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fishebone — Time Stands Still [ Ch1 ]
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"But mom I want to ride horses. I want that one and that one and I want to work there." Lee argued with her testy mother. She could practically see the womans blood pressure rising as the red head rubbed her brow and sighed.
"Lee I said no." The womans tone was dull, but the warning was there. It was a definite finality. The argument was over. Lee screamed in outrage and threw a glass lamp at her mother, missing when the woman jumped to her feet. "Lìadaìn Raines! That is enough!" Lee gaped at the woman, huffing, "Go to your room. I do not want to hear another word out of you about... about horses or farms or... or any of this nonsense again do you understand me!?"
Bursting into tears Lee ran down the narrow, dark hallway of their small home to slam the door to her room.
"That was a bit harsh, dear." Lee's father said calmly, shaking out his news paper.
"She threw a LAMP at my HEAD!"
"Did she hit you?"
"Wha- no-"
"Then you were too harsh." his voice never rose above a soft conversational level while his wife kept getting louder, and her pitch got higher and higher.
"You're too soft on the girl!" her red hair swirled as she spun on her husband, raising her hand to point her finger into his shoulder.
"And you don't think a horse that's going to intentionally throw her in the dirt every chance he gets and a horse that's going to let her fall when she does something stupid is a good idea?"
"Well I don't want her getting herself killed..." she sighed, "Calvin horses are dangerous. She'll get hurt or... worse with them."
"Not if she's with competent people, Brandi. And she's going to get hurt, or worse, on her own anyway just by sheer will of defying you. I bet she's back there telling Boo all about her plan to run away and find a stable to work at anyway. She's going to be eighteen in a few weeks, Brandi. We can't force her to stay and you can't hang onto her forever."
Brandi stared out the kitchen window at the slowly falling snow as she thought.
6 Hours Later
"Alright, sit down." Brandi ordered her high-strung daughter. Lee bit her lip, glancing at her father and his patient face and sat without a word at the old, over-stuffed chair her mother pointed to. "We've purchased your... choices, Lee and we've secured arrangement for you to live on the farm Oighear Gorm-" she held up her hand to stifle her daughters protest -"A sister farm to your first choice. They have competent trainers and require staff at the moment. You will be under their employ and instruction. The moment you turn 18 your life is your own. We will no longer fund your way there."
Lee was too thrilled to really understand what her mother was saying. She had not one but two beautiful horses, a job on a very good farm and she didn't have to live here! True she was going to dearly miss her twin sister but this was a chance to escape her parents and their constant moving! She leapt from her seat and wrapped her arms around her mother in a rare and surprise hug before rushing away to pack her things.
"Boo! Boo! Ohmygosh, you'll never believe this. We're going to live on a farm Boo! No more bloating from Vinia's spells gone wrong!" she yanked drawers and cabinet doors open to drag out her bags and start packing. Despite her joy and over-flow of energy she was careful to make sure absolutely everything fit perfectly into the black and patched/repatched bags until every thing she owned was perfectly put away for travel. It took very little time, with her practice in packing and constantly traveling.
Boo, wiggling on the edge of her bed, barked at her. His docked tail flicked wildly back and forth. "A real live farm and we're getting our own horses!" she all but squealed as she flopped onto the bed hugging her dog. Boo barked again, licking her face.
Days Later
"This is the mare you purchased, any names for her?" the lady at the front desk of the registration office looked like standing around in the cold filing out paper work around the horses was the last thing she wanted to do. Lee grinned at the sweet mare, scratching her cheek.
"Bailando." she said at last, "Because she moves so beautifully, like a dancer." the mares ears twitched curiously and Lee took this as a sign of approval. The woman grunted and scribbled down the name and some more information on the registration form before pulling out a new file.
"Ahem, and the... stud you chose?" She indicated with her pen to a high strung stallion being worked under saddle in the field next to them.
"Bailador Suave, of course." Lee grinned.
"mmm of course... are you hispanic?"
lee stared at the woman for a moment, trying to decide if she was offended or not. It was Baila nudging her that decided she was not offended. With a smile she shook her head. "not at all. But "sir fancy pants dancer, and the dancer" sound silly in english, don't you agree?" The woman shrugged, scribbled on the papers, stamped them and handed them over before hurrying back inside.
"Congratulations to me," lee whispers to the mare, turning to lead her back inside where she was snatched by grooms to be prepped for travel. "I won..." but had she really won?
MORE FROM THE STORY
chapter one
--------- HERE
--------- arrival at OG
--------- settling in
--------- learning to ride
--------- That horse is a Nightmare! ( Lador )
chapter two
--------- Lee's first "hack"
--------- secrets in the snow
