chapters 10-12

Chapter 10 – Good afternoon

It was a brand new day in Heartland. The sun light shinned in the fields. Amy woke up as she heard Lou and Jack talking in the kitchen about last night´s incident and how they were going to take out the ashes from the burned grass and trees. Then she realized that she had fell asleep in the sofa. She opened her eyes, and turned around looking for Ty.

“Ty?” She said, but no one answered. She was really tired, and had a headache. “It must be late” She said and tried to stand up. Amy took out a blue blanket that was keeping her warm from yesterday´s cold. She stood up and went to the kitchen.

“Good Morning “ She said.

“Morning” Jack smiled.

“Good morning Amy” Lou added.

As she got to the kitchen she saw Ty sitting in a chair with a sleepy face. “Hey” he said.

“Hey!” she said. “What time is it?”

“Twelve thirty” He answered.

“ I missed lunch right?”

“Yeah, me too” He said. “I´ve just woke up!” “Nice look!” he laughed.

“Thanks a lot!” She said when she thought about it. “I can say the same about you” she pointed at his messed up hair.

He laughed and then asked “Cofee?”

“Sure” “So, what are the plans for today?” she asked Lou.

Lou looked at Amy and then looked for her schedule in the laptop she was writing. “At Two o´clock you have to work in this horse called ‘Wonder’ his owner is going to pick her up at four”

“I wonder what´s the deal with ‘Wonder’ ” Amy said.

“Fleming´s in good mood” Ty added.

“Why are you fighting me?”She laughed.

 “I´m not fighting” He said smiling.

“Nice look! Fleming´s in a good mood!” She imitated what he said.

“I´m just joking!” He put his arm over her shoulders.

“Back to the horse… he´s five years old, and is a racing horse. For some reason he doesn´t want to run anymore, he kind of gets scared” said.

“Fine”

“He has a busy schedule, so he can come only two hours today”

“How can he have a busy schedule if he doesn´t want to run?”

“Who Knows?”

“Could you talk with Peter yesterday?” Amy asked after s short silence.

“Yes, he´s really busy with all this economic problems”

“But, you´re OK, right?”

“Yeah, fine”

Chapter 11 – Just think

Two hours later, Amy was working on “Wonder” while Ty watched her talking with the horse. It was a sunny day, there were no clouds in the blue sky and the heat that made everybody feel seek and work felt harder.

Ty felt thirsty, so he went to the house to get some water.

“Oh my god, it´s burning outside!” Mallory said as she got to room.

“Hey Mallory” “Aren´t you supposed to be working at Maggie´s?” Ty asked.

“Yeah” She said and crinkled her nose.

Ty looked at her trying to say “So?”

The temperature is too high, I can´t walk how am I supposed to serve meals?” She said moving her head.

“I said I was sick” she smiled.

“Really? ” Ty asked. You can grow up from the outside, but you´re still the outgoing and exaggerating Mallory” he said in a sigh.

“Whatever”

“So what are you going to do all day, just sit down?” Ty asked.

“I´ll try to find a way to get colder.”

“That didn´t go so well last time, right?” They laughed.

“Whatever” She said this time more exaggerated.

It was almost evening, almost everyone in the ranch had been working on cleaning the ashes from the burned parts.

“You and your crazy dates” Jack repeated to Ty a couple of times.

“Jack I´m really sorry, I didn´t knew that…” Ty said and was stopped by Jack.

“It´s OK, It isn´t your fault, you´ve done enough work for today, go and get a bath.” He said. Ty runned to the barn and then stopped by when he saw Amy next to the stables.

“Hello”

“Hi” She said and got closer. She smiled as she saw that Ty was all sweaty.

“So, you´ve been working with the burned date?” She asked when he saw Ty´s hands and arms were all black.

He smiled and tried to hug her. “Don´t think about it!” She laughed.

She ran out of the barn and Ty followed her with a scary face. Amy accidentally stepped over a puddle and fell down. A minute later, they were completely covered with ashes and mud sitting over more mud.

Jack and Tim turned around and saw them all dirty. “I don´t know how are you going to get clean, but you can´t enter to the house like that” Jack shouted.

There was a silence while they stood up.

“I know how” Ty smiled.

“What?”

“The lake” he smiled and said lake a little bit deeper.

“The lake?” “The lake!” she said laughing.

“Come this way” he said and started running.

Jack , Tim and Caleb were still working.

“He´s not going to do what I told him” Tim said pointing Ty with his head.

“You can´t do a lot now. That´s his decision” “And I´m sure Ty´s gonna do it right” Jack added.

Tim didn´t wanted to start with the same conversation again. He turned around and saw Caleb looking at them. Caleb put his hand in his cowboy hat, moved his head and then smiled. He didn´t knew what Tim and Jack were talking about, he thought about many options while he continued shoveling.

Chapter 12  Family time

The sun was hiding between the mountains leaving the blue sky almost dark. It was a little cold outside, so they decided to put the horses in the barn before the sunset.

Lou walked to the kitchen and looked through the window. That warm environment made her feel so comfortable. That was her home, Heartland was a part of her. She smiled as she got lost in her thoughts about her childhood. The decision of living here and not in Dubai was one she will never regret. She missed Peter a lot and didn’t like the idea of living in different places, but she would never live home. “Peter” she whispered as she thought about him. Suddenly, she heard someone opening the door. “Hey grandpa” she said.

“Hey Lou”

“Lisa called a hour ago” “She wanted to know about last night´s incident, you better call her back”

“OK” he took his cowboy off his head and left it in the kitchen´s table.  “Have you seen your sister?” she said she would help me get the horses to the barn, but she didn´t show up” he said. “She went who knows where with… Ty” he said and shook his head.

“Oh, no” she said trying to exaggerate just to make Jack nervous.

“Fine”

Amy and Ty got to the kitchen. Lou smiled to Jack and said “see?”

“So what´s for dinner?” Amy sat in the kitchen and drunk a glass with water.

“I need your help for that, I´m having a little stomachache”

“Oh sure I´ll do it” She smiled. After last night, they had almost  forgotten that Lou was pregnant. “Everything went so fast” she thought. Amy didn´t like cooking but she would do it for her sister and her baby.

Lou left the room.

“So what´s for dinner boss?” Ty asked and looked at Amy.

“It´s a secret” she smiled.

“You better hurry, It´s six o´clock” Jack said.