January Story Contest

The Three Barns part 1
By: Horsey Lover
Age: 12

I walked up to the barn where Gerry, Cinnamon, Mecca, Promise and Cobalt were waiting. My name is Horsey Lover. Gerry was a chestnut mare with a white blaze. Cinnamon was flea-bitten-grey. Mecca is a light bay with a snip and two white socks, Promise is a palomino with a habit of bucking, so did Mecca. Cobalt, a black Shetland pony with a blaze and a white sock.
I went down to the paddock, passing three barns. I didn't live where my horses lived.
As I passed the three barns, I looked. There was movement. I tried to my sister. But she was no where. I would always see her darting into the first barn with a few other people.
So I saddled Gerry up, when my sister Fidget came in.
"Horsey Lover!" she shouted. "I'm coming with you."
"You are?" I asked. "I mean, you've never done that before."
"There's always a first," Fidget grinned.

(Later)

"Hey, what's that?" asked Fidget.
"I don't know," I said. A lot of people were entering the barns. One, two, three barns.
"Do you know about those barns?" I asked.
"Come on," said Fidget. "Let me take you to The Awesome Bays Club."
She dismounted her fancy-bred bay Anglo-Arab stallion, Comanche and handed his reins over to me.
She knocked on the door and got let it.
The minutes ticked by. Soon, ten minutes had passed and my sister had not come out.
"Fidget!" I shouted. "What are you doing?"
Then Fidget came out.
"Sorry, sis," she said. "There was a problem with my club. You know these other two barns?"
"No," I replied.
"Come on then," said Fidget, mounting Comanche. But she spoke too soon. A crack of lightning lit up the sky and followed by thunder and then heavily falling rain.
"Come on!" I shouted. Comanche reared up, and my sister fell over backwards.
Comanche bolted for the barn.
I looked back at Fidget. She was staggering to her club barn.
"I'll be fine!" she screamed weakly. "I've have my barn."
She disappeared.
"Come on Gerry," I said, kicking her in the ribs. The mare sprang into a gallop.

(Late still)

I was getting worried, Fidget still hadn't come home.

Will Fidget come home? What are the remaining two barns? Find out in The Three Barns Part 2!