January Story Contest

Sky, Luke, Roger and Me part 4: Stolen part 3 part 2 part 1
By: Taylor***
Age: 11

I, Taylor Joy quickly walked to the stables I boarded my black Arab/welsh pony sky at. My two dog’s Luke and Roger followed me. Roger had recently broken a hip a was still healing so he lagged behind. Today at the stables as I found out that today was cleaning day. One day a month we had a cleaning day were we would clean the stalls, tack room/feed room, clean the arena and clean the tack.  My friends Annabelle and Savanna helped me lug the tack into the house since it was raining and the chemicals to clean the tack were bad for the horses we would clean it in the house. We had been cleaning the tack for about an hour when I said, “I need some air, and the chemicals are getting to me”. Mrs. Lee the barn owner said ok and I hurried out the door. When I opened the heavy metal doors I was welcomed by the frightened Winnie of the horses and dark flames erupting from my ponies stall.

I screamed and ran back to the house. I pushed the door open and Roger and Luke ran out. “THE BARN IS ON FIRE!!!!!!!!!” I yelled loudly leaving my voice shaky.  Mrs. Lee called the fired apartment while her husband, savanna, Annabelle and I got the horses from the stalls. When I hurried to skylark’s stall I panicked he wasn’t in his stall but I had other horses to help so I grabbed a scarf of sky door and covered a horse named feel eyes. And I rushed out
 Later, when all the horses were out and in a paddock and the barn was just lightly ruined we fed the horse and d started a search party for sky.  We did not find him. But then I saw tire tracks and we followed them to a small barn inside sky stood shivering with fear I went to grab him when a man came out and said, “Why are you stealing pepper?”  I shudder at the thought of what the man had done to sky. So bravely I said “He is MY horse and I want him back”.

The search party nodded but the man did not let up so we called the police and they swept the man away. We walked sky home and treated the wounds the man gave him. That night after I gave him a good grooming and put a blanket on, I said to him gently in a soft voice, “I love you sky please don’t ever leave me again”.
Then I kissed his soft silky muzzle and hugged him. I shut his stall door and went to play with Luke and Roger, That night; I slept soundly knowing I had the best pals on earth.

 

                                          The end.

 

NOTE: in the next story Taylor may have to sell Sky, Luke and Roger what will she do?