by ωιитєяfℓу » Fri Jul 23, 2010 8:05 am
Oh my god! You guys are so amazing at writing! I have some more stories that I guess I've been saving up. None of my friends in real life have read my stories, so feel priviledged!
I'll start of with my short horse story, called Horse-napped. Obviously it's not real.
My first pony had been horse-napped three months ago. I was devastated; she was my life, my happiness and one of my best friends. People told me that I would get over her, but I knew I couldn’t. She hadn’t been the first horse to be horse-napped in the past six months as my best friend’s pony had been stolen too, but before my poor Mystique. We had shared everything together; Kelly and I, and now we shared the loss of our ponies. Her own pony, Jaq, had been taken a month before Mystique. Someone had stolen them. We had to find out who had. We looked for months, but no luck. No sign of them. Sighing we had agreed to buy new ponies. Together we had been searching for the perfect ones, but our new ponies wouldn’t be as special as Mystique and Jaq. Eventually we found them.
Kelly, Ciara, Maya and I were looking at the horses in a famous rider’s stable when it happened. Ciara and Maya were going to get their first ponies so we all decided to look at them together. A row was going on, so we crept closer and overheard. A woman was shouting at a stable-hand. “GET THAT HORSE OUT OF THAT STABLE! THAT’S COOKIE’S!” The stable-hand muttered a quick, frightened sorry before leading the handsome bay stallion from the stable. The woman led in her golden palomino, shooting a glare at the girl leading the pony away. Hurrying up to the girl, Ciara asked her what her name was.
“My name is Anna, and this gorgeous boy here is Stardust.” She introduced herself as she patted the stallion. Her voice became sad. “Sadly his owner is selling him. Apparently he isn’t really good at Dressage, and he’s really good at Cross country and Show jumping. I’m trying to find a new owner for him.” I walked closer with Kelly and Maya. As soon as I was close enough, I patted his muzzle and we bonded. Asking quietly, I said, “Please may I try him? I’m looking for a new pony and he seems to be just right.” The girl brightened and quickly tacked him up. Ten minutes later I was cantering him. He felt great so I quickly tried a few jumps. He wasn’t just great, he was brilliant. I was determined to buy him. Soon the woman with the horse named Cookie came to the arena and admired me riding. I stopped and she turned to the stable-hand. After the talk the woman disappeared. I dismounted and quickly took him to an empty stable, beaming. The owner came along and spoke to the stable-hand before leading Stardust out of the stable and towards the block of four that the horse named Cookie was stabled in. I looked and saw the woman from earlier smiling smugly and my heart sank. Kelly, Ciara and Maya realised and gave me a hug. I didn’t return it and managed to mutter something about my dad picking me up and soon left. My mind had been made up; I wouldn’t buy a new horse.
A couple of months later I was true to my word. I had quit riding and had taken up something else when my friends called me. It turned out that they had finally found the right ponies for themselves and that they wanted me to join them. Naturally I declined, I did miss riding but I got disappointed sometimes because of it.
Then, “Just come, ok?” And Maya hung up. I grabbed my rounders kit, thinking that I could go straight to practice after I had met up with them. I usually biked, and the stable wasn’t far, so soon I was there.
I saw them clustered around three stables at the end. Walking slowly over, I put my stuff down and stopped in front of Mystique’s old stable. The owner of the stable had refused to put a horse in there as she hoped that I would change my mind and get a pony. It was exactly the way I had left it. There was no straw on the floor, the water was empty, and my tack and riding stuff waited at the back. My pony hadn’t been stolen from here; she had been stolen at a show and so had Kelly’s Jaq. I couldn’t believe that she had moved on, left her perfect pony behind.
“Come on, Becs.” Kelly said to me softly, and I realised that I was crying. She led me next door, and inside was...
Cookie.
“Cookie?” I asked, still sobbing slightly.
“Her owner sold her. You know, that women who shouted at that stable hand to get Stardust out of her stable.” Kelly told me, understanding as I burst out crying again.
Ciara led me opposite me own stable, and inside stood a gorgeous black mare. “This is Nightblaze. She’s 8 years old, and perfect.” She sighed, and Maya impatiently led me to the next one.
A skewbald stood inside, his head over the door. “This is Jasper. He’s a stallion, and 9 years old.” Maya bragged.
Then, a familiar head came over the door of the next stable. “Stardust?” I asked in a whisper.
“It is. He’s yours, Becs.” Kelly told me as they all hugged me.
“How?” I whispered.
“We all asked your parents if we could have some money to get him for you. It took some persuading, and eventually they agreed.” Ciarra said as she hugged me again.
5 months on, and we all ride together. Kelly and I still miss Jaq and Mystique, but Cookie and Stardust are helping us get over them. Stardust didn’t move into Mystique’s old stable, and I realised that Kelly hadn’t put Cookie in Jaq’s old stable. We still hoped that our ponies would come back to us, occasionally going out to rescue centres to see if they turned up.
One day, out of the blue, I turned on the TV. “.... has been known as a horse thief. He has been sent to prison for a number of year; and all of the horses he has stolen are now finding their way back home...” I turned it off as someone knocked on the front door. I dragged myself to the door, and opened it to find the police there.
“Are you Rebecca Night, owner of Mystique?” A kind police woman asked.
I stuttered yes, and shouted to my parents that I was going to the stable. They took me in the car, and at the stable was Mystique. She was being held by the stable owner, and as I rushed over, she shied away from me. I was heartbroken, why couldn’t she remember me.
“She’s been well treated, and was sold to another family after she was stolen from you. Another girl owned her, and they got on well.” The policeman said quietly.
Someone had found happiness in Mystique, and I had found happiness in Stardust. My heart heavy, I patted Mystique’s nose and said, “The girl can have her. She can have her old tack, and her old rugs.”
“Are you sure?” They asked me, and I nodded; my heart in my mouth. They called the girl’s parents, and they soon arrived.
The girl and her parents came into the stable, as I had moved Mystique into her old one. I felt a hand on my elbow, and a girl’s voice said disbelieving, “You found her, and you’re getting rid of her?”
I looked up from where I was looking at Mystique, and saw a girl my own age standing there. My voice was hoarse when I spoke. “Mystique was my life you know. She was taken from me, and three months after I lost her I found Stardust. Then he was sold to a cruel woman. I gave up riding for a couple of months, and took up Rounders. One day my two friends and my best friend told me to come here, and they showed me their ponies. My best friend’s horse was a pony called Cookie, and belonged to the woman who now owned Stardust. They all surprised me, and I saw Stardust. They had asked my parents to give them money to buy the perfect pony for me, and bothered them for ages until they caved. Now, five months on, I find Mystique just to find out that I took her away from a girl who loved her nearly as much as I did.
“And here you are.” I ended, turning to look at the girl properly. She had soft ginger hair, that reached to the small of her back.
“And here I am.” She echoed. Thinking for a moment, the girl said absentmindedly, “Just tell me one thing, are you sure?”
My voice was soft, “I am. Of course I am. I’m giving her to you, and I don’t even know you. You can have her old tack and rugs and grooming kit if you want. I don’t need them, I haven’t needed them for nearly a year now.”
“Hey. My name is Rachel Chapman.” She introduced herself, smiling.
I smiled back. “Hi. I am Rebecca Night, known to my friends as...”
“Becs.” Four voices chorused. I turned as I said it, and saw my three friends at the end of the stable block. We all laughed, and I realised that Kelly would have done the same as I had. She would have given away her best friend, just like I had, so that someone else could be happy.
Years have passed, and Rachel moved with her parents down to our village so that she could keep Mystique at our stable. The five of us became inseparable, constantly having sleepovers and going on hacks.
Jaq had never been found, but Kelly was ok with that. She hoped that he was happy like Mystique was with Rachel.
A happy tale, unlike my Against your Will, An Experiment story. Oh, I'll give you the ending 'cause I'm so proud of it! Note: It will change. I wrote the end because I had the ending perfectly in mind, though I wrote it after Chapter 3.
It's incredibly short though. About a paragraph long.
I looked up with my final breath, and looked deep into Molly’s eyes. I knew I had failed, and she knew I had as well. Our world was doomed, this had been my only chance, and I had blown it. I clutched her hand desperately, and I closed my eyes forever. Ewa curled up beside me, and we died among our friends.