I heard something crunching through the leaves in the icy air. I froze to the spot. My first instinct was to run, but I didn't, I peered through the bushes trying to get a better glimpse of what was moving through the forest, but all I could see was something large, and white. I knew it was some kind of animal, but not what kind of animal. I thought to myself, it probably got stuck in here when mamma blocked off the opening in the fence by the apple trees last week. After I couldn't hear it anymore, I walked back to The house thinking that I better not tell mamma until I know what it is so I don't scare her, who knows, it might be friendly.
The next weekend I decided to experiment. I plucked one of few apples left off the apple tree and caught a fish from the iced over pond, I had to break a hole in it to catch it, and walked back to where I had last seen the creature. Since the creature was large, I got a box and put a large stick into it, and then stabbed it into the ground so it was up high, and around the height of where the animals head probably was. I then put a wooden platform near the base so the animal could put its head into the box of food, but so the raccoons could not reach it. After it was set, I went back home and went to bed for, it was getting late.
The next day I went back and smelled something foul, the apple was gone and the fish lay there, starting to decay. I knew this thing was defiantly a herbivore, and is started thinking harder,a big white animal that is a herbavor, it must be..... A horse
I wouldn't, I couldn't tell momma. She would never allow a horse besides, it's wild! Every weekend I went out with some ripe apples and I would put them in the box and then they would be gone the next week. The next week end came and I got three apples and I raced toward the woods and when I got to the box, I put one in the box and took the other two with me when I turned and claimed an oak tree.
I sat and waited for about an hour and I started dozing off when I heard the crunching of leaves and I pulled up my purple sweater while I looked down and I actually gasped out loud. The horse was beautiful. It was pearly white with a glorious Snow White mane and tail. It's large black eyes looked into mine and I knew, just then in that spot, that me and this horse were meant to be. I was meant to tame this horse, but then the thought occurred to me. Momma would never, ever allow a horse, I knew that momma was a bit jumpy around large animals. The horse walked over to to box and lifted its head a little more than it needed to and got the apple. I made a mental note to lower the box. After it had eaten the apple, it started to turn around and I called softly " horsie, come on girl, are you hungry?". The horse stopped and looked at her. Very timidly, the horse slowly walked up to me while I held out my hand with the apple in it and cooed softly "come on majesty" for this is what I am going to call this majestic horse. Majesty took the apple from my hand and in that moment when majesty took the apple, I could feel her warm breath and suddenly it was gone and she ate the apple and came back for the second. Every day, it would go pick the ripe apples, take some to momma of course, and go back to the box in the woods. This happened every day and I actually started to sit on the ground with all the apples and majesty would come without a trace of ever being shy. Majesty started letting me pet her head and stroke her neck, she was a very good horse.
Soon, a blanket of snow had appeared and it got very cold. At dinner with momma I said " so, I've been thinking about what I want for Christmas, and I decided that I would realy like a horse" but momma cut her off " you know a horse is alot of responsibility for a young girl like you." And I was shocked she called me young " I can handle that much responsibility!" " are you sure" she said, but more softly this time " I'm sure." She said " I don't know, I'll think about it" then I cut momma off and said " if you do, tell me, it won't be a surprise besides, I would like to pick it out myself anyway.". Momma said slow and soft " fine "
On Christmas Day, I opened up my presents and I got a lab top, a stuffed horse, many paintings, and a sterio. Momma said she had a surprise for me and we got in the car. " bella, I thought about what we talked about at dinner and well, we are going to pick out a horse!". I was shocked and amazed " thank you momma!!!!! But, there's one thing I need to tell you," " yes " " well, I can show you, come on!" And I jumped out the car with momma and we ran to the woods near the box, and stopped on the way for an apple, and when we were almost there, we slowed down out of breath and momma said " where are we going bella?" With a smile on her face. " I am going to show you something " I said excitedly.
As we reached the box, momma opened her mouth about to say something, but I shushed her as we heard the crunching of leaves. " ok momma whatever you do, walk and talk softly and slowly" . As majesty crunched through the leaves, and her breath coming out in warm, fog in the icy air. I hearD momma suck in air and I cooed " hello majesty, are you hungry?" And I handed out the apple to her and I let her eat half and I gave the other half to momma " ok, just hold out your hand like I did" she copied me. Majesty gave a snort and pawed the ground nervously before taking the apple from momma's hand. Majesty allowed momma to rub her head and neck, momma liked majesty. " can I keep her" I whispered to momma " yes, she is a very good horse.
Over the next couple months, bella had moved majesty into the empty pasture and built her a stall, majesty let bella ride her, and they were a happy family.

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Magesty
FantasyAfter bella clear's father died in a car crash she is going to see her mother in Colorado. She finds something beautiful and magestic in the woods and cannot tell her mother.