It was a beautiful morning, the sun was shining and the birds were singing. September was right around the corner and everyday now someone came over. A week ago my sister came over and showed off her new baby boy (Bentley). Now KaRanda was almost up to the door step.
I opened the door before she knocked. She looked at me with a smile and said,”that is a beautiful baby colt you have out there”! “What are you talking about”? I asked. “Come here” she ordered. We walked out to the dry lot. I glanced at the new baby that was on the ground. “That horse was not exposed to have her baby until next month” I added to her gaze. She seemed like she had never seen a baby before in her life. I really did not care much, but since it was morning I guess she could help me feed the horses. I ordered her to get the wagon and start feeding the barn, and I would take the outside sense there was more.
After we finished feeding the horses, I walked up to the barn to do a fast look around. The news said wild horses were running around with some kind of disease or something. All the horses looked really good and all were eating just fine too. I asked KaRanda to walk down and get the mare and her new baby. As for I would get the stall cleaned and ready for her. Most of the nice horses were outside though; I really enjoyed it when feeding time came because it was so close to the hay stack. She walked up with the baby wobbling beside her. “Right in here”! I shouted! I closed the gate, closing her in. The mare was not enthused about it the whole boxed up thing but her baby did not care too much. I watched the baby nurse for a while, and then headed back up to the house. I knew nothing much was going to happen because the only horses in the barn at that time were a really expensive stallion and now the two new ones.
In the house was so much cooler than outside I never really liked the cold but when I came down to the hot or cold in the middle of summer than I would choose the cold. I grabbed a glass of cold water and gave it to her. She looked at me with the weirdest look on her face ever. “Oh right” I said with a grin. She can’t stand not tasting anything when it’s in her mouth. “So what do you want to do today”? I asked. “Well can we ride horses today”? She said with a happy look up on her face. “Yeah, let’s do that”! I smiled as we both started for the door. We raced to get down to the dry lot where the two horses that we would ride would be. I pulled the halter up around Patsy and she did the same to Peppy. I walked her out the gate as KaRanda followed. We trotted the horses up to the barn, tied them up, and saddled them. “This bit is a training bit. It’s very painful so don’t pull to hard on it, ok?” “ok” she smiled. We got on and started to ride away.
“Look! Look! The deer! Wow” I said shouting so loud that all the deer heard me and started to run. “Come on” I screamed chasing them up the hill. We both ran up a tall hill. Then all the sudden we stopped. “Look, what’s happening”! She screamed. I jumped off the tall horse. It was strange. All the deer were all stopped at the top of the hill. They looked at us and snorted. What was happening? I wondered. Could this be what the news was talking about? But who would know? I looked at KaRanda and she did not even look alive. Her eyes were black and her hands froze.” KaRanda!” her body slouched! And all of a sudden, out of nowhere her body fell to the ground. I ran over to her and picked her heavy head. “KaRanda” I whispered, “are you okay?” Her eyes were blacker than coal. I watched the animals gather and run down the hill. I lifted her up and cradled her. I laid her up over the back of the horse. I then got up and held on to her. We walked down the hill and started to the house.
I was watching the angered animals gathering. Running with the deer was Peppy. My other horse but at that moment I did not care. I stopped on the way to the house to pull her closer. Finally when we got to the house I slid off and then pulled her off. I open the door with the hand that I was not using and laid her down on the soft family couch. I ran outside pulling everything off and opening the gate that leads to the pasture. Just a few minutes later I opened the door. Closing it behind me I was scared. KaRanda was not lying on the couch anymore; rather, she was standing on it. Her eyes were opened but this time they were red, beat red. She started to scream. I ran towards her. She ran towards me. I fell to the ground hitting my head. I looked up and there she was standing over me with her fist in the air I knew she was stronger than me and I was going to die!
I tried to move away. She keeps trying to hit me. Lucky for me she kept hitting the floor. I grabbed her leg as she fell. I got up and ran to the back door. I jumped out and on the ground. She was right behind me. I watched every horse that we owned gather and then the dogs and now the deer, something was taking over them. I turned around and then it hit me. This all started when the new baby came. I knew it was something to do with it. I turned around and there she was, but this time it was not just her fist it was a knife. She came after me as fast as lightning. She stabbed me right in the lower stomach.
December 12, 2011. There was snow on the ground. Looking up at the cycling, I knew I was in the hospital. I glanced around finding a nurse, “nurse! Nurse!” I screamed. She walked up asking me how I was. “I’m okay” I said. “But where am I”? “You’re in the hospital; you’ve been here a little more than a year”. “Where’s KaRanda”? I asked. “Oh the girl that was with you” yes, she died last year, along with all the animals that was at your house, I’m so so sorry by the way”. My brother came in the room. He grabbed my hand and said,” You’ve been in coma, do you remember anything”? “Yes I do, I remember KaRanda trying to kill me, why”? He said “They said it had to do with the new colt we got that year”. “Can I go home now please”?
