Sunny's Story (standard:adventure, 1501 words)
Author: DREAMERJJ	Added: May 06 2002	Views/Reads: 3569/2321	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
adventures of a horse named Sunny and his friends....Part one

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mattered to me, until my mother came out to the barn to send me off to 

school. 

School seemed to last forever that day, and I got in trouble 

several times for daydreaming. I invited my friends to come and see my 

new foal on the weekend. I could hardly wait. 

When the buss arrived at my stop, I jumped off (not without 

some pain to remind me of the night before when I jumped off the 

fence) and headed to the barn. My heart stopped because the Vets truck 

was there, I was so scared. 

I ran the rest of the way. When I opened the barn door I saw 

the Vet putting a needle into the foal, I stood and watched with worry 

that something may be wrong but my mother spoke up just then and told 

me that every thing was fine. The vet was just there to give the foal a 

vitamin shot and to check him over. 

With Sunny's good health confirmed, he began to explore his new world. 

I stayed in the corner of his stall to let him discover me on his own 

terms. It was not long and he came over to meet me. I reached out my 

hand and felt the soft velvet of his nose. His whiskers were so fuzzy 

they tickled my hand. He came even closer to smell me. I softly blew 

into his nose, so that he would get my inner sent, like horses do when 

they first meet. He let me scratch his neck, then scampered over to his 

Mom for a reassuring drink. She nickered softly to him and nuzzled his 

withers. 

I went about feeding the rest of the horses, filling up the water 

buckets and cleaning out the stalls. This was my responsibility every 

night after school, a chore that I loved, and insisted on doing by my 

self. 

After spending some special time with my pony Lucky, I went back to see 

Sunny again. I went into his stall and talked to him and told him all 

about the things that we would be doing together. He seemed to like the 

sound of my voice and came over to inspect me again. He let me scratch 

him all over this time and nickered softly to me. I told him about the 

new halter that we would be putting on him in a few days and that he 

shouldn't be afraid of it. 

Candy came over to make sure that I was not hurting her baby, and 

nuzzled him on his shoulder. This seemed to be the signal to Sunny that 

our time was up for today. After another quick drink from mom he 

plopped onto the soft bedding and promptly went to sleep. 

Chapter 2 

As the sun peaked over the trees and into my bedroom window, I 

awoke realizing that Saturday was finally here. Rycki and Hanna were 

coming to see my new foal and go riding. Mom had said that we could 

help put the halter on him today. Rycki and Hanna had horses of there 

own but had not had a foal before and where excited to help me with 

mine. 

After a quick breakfast, off to the barn I went. Sunny was sleeping and 

his mom nickered to me for her breakfast. I mixed her a special bran 

mash, and fed and turned out the rest of the horses for the day. I 

wanted to get the barn cleaned just right so that when my friends came 

over it would look nice, I felt that there was nothing worse than 

having your friends stepping in horse dun“no running in the barn” but 

it was only a half-hearted yell. We slowed down as we approached the 

foaling stall. “ OHHHHH!” Rycki and Hanna exclaimed at the same time, 

as Sunny peeked out over his stall door. With that Sunny scampered off 

to the far corner of his stall and looked at us with guarded 

curiosity. Candy came over looking for treats, which seemed to give 

Sunny the courage the he needed to face his new admirers. 

After having a coffee and a visit with Rycki's Mom,  my Mom assured her 

that she would take the girls  home later in the day and that it was 

no problem . We went out to wave good bye as the car left the driveway 

and headed back towards town. 

My Mom went in the tack room and brought out a new halter that she had 

picked up just for Sunny and handed it to me, I looked at her with 

apprehension and she motioned for me to go ahead, he was after all, my 

horse, she said.  I took the halter and walked quietly to the stall 

door and went inside. Sunny immediately came over to inspect me and I 

let him sniff what I had in my hand.  He seemed to like the sound of my 

voice and let me scratch him all over. As he was busy getting a good 

scratching from me I slipped the halter over his head with out him 

hardly noticing what I was doing! 

Just as I was clasping the snap on the side of the halter he realized 

that something strange was on his head and he took off bucking and 

shaking his head. He ran around to the far side of his mother and tried 

to shake the halter off. Luckily I got the snap done up just in time 

and it didn't come off. 

He took a reassuring drink of milk and looked at me as if to say that 

he was not pleased to be tricked! 

We all laughed at his behavior then turned to each other and without 

saying a word decided that it was time for us to get the other horses 

and saddle up for our ride. 

We walked out of the barn that day with the exuberance that only 14 

year old girls could have. We knew of only the bright sunshine, the 

long green grass under our feet, the smell of horses in the air and a 

friendship that would last forever. 


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