Here is the 2nd Ch. of The Long Road Back and I really hope this brings more viewers. This tells more about the story and it goes better with the winter! Just enjoy! Oh and thank you to the person who reviewed my story. That made even happier to continue!
The Long Road Back
Aelita's P.O.V.
The first day of Yumi dispatcherThings are already starting to feel quite lonely. Jeremie called me just to talk last night. He said I was luckily I was not to be him. Way to much homework for something he was not really involvedin. He said that Ulrich and Odd were being yelled at over and over since they were the one's who seemly started the whole bright idea. He had asked me if I was okay with being alone at home without Yumi. I told him a lie by telling him that I was fine and not needed any kind a person to be taken care of. He hung up after wards.
End P.O.V.
Aelita had to be the most upset person ever: or a least Aelita thought that was true. She was just walking were ever her legs would take her. Now and then she would just bump into people. Normally she would say sorry or another polite saying, but today she would just walk away leaving who ever she ran into staring at her as they walked on to their day.
She was almost across town. Near the park area. There, there was kid younger than her running around playing with friends or family their age. When their parents called they came over to where ever they were sitting. The parents would give them a hug or even a kiss and tell them whatever they called them for. Aelita longed for a kind of love like that. She wished she could have a family who when they called she would come. They would greet with the hug or kiss of a kind of love that would bind them together. Make them both feel loved. Her friends loved her, even Yumi's parents; they thought that she was the most nice, polite, and kind person ever to walk the Earth, but she longed for something even more.
After wandering for what seemed like, in Aelita's words, hours when it only was about an hour. She wandered around the park until she found a bench that she could sit on and sat. She saw some kids her age roller balding, skateboarding, running while chasing or racing others, and just walking around with their hands in their pockets as if they were the most coolest people known and just plain talking. After about a half an hour she got up and started her way home. It was about 5:00 by the time she walked slowly out of the park. Others were driving home, their children tired from the long day of fun with others.
"You are being left behind! You got to be more ready!" A voice called from the white picket fence right across the road. For a split second Aelita thought the voice was talking to her. When Aelita got closer to the fence she saw that the voice was from a woman who seemed to have her eyes glued one a girl a little older than Aelita riding a big, tall, brown horse.
Aelita remembered seeing horses in her history books while in class, but not for real life. The pictures had men, mostly the ones who leaded their own army, riding on top of their backs. They were almost always seen in pictures of battle field moments.
This horse to Aelita looked so much more beautiful than the other horses being ridden in her own books. The ones in the books looked frightened or sometimes in pain. The horse she saw almost in front of her was more relaxed. The rider pulled on the reins that were connected to the metal bit placed inside the horse's mouth. The rider gave a small "cluck" to the horse and gave it a push with her legs. The horses snorted and went forward with an easy trot. The rider came to a box that looked like a small brick wall. On the sides were these wonderful painted pillars that had the same brick wall design painted on it, but it looked like a green plant vine was growing all around it? The riders face was full of concentrationShe was looking straight forward not to far up and not to far down. She gave the horse a small kick with her heels and got the horse to from a trot to a faster pace.
"That's a canter! My teacher says I can canter my "x's" as soon as I can trot slow enough to make the jump without my horse jumping it like the Grand Canyon!"
Aelita turned her head to see a girl standing there with a group of younger kids. The girl was younger than Aelita and she seemed to be the show-off type of person. Aelita moved all the way up to the fence were the other girls were. They just kept on talking and giggling as is Aelita wasn't even there. All the girls got up as close as they could to the fence to see the tall beautiful horse jump his "jump". As the horse cantered you could see the sweat from the horse making its coat shin under the afternoon sun. Its mane and tail weren't very long as some horses were in some of the fantasy books she read in school, but each stride the horse took, the mane and tail would go flying up. There was shine in the horse's eyes. The jumper and her horse lined up about ten or more feet away from the jump. As they got closer the rider began to get ready fly. As the horse started to take off the rider got up and grabbed the mane and pulled herself up. Everything was in slow motion for Aelita. It was just so beautiful, to see a real horse right in front of her. Not just the painted ones placed in her books. The horse reached the ground and Aelita snapped out of her gaze. The girls next to her were going "oh" and "wow" and "totally great!" Aelita wanted to stay for more and she did.
Aelita most likely stayed for about another half hour. She watched new horses come out each one different with its own way of jumping and its own rider. The teachers changed when ever a new rider came out. After another 15 minutes a trailer came driving in. A small blue truck was pulling it into the parking lot. The small group of girls moved closer to parking lot and Aelita followed. A woman came out of the small building next to the barn while a young man, about in his twenty's, came out the truck and took off the old beat up western hat he was wearing.
"He was pretty wild just trying to get him into the trailer." the man walked to the back of the trailer with the woman following him. "Just try to get him out without someone getting hurt!"
The woman called out to a few young men working in the pasture near by. They dropped their shovels and buckets and came running over. As they were they grabbed a few small, but strong looking ropes and came next to the young man and woman.
"Brace yourselves. This horse can break any bone in your body." the man stepped back and pulled the trailer door open.
For what seemed like a minute, nothing came out. From where Aelita and the girls were standing you really could not see anything at all; just black. They heard heavy breathing and stomping on the metal floor of the trailer which made a loud "clank" when the foot of what had to be the foot landed. Tow of the men got into the trailer. For awhile you could only hear "stop!" or "hold him down!" inside. All of the girls gasped as they saw the two men pulling a huge, blind folded horse. The men were already sweating because of the horse's great effort to not obey.
The horse was also sweating like the one Aelita had saw early in the ring. Like it had gone through a workout
"Every time we stopped to check up on her she would go nuts!" the man began to close the door as the horse was fully out on the parking lot. "She can't be taken care of without breaking something."
Aelita didn't know what the eyes looked like under the blind fold, she had a feeling that it was full of anger. The horse kept struggling with the two men; pulling on the ropes. Every time the horse pulled one of the men would be pulled along with it.
It seemed like hours. The men soon began to get more tired. The horse was taking the best out of them. Their hands were sore from rope burns and their arms were tired of pulling. They had not even gone anywhere; they were still in the same spot they started in. Their arms gave in and they all let go of the ropes after one final pull from the horse's head. They feel to the ground panting. The horse didn't even bother to stay in the same spot. She reared on her hind legs and made a noise that sent most of the younger girls running. The others just backed off to a safer place. Aelita couldn't move. She was paralyzedwith fear. She tried to back off but her shoe had hit a rock and she fell right on her back side. The others didn't even bother to help her. They backed off even farther away. As the horse's front legs fell to the ground it went to a full speed run. Aelita but her arms in front of her; looking like she was saying "stop!" to the horse. She knew it wouldn't work. She wishes she would have just left right away. She wouldn't have in any part of this. Most of all she wished Jeremie was there with her. He would maybe know what to do. She heard the hoofs as the met the ground as the horse approachedat its fast pace.
"Stop," Aelita managed to whisper. 'It won't work. Why would a horse like that listen to a person like me?' she thought. Her eyes were tightly closed shut. Aelita could hear the sound of the horse's hooves getting near. "Just please stop."
The sound had died down. Was she dead? Did the horse already get her? No, she was alive, but it didn't feel that way. She was still in great shock. The loud noise of the hooves had stopped. Aelita could feel a warm, a warm, how could she say it? Like the feeling when someone, or even something, breathes on you. She could hear each breath the horse took as of it were above her. She didn't know that much was true.
Aelita opened her eyes very slowly at first. When she found out it was safe, she opened fully. The horse was right next to her, looking at her, right into her eyes. The horse didn't look as harmful as before; to tell the truth the horse looked more concerned than freighting. The horse walked closer to Aelita and nudged her gentlyas if telling her to get up; or maybe just to pet her head. Aelita put her hands down slowly. She just looked right into the horses' eyes and it looked right into hers'. The hors nudged her once more. This time harder. Aelita knew what the horse wanted.
Everyone else was just in awe. The girls who ran away came back, but with great cautionThey were surprised by Aelita's change in studiedtowards the horse. Their eyes must have been fooling them. Aelita was trying to pet the horse! Aelita and the horse didn't seem to mind. Aelita didn't no any better. Yes, she was frightened but why should she? The horse looked like she wanted something from her.
After talking herself in to petting the horse, Aelita put out her hand towards the horse's head. She moved it closer to the horse head. Soon the horse saw that Aelita was trying to pet her and it moved its head closer to Aelita's hand. She was stunned. The horse put her head on her hand. Aelita just pat her; afraid that the horse just might get mad at her for not petting her.
One of the men came up slowly and put the rope around the horse's neck. This time the horse didn't put up a great fight. It followed the commands of the man. He could lead the horse with ease.
"Good Lord. She can't be, can she?" the woman was stunned as she asked the just as confussed men.
"She can't be!" one the girls shouted, "I heard they can only be found in the western part of America! Why would she be here in France!"
"Excuse me" Aelita said when she finally found her voice, "but I really don't understand what is going on. I am sorry if I..."
Don't ya even know who ya are!" the woman had put her hands on her hips and seemed to be shouting, "You're a horse whisperer don't ya know? You are born with it; it's in your blood. But why would you be that kind of person? I mean I never have seen you around these parts. Not even in the stables!"
"I'm new here." said Aelita as she backed away from the woman who was now spitting when she spoke.
"Well they're really rare. They can only be found in the American parts."
"Told you! Why would she be here? She probably doesn't even know how to horseback ride!"
"Going on," the woman glared at the younger girls, "They're really rare n' stuff. Can heal any kind of horse."
"Sorry but I have no idea what you are saying." Aelita was stepping back even more to show she wanted to leave.
"What are ya? Dumb!" the woman looked quite strong close up, "Ya should know by know! You're a Horse Whisperer and a right good one too!"
"But I never knew," Aelita had trouble finding her words "I always had loved to see horses but that has nothing to do with-"
"It has everything to do with it!" the woman kept rising her voice and got closer to Aelita, soon they where inches apart, "The whisperers always have had a soft spot fer horses. When they where born even!"
"I just don't know how I could be one." Aelita has trying to be kind but it quite hard with a woman like this above you.
The woman seemed to have noticed that there was no way to get her to believe that she was whisperer and slowly moved back. She took off her hat and wiped off the sweat.
"Well anyways... here's my card," she handed Aelita a small white paper, "Call me. I would want ya to think about it. Ya know ya could make some money, get a job ya know? People would really want you around these parts. I mean I found everything a whisperer needs to be a whisperer in you. So think about it and call. I can even give ya free lessons if you work fer me." she turned around and ordered the men around and told the girls to get working in the stable or go home. It took awhile until Aelita left, staring at the paper in her hands.
End of Ch. 2
So far so good. Took me awhile, had writers block for awhile and had no idea. Again sry fer the spelling errors (if there is any) i'm bad at that stuff. I got to download spell check. Plz r&r. the next ch. well be short. I just know it. Thanks!
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