Fury

[Fraroc]

Wow, I can’t believe it…I’ve hit another milestone in my story…Fury is now up to chapter THIRTY! I would have never expected that when this story started way back in mid-2012 that we would be up to this point! And I couldn’t have continued this without all the support from SimsForums.com! Thank you Minty, Caspin, Ollie and all the others that have most generously read and responded to every chapter of my story!

Chapter Thirty, Part One




Jennifer crept around the wooden walls of the stable, checking to see if anyone was around. She knew that Mike, Jason and Jack wouldn’t have minded what she was about to do, but if one of her girlfriends were to catch her in the act, Jennifer knew that all hell would break loose.




Slowly, but surely, she reaches her destination. Raven’s stall. Jennifer extended her hand and gently caressed the forehead of the large Andulasian buckskin mare.
“Raven…Don’t worry, It’s just me…Jenny…..I bet you really miss Karilla riding you on a daily basis, don’t you girl? Don’t take it personally, it’s not like Karilla doesn’t love you anymore…She’s just been spending a lot of time with Jack training the new horse…How about we go for a ride? Just the two of us…”
Raven appears to nod her head, almost as if she understands everything Jennifer is saying.




Jennifer proceeds to saddle up Raven, open up the stable door, and later, mounted her. But just as she was about to take a trail ride, she hears a loud and high pitched voice coming from the other side of the stable which spooks Raven.
“JENNIFER!”




Jennifer quickly dismounted Raven to find Karilla staring at her with a look that could kill.

“JENNIFER WHAT THE F*** ARE YOU DOING?! DON’T YOU REMEMBER OUR PACT?!?!!? NEVER, EVER, EVER RIDE EACH OTHER’S HORSES NO MATTER WHAT?!”
“I know, Karilla. It’s just that…for the past week, you’ve been so busy training and riding Princess that you haven’t been paying any mind to Raven at all! Raven has been standing around in that stall for days and has just been dying to be ridden!”
“I don’t give a sh*t. If I wanted someone to ride Raven so badly, I would have asked either Jack, J., or my boyfriend to do it. But from now on, STAY THE HELL AWAY FROM RAVEN AND WINSTON!”

Karilla stormed off angrily. At that point, Jennifer can only think of one thing….

“Okay…….bitch.”




As Karilla walked away from the stables, she took a few deep breaths in through the nose and out through the mouth in order to calm herself down. In the process, she overhears a conversation between Jack and her boyfriend. From what she gathers from what they are saying, while Mike was on a trail ride with Jason and Marissa, Fury spooked and threw Mike.

“Are you sure he didn’t attack you? He didn’t try to stomp on you or kick you or anything like that?”
“No, he just reared up, I fell off, and he bolted. Poor boy just got scared, that’s all. It took us 20 minutes to find him, though.”
“What set him off?”
“You know the air force base near the edge of Crystal Falls going into Denver?”
“Yeah…”
“Well, these two huge Apache helicopters flew over….”

Suddenly, as soon as Mike said that certain word that begins with an “A”, Karilla experienced a sharp, drilling pain going inside her forehead.She suddenly has a flashback to a certain point of her life that she would rather forget for the rest of her life.
“I’m sorry but even if the bones miraculously healed, he’ll always be in excruciating pain….I think it would be best if we-“




Karilla suddenly snapped out of the flashback as she feels Mike’s hand frivolously tapping her shoulder.
“Karilla? Karilla?”
“WHAT!?”
“Uhhh…I just wanted to know what was up with you? You kind of seem….out of it.”
“I’m fine Mike….please...I’m fine.”
“Alright…”




Later on in the afternoon, Mike met Jason by the edge of the pasture. Like many other times where he found Jason alone, Mike found this to be a good opportunity for a session of male bonding.

“Princess is one beautiful mare, Mike. Your girl sure is lucky to have her.”
“I know, right?”
“Is she….completley tame now? Can I….pet her?
“Go right ahead, she’s completely docile….”

Mike whistles to signal Princess into approaching Jason by the fence.




Jason extends his hand over the fence and pets Princess on the forehead. The black mare snorts in a friendly manner. However, after Jason is done petting her, he knew that he needed to mention something to Mike about his girlfriend and her attitude.

“Ok, Mike…I need to ask you something.”
“Shoot.”
“I’m going to be real clear with you, what the hell is going on with Karilla? All throughout today, she has giving everybody an attitude! She blew up at Jennifer for almost no reason, she completely ignored Marissa and me when we waved to her, she was also being real stubborn with you and Jack and overall, being extremely difficult. I just wanted to ask you….what’s wrong with her?”
“I….honestly do not now…I do know what set her off though, Jennifer broke the pact that the three girls made. ‘Never under any circumstances ride each other’s horses.’ The weird part about that pact is that it doesn’t include the both of us and Jack. It just includes the girls. We could go and saddle up Raven, Dancer, and Winston and ride them without any of them giving us sh*t. It’s just that for some reason, the girls, especially Karilla gets so defensive about the pact……Come to think of it, there was another thing that bothered her. Earlier today when we were out riding, those two big Apache helicopters flew over really low and Fury got spooked? It seems that when I said the word “Apache”, she began to hold her head and entered some sort of trance….”
“I really hope that we find out what’s bothering her and soon….”




The next day, Mike found Karilla hanging out by the front of the stable, looking bored. Mike saw this as an opportunity to talk to her.

“Hey Karilla….”
“Hey Mike….”
“You know, it really is a beautiful day outside, why don’t you saddle up Princess, I’ll get Fury and we’ll go on a trail ride together! How does that sound?”
“Sounds….pretty good.”




Moments later, the couple riding their horses travel down the winding path to no particular destination. Willing to risk his relationship with Karilla, he begins to talk with his girlfriend to try and find out what exactly is bothering her.

“Ok, Karilla…..I love you…but I need to ask you something. Why the hell are you being so difficult with other people? I saw you blow up at Jennifer for no reason yesterday, all she did was ride Raven! It wasn’t like she was hurting her or anything! And when I mentioned the word “Apache”….”
“I’m sorry Mike, but there is some information that you are just not meant to be privy to, okay?”
“What?”
“There is just some things that you’re just not supposed to know!”




“God Damn it, Karilla!!! WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS?!”

Mike exploded, Karilla visibly jumped at the sudden outburst from her boyfriend…For the most part, Karilla had never seen Mike when he was angry, how intimidating and scary he could be….until now. However, before Mike could revert back to his old ways….he calmed down.

“Remember our first date, Karilla?….when I opened up to you about how repulsive I treated my little brother Kevin? And how I took accountability for my actions? Well, I remember right before I spilled my guts out to you, you said something like ‘Mike, being together means that we can trust each other.” And just like how I was able to open up to you about something I’m not proud of…..you can do the same too. So please…..talk to me….”




“Okay…..If you honestly want to know the truth…Here it is…You know Winston, right? Pinto gelding, Marissa’s horse...Well….Winston is not her original horse....She used to have a beautiful Quarter Bay gelding known as Apache….In 2011…a whole year before you started working here…….”

Karilla paused, multiple tears fell from her eyes.



“I…. I killed him.”