Chapter 2
Why did I ever agree to this? I was on a plane, heading to Texas to some ranch where Sonny's wedding was being held. Evidently, Sonny and her cousin had promised each other that when they got married, they would hold each other's wedding, no matter how much it cost to get each other and everyone invited there.
I was sitting by my sister who was sitting in the middle and by Sonny and I was by the window. We had about an hour before we got there, so I listened to my iPod while Sonny and Carmen talked about the wedding. Soon the plane landed and we all quickly got off the plane. Carmen was meeting a friend that had come along too.
We quickly found Sonny's aunt, Kayla, and one Kayla's sons, Hayden. Evidently Sonny's cousin trained horses as well as rode professionally all around the world, so they had horses at the airport that had come from Europe for her to train.
They were all really young horses from what Hayden told me, as he loaded one into the trailer that was really hyped up and prancing around.
"What is she training them to compete in?" Sonny asked Kayla.
"They are going to be dressage horses and jumpers. The last one Hayden loaded, the black one that was really hyped up, she has to break that one in and she is going to train him to be a jumper and dressage. She bought that one for herself. She fell in love with him when we flew down there for a competition about a month ago, so she bought him," Kayla said, closing and latching the gate to the trailer.
As we walked by, I noticed a door that was slightly open and asked what it was.
"Oh that's the part that we sleep in when we go to competitions, but this one is my little sister's," Hayden said, opening the door.
Mine and Sonny's jaws dropped.
Who knew that a horse trailer could look like a miniature house?
This place had everything!
A king-sized bed, 42" plasma TV, mini-fridge, microwave, oven, stove, closet, even a bathroom! There were pictures everywhere of a brown headed girl with big brown eyes and looked a lot like Sonny, with horses. There were pictures of another girl that looked like Hayden, blonde hair and green eyes, and another boy that looked like the brown headed girl, but with green eyes just like Hayden and the other girl. I recognize them from somewhere. But where?
Sonny's face lit up when she saw a picture of her and the brown headed girl. They were both wearing jeans and t-shirts and boots. Sonny was sitting on a big brown horse with a white face and one white ear and the other girl was on a big black, brown, and white horse. They were leaned out of the saddle, half hugging each other, with huge smiles plastered across their faces as they looked at the camera.
"This was the picture we took when we turned sixteen. She had just moved back here," Sonny said, smiling. "She had just bought these two and we were having a blast riding through town. I was riding Zane and she was on Jupe."
"Are you ever going to tell me her name? She looks REALLY familiar!" I stated. No one had told me the name of Sonny's cousin.
Sonny just giggled. "Yeah…" she started. "When you meet her," she said, laughing as she saw my face light up and then fall when she said that.
Kayla then appeared at the door and told us that we needed to get the horses to the house and get them settled in.