well hello and how do you do? this is a story of my imagination. this is not real. this is simply a figment, a thought bubble, just a glimpse into what isn't really going on... enjoy. when i was just a small girl, my father and i would sit around and play word games. rhyming games were my favorite. he would have me in stitches i would laugh so hard. he would push my little brain to think bigger. i loved it. we would get into the car, he'd buckle me in, and say, ''ready co-pilot?" and i would respond with a hearty ''ready captain!" off we'd go....



i can remember like last night, the very first time i ever rode a horse. i must have been five maybe six. it was magical, and frightening all at once. the horse was tall, and dark, and was magnificent. it was the most beautiful thing i've ever laid eyes on. i wanted more. i wanted it so bad. years later, my dreams would come true. my first pony. lady clairol. an odd and somewhat ironic name, now, but none the less, mine. all mine. she's the most special pony in the world. and she will exist forever. and ever.....
i was only about seven, maybe second grade when i met gretchen. she was my best friend in the whole world. i was under the belief that she was somehow taken from a hut in the middle of south America. she was from Peru. and she was adopted by her very pale, very blonde mother. gretchen had dark skin, dark hair and even darker eyes. at the time i didn't understand what adopting was, with all its details. in my world, her mom went on an adventure with Indiana Jones, and traipsed through rain forest after jungle, to rescue this little child from certain death. that all her family were diseased, and that nobody loved her. i'm sure this was the case. i found her to be so interesting. the notion of her coming from a nother world was fantastic. so one night, during our usual sleepovers, we hid in her mother's closet. picked through her sewing kit, and found some pins. and then we became blood sisters. pricking our fingers at the same moment, and rubbing them together. i'm sure we said something along the lines, of 'forever' and 'sisterhood'. but who really knows.....