Chapter Two!

Here's chapter Two. If you missed chapter one, just scroll down. This chapter is a lot shorter! Hehe!

Chapter Two: Stable-Girl

Kit got to work the very next day, and at once proved she was everything she said she was, and more. She rode very very well, and her work was neatly and quickly done. Jen soon found there nothing Kit could not, or would not, do.

And it wasn't just her actions that caught everyone's attention. Her character was just as good. Never was there a more respectful, understanding, humble, little girl.

She got along wonderfully with everyone. Julia, Martha, and Jen all loved working with her, and all the other children, Jen's eleven year old daughter Maggie, four year old daughter Becca, and Julia's fourteen year old son Josh, all enjoyed Kit's company.

Kit soon befriended not only all the people, but all the horses too. When Kit rode any horse, no matter how tough a horse it was, she mad it look easy. There was not a single horse she couldn't ride. Kit was, by far, one of, if not, the best rider in the barn.

And she certainly was the best worker. She did what needed to be done right away.

If the tack room needed cleaning, Kit did it. If a horse needed to be trained out of some nasty habit, Kit did it. If a stall needed to be mucked, Kit did it.

And it was Kit who held the horses still for the vet, got hay from the hay-loft, mended the fence, saddled the horses for the young childrens' summer riding-lessons, switched the pastures, brought the horses into the barn in the rain, cleaned the bridals, gave the horses all baths, caught the ponies for the riding-lessons, scrubbed out the water buckets, and did the daily grooming.

And she did most of it without being told to.

Jen soon couldn't imagine life without Kit. She had really become part of the Bunker Hill Stables group. Jen, Julia, Martha, Maggie, Becca, Josh, and now Kit, were all as close as family.

Kit was the kind of girl whom everyone loved. She was very down to earth, and simply enjoyed life to the fullest. Everyone at the stable slowly began to learn a little more about her, and the more they learned, the more they liked her.

She was indeed the eldest of ten kids, four of whom were adopted, "Yeah, I'm the leader of the pack!" Kit announced proudly.

Both her parents had steady, but very well paying jobs, "So, life is hard sometimes" she admitted "But they're people out there who are a lot worse off! We have a house, clothes, and good food, what else to do we really need?" That explained Kit's well-worn jeans, and simple way of life. She had no cell-phone, no Ipod, not even a computer.

Kit did have a pair of prize-winning sheep that she "loved almost as much as horses." Kit wanted nothing more then a horse of her very own, but, "My family could never, ever, in a million years, afford one" she said sadly "So it looks like I won't get one until I'm all grown up. To be honest, you know what? It hurts! It hurts not having a horse, more then you could ever imagine. If I were given one wish, just one, I'd wish for a horse. One I could call all my own. But, that's never gonna happen."

Kit said all she needed in life was, "God, family, friends, and horses." And she had found all four of those things in Harrisbrough New Hampshire, so, she said she was "all set" and had "finally found home."