A/N This is just a fun little fic that I wrote after going on a little pinchfest on Saint Patrick's Day. I thought I'd have a little fun. I hope that you enjoy my little fic.
A Pinch of Irish
A Horseland fanfiction by: Esrelda Snape
Written for the Saint Patrick's Day Challenge
Prompts used:Irish, Green, Clover, leprechaun, Oww!
Summary:
It's Saint Patrick's day at Horseland, and the horseland team has been invited to take part in the local Saint Patrick's day parade. Alma and Button are in the spirit of things, but some of the other's forget to wear green. How many will get pinched before the day is through? Only Alma knows.
Chapter 1 Saint Patrick's Day eave
Alma Rodrigues loved any holiday that involved her favorite color. Among her favorite days of the year was Saint Patrick's Day, and Christmas. Although she normally wore a green riding jacket, or a green vest, and rode with a green saddle, bridle, and saddle pad on her horse which had green highlights in her mane and tail, she just couldn't get enough of the color.
It was for that reason that her parents had decorated her room in the manager's cottage at horseland farm in various shades of green. Her walls were a light shade of pastel green with a dark forest green trim around the trim of the doors and windows. Her floor was covered with a plush carpet that was a light moss green color. and her bed was covered with quilts, sheets, and pillows in all shades of green. Along her wall were pictures of her beloved horse Button, and shelves filled to capacity with rows and rows of horse books and several model horses that she had collected over the years.
She stretched sleepily and yawned as she got up to prepare for the day. She had talked her mother into taking her shopping that day for a few new things, and was waiting for a special package that she had ordered in the mail earlier that month. She went to the bathroom to brush her teeth after getting dressed, then headed into the kitchen for breakfast.
"Good morning, Chiquita," greeted her father as he walked through the door with a large package in his hands.
"Good morning, daddy, what's that," she asked hoping that it was her special order?
"I don't know, the delivery man just said that it was for a little girl about your age, who loves horses, and the color green," he said with a smile as he placed the box down on the kitchen table in front of her. Alma squealed with joy as she ripped into the box throwing packing peanuts all over the kitchen in her excitement.
"What is this mess that the two of you are making in my kitchen," scolded Alma's mother as she slapped her husband's naughty bacon thieving hand from stealing off of the platter before everything was done? "Miha, I understand that you are excited about your package, but please take it to your room, and then help your childish father clean up the mess that he helped you make," ordered her mother as she swatted her husband's hand away again.
"Yes, mama," said Alma as she quickly grabbed the dustpan and broom and started to clean up the mess of packing peanuts. She then grabbed the box and ran with it into her room When she had finished her breakfast she ran down to the barn to give Button her morning feed. "You eat up now, Chicka because we've got a lot to plan for tomorrow," she said as she fed her horse and patted her neck affectionately.
After feeding her horse Alma ran back to her house and finished unpacking the contents of the box that was delivered that morning. She smiled as she pulled our the new green blanket, saddle, chest plate, bridle, and crupper strap that was made of dark green velvet, and decorated with shamrocks that were embroidered in a lighter shade of green.
"This is going to look great on Button," thought Alma to herself as she placed the new show tack on a saddle rack that she kept in her room.
"Alma, are you ready to go shopping," called her mother from the hallway?
"Coming mama," answered Alma as she ran out of her room and down the hall. Three hours later she returned and was cornered by Chloe and Zoey, who noticed the shopping bags.
"You missed practice today, where were you," asked Chloe with her arms crossed?
"Come on sis, its obvious where she's been the name of the store is on the bags," said Zoey pointing to the bags.
"What did you buy," they asked in unison?
"Just some new riding pants, a pair of boots, gloves, and a few other things for tomorrow," said Alma as she walked toward her house.
"Can we see," asked Zoey?
"Not today, it's a surprise for tomorrow," said Alma with a happy smile on her face as she walked away from the Stilton twins.
Alma spent the rest of the day locked in her room making special green rosettes for the manes of each horse in horseland. After she finished the horse's decorations she made something special for Shep, Tiny, and Angora to wear. The last thing that she made that night before she went to bed was a large mum, with something that represented each friend on each one. Yawning she went to bed wondering how many of her friends would forget to ware green, and how many she would get to pinch.
A/N I hope that you have enjoyed this little fic so far, I know that it's not what you are used to from me, but it's just something that I came up with and decided to write for the fun of it. PLease leave a review if you'd like, Chapter 2 The pinchers ride again will be next.
