Sophia looked up from her dinner to see her Mom looking at her.
"Yes?" She replied.
"What's bugging you? Ever since the day you were at the barn exercising Spirit you've been acting weird."
"Nothing's wrong. I guess I'm just excited about Christmas." She lied and took a sip of her water hoping that would end the conversation.
"Hmm, okay." Her Mom replied and went back to her dinner.
Quickly, Sophia made her way up the stairs. She had just finished dinner and helped her Mom clean up and wanted to get to her room to plan the "lease problem" as she called it.
She entered her room, closed the door and sat down at her desk. Pulling a notebook out of her desk drawer and a pen, she began brainstorming.
At the top of the page, she wrote "lease problem" and started thinking of what she could do. A few minutes later it hit her. She knew exactly what to do. Now all she had to do was go to the barn the same day as Samantha was going to ride.
Sophia leaned up against the wall of Queen's stall, a skewbald paint mare. Samantha was about to walk into Spirit's stall who was covered in red mud, manure stains and hay. She slipped out of the stall and made herself look busy by chipping some ice out of Queen's water bucket.
Samantha walked into the barn and scoffed at Sophia as she opened the stall door. The next moment, Samantha stifled a scream. Sophia smirked and peeked into the stall.
"Everything all right in there Samantha?"
The rude girl whirled around glaring at her.
"This.. this horse! What did you do to him? He's horrid looking!"
"I didn't do anything!" Sophia said in mock exasperation. "He rolls didn't you know that?" She said which was a hundred percent true.
"Well, I can't afford to get my new white breeches dirty. Groom him, will you?" She growled and whirled out of the stall.
"I HATE THIS ANIMAL!" Samantha shrieked as she dismounted, dropped the reins and glared at Jane.
Spirit trotted off startled by the noise. Hopping off of the fence, Sophia grabbed his reins and pet his neck lovingly.
"It's OK boy." She said smiling.
"Sophia!" Jane called and started towards her. "Samantha give Sophia your helmet. Sophia get on Spirit and show Samantha how good of an animal Spirit is."
Shocked, Sophia put the helmet on, adjusted her stirrups and mounted. Since he was already warmed up, she asked him for the trot which he picked up immediately .She trotted for a few minutes and then brought him into the canter. It was working! The lease problem was coming to an end!
Dec 23, 2016 Rating
Thank you! by: Heartbeat for horses
Thank you all for the wonderful comments! I know this is kind of a Christmas story and I would like to finish it before then but I'm just really busy and it will probably not be finished until January!
Sydney, I feel that way with Peppy and he is my inspiration for the story.
Merry Christmas and a happy new year to all of you and horses you love, own, know, etc.
Dec 22, 2016 Rating
Part Five - continued by: Heartbeat for horses
"Get out of the stall, you little brat!" Samantha hissed to Sophia, who was grooming Spirit.
"You were late so Jane wanted me to start grooming him." Sophia replied tightly and planted a kiss on Spirit's nose. "I love you Spirit, after your lesson how about a nice bath and some hand grazing and treats?" Spirit pricked his ears and nuzzled the top of Sophia's hair.
"Why on earth do you want to hang out at the stable with a horse?" Samantha sneered and grabbed the brush from Sophia.
Sophia slowly walked out of the stall and began cleaning stalls. About 10 minutes later, Samantha led Spirit out of his stall and walked down to the arena. Sophia followed figuring she would take a break and watch some of the lesson.
Samantha turned out to be a worse rider than Sophia imagined. Her reins were too long and her heels were not down. Her posting needed some work and she was on the wrong diagonal almost the whole time.
"Poor Spirit." Sophia mumbled, watching as he trotted around slowly his ears back and Samantha pulling his head up.
Sophia had to keep the lease from happening. She just had to.
Dec 22, 2016 Rating
so true! by: Sydney from HorseCrazyGirls.com
I've felt like that about a horse I've fallen in love with that wasn't mine. You captured the feeling exactly. Keep writing!
Dec 21, 2016 Rating
I'm glad you guys like it! by: Heartbeat for horses
Two more parts just written and on the way! I'm so glad you guys like my story!
