The Sad Pony by Tina Nolan

Author:Tina Nolan [Tina Nolan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781847159991
Publisher: Stripes Publishing
Published: 2018-10-10T16:00:00+00:00

The silence after she spoke hung heavy in the air. They both thought of Rosie with her shaggy mane and mischievous eyes, her jaunty trot and cheeky habit of snuffling at your pocket for an apple or a carrot.

“I’m so sorry!” Annie said at last.

Eva nodded. “Me too,” she said as she left the room.

“We’re still friends, aren’t we?”

“Of course,” Eva assured her sadly. “I’ll see you, Annie. Bye.”

“The thing that gets me”, Eva told Karl as she sat beside him in Reception on Monday morning, “is that Mr Brooks thinks Rosie’s a problem, and she’s not!”

“Rosie the problem pony,” Karl muttered. He looked through old files for her details, ready to put them back on the site.

“Rosie the perfect pony!” Eva insisted. “Make her sound good, Karl. Tell everybody how cute she is.”

“Hold it, you two.” Jen came and looked over their shoulders. “Don’t say anything that isn’t true. We can’t afford to mislead anyone.”

“But what did she do wrong?” Eva refused to believe anything bad about the gorgeous Rosie.

“Nearly kicked the stable door down for a start,” Jen pointed out. “And she tried to escape at least twice, didn’t she? I’m not being unkind, Eva, but you must admit she didn’t settle in well at the Brookses’.”

“She did at first,” Eva muttered. “Everything was OK until this weekend.”

“Hmm, strange that.” Though Joel was busy admitting a new puppy, he joined in the conversation. “I wonder what went wrong all of a sudden. Anyway, Eva, let Karl get on with the website entry. Why don’t you come and help me with Freddie?”

Eva followed Joel into an examination room where he took a puppy out of a pet carrier and placed him gently on the table. “Here’s another unwanted Christmas present,” he explained. “But not the sort you can take back to the shop with the receipt for a refund.”

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