Hope

Chapter 7

The next day I was sitting on the bus I was wondering why I wasn't upset. Mum had just sold Hope and I wasn't upset. I wasn't angry. I wasn't feeling anything. Why wasn't I feeling anything. When Mum told me I was so shocked that with what Mum had done that I didn't feel upset or angry. Then when I woke up this morning I didn't feel anything. When Lily came and sat down on the bus I didn't feel happy.

"Hey." Lily said.

"Hi." I replied.

"Are you alright?" Lily asked.

I just shrugged my shoulders, honestly not knowing the answer.

"What's the matter?" Lily asked, looking concerned.

"My Mum sold Hope." I said quietly.

"Why?" Lily practically shouted, people on the bus turned to look at us as Lily said in a quieter voice "Why did your Mum sell Hope, I thought she didn't know that you owned her."

"She didn't until yesterday. Then somehow she found out and sold her. I guess she was really angry that she didn't know."

"Didn't the people at Silverlight Stables know that your Mum didn't know about Hope though. How did they let her sell?" Lily asked.

"I don't know" I replied, then I thought about it before saying, "Dad!"

"What do you mean?"

"My Dad must have told her."

"Why would he do that? HE made YOU promise not to tell your Mum about Hope 3 years not the other way round."

"I don't understand it either."

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I couldn't stop thinking about it all day. Had Dad told Mum about Hope and if so why? It distracted me in all my lessons, even Textiles, a lesson I love. My teacher, Miss Evergreen noticed and asked me to stay behind at the end of the lesson.

"Don't worry Helena, your not in trouble. I just want to talk to you about something." Miss Evergreen said.

I walked up to Miss's desk wondering what she wanted to talk to me about.

"Helena, I was wondering why Hope was sold." Miss Evergreen told me.

Oh yeah, I forgot Miss worked at Silverlight Stables.

"I don't know Miss." I answered.

"Well then, what happened?"

"Yesterday after school I went down to the stables and to the paddocks. When I got there Hope wasn't in her paddock. At first I wasn't worried because someone could have used her in lesson, but then I saw a piece of white paper on the fence. It was a note from my Mum saying that I needed to come home immediately because she wanted to tell. I raced home and when I got home Mum told me she had sold Hope."

"I see. The thing is Helena, I was in the office when Hope got sold and your Mum didn't sell her, your Dad did. Your Mum was there but because your Dad bought Hope he was the one who had to sell her. I just wanted to ask you about because you weren't there yesterday and your parents really wanted Hope to be sold from the stables. They said they were concerned that when you came riding every week seeing Hope would upset you. Luckily, we had someone who was interested in buying a horse like Hope so we sold Hope to her. Hope is now living at Stonebridge Stables."

I was shocked. My Dad HAD sold Hope. It wasn't just my Mum.

"I don't understand." I whispered.

"Understand what? Did your Mum not tell you the full story?" Miss Evergreen asked.

I shook my head.

Author's Note

I'm sooooooooooooo sorry everyone! I haven't updated anything in around 2 months! Once again I'm really sorry. I do have an excuse although I'm not sure it's a good excuse. I've started Year 10(not sure what that is America so sorry if I have any American readers) and there is lots of homework and loads of tests. I'm not sure if anyone else has this, but if you do please comment below and tell me. The thing is when we finish a unit of work in a certain subject then we have a test. So far in around 10 weeks of school we have had 4 physics, 2 chemistry (I missed one might have to do it next lesson, 3 biology(I might have missed one when I was ill, ) , 1 maths, 1 English, 1 religious, 1 textiles, 1 German(I missed it when I was ill),5 German vocabulary and  1 business studies tests. Overall 20 tests! I know I'm starting my GCSE course but it is still a lot of tests.

After my small rant I have one more excuse. I have writer's block. I literally have no idea what to write. That is why this chapter is so bad.

Anyway I hope you guys liked the chapter. Please vote and comment. I love votes and comments. Please comment how you cope with doing lots of tests because I'm not very good at Physics and I have got 3 D's and 1 A this year. If any of you have any tips that would help me improve my Physics grades then please tell me because it would really help.

Goddbye everyone!