User blog comment:Leafwhisker/Ashfur/@comment-1829516-20100423204211

Hmm heres chapter one! Might be long though

Chapter One
Hope Anderson road on top of Parsley, her beautiful light brown horse with a cream mane. She was riding it up a rocky hill, stroking him gently every time they cantered over a rock. She pulled his reins anytime they got close to a small jump. She smiled, Hope had been with Parsley for three years now, and she was very attached to him. He neighed and stopped near a ditch. Hope sighed, they would now have to go back home. “Darn…” She groaned and started to tug his reins to the right. He turned left and he started to trot back down the hill. Hope had her eyes steadily locked onto every rock that could put the young horse off track. She blinked seeing a boulder that wasn’t there when she was cantering up. “How’d this get here?” Hope said her blonde hair ruffling in the breeze. She took her boots from the stirrup and slid off the horse; Parsley neighed a bit but then settled. She walked over to the boulder and inspected it, looking at it all over like it was a diamond. Parsley tilted his head a bit and neighed in confusion. Hope nodded smiling a bit at the horse then looked back at the boulder. It was big and blocked her way, nothing to get her back to the SilverMoon Ranch. She looked to Parsley, he was a bit restless. Sighing Hope looked around. She moaned. “I guess we just need to jump that small ditch….” Parsley flinched a bit. He practically shook his head but Hope hopped back onto the young horse. She tapped his sides with her ankle and he started off on a steady trot. Once Hope knew they were getting close to the ditch she started to make Parsley gallop. Then when Hope could see the ditch and gripped the reins and Parsley jumped. “Whoa!” Hope gasped. They hit the ground with a startling thump almost throwing Hope off the horse. Hope took a deep breath. “Careful there…” She soothed. Parsley neighed and whinnied happily. Hope grinned. “Happy aren’t you? Your first actual jump.” Parsley neighed again and they started to go higher up. Hope struggled under the steep ridges but there was no way else to get back to the ranch. She bit her lip and gripped the reins tighter in her fists. “Come on Parsley….Do it…” She urged. Parsley grunted in dismay and he trudged on, slowly at every step. Hope swallowed and winced kicking his sides a bit harder, but Parsley kept at his slow pace. Hope let out a breath of relief when they hit a nice smoother land of the Rocky Ridge trail. She grinned and kicked his sides gently with her heels and they started to gallop. Hope closed her eyes letting Parsley lead the way as she loosened her grip on the reins. “Good horse…” Hope murmured opening her eyes. She stroked Parsley’s cream mane and smiled looking to the sun as it was at the point of setting in the sky. Hope saw the flecks of gold from the sunset as it hit Parsley’s coat. She laughed lightly. “You look a bit funny.” Parsley threw his head up and neighed in joy. Hope smiled and ran her fingers through his mane smiling. Parsley seemed to enjoy this ride too, even though his legs were dragging a bit. Hope blinked seeing a flash of light. “Huh?” She strained her neck trying to see where it was coming from. It was a car. Hope gasped trying to turn back but Parsley was stunned, he wouldn’t move. Hope’s lip quivered. “Move!” She cried. She looked to the ground, she hadn’t noticed that they had passed into a dirt road, but the car was going higher than the speeding limit. “Stop!” Hope yelled. But the car wouldn’t stop, it kept on going, her voice being drowned it the roar of its motor. She looked wide-eyed as it came closer and closer until she was hit. Everything turned black. Just black. Hope opened her eyes and blinked in the light of a hospital. “Hope!” Her mom hugged her. “You’re awake!” Her mom’s name was Amber, Amber Anderson; she had curly brown hair and dark blue eyes. Hope winced. “Mom? What happened?” Amber sighed. “You got into an accident… The car didn’t see you and Parsley was too shocked to move.” Hope gasped. “Where’s Parsley?” Her mom shook her head. “He’s at the vet’s.” “He survived?” Hope started to grin. “Yes…But we can’t keep him…” Amber looked to her feet. Hope’s grin turned to a frown. “But...Why?” Amber twitched her foot. “He was pretty banged up; they think he may never be able to actually ride again.” “So…We need to put him…” Hope swallowed. “Down?” Amber rested her hand on Hope’s arm. “I’m afraid so, the doctors aren’t sure but…It’s hard to take care of a horse who can hardly walk.” Hope quickly pulled the hand away. “But! We can!” She cried. Amber hugged Hope. “Darling, it’s alright…I’m sure if you can ride again we’ll find a new horse.” Hope’s eyes widened. “What do you mean, if I ride again?” Amber twiddled her fingers. “Hope…Well in the accident...” Amber stopped. “What!” Hope demanded. Amber sighed. “They had to remove your leg.” Hope gasped. “Wait, but, How?” “Well, they replaced it with an artificial one, but it seems you might not be able to ride again.” Her mom struggled to say. Hope shook her head mouth wide open. “But…No!” She pulled off the hospital covers seeing her leg was very different, there were stitches where her thigh met her leg. She gasped and pulled back up the covers. “Can I walk?” Hope looked up. Amber nodded. “Yes, but you’ll need to be in a wheel-chair for a couple of weeks after you come out of the hospital.” Hope slumped back into her bed. “Parsley, my leg, but…When will I get out?” Amber shrugged. “You’ve been out cold for two days, so you have about a week in here.” Hope swallowed back her tears. “So I might never ride again?” Her mom blinked. “I’m afraid I don’t particularly know yet sweetie.” Hope slumped her hands to her sides. Parsley…What will happen to him? She thought.