CHAPTER ONE

Lindsay was sitting in the garden staring at the spider's web in the chair. Her dad was on a ladder, up the garage - hammering the broken part of the roof. Lindsay and her family lived in a house in the middle of the forest. Their garage roof was broken when a stag jumped up it and broke the roof with its antlers. Lindsay had blonde hair down to her neck, she had blue eyes and she was always intrested in animals! She had a dog (Rover), cat (Puss) and a pony (Coral) but she loved deer. Even though, one broke the garage roof.
One Autumn day, Lindsay took Coral for a hack. She rode the Haflinger pony around the forest. Until she saw another hoofed creature, galloping past an old oak tree. Lindsay urged Coral to follow it. Coral cantered after the hoofed creature. When they got up to the hoofed creature, drinking water from a pond, Lindsay got off Coral and slowly went up to it. The hoofed creature was a deer-a black and white deer! Lindsay let the deer stare into her eye. It blinked slowly. Lindsay touched its coat, it felt like a Puss, her brown tabby cat. But its legs felt like Rover, her boxer dog.
"Hello", Lindsay said.
"Well, hello here", the deer said back.
Lindsay gasped in horror.
"Did you just talk?" she whispered.
"I believe I did. My name is Whisper but if it's too chummy for you call me Whispy", the deer replied.
"OK, I'm Lindsay", explained Lindsay. Then she walked up to Coral who was standing right next to a tree. "And this is Coral".
Whisper was about to gallop away until Lindsay told her to stop. She stood right next to a sleeping deer. Lindsay and Coral ran over. "You want to come home with me?" Lindsay asked.
"OK, but don't tell any of your friends or family I can talk, because I'm a magic deer and we must keep our secret", Whisper warned.
"But actually, I-I don't have any friends...you see, me and my family live in the middle of the forest. We have the only house there...", Lindsay said, a bit tearfully.
"Alright then, lead me to your house", Whisper added.
Lindsay put a rope of the deer's nuzzle and attached it to Coral's bridle. She got on Coral then urged her to go back home. Coral got a eariler 2 hours walk by galloping very fast! They were soon at Lindsay's house. Lindsay put Whisper in the garden where it was empty. Her dad finally fixed the garage. She gave her new deer a metal bowl of water and went back home.

END OF CHAPTER ONE