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We were laughing at something Hayley's boyfriend had said when we pulled up in front of the cabin.
"We're here." Hayley said, "You know, Alex, you really should get a new boyfriend. You shouldn't let Hayden drag you down like that. He was a jerk."
"I know Hayley, I know." I told her"It's just I'm scared the next guy is going to be just like him. I don't what that. I really want him to be something special."
"You never know when you'll find Mr. Right, Alex. But let's forget about guys for the weekend."
"Ok. Let's get the horses."
We climbed out of the car and took the horses out of the trailer. Abby greeted me by nudging my head. Remy pricked his ears and trotted a circle around Hayley.
"Let's get them saddled up and take them for a short ride before we go get some dinner." She said as she laughed at Remy's antics.
"Ok. I'm sure Abby wants to stretch her legs." I responded.
When we were saddled up, we headed into the woods. Soon into the woods, Remy got a rock caught in his hoof and he and Hayley turned back.
"Come back by four, ok Alex?" she said to me.
"Sure. I just want to explore this trail." I told her.
Abby and I continued deep into the woods. We were trotting, when Abby suddenly stopped. She swiveled her ears around to try to hear something.
"What is it girl?" I asked her.
She twirled around and bolted into the woods. I didn't know what was chasing us, but it was sure scaring Abby. I let her run because she wasn't known to spook like that. I still didn't know what was chasing us.
We reached a clearing when I was launched out of my saddle. I rolled across the ground and when I sat up, I saw something terrifying.
There was a blond man gripping my horse's neck. He had ripped the saddle of her back and was leaning down to her neck. Abby bucked and reared to try and get him off. I just stared at the man. When my horse terrified scream reached my ears, I was pulled into action.
"GET OFF OF MY HORSE!!" I screamed at the man.
I guess I shocked him and he jumped off her. He landed gracefully on the balls of his feet. Abby ran over to me and stood trembling behind me.
The man stared at me, and I stared back at him. He looked like a god or something. He had an inhuman beauty. I then noticed there was something red on his cheek and chin, dark red that looked like blood. Blood. Then it hit me. It was blood! Oh My God, he's a vampire. Why else would he have attacked Abby and I?
His eyes were black and piercing. I stayed where I was, unable to move because of them. Suddenly I felt sleepy. Like I had been trying to stay awake, but couldn't any longer. I tried to stay calm.
Abby hit my shoulder with her head, waking me up. I slowly stood up and put the reins over Abby's head, never taking my eyes away from the man. The only time I looked away was when I pulled myself onto Abby bareback. I looked back at him one last time before I turned Abby towards the cabin. While she galloped away, I thought about what I had seen.
He was deathly white, had black eyes, had blood on his cheek and chin, and he attacked Abby and I. He had to be a vampire. There was no other explanation.
When we got back to the cabin, Hayley was waiting outside for us.
"What happen to you? You look like you saw a ghost. Wait, you look like how Madeline Stephano describes the vampires in her story." Hayley said, "What happened to you?"
"Something spooked Abby and she took off running." I explained.
"What happened to your saddle?" she added.
"Oh. Um, a branch grabbed it and tore the cinch. I don't know how I stayed on, but I did. I couldn't find the saddle when I tried to go back." I told her.
"Ok. But now you don't have a saddle."
"No. I do, I brought my old saddle."
"Ok. Let's put Abby away and we can go get some dinner."
I nodded and walked Abby to the stable where we were keeping the horses. Hayley noticed first I was bleeding.
"Oh My God, Alex your bleeding!" she yelled.
I looked down at my arm and saw a cut down my arm from my elbow to the palm of my hand. Both hands were completely scraped up too. Hayley wrapped her jacket around my arm, and ran to get the first aid kit. I took that time to make sure the man hadn't cut Abby. She was fine.
"Alex, we should go to the hospital. I don't think I know how to fix that." She said after looking in the kit.
I nodded weakly and followed her to the car. As I sat in the truck, I couldn't help but feel like I was being watched. When we got to the hospital, I sat in one of the chairs in the waiting room while Hayley talked to nurse at the desk.
Then I saw him again. He was walking across the room with one of the doctors. I tried to make myself disappear, and hoped he wouldn't see me. He did. When he passed me, he whipped his head to look around the room. His black eyes grew wide when he saw me. We stared at each other until the doctor got his attention again. He said something to the doctor and then walked out the door.
"Alexandra, the doctor will see you now." A plump nurse told me after looking at her clipboard.
I followed her, but my thoughts were still on the man. She led me into a room and closed the door behind her.
I didn't have to wait long for the doctor to come in. I was surprised to see he was the same doctor that was talking to the vampire. He had blond hair and golden eyes. They mesmerized me just like the vampire's black eyes had.
"Hello, I'm Dr. Cullen. What happened here, Alexandra?" he asked me.
"I-I fell off my horse and cut my arm." I lied.
The doctor would never have believed me if I had told him the truth.
"That must have been some fall." He said as he brought a needle, thread, and other things over to the table. "Please sit on the table here and I will get you patched up soon."
I climbed on to the table and watched as he cleaned the wound. I winced when he started to stitch the two edges of the wound together.
"How did you fall off? If you don't mind me asking." He asked.
"I don't mind." I told him before I started to explain. "Um, something spooked my horse and she took off running. Then something attacked us. I fell off and cut my arm open."
"Did you see what attacked you?" he asked.
"Um."
I couldn't just tell him a vampire attacked me. He would send me to a crazy hospital.
"No, I didn't see it ran away before I could."
He looked at me with concern. I looked away, guilty.
"There. Your arm is all patched up. Do you want me to look at your hands too?"
"Sure. I don't think they will need stitches, but I don't want them to get infected."
He nodded and started to look at my hands. I noticed his hands were freezing. I decided to trust him.
"Dr. Cullen do you believe in the supernatural?" I asked.
He stiffened for a moment, if I had blinked I would have missed it.
"What do you mean by that, Alexandra?" he responded hesitantly.
"I mean like vampires and werewolves and things like that."
He stiffened for longer this time.
"Yes, yes I do. Why do you ask?"
"No reason. Just wondering."
"Ok. There, your hands are fixed up too. Try to stay out of the deep woods."
"Ok. Thank you Dr. Cullen."
"Your Welcome Alexandra."
When we left the office, Hayley and I went to a diner in town. After dinner, we went back to the cabin. My sleep was full of pale, blond haired vampires with black eyes. Oddly, I wasn't scared of the vampires in my dream.
The next morning, Hayley called me outside.
"Look what someone did. Someone found your saddle. And got you a new cinch." She said.
Sure enough, there was my saddle with a brand-new girth and saddle blanket sitting on it. Hayley was talking about how it was so amazing that someone had found it AND got me a new cinch and blanket. When she picked up the blanket to look at it, a piece of paper fell onto the deck. I picked it up and read it.
It said:
Dear Alexandra,
I am sorry I attacked you and your horse and scared you. I hope this saddle blanket and cinch will make up for the ones I destroyed. I'm sorry for being so rude. I hope you can forgive me.
Sincerely,
JWH
Oh My God! The vampire brought my saddle back and bought these things. I wonder what JWH stood for. Maybe it was his name.
"Alex, look, the blanket has your name on it." Hayley exclaimed.
I looked and in the same spidery handwriting as the note, was my name on the blanket in gold thread.
"Wow." I whispered.
"I know! That's so cool. I wonder who did this." She said.
I never saw the vampire again over our trip. We didn't go back into the forest. I was just happy that Abby let me ride her again. Usually a horse wouldn't let you on their backs if something had jumped on their backs.
I had a dream the last night we were in Forks. In it, I was with the vampire. We were laughing about something. I wasn't scared of him. I don't know how I felt. The dream fast forwarded he was carrying me. He was running, I wasn't moving and the vampire had a pained look on his face. The dream went forward again and I was on a hospital bed. I was hooked up to lots of different machines. The vampire was at my side holding my hand.
I wouldn't understand the dream for a long time.
