Chapter 6 and 7

Chapter 6

 A police man went to the place where all the family was waiting. “It´s been forty minutes” he said looking to each one´s terrified faces. “The firefighters could stop one part of the fire”. “They found something near the lake” he said while he pulled something from his truck.

“Ty´s suit” Jack said in sadness.

The jacket was half burned, full of ashes and ripped.

“At least we know he has his pants on” Jack said trying to calm the rest of the family.

When the police man grabbed the suit with the other hand something small felt from its pocket. It was a small bag. The man picked it up and opened the bag. Inside there was a brown box. He opened it and found something shinny, a diamond, a ring. It had it´s own light, the diamond shined in the dark.

“So, what about this? The police man asked.

“No idea” Jack smiled.

Each one reacted in a different way. Mallory smiled and let a short laughter escape from her mouth. Lou put a hand on her mouth and said “Oh my god” a couple of times. Tim said “What? How?” he was so surprised and shocked at the same time that he couldn´t speak. He felt like something coming through his throat, he started sweating a little, but he realized that no one could explain what was going on. He stayed in mute for a long time. Jack felt almost like Tim, but he knew that some day it was going to happen. He had seen her daughter grow, his granddaughter too, he had seen Amy growing up too, and Mallory for sure.

Lou was surprised too. She couldn´t believe her sister would get married so fast. Lou thought to herself, “… I got married a year ago, and my ten-year younger sister get´s married a year later?” She felt happy and proud of her sister too. She started thinking that she would be the one to prepare their wedding, that was exciting for her.

Mallory thought “finally”. She had been there to whisper all their relationship, and knew it was a fairytale.

Everything was interrupted by a noise that came from the barn. Like something crushing and breaking.

Everyone turned around and saw a dark shape moving and running.

“What´s that?” Mallory asked.

The police man turned on his flashlight and pointed to the moving shape.

“Spartan” said Jack.

Caleb, who had just arrived in his truck, saw the horse running and jumping. He took his rope and tried to catch Spartan, but he couldn´t.

The black horse ran scared to the forest. Everyone began to follow Spartan, but they couldn´t catch him. He was lost in the smoke and the ashes.

Meanwhile, Amy continued lying on the floor as Ty did. They were lost and fainted on the ground.

The floor started moving. It was like a nightmare. Everything went fast trough Amy´s mind. “It´s just my worst dream”, she thought. Suddenly, she opened her eyes and saw the grass moving and disappearing under her feet.

She looked around, and saw what was really happening. The ground wasn´t moving, in fact she was the one moving. She was running, and jumping, she felt free and unstoppable. “Wait a second” she thought, “I´m horse riding”. Amy thought she might had lost memory, because she didn´t remember anything at all. The last think she remembered of was when she was carrying Ty through the smoke, and how painful it was.

“Ty!” she shouted. When Amy turned around, saw Ty´s legs about to touch the floor. She took Ty by his waist and sat him on the horse. She was terribly scared when some thoughts came to her mind “What about if he is…” “No!” She started crying. Amy touched his heart, and realized that it was still beating, and he was breathing. “He´s just faint” She thought. She was terrified.

“It´s Spartan” She smiled. “Thanks buddy” “Come this way” said and took him by his mane. Amy couldn´t believe her eyes. How could he get here? How could he save her? How did they get to his back? And other questions mixed in her mind.

Spartan was going to the ranch. He was an intelligent horse, and Amy knew he was more than just a horse, “he is unique” She thought to herself.

Chapter 7 Sweet Miracle

Spartan was just meters away when two firefighters that were near heard his footsteps.

Then, a tree´s branch fell on his the horse´s way. It was quite big, so he needed to run fast, gain impulse and then jump. When he got to the other side, Ty´s head hit to Spartan´s. Ty open his eyes and saw everything dark. He didn´t know where he was or what he was doing. Seconds later, he remembered that he was running from the fire´s flames, and the burned candles.

“What? How?... Why?” he modulated those words in his mouth.

“In fact in a long story”. “Are you OK?” Amy asked.

“Depends on what OK means” he laughed. “I don´t remember anything at all” “I´m kind of lost” he said.

“My jacket!” he shouted as he put his hands on his head.

“That´s not the most important thing now”. “We need to save our lives  before looking for your suit” She said. Then she realized that she was being quite rude, so she added “We can look for it later, when the fire stops, OK?”

“Ah, yes sure” said in a low voice. He knew he had to find it, their future was in his jacket.

Ty took her hands. “We are near!” he said.

Spartan continued galloping trough the smoke. They were just meters away. They realized about it because they saw some police men looking for them. The officers could not even blink after seeing suck a miracle. That´s what it was, a miracle.

Lou heard a noise that sounded familiar to her. It was a horse´s steps.

“Spartan” she shouted.

All the family Bartlett-Fleming got shocked as they saw Spartan returning with two people.

“Ty and Amy” said Mallory.

Everyone went running where the horse had stopped. Amy tried to go down of Spartan with Ty´s help, and so did he with Amy´s help. They were all dusty and full of injuries and bruises all over their body. Their clothes were full of blood and ashes, their jeans were ripped, her knees were naked, and Ty´s shirt was almost nothing, just pieces of cloth. When Amy saw him in the light, her cheeks turned reddish, she just smiled and looked at him.