Abandoned by Angela Dorsey

Author:Angela Dorsey
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: travel, animals, horses, barn, pony, animal, horse, time, stalker, abandoned, enchanted, dorsey, lauren, angela, trooper
Publisher: Enchanted Pony Books

Trooper tossed his head and tried to step forward into the weed choked yard. “Whoa,” said Lauren and held him back. She shivered in spite of the warmth of the early evening.

The sides of the house were so weathered they were almost black and the windows were dark with grime. Some of the glass was broken. Lauren couldn’t have imagined a place more spooky and decrepit if she tried. Her eyes explored the barn across the yard. There was something even creepier about the barn, something indefinable. It was dark like the house, but it seemed scarier, especially in the unnatural stillness. Lauren listened again for a noise – any noise, but there was nothing. When Trooper took another step forward, she pulled him back again. He whinnied softly to her and turned his head.

“What is it, Trooper?” she asked. “Why did you want to come here so much?”

Trooper whinnied again and stepped forward. This time Lauren let him walk toward the barn. He wove through the saplings and brush to stand in front of the double doors. Lauren reined him to a stop and looked up at the huge building. A black opening yawned above her. “That must be a hay loft,” she said in a voice still shaking with emotion. “It’s an old farm. I wonder what happened to the people who lived here. Why they left?”

She looked behind her at the house. She could use the porch to stand on when she wanted to jump onto Trooper’s back. She slipped off the horse, then reached to touch his warm side, drawing comfort from his solid presence. The barn door was barred. Lauren was surprised, when she pulled up on the board attached to the door on her left that it lifted so easily from the bracket on the right. She pulled the left door back until it hit a small tree. Trooper took a step forward and pushed his head through the door, but Lauren pulled him back.

“You just wait here, buddy,” she said. “I’m going to explore a bit.” She tied him to the tree and turned back to the opening. As she passed through, she pushed the right side of the double door open. It too only opened a few feet before hitting a thick wild rose bush. But it was enough to let the light in. Late sunshine spilled across the dusty board floor.

The barn was huge. Ten stalls lined the back wall and all the stall doors were firmly closed except one. To Lauren’s right, at the end of the building, she could see a chicken coop and to her left was a large pen with a high wire fence.

Lauren walked to the right first, looking around her as she went. Pieces of farm machinery rusted against the wall opposite the stalls. She thought it was strange that they were parked so neatly and spaced so evenly along the wall.

Someone must have loved this place, she thought. It looks like they took good care of it before they left.

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