All the way back to the farm, Jenny keeps the little window in the back of the cab open, talking softly to the horse travelling in the rear, the mare responding with soft nickers. By the time they pull up, dropping the tailgate to lead her out, she is nuzzling at Jenny, asking for attention.
“Are you going to keep the name, Jenny?”
“Can I?”
“She’s your horse. It’s up to you what to call her.”
Jenny scratches at ears which radar forward as the mare snuffs for the apple she knows lurks in a pocket. “I’ll call her Charlie.”
“Charlie it is, then.”
“Where are we going to keep her?”
“She can have the stall next to Dancer. That’ll keep him happy too, and give them chance to get to know each other before she has her season.”
“How will you know when that is?”
Mrs Collier gives her a wry glance. “Dancer will tell us when she’s ready. Don’t worry. We won’t miss it.”
“He’ll try to get to her?”
“He’ll probably kick the stall apart if we don’t let him at her when the time comes.”
Jenny swallows. “That sounds…. violent.”
“It’s just Dancer doing what comes naturally.”
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sweeps around the legs of the horse as Jenny rides easily atop her, swaying gently with the movement of her mount.
nudge from the heels and the pair pick up pace, the girl making an easy up-down cadence as they move through a trot, then a canter, before breaking into full gallop through the emerald sea. The mare’s mane and tail are a coursing
watches from the gate, Chad and his
first-class rider, and that’s a fact,” comments
girl,”
the galloping pair, entranced. “It's the most beautiful thing I ever saw,” he
takes the hint.
I’d like
course you can. That would
to, then it’s fine
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As usual, he takes Jenny’s school bag, slinging it over his
in Chad’s hand; pale
found the last few under the hedgerow. They’re almost finished for the
moment, Chad droops a bit. “Don’t
blooms. “They’re beautiful. No-one’s ever given me
Thank you, Chad.” And his blue eyes
*****
of water in Jenny’s bedroom. “You must have searched high and low to find
at Jenny’s cheeks. “Chad gave them to me.” She sucks at her lower
he now? You’d better look
who first arrived. Tall, lithe and becoming full-figured; vivid green eyes look out from
with growing maturity,
you know how to
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