It felt good to laugh, especially at her best friend, who rarely lost her cool. Maddie couldn’t keep her giggles back this time. “Nothing’s going to happen,” Maddie promised, “as long as you keep those feet in your stirrups.”Ī panicked look crossed Chelsea’s face and she jammed her feet into the stirrups as far as they’d go. “But my chances of breaking my neck are a lot smaller when I’m on my own two feet.” “Well, no.” Chelsea stiffened as her horse stepped around a rock in the path. “Are you really telling me you’d rather be walking up this mountain right now?” “When you invited me on this camping trip,” Chelsea said in a strained voice, her teeth gritted the entire time, “I thought it’d be like a hiking-through-the-woods kind of thing.” Maddie barely managed to stifle a laugh as her best friend, Chelsea Park, jostled uncomfortably in her saddle, almost falling off. This time Maddie swung her eyes around to meet those of the girl riding beside her. “Hellooo.” The voice broke into her thoughts again. She took a deep breath and filled her lungs with fresh mountain air. Underneath her, the horse picked up its head and snorted but kept trotting smoothly along the path. Maddie jerked, the reins snapping in her limp hands.
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