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86. Choices

The next morning, Lucy was up bright and early. She went downstairs and was greeted by her grandmother, who then went ahead and made her breakfast. After attending church that morning, Lucy's cousin, Peyton, who was two years older than Lucy, rode home with Lucy so they could go horseback riding. After changing into the proper attire for horseback riding, the girls ran down to the barn where their grandfather was getting the horses ready for their ride. He had both of the horses saddled up and ready to go by the time the girls made it down there.

"Now, remember girls, don't do anything stupid while you're on these horses, like jumping over things that are too high…" he said as he was looking at Peyton. She had a habit of do things that she shouldn't. "Also, wear your helmets. Lunch is in two hours, so be home for that or your grandmother will be unhappy," he said warning them.

The girls put their helmets on and got up on their horses, they had both been taught how to ride and their parents trusted them going out on the trails on the property without any supervision from adults. Peyton grew up around horses and rode them every day while Lucy rode them whenever she could, which usually amounted to whenever they were in Montana. They headed out on one of the paths, with Peyton in the led; they slowly went down the path that led to the small pond on the property. There, they let the horses take a break as they got down to stretch their legs quickly, before getting back on their horses.

Peyton began to take the horses down a path that was fairly new, one that hadn't been ridden on a lot and there were a bunch of weeds along the path along with fallen trees.

"Are you sure we should go this way?" Lucy yelled up to Peyton.

"Yea, I take this path quite often now, just follow me!" she turned and yelled back.

"Okay!" Lucy responded back. She followed Peyton as she led the horse to jump over low trees that were lying across the path, her and there was one tree that was a little higher off the ground but the horses handled it with great ease. When they we quite far into the woods, Lucy called up to Peyton, "Shouldn't we turn around soon? It's almost time for lunch."

"Sure, let's just do one more jump," Peyton responded. Peyton led the horse over the tree that was quite high off the ground, higher than any of the previous ones they had encountered. With great hesitation, Lucy tried to led her horse over the log. As the horse began to jump, the horse freaked out and bucked Lucy off, sending her into the tree behind her, causing her to land on the ground. Peyton jumped off her horse shouting, "Lucy are you okay?!" but she heard no response.

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