Sometimes, I like to come and read the short stories we wrote, it's been like a whole year and now I'm a freshman at the College Of Hillsdale, which is where I went to high school for the last two years and I'm majoring in equine business and management, with a minor in instruction...horses and my parents have mapped out my life, and I'm OK with that. I just sort of felt like writing though...

I walked down to the barn with a sense of peace as the morning sun peaked over the horizon. It felt good to know exactly where you were meant to be and why. I went to Harly's stall and clipped the lead to his halter and lead him to an empty paddock. I watched him trot off without a word and it reminded me of the days when it was easy to watch them trot off. I felt my heart twinge at the reminder of last years accident and I walked up to the apartment while tears fell down my cheeks.
I peeked in on the kids and the tears began to fall with a more angry force than before. I hated Bryan for doing this to me, I hated myself for falling into that love again, I hated Colon for tricking me, I hated myself for ever believing I could be a good mother. No matter how many times Mack told me, I was a terrible mother. If I was a good mother I wouldn't have made the mistake of making love to a man when i was sixteen, and trusting he truly loved me, I would never had made those mistakes and made these children go through my adolescent drama. I cried quietly in the living room while Vintage sat in my lap purring. "Mindy?" I heard the voice and jolted. "Mack, sorry, did I wake you?" "No, what's wrong?" He murmered and came over. I leaned into his strong frame, "I'm just sad, I can't provide proper housing for my children." Mack stroked my hair and grazed his lips over my salty tears. "Mindy, in good time we will be able to afford a house, and these children and our own will be happy." The idea of Mack and I having children, reminded me of an impending secret that I hoped my go away and leave me empty but comfortable. It'd been three months though and I was heading into a second trimester. "Mack, speaking of our own children.."I began. "yes?" "I'm having one," I breezed through it hoping he wouldn't catch it and agree anyway. "what?" he swallowed hard. "we're having a baby." I smiled slightly. His face was pale, but his eyes were sparkling and the smile that slowly spread across his face was all I needed to know everything was going to end up just the way I wanted. "Mindy, we need to get married," he said. I nodded knowing that this time the love was real. "today," he said. "What?!" i gulped. "Well I'm not going to marry you after we have our child" I stared at him in amazement. "Okay," I smiled and wrapped my arms around him, praying silently, thanking God for taking care of this baby in the end, and thanking Him for bringing me Mack.
Harly nudged me when I went back down to grab him for a lesson. "MIndy I already knew you had a foal on the way," he scoffed when I told him my news. I stared down, I guess I was sort of showing. "well, what else do you know?" I said ruefully. "I don't know, I'm a stallion I only make the foals." "Just like a man," I replied cynically. He snorted, and we walked back up the stable in silence.

Hey Mindy,

I am not sure if you'll see this message, but I was surprised to see you'd written a story. I was bored for the first time in months and decided to pop in and rearrange some things and see if anybody was posting and lo and behold, you had!
How are things going? I am just finishing up first year university doing environmental engineering - very interesting but I have never worked so hard in my life! I have been so busy and away from home and my family and haven't been riding regularly since the summer! I am in withdrawal!! I miss my horses! This summer I have a job at a stable doing basically everything which should be lots of fun - exercising horses, teaching lessons, general maintenance. I am looking forward!
Hope all is well.

-Scarlet

Of course I always check regularly, but with school it's hard to keep up! Obviously i'm majoring in the stuff I listed in my first post, and I really like it. I think I might end up going in over my head though and try elementary ed along with my minor in instruction...that way I always have something to fall back on because my family doesn't know how iffy the horse business can actually be. Anyway I love everything about college, I'm excited to get back to my family too, I haven't seen them since Christmas and I'm missing them....Anyway, I dig the the new style. I'll have to start posting more and we can re-invent Horsey Soap Operas. ttyl
~Mindy