A/N: Hi! This is my first story on FanFiction, but i've been writing this since I was about thirteen. R&R!

Here are the ages of the characters:

Lisa: 15

Alex: 16

Stevie: 16

Carole: 16

Chapter 1

It was a warm afternoon; Carole, Phil and Lisa were shifting bales of hay in the feed barn at Pine Hollow. The barn was to be the host of the dance on Valentines Day. They were making a gallery for people to sit on and watch the others on the dance floor.

Carole and Lisa were two of the members from the group of three girls named: the Saddle Club. The third member of the trio was Stevie. These three girls are all riders at Pine Hollow stables in Willow Creek. The Saddle Club had only two rules. They had to be horse crazy and willing to help each other out.

Lisa Atwood was the newest rider of the trio and the youngest at fifteen years old. Lisa started out riding on Patch, a small, pinto gelding who was the mount of most new riders at the stable. When her natural talent and ability boosted with practice she soon started to ride Prancer, a chestnut mare who was a racehorse until The Saddle Club rescued her from the slaughterhouse and a fed-up David McLeod when she had sprained a tendon. Her tendon has been weak ever since. She has a younger sister Melanie who is thirteen years old. Lisa was a diligent girl at school and always got straight A's, which pleased her mother. Lisa's mother is always encouraging Lisa to do many activities such as ballet and music. It was her mother's drive for Lisa to be a perfect young lady that got her interested in horse riding. Her mother thought that every young lady should know something about horses but Lisa soon grew to love horses and wanted to know everything about them.

She hadn't got along well with Carole and Stevie at first seeing as how her mother had nearly knocked them down when they were riding back to Pine Hollow after a hack on her first day. Then when Veronica diAngelo, the most spoilt girl at the stables, had planned a prank on Stevie that could have ended in Stevie getting seriously hurt, Lisa told Carole about what Veronica was planning to do and together they were able to stop it before Stevie or Comanche (the horse she was riding at the time) were hurt. Lisa then earned their trust and together they formed The Saddle Club.

Carole Hanson was sixteen years old and was easily the most experienced rider of the three as her father, Colonel Hanson, was in the military and she grew up on military bases. These bases all had stables and she had learnt to ride there. Her mother had passed away due to cancer a while earlier and she had bought her horse Starlight with the money her mother had left her. It had taken a long time for her to get over her mother's death and the death of Cobalt, Veronica diAngelo's stallion who Carole adored, had made all the turmoil of it all seem so much larger than it actually was and for a while she quit riding. In the end she realised that she had to get on with her life and in doing so, it didn't mean that she didn't love Cobalt or her mother. She could be happy and still mourn for them.

The third and final member of The Saddle Club was Stevie Lake. Stevie was the self-proclaimed queen of practical jokes. She wasn't a tomboy yet she was uncomfortable with the usual activities of most girls her age so, had adopted the name 'Stevie' since a young age. Her real name was Stephanie and she didn't like it one bit. Stevie rode Comanche, one of Pine Hollow's school horses until she had rescued Belle; a black mare. She, like Carole was sixteen years old and was the only girl in a house of three boys. Her three brothers were: Chad who was the eldest at eighteen years of age, Michael who was the youngest at fourteen years of age and her twin brother Alex. Alex had missed spending quality time with his sister and was always interested in horses but tried not to show it when his brothers started teasing Stevie for her love of horses. When he wanted to surprise Stevie and start riding, Carole and Lisa had taught him the basics and soon he was riding in the same ride as Stevie, Carole and Lisa. He rode Comanche and it was often said that the Lake twins were the same in as many ways as they were different.

As the other members of The Saddle Club and Phil shifted bales of hay in the grain barn, Stevie was on her way to the hospital in Mrs Reg's car. Phil and Stevie had been out on a hack with Teddy and Belle when they had heard the gong. The gong was a signal for all riders on a hack to come back to the yard. When they had reached the fence, they found Carole and Lisa waiting for them. They told her that Alex, who had been off school all week because he was sick, had been taken to the hospital in an ambulance. Mrs Reg had offered to drive her to the hospital and that's where she is right now.

When Stevie had heard about Alex being taken to the hospital she had been really worried. As she sat in the passenger seat of Mrs Reg's car, listening to one of her famous stories, she speculated on the many things that could have happened to make Alex be taken away in an ambulance. She quickly ruled out broken bones, as he was in bed sick all day. As Stevie sat there the only reason she could think of was that he didn't just have a cold.

When she arrived at the hospital, she found her father waiting for her at reception. He took her up to a small room where she sat, so deep in thought that she barley noticed the needle go into her upper arm. When the nurse was done she led her back out to her father. Stevie followed her father to a small room with a glass wall. Beyond the glass wall was Alex lying there on a bed, pale and asleep. Her father explained everything to her while she just sat there listening in horror with her eyes still on her unconscious twin brother.

A/N: What do you think? Should I continue or not?