Just a filler. i'm uploading another chapter in a second. sorry it's been so long, lots of riding and school going on but now you have the next installment of this almost legit story:) enjoy!
A loud banging came at the door. Axel whimpered and jumped off the bed. Ella turned to her window and the sun wasn't even up yet, just the grey morning light of sunrise.
"Yeah?" she called, a little bit annoyed.
"Ella, breakfast in ten," Grace's voice came from the other side of the door.
Ella groaned and fell back on her pillow, pulling her blanket over her head. It only seemed like a second that her eyes had been closed when the smell of bacon entered her room. Axel was also licking her face off until Ella shoved him off of her.
She pulled her cloak on and stumbled out of her room, into the bright kitchen.
"Mornin' sleepy head," Grace kidded as she made a plate for Ella.
"Morning," Ella mumbled. "What time is it?"
"Not quite dawn. Don't worry, you'll get used to the early mornings soon enough."
Ella chowed down on the bacon and pancakes. George came in from the front yard and had his breakfast.
"Anything I can do?" Ella asked, after she had gotten dressed and helped Grace clean up breakfast.
"I'm sure George could use help with the fencing," Grace said.
"Cool," Ella jumped up and got her boots on.
The morning was clouded and cold. Ella's breath was a giant mass of fog. She found George in the shed next to the barn. "Need any help?" she asked from the doorway.
"Sure, why don't you get the tool box right there and follow me down to the broken fence," George replied, getting some dry lumber.
Ella helped George fix the fence, then cleaned the harnesses, then cleaned out the chicken coup, then gathered eggs, and then cleaned the pig's pen. It wasn't even lunch by the time all that was done. Ella sat on the dry, hard ground in front of the barn door. She was exhausted and wanted to crawl into bed and never come out again; but that's not the type of person Ella is.
After taking her break, she met George out in the pasture. They picked it clean of any manure and wet hay. The water trough was iced over, so they had to break that up so the horses could drink. The goats milled about along with the sheep. Axel herded them into their smaller paddock so the horses had free run of the big pasture.
Ella turned them out once all the animals had vacated the pasture. One of them was a big bay stallion with a white star on his forehead. The other was a palomino stallion that had one brown eye and one blue eye, like Axel's. For both of them being studs, they sure didn't act like it. They were very laid back and let Ella mess with them.
I was too lazy to edit this so if there are screw ups i'm sorry.