Chapter 29
Samantha stayed awake for hours. Wondering what she should do. This was just getting harder and harder. She couldn't catch a break. And to make things worse the man she loved was hiding from her. He couldn't even have the decency to let her know what was going on. He was no man. He was a coward. And he definitely didn't love her.
"Ugh! This is so frustrating!" Samantha grunted. She just didn't know what to do.
She didn't want to be in her house anymore. So she got up and went outside, to the river, like she had done so many times. He was waiting there for her. Her Phantom.
"Its like you knew I needed you, huh boy." Sam spoke to the Phantom. He didn't move and she didn't try to get near him. She just sat down and put her feet in the water. It felt nice to have to fresh water lap around her feet and the cool breeze hit her skin. It was a hot Spring night and Samantha was trying to enjoy it. It seemed like in this moment nothing mattered and nothing existed. She was there. Her horse was there. And her mom was there. She could feel her.
"Mom. What would you tell me? Would you say, 'Hey Samantha you need to go and talk to Dana and whoever else you need to talk to, to settles things.' Would you hold me and tell me everything's okay? You don't know how much I need you right now." Sam said staring into the water.
Her horse got closer to her. Close enough for her to touch. So she did, cautiously at first, but he didn't move or flinch away so she continued petting him. The breeze hugged her in a very comforting, motherly, way.
Her whole world was falling apart and here she was in the middle of the night standing in a river petting her runaway horse feeling her mother's presence through the breeze.
And then suddenly something clicked. She wasn't the angry, scared, confused Samantha she had been for the past days.
She knew what she was going to do.
She was going to fight for what she wanted.
