Author Note: I'm horrible. A truly horrible person. I can't even stick to one story for goodness sake...But once again an idea has popped into my uncommitted brain, and has been festering. I shall now unleash the madness...
Has a similar plot to the book This Lullaby by Sarah Dessen also.
Amy Fleming hasn't had the easiest life. Her father left her mother and two daughters when Amy wasthree years old. He had been involved in a riding accident and was temporarily paralyzed. He couldn't stay around his old life while having to deal with his new one. Marion, Amy's mom, decided to take Pegasus, her husbands injured horse, and nurse him back to health. Lou, Amy's sister,stayed at boarding school in England while Marionflew to Virginia with Amy, her youngest daughter, to live with her father on his farm. While helping Pegasus regain his health Marion learned much about curing horses, soon enough she used her fathers farm to build up a Horse Sanctuary, Heartland.
It has been13 years since Amy took flight from her past and started her life in Virginia. She honestly can't remember much about that life...more like shechooses not to, surpressing painful memories is what she does best. But when Marion dies in a car crash while trying to save a horse that Amy found abandoned, Amy retreats into herself, going through her daily routine but never gaining back the usual luster in her eyes (Amy is 13 when her mom dies and now she is 16, so she died 3 years ago). She barely talks, eats, or cares. She tries to convince everyone shes fine, she trys to convice herself that shes fine. And she believes it.
A side effect of all of this is lonliness. Although she can trick herself into believing she is fine, she can't trick herself into believing she isn't lonely. Soraya and Matt, her best friends, try to talk to her and invite her out, but they've always been there, when Marion was alive. They only serve as a painful reminder, as does her grandpa and Lou, her sister.
So she dates. Her reputation at school is 'One Shot Amy'. She meets boys and dates them. Yet what no one knows, other than a few select friends, is that her dating is based on math. She dates for a few months, through the romantic whirl, but when she senses that the relationship is taking a turn on Serious Lane, she jumps of the train and waves goodbye to the hopeless boy sticking his head out the window. She manages to hide her lonliness while with her present boyfriend, and then when she notices that he seems serious, she has to break up with him. She cant care about someone, everyone she cares about dies. Its the only way to temporarily delete her lonliness, yet not be in danger of even more pain. She has it down to a math.
That is until Ty Baldwin comes into the picture. He is nothing like her usual boyfriends. He's messy, while she is a neat freak. He talks a lot, where she uses her words wisely. He is always smiling, while every smile that graces her face has to be earned. He is clumsy, while she watches her every step. He finds his own crowd at school, not very popular, while she prefers to date well known men.
And most of all. The one thing she swore she'd never do, is date either a Horse Lover, or a Musician. Both lead to problems. A man on a horse reminds her of her father, instant pain. And a musician never works out.
But when the few months is up, can Amy break up with Ty, or will he be her absolutle weakness.
