Monica and the Unbeatable Bet by Diana G Gallagher

Author:Diana G Gallagher
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2014-11-04T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Secret

Sessions

Rory and Chloe met me at the barn Monday evening. We had the whole place to ourselves.

“Rory and I made a schedule,” Chloe said. “It covers everything that went wrong last Saturday.” She showed it to me. If we did it right, we’d fix all of my problems. But I thought that was a big if.

“Let’s get started,” I said. “I only have two weeks till Holly Hills.”

Lancelot and I walked, trotted, and cantered. We turned into the center to change direction. Then we did it ten or twelve or a million times more.

There were two jumps in the lesson ring. Rory lowered them to eighteen inches to start. On Tuesday, he raised them two inches. He did the same thing the next day.

“How high are they going to be when you’re done raising them?” I asked on Wednesday.

“The real test isn’t how high you can jump,” Rory said.

“What is?” I asked.

“Remembering the course,” Chloe explained. “That’s the most important part. Don’t worry about the jumps.”

“I should practice the course, too,” I said. “But we don’t have enough jumps.”

“We have enough rails,” Rory said. He put some jump poles on the ground. When he was done placing them, he said, “Pretend these are fences.”

Chloe drew jump-course diagrams. I had three minutes to memorize them. Then I trotted the course over the jump poles.

On Thursday, I was wrong four out of nine times. But on Friday, I got every single jump in the right order.

On Saturday morning I had my regular riding lesson.

It did not go well.

Megan and Lydia watched the whole thing, made fun of me the whole time, and I couldn’t do anything right.

I missed three diagonals and a lead. Then I lost a stirrup and almost fell off.

Megan and Lydia whispered and giggled the whole time.

They weren’t making it any easier for me. And I knew that was part of the problem.

I knew I’d let Megan get to me at the practice show.

But she would be at Holly Hills, too.

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