Pony Club Secrets 11- Liberty and the Dream Ride by Stacy Gregg

Author:Stacy Gregg [Gregg, Stacy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: YA, E
ISBN: 9780007427253
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Published: 2011-02-03T05:00:00+00:00

Two hours later Issie found herself with Avery and Tara in the orthopaedic ward of Lexington General Hospital, watching as Marcus, his face drained pale from the shock and pain, sat stoically while the surgeon examined him.

When the doctor broke the news that the bone was broken – and not just in one place but in two – Marcus completely lost it. “It can’t be broken. I’m due to compete in the Kentucky Four-Star on Friday. I have to ride.”

“Very funny,” the doctor said drily. “It will be at least four weeks before you can get on a horse again.”

“But that’s impossible!” Marcus tried to stand up. “Look, let’s just leave it for now and I’ll ride with it like this. I’ll come back when the competition is over and you can put a cast on it then.”

“Sit down, son,” the doctor said, his patience clearly strained to breaking point. “Your arm is badly broken. If you try and use it you’ll end up with permanent nerve damage. We need to immobilise the bones immediately – please, let us give you a sedative so we can reset the bone and put on the plaster cast.”

In the end, Marcus had to admit defeat and let them encase his arm in plaster from his elbow to his fingertips. He still refused the sedative.

“I don’t want to sleep,” he insisted. “I need to tell you guys what happened. There was a man, I saw him going into Liberty’s stall… arghhh!” Marcus winced with pain as the surgeon repositioned his arm. “Tara, you need to get back to the stables – someone has to be there to keep an eye on Liberty. Something is definitely going on – she’s not safe.”

“Calm down,” Tara reassured him, “I’ll go to the stables now and keep a watch on her, OK?”

Tara turned to Avery and Issie. “Can you stay with Marcus until the doctor is finished and then bring him back to the Horsepark?”

“Of course,” Avery said.

As the doctor finished plastering the cast, Issie tried to take Marcus’s mind off the pain, by telling him stories about Comet.

“Back at my aunt’s farm he was always in trouble,” Issie said. “He was constantly jumping out of his paddock. The first time I met him we nearly hit him with a horse truck because he’d managed to get on to the driveway. And then there was the time he jumped out and got into the tack shed and ate all the dog biscuits.”

“I’ve never heard of a horse eating dog biscuits before,” Marcus said, momentarily distracted from the pain. “Aren’t horses supposed to be vegetarians?”

“Tell that to Comet!” Issie smiled. “He once stole a meat pie off the back of the horse truck while I was trying to plait his mane!”

Marcus laughed – and then instantly regretted it. “Oww! Don’t make me laugh,” he said. “It hurts.”

“Sorry,” Issie said. “Hey, by the way,” she passed him the green passcard, “I picked up your security card when you fell. You must have dropped it.

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