Disclaimer: All the characters belong to whomever made them, not me. The song Miracle belongs to Vertical Horizon.

A.N. I'm already working on the 2nd part, so if you want to keep reading, it shouldn't be that long. Oh and PLEASE REVIEW! If you usually don't review all you have to do is put a ! if you like it or a . if you don't.




A Broken Heart Mended




It was Saturday evening. Dori and Jim were working, and Griffin was on a date. That left Caitlin alone in the house. It was times like these, that Caitlin felt lonely. She needed somebody, and which got her thinking about her mother. At least she was alone when she did cry; nobody was there to make fun of her. She liked her reputation, and she wanted to keep it that away.


Sitting on her bed, holding a lost picture of her mom, she couldn't keep her tears back. Her radio then began to play.


It's taken much too long

To get it right

Would it be so wrong

To maybe find someone

A miracle


And all you really need

Is everything you could never be

And so you'd give it all

For a miracle


Is there a trace

Inside her face

Of a lonely miracle

And so you wait

And lie awake

For a lonely miracle


You never really know

What it is

Not until it goes

And if it comes again

It's a miracle


But what you miss is love

In everything below and up above

And could she bring it all

A miracle


Is there a trace

Inside her face

Of a lonely miracle

And so you wait

And lie awake

For a lonely miracle


All you wanted was a

All you needed was a miracle

A miracle

And all you wanted was a

All you needed was a miracle

A miracle


It's taken so long

To get it right

Could it be so wrong

To maybe find someone

A miracle


Is there a trace

Inside her face

Of a lonely miracle

And so you wait

And lie awake

For a lonely miracle


Is there a trace

Inside her face

Of a lonely miracle

And so you wait

And lie awake

For a lonely miracle


Anger and frustration came to her and she decided that she needed to get a hold of herself. She would ride Bandit; he always calmed her down.


She went out to the barn, and put the picture into her saddle bag, then jumped on still crying. She rode for a little while, but then found herself in front of Eric's house. She didn't know why she came here. She didn't even want anybody to see her like this, yet, here she was. She stared at the house for a little while, and then started to turn around, but she heard someone say behind her say, "Caitlin? What are you doing here?"


She turned Bandit around, and saw Eric looking at her. She groaned inwardly, knowing that he was the last person who would understand her situation.


Eric saw her face, with tears flowing down them. "God, what happened to you?"


Caitlin quickly wiped her tears away with her sleeves on her leather jacket and replied, "It's nothing. I'm fine."


"No, you're not fine." he said with an agitated tone in his voice.


Caitlin jumped down from her horse, ready to tell him to mind his own business, and accidentally hitting the saddle bag, the picture fell out. Eric bent down and picked it up. He looked at the framed picture, then at Caitlin. "Is this your mom?" He didn't need an answer; he saw it in her eyes.


Caitlin tried to hold back her tears, but failed. Angrily, she snatched the picture from his hands, and mounted Bandit. She broke her gaze, and galloped away; still wiping tears from her eyes.


*** *** ***


"Griffin, Brett, wait up." It was lunch time at school, and Eric wanted to know what happened the previous day.


"Hey Eric." said Brett and Griffin.


Eric fell into step with his friends that were heading toward one of the tables. "What was up with Caitlin yesterday?" he asked.


"What do you mean?"


"Why was she crying?" he asked, trying to remind Griffin of what he thought wasn't very hard to forget.


"What are you talking about?" Griffin asked, still clue-less of what was going on.


"Yeah man, what's up with you?" Brett joined in.


They stopped walking and faced each other. With an agitated look on his face, Eric replied, "She was crying the other

day; came to my house, didn't say anything, and rode away on Bandit."


"What!" exclaimed Brett and Griffin in unison.


"Yeah, you didn't know?" They sat down at a near-by table; Griffin to the right of Eric, and Brett sitting in front of Griffin.


"No, we live in the same house, but I don't keep tabs on her."


"Do you know what it was all about?" asked Brett.


"No, that's why I'm asking you. Wait a minute . . . . There was a picture that she got upset about. I'm pretty sure it was her mom."


"I didn't know she had a picture of her mom. I never saw it in her room before."


"Well, I don't know where she got it, but it looked like something important since she snatched it away from me."


"Here she comes." warned Brett, looking over their heads. They grew silent as Caitlin sat down next to Brett. She didn't say anything, but kept eyeing Eric, which he returned the look.


"Caitlin...."


"Look," she said, cutting off Griffin. "I don't want to talk about it. Just leave me alone." And she got up from the table and walked away, leaving the guys looking at each other with faces that said, "Let's not mess with her."


*** *** ***


"Caitlin," Griffin ran up to her in the hall. "I know you don't want to talk about whatever's bothering you, but I just want you to know that you can talk to me and my friends."


Caitlin slowly turned to face him. "Thanks, but I think you're forgetting something."


"Like what?"


"Eric! Stupid, like he would even listen to me!"


"Come on Caitlin! Eric's not that bad!"


"Yes he is! Now, I can talk to Brett, and you've got my back, but there's NO WAY I could talk to him. He wouldn't even listen!"


"Fine Caitlin, do whatever you want. I just wanted to know what was bothering you, that's all."


"Thanks for your concern, but I don't need somebody prying into my life!" she said angrily, not wanting to talk to anybody anymore. She walked to class, leaving Griffin standing in the hall.


*** *** ***


After school, Caitlin got Bandit, and jumped on. She rode a little ways, into the countryside. She came to a not-so-well beaten path, and guided Bandit onto it.


Up ahead, was a rotten log laying across the path. Caitlin didn't deem it dangerous, so she continued, nearing toward it. Suddenly, Bandit stood back on his hind legs, and neighed as it saw a rattlesnake crawling out of the log. It bucked Caitlin off, and she landed on the ground with a thud.


Unconscious, Caitlin didn't hear Bandit stomping around her, or the engine of a dirt bike . . . .