My first day school starts tomorrow! Screamed a light gray pegasus as she bounded into the kitchen almost knocking a vase off a small round table by the kitchen door way. Her mother turned around and gently scolded:
"Derpy dear, what have I said about running indoors?"
Derpy sheepishly shuffled her little hooves and stared at the wood floor and said, "You told me not to do so......sorry momma." Derpy's mother was a gentle creature, light gray like her daughter with a light blue mane and tail and her cutie mark was snow blown by the wind. Her parents named her 'Windigo' in remembrance that friendship and a warm heart can overcome the coldest of hearts. Derpy's father was a stern stallion, he was brown as sandstone, his mane was dark brown his cutie mark was a shovel and an Aspen tree; thus his name, Aspen. The family cleaned up and sat down to dinner.
Late that night as Derpy lay awake she listened to her parents talk in the kitchen below her room.
"Windi, I know that derpy needs glasses and eye surgery but we can't afford it. We both are working as hard as those Apples at Sweet Apple Acres........with bills piling up from your injury at the post office. I feel as if we failed our daughter. What the buck am I doing wrong ?"
"Aspen dear, times are rough now but we'll pull through this I know we will. Our little fillie knows you love her." As the conversation wore on Derpy began feeling like a burden.
Monday morning came and as Derpy joined her parents she asked, "Am I a burden?" Aspen and Windigo both looked at each other horrified that she heard their conversation the night before.
"Derpy you're not a burden..........and you will never be one......ever!"
never be "normal". She never imagined that this marked that her grade school years would be a trial of pain.