The Life of Glass by Jillian Cantor

Author:Jillian Cantor
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2010-03-24T16:00:00+00:00

So there were riding lessons, every Saturday afternoon.

Ashley and I drove up to Dusty Meadows at one o’clock and stayed for an hour. Ashley and Prancer were becoming the best of friends. It was always like Ashley to take a bad situation and make it good, kind of like my mother, because you would never know from the way she acted that she didn’t want to be there, that she would run into the shower the second we got home complaining that the stench of horse had followed her.

No, my sister was learning to ride Prancer like velvet. Her riding became smooth and elegant and sleek and looked like something she’d been doing her whole life. At first Kevin walked beside her in a ring, and then eventually he stood on the other side of the fence and watched her and called out things to her that she came to understand.

With me and Daffodil it was a different story altogether. We made no attempts to try and like each other. I gave her a dirty look, and she flicked her tail in the air and sneered at me. After three weeks, Kevin finally pushed me to get on her, and I did, if only to shut him up.

When I sat on the top of the saddle, I was uncomfortable and I felt like I was up way too high to balance. “You need to trust her,” Kevin said.

I shook my head. “I can’t.” I tried to maneuver myself down, and when he reached out his hand to help, I took it. It was harder than I thought it would be to get down from a horse, and back on the ground I felt wobbly, like I was going to throw up.

“That was a start,” Kevin said.

Ashley rolled her eyes. “Seriously, Melissa.” She looked to Kevin to back her up. But he didn’t say anything at all.

Finally, he said, “Everybody moves at their own pace. All right, girls?”

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