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27. Parents

Peyton sat down next to Lucy, slowly and carefully shaking Lucy's arm, trying, hoping, that she would wake up and that everything would be okay. "Lucy… are you okay?" she asked again, this time in a softer and scared voice. She watched as Lucy's eyes slowly moved, and then opened.

"What happened?" she asked, in a scared voice.

"The horse got scared and bucked you off," Peyton replied, with a little relief in her voice. "Can you stand up?"

"Not yet, I have a major headache…" Lucy replied.

"Okay, we'll wait until you're ready," she said as she sat down next to Lucy. "But you know, we really should get back to the house, what if you're hurt more then we know?" Peyton knew about head injuries and what could happen if they didn't go to the doctor.

"Okay," said Lucy as she slowly began to stand up, Peyton quickly stood up to help her. "Maybe we should just walk back, I'll guide the horses, and you just have to worry about walking." They began to slowly walk back to the house, following the same way they came, and slowly having to climb back over all the trees that they had jumped over earlier. It took much longer to get back, since they were walking and Peyton knew that they would probably start looking for them soon. Man, she thought, we sure went out a lot further than I thought we did. As they we in sight of the ranch, she saw her parents and Lucy's parents walking toward them, they had seen them getting close and had come to talk to them about getting back much later then they were told to.

"Where have you two been?" asked Peyton's father. "And why aren't you riding? What are you doing walking the horses, you could have done that without going into the woods."

"We weren't planning on being gone so long, but the horse bucked Lucy off, and she hit her head, I didn't think it would be smart for her to ride the horse back so we walked together…" Peyton started.

"Hey Luce, how are you feeling?" Danny asked his daughter with concern.

"I have a headache," she replied, as she leaned into him.

The parents looked at each other, each of them thinking the same thing. Lindsay was the first to speak, "Well, I think we should take her in, just to be safe." The others adults nodded in agreement. Hunter and Peyton took the horses down to the barn while Danny and Lindsay walked their daughter to the car so they could head out to the ER.

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