Chapter 12

"That's impossible," Ali said, stunned at what Amy just said. "She can't be pregnant, can she?"

"Apparently so, she's showing all the clinical signs of going into labor," Amy replied.

"But the stable we bought her from never said anything about her being pregnant," Ali said, still amazed.

"They probably didn't know themselves," Amy guessed.

"What do we do now?" Ali asked.

"We be there for her in case she needs it," Amy answered, kneeling down beside Karma's head. The mare grunted in pain, but allowed Amy to stroke her sweating neck. Another contraction gripped the mare and Karma squealed loudly. Amy started doing t-touch circles on the mare, hoping it would calm her down. It worked for awhile, until another contraction struck. Amy moved toward the mare's back end to get look, being careful of the mare's thrashing legs.

"I can see it's hooves," Amy said to the others. Soon, she could make a tiny muzzle. "It's okay, Karma, it's almost over," she soothed to the mare. Karma grunted and picked up her head. Her soft brown eyes looked at Amy and a deep sigh came from the mare. As if she understood that everything was going to be okay. Karma whinnied again and Amy looked back toward the birth canal. The foals front legs were halfway out and so was it's head. That was when Amy realized that no matter how much Karma pushed the foal wasn't budging.

"Need some help, pretty girl," Amy whispered. She scooted closer to the mare and took ahold of the foals' legs. When Karma pushed again, Amy pulled and very slowly the foal started to come. A few seconds later, the foal slid free of the birth canal and lay on the sodden straw. All at once, the tiny ears began to flick back and forth and everybody breathed a sigh of relief. Then the foal started to struggle out of the birth sac.

"It's a colt," Amy told everyone.

Amy stared at the tiny colt, he was an exact replica of his chestnut mother, blaze and all. Then all of a sudden, Amy realized the mare hadn't yet greeted her foal. Steping carefully around the foal, Amy knelt down beside the mare's head. Karma stared back at her, with wary eyes.

"C'mon Karma, come meet your new son," Amy said, taking hold of the mare's halter. Karma resisted and let out another whinny of pain. Just then Ty came into the stall. Until that moment, she had forgotten he was here.

"She's having another one," Ty said kneeling down beside the mare. Karma snorted warily at the stranger in her stall and tried to stand up. Amy did t-touch circles on the mare until she was calm again and then turned to Ty.

"What?"

"She's having twins," Ty replied. "And by the looks of it, she's gonna need some help with this one, she's really tired out." Moving slowly, he moved to the mare's back end, all the while Amy was stroking the mare to keep her calm. Meanwhile, the colt squealed from his spot in the straw, wanting his mother. Karma pricked her ears at her son's call and nickered back, while trying to stand up.

"Not yet, Karma," Amy said to the mare.

"Here it comes," Ty said. Karma squealed loudly that broke Amy's heart, watching the mare go through this pain. Amy looked over to Ty. He had ahold of the foals' legs and was pulling as hard and Karma was pushing.

Two minutes later, the other foal was lying the totally ruined straw. Everybody waiting for some sort of movement from the foal. But it just lied there. Then Amy saw it. The foal's chest was moving up and down. It was alive! Amy looked over to Ty, he saw it too. Then the foal picked its' head up and scrambled out of the birth sac.

"It's a filly," Ty said.

Unlike her brother and mother, the tiny filly was a sorrel with a diamond on her forehead. A small whinny broke Amy's stare at the filly, she looked over to the colt. He was standing up! Karma heaved herself up and nickered to her foals. The colt nickered again and took a brave step toward his mother. Once he got the concept, the colt bounded over to his mother and started suckling hungrily. Amy smiled and looked over toward Ty. Their eyes met from across the stall, only to be broken by a small squeal. They both looked down at the filly. She was still lying in the straw, but anybody could tell she wanted to get to her mother, although she was having trouble getting her legs under her. Amy longed to help the filly, but she knew this was something the filly needed to learn on her own.

Getting a determined look on her face, the filly gathered her forelegs and hindlegs under her and tried to heave herself. This time she made it. The filly stood there, legs sprawled and looked around at everybody and squealed happily. Then came the hard part. Walking. The filly took a tentative step forward toward her mother. Karma nickered toward. That encouraged the filly because she got more courage and walked forward, until she was next to her mother. Then she went to suckling hungrily, her tail swishing frantically. While the filly ate, the colt ambled over to his mother's face. Karma lowered her head and mother and son touched noses. That was such a magical moment that Amy felt tears blur vision, as she remembered her own mother.

The filly finished and walked over to where her mother and brother were. Karma nuzzled both her foals and at that moment Amy knew that it was time. Time to tell Ty the truth, that he was going to be a father.

Amy walked over to him,"Can we talk?"

Ty nodded. Together walked over to the stall door.

"We'll be right back,"Amy said to Ali.

"Okay, and thanks for everything," Ali replied.

"No problem," Amy smiled.

Amy and Ty walked out of the stall and headed outside. Where Amy realized that it had stopped raining and it had fallen dark and million stars lit up the stable yard. When they were a little ways off from the barn, Amy turned toward Ty.

"There's something I've been trying to tell you, but everytime I've tried there's been a horse in trouble, or an accident, and if don't tell you now, I don't think I'll be able to get another chance to, so here it goes..." Amy took a deep breath, took his hands and continued, "Ty, I'm...pregnant." There she said it, she finally told him. (A/N:Everybody happy now, you better be!) Ty stared at her for a second, lost for words.

"Ty, say something," Amy said.

Ty opened his mouth, but nothing came out. Finally, he managed, "Wow,"

"I know," Amy replied.

"Are you sure?" Ty asked her.

"Am I sure? Of course I'm sure," Amy responded. "I took the damn test like ten times...okay, maybe not ten times, it was more like three times, and they all came out th..." Ty interrupted her by kissing her. Amy kissed him back, her arms encircling his neck, and his arms went around her waist. After a minute or two, the kiss stopped.

Ty leaned his forehead against hers and whispered, "Pregnant?"

Amy smiled and nodded. He smiled back and then they kissed, like the proud parents they were going to be.

Well, there it is. If it is too short, I tried to make it longer and I promise the chapters will be long, I hope. Anyway, I hope you all enjoyed reading this chapter as much as I enjoyed writing. Remember, I love reviews! So...Review!