Ally

Chapter 15

When we get to the lady's house ( Catherine still hasn't told me her name)  Catherine tells me to wait in the car while she goes to find someone to show us around.

A few minutes later she comes back the owner and she introduces herself.

" Nice to meet you, i'm Isabella. Ally, right?"

" Yea, nice to meet you too" I respond

" I don't know if Catherine already told you or not, but i have 5 horses for sale. Can't bring all of 'em with me."

" Why not?" i ask

" Well, my sisters not doing too well, so i'm going to go live with her for a while. I ain't gonna sell the farm but i can't bring 7 horses across the country."

" Well, thank you very much for letting us come and take a look at your horses."

I just realized that the three times we've gone to get animals, Catherine has said pretty much the same thing every time.

"Its my pleasure, now come with me, i'll take you to the back where we keep the horses."

When we get to the back i hear a horse whinnying and smell horse.

For some reason this place feels more like somewhere that has horses then the first place, probably because it's not a fancy barn and riding academy.

" In the first pasture we have Bailey and April. I got Bailey from an auction 'bout four years ago and shes come a long way since then, when i got her she wasn't even halter trained. Now she is a nice horse for more advanced riders, only because she spooks and can be hard to handle at times. April is pretty easygoing, i got her last year from a lesson barn because i wanted a nice trail horse."

" April sounds like a pretty good horse."

" She definitely is, when we come back around we'll go in a maybe you can take her for test ride."

" Oh, I've only ridden a couple times." Catherine responds.

" Don't worry 'bout that, i taught lessons for 15 years, and April will take care of you."

" Well if that's the case, i suppose i'll try." Catherine tells Isabella.

" That's the spirit!, " Isabella replies, " Now C'mon, lets go look at the others. Up here on the right we have three geldings, Harley, Monte, and Ace. Harley was brought to us because his owner, my niece, couldn't afford to keep him anymore, He loves the ocean and pretty much anything that involves swimming or water. Monte is definitely human stuck in a horse's body, it's almost like he understands what your saying. Ace is-"

She is cut off when i feel a horse blow on my face.

 " - Right in front of you." She finishes, "He doesn't usually like people that much, he's certainly never come up to anyone, well until now. He's four years old and was abused and neglected for the first three years of his life. When he came last year he was in pretty rough shape, but now he's doing a lot better and is trained under saddle." 

" Hey boy" I whisper to Ace, " you've been through a lot haven't you? But your okay now, no one here's gonna hurt you."

He snorts in reply.

I laugh.

" You and Ace seem to be getting along pretty well" Isabella says

" Yea, he seems like a good horse."

" It's surprising how well he is behaving around you. I think that he likes you." 

" Maybe it's because they have a lot in common." Catherine contributes.

" Maybe" Isabella replies.

"Ally, do you want to get Ace?"

" Can I? " i ask

" If you want to." She responds

" But you already got me Diego." 

" Yea, but i can tell that you like Ace, plus, the more the merrier."

" For real?"

" Yes, for real."

" Thank you!" i say to Catherine.

" Do you want to walk with Ace for a little bit?" Isabella asks

" Sure "

" Here, i'll hold your pony for you."

" Thanks" I tell her

" Your welcome, let me go get Ace."

A few minutes later she comes back and hands me a lead rope.

" He's impossible, you think you can get his lead rope on?"

" I'll try."

As soon as she leaves the pasture, i can hear Ace stop running and start to walk over to me.

" Hey" I whisper, " Your gonna behave, Okay? were just going for a walk."

" That's a good boy" I say when he lets me pet him.

When i try to put the lead rope on, he starts to walk away.

" You can trust me, i'm not gonna hurt you." i tell him.

After a few minutes he comes back over.

" Good boy Ace, the lead ropes not going to hurt you. "

I keep talking to him and slowly put his lead rope on.

" You see? It didn't kill you."

He snorts.

" You'll be fine Ace, now c'mon, lets go."

Once he's on the lead rope, he's fine, it's just putting it on that he doesn't like.

We follow Catherine and Isabella to the arena where Isabella had the stable hand tack up April and Monte.

Catherine helps me sit down in a chair outside of the arena and i let Ace graze on some nearby grass.

After about ten minutes Isabella asks me if i want to walk Ace around in the arena.

" Sure" I reply.

I walk around on the rail before coming to the middle and walking in some patterns that Isabella helped me with.

I think that Catherine really liked riding because she decided to get April as well.

Later that day after Catherine finished filling out more paperwork and stuff like that, We went to a tack and feed store and got everything that we need.

Today was the best day I've had since the accident, it kind of felt surreal, like something out of a book.

A/N

Just a quick authors note because i wanted to say that yesterday i tried to use my mini horse like a guide horse and i learned that it's really hard ( or maybe that's just because he's not trained to be one or because he's half blind and he loves food more then anything.)

I'll put a picture of my mini's in the next chapter.