The black stallion by Imogen Walker (the reading list .TXT) 📖

and dad. I see mum and dad walking fast out to me I look at them and the to the truck following my eyes they see it and say " did that girl call them?!" I look at them worry covering my face, the truck works it's way closer to where we are standing and comes up right beside us and stops the man in the front looks down at us. My dad says to him politely " do we have a problem sir?" The man opens the door and steps down off the truck and says "I have had complaints about a wild horse that has been roaming the area, have you seen it?" I quickly look over at Sampson and back the the man standing in front of us. " No I haven't seen one around lately, but if I do I will surely give you a call?" My dad says confidently. The man looks around and spots our horse and says " is he yours?" I quickly reply and say yes he is ours staring at him worried. He let's out a sigh and says " I really hate when young er the community's ring up comparing and nothing is here, thank you for your time" he says smiling and gets back into the trick and drove off. Chapter 4

The sound of my alarm buzzes my ears, waking me up too darkness. I look at the time and it reads 5:00am I roll over and rub my eyes getting up out of bed and putting my dressing gown on, slowly walking out to the paddock. Sampson looks over and nickers greeting me I open the gate up and I walk up to him and give him a good pat and a fresh carrot. I whisper in his ear " yesterday was a close one, lucky you weren't still wild boy you would have been taken" I walk back to the tack room and mix up a feed for him carrying the bucket out and putting it in the paddock the smell of copra lingering the air. He trots over and shoves his mouth into the bucket eating away at the grains. I go and grab my grooming kit and I walk over to him slowly putting my hand on his back and rub it slowly I place the brush on him his back tenses and I talk to him calmly. I slowly glide the brush over his back and rump getting all the excess hair and dirt off him. I run it down his legs and under his stomach. I grab a mane brush and brush down is mane pull the knots out. I grab his tail slowly and pull it around the the side his thick black hair running down my leg I brush it knots everywhere I say to him " we better have a grooming session aye?" He keeps eating moving the bucket with his mouth. I look at my watch and it reads 6:00am I take the brush away and give him a kiss on the neck and tell him i will see him soon and put the grooming set back in the tack room and walk inside. I make myself some breakfast and then go and get ready for school the time going fast. I grab my school bag and put it I over my shoulder and yell " bye mum, bye dad" and walk out. I look over at Sampson and say " I will see you this afternoon, mum will give you some hay later, have a good day boy" and I walk to the end of the driveway and wait for my school bus. I arrive at school and the first person I see is my best friend Alice I walk up too her a smile spreading across my face I say "have a guess what?!" She looks at me and says " what?" I giggle and say " I got my own horse!!" She looks at me shocked and says " you are so lucky!, you didn't come to lessons last week?" I smile my cheeks going red I say quietly " yeah I couldn't mum and dad were fighting and yeah but I will be coming next week for sure." She says excitedly " what type, gender, colour, tell me everything!" I look at her and smirk and say " well this horse isn't your normal school horse, how can I put it he is from the wild." She looks at me stunned and confusion fills her eyes, " what?, why would you get a wild horse that you are going to have to brake in?" I look at her and tell her what happened with the Sampson and she listened intently and understood me. She says enthusiastically " I am coming over to see him!, can I catch the bus home with you?" I reply " that should be fine, mum will be home anyway." I sit down to eat lunch with my usual group, we start chatting and I soon feel a tap on my shoulder, I turn around and look up and see Rebecca standing there. I say to her "what do you want?" Giving her no expression. She looks at me and says "you do realise that your good for nothing horse will never be worth anything or good at pony club, all it is good for is dog meat." I look at her in shock and stand up and say to her sternly "don't you ever say that about him again! How would you know if he is good or not? And I don't really care if he isn't, I'm not a competitive brat like you are with your little 10,000 dollar pony and your snobby arse." She looks at me and gives me a death stare she says smartly "we will see who wins the show? I bet it won't be your stupid horse!" She walks off and I yell "we will see." I sit back down and look at my friends they reassure me and I say "I don't really care about her because all she can do is make other people feel bad, and she always has too be centre of attention so she is dead to me." 

Chapter 5

I arrive home with Alice walking up my street she spots Sampson and says "he is beautiful!" Running up my driveway over to the fence, I run behind her and he spots me and nickers loudly running over he throws out a buck excitedly. I stand by the fence and he comes up to it I pat his forehead and say "how was your day boy?, meet Alice she is my friend from school she isn't nasty like Rebecca" I watch as Alice puts her hand out to him he nuzzles it and licks her hand she smiles and moves her hand up patting his white blaze. She looks at me and says "he is so friendly, I can't  wait until you can ride him!" I look at her and say " yeah today I am going to try and put a halter on him and lead him around." We walk into the house and I put my bag in my bedroom and greet mum Alice following me. I walk back outside and quickly grab a halter and a carrot and walk into the paddock. Alice waits outside the gate waiting for me to see his reaction. I walk up to him and give him a good pat and say "good boy, I'm just going to put a halter on you,it's  not going to hurt you trust me" I get the halter into position and slid it over his nose he walks back a little, I whisper to him calming words. I clip the top bit up and let him free he shakes his head and runs up to the fence, shaking his head around trying to get it off. I walk back up to Alice and say " you can come see him if you want?" She opens the gate and walks inside the paddock I quickly go to the tack room and grab a lead rope and lunge rope walking back into the paddock. I look at Alice and Sampson she patting him, a smile spread across her face. I leave them for a moment knowing that she has always wanted a horse of her own and never being able to get one. I grab the lunge rope and walk up too them I say "sorry to ruin the moment" Alice replies smiling " it's alright go ahead" she walks back a little and I attach the lunge rope too his halter. He feels the sudden weight of it and walks back throwing his head I say "here boy it's alright" calming him down. I swing the end of the lunge rope trying to get him to walk on, he walks around in a circle. I push him more and he goes to run at me, I stand holding my ground and push him out again getting him into a trot. I make him go faster, I spin in circles as he fast trots around me I push a little more and he goes into a canter. I say happily "good boy!" Smiling at him he canters around in a circle smoothly. 

I stop him and softly tug on the rope he slowly walks towards me and I praise him. I say to Alice "would you like a turn?" She looks at me and says quickly "sure" taking hold of the lead rope. I say to her before she begins, "he might try to run at you but don't be scared, just hold your ground and push him back out" she nods and starts to swing the rope. I look at him and seeing that he is testing her, she pushes him more and glides into a trot, prancing around on the grass. I see the sweat rising on his coat making him a darker black, she pushes him a little and he stops and try's to run at her. She hesitates buts stands her ground,I watch and see that she pushes him out again. She gets him into a canter and canters him around, sweat dripping from him, she stops and walks up to him praising him. She hands me the lunge rope and says "he is so good,considering he was completely wild a couple of weeks ago, I think he is