The Ranch

I watched as he pointed toward home and desperately hoped he would come back and get me.  That he wasn’t angry enough to leave me out here.  After all, it hadn’t entirely been my fault.  Sam promised me he had known the way.  Promised he could get us home before anyone noticed we were gone. 

But now I was afraid that it was too late.  Most of the ranch cowboys were coming over the hill and deep down inside, I knew we never would have made it back in time.  And I knew I couldn’t begin to fathom how much trouble I was going to be in when I next saw my father.  I had been forbidden to leave the immediate surroundings of the house and here I was, miles away, with a boy I wasn’t supposed to be associating with.  

Sam had almost gotten me arrested a few weeks before and my father and his father had a huge falling out so I had done everything my father told me not to do.  I was hoping he would take back his promise to sell my horse. If Flash was no longer a part of my life, I didn’t know if I could or would be able to survive. Flash was the one remaining link I had to my mother and the only thing in life I still cared about. I would run away with her before I would let him sell her. All he had to do was try.