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Dinky’s offer
Side story
Ditsy’s house lay on the outskirts of ponyville so all the music of winter solstices parties didn’t reach it. Making it the perfect place to go for some beauty sleep. It was a quaint little house, with two floors. Nothing to impressive, but certainly a very cozy house indeed. It comprised of five rooms two bedrooms and one toilet upstairs, and the kitchen and dining room/living room downstairs. And lying on the couch of the living room was ponyville resident teacher, Cheerilee, whom was snoring louder than a Vorgon with asthma. The sun was nowhere to be seen and it was already past time that it should have started rising. Most ponies were either partying to hard or trying to block out the noise of those partying too hard to notice. But one pony managed to get a good look at the sky and think isn’t the sun supposed to rise now? However that pony is irrelevant to this particular tale and so we’ll leave him alone. But fortunately Dinky was also waking at that very moment, she rolled around in her bed a few times still half asleep before prying her eyes open. They were not greeted by warm sunlight filtering through her window, and neither was she welcomed by the thick aroma of muffins in the oven. Her brain thinking she was up too early decided to shut down again, which was promptly overridden by the alarm clock on her bedside. *BRIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNGGGGGG!!!!* Dinkies reactions kicked in and slapped the alarm clock turning it off. She was awake now, and nothing (not even sleeping pills ) would put her too sleep again. She lay there with absolutely no intention of getting up, conflicting thoughts ran their course. Should I get up, the clock says seven o’clock. But where’s the sun then? Maybe it’s a little late? The sun is never late. There’s a first for everything. Except that which happens every day without fault. Maybe the princess forgot? This is Celestia were talking about right? Yea. Celestia doesn’t forget. Well its seven and seven is breakfast time. So after a bit of grumbling she rose out of bed and walked up to the window, and thought “isn’t the sun supposed to rise now?” Dinky wasn’t sure but she was willing to bet that there must be at least one day in the year where Celestia is allowed to sleep late. Everypony should get to sleep in, Dinky couldn’t imagine life without late mornings.
She would have to ask her mom about this, to which her mind promptly reminded her that her mom was in Canterlot with her other mom. She was so happy for her mom’s, and saw absolutely no reason why she shouldn’t. Such thoughts didn’t even occur to her. Then she wondered if her other mom could cook, so they could do baking parties. The universe in a last ditch attempt to save Equestria from certain muffin shaped doom, granted Twilight the ability to operate a oven (without destroying it). Of course the physical effects of this sudden decision by the universe resulted in nothing more than a batch of freshly baked muffins. Placed on the moon (where they sat until Luna dropped by with her fiancé for a honey moon, unfortunately for coincidence they weren’t honey nut muffins). Dinky unawares to all this remembered that Cheerilee her teacher had opted to watch her while her mom’s were gone, maybe she knows, she is a teacher. Dinky trotted down the stairs towards the strangely silent kitchen. The bowls were in their place, the sink was free of dishes and the oven was off. If this didn’t signify Sunshine’s absence then Dinky didn’t know what did. Instead she heard a noise that sounded not unlike the noise made by the dragon that had decided to nap near ponyville emanating from the living room. It scared her, because for all Dinky knew there could be a dragon in her living room; and she didn’t want that at all. Creeping slowly in the direction of the living room Dinky took as much precaution as possible, but as she passed under the door way she could see a white and pink tail came into view. Dinky sighed a breath of relief, and proceeded to bounce her way to the couch where here teacher was having a wonderful dream. This ended when Dinky landed upon her exposed stomach. *Whomp* “Goooood morning Cheerilee!” Dinky shouted.
“Oof! Dinky, did your mom ever tell not to jump on sleeping ponies?” She rubbed her sore stomach as she got off the couch, awake.
“Which mom?” Dinky responded, turning her head to the side with a confused expression. Cheerilee was at loss, she had no idea what Dinky meant by that. Did Dinky have two mom’s?
“Well...um...Who’s your other mom?” Cheerilee had no clue how to ask this sort of question.
“Oh! You mean my new mom Twilight!? No she hasn't ever told me to not jump on sleeping ponies.” Cheerilee was completely flabbergasted. Dinky thought Twilight was her mom? She was herself old enough to be Twilight’s mom, but that wasn’t the issue.
“Are..I mean are you sure she’s your mom? I thought Sunshine was your mom.” Cheerilee sat down.
“Oh she’s always been my mom but Twilights my new mom! They had a party and everything!” Twilight got married to Sunshine and I didn’t know!?
“Wait... a Pinkie Pie party or a real wedding party?”
“Pinkie threw the party! At Bon Bon’s, weren’t you there? I thought Pinkie Pie invites everypony.” The confused look returned. Cheerilee thought a moment, then remembered Pinkie had come to see her a few days ago about a party.
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Flash back:
“Sheesh, how am I possibly going to get all this work done before tomorrow?” Cheerilee was staring at the huge pile of paper work in front of her. There were tests to be marked, art to be critiqued and the play to get ready for that very night. The students were outside currently going over their lines. The play had definitively been a stressful affair, Cheerilee loved her students but there was a big line between acting and just saying lines. But she knew the parents would love it anyway, they always did. Just then Cheerilee heard rustling behind her, she turned round expecting a student, but she saw nothing. With a shrug she headed for the door which she opened to see Pinkie Pie standing in the doorway.
“Hiya Cheerilee! I have a surprise party waiting and I need ponies to surprise with! Can you come?! Huh? Huh? Huh?”
“Oh hi Pinkie Pie, what’s the occasion, or is this just another of your ‘I’m throwing a party because I want to party’?” Pinkie Pie tended to throw a lot of those, they were fun, they always were but sometimes she didn’t know where to stop. Cheerilee doubted that she could.
“No Silly! It’s a surprise party!”
“So what’s the surprise? And whose it for?”
“That’s a surprise! You’ll have to come and see!” A surprise within a surprise party?
“Sounds fun but I have a lot of work to do. The play is tonight and I have tones of paperwork to do before the winter break.”
“Awww are you sure? It won’t be the same without you.” Pinkie pie was being sincere, when it came to parties Cheerilee knew how to throw down.
“Yea, I’m sorry Pinkie Pie. But I promise I’ll come to the next one.”
“Pinkie promise?”
“Of course, cross my heart hope to fly stick a cupcake in my eye” Cheerilee knew the routine so she knew to close her eye’s
avoiding any unnecessary eye poking. Which made something in the far reaches of the universe feel cheated.
“Okey dokey lokey! Bye!”
“See you later!” Pinkie Pie left the school house, leaving Cheerilee to ponder the surprise of the surprise party.
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Soo that must have been the surprise and a surprise it is. Sunshine dating Twilight, I thought Twilight didn’t get out much. She’ll have to tell me how they met over lunch someday. Plus Dinky seems to like here, so It’s all good I’m guessing. “So how long have you had two moms?”
“A few days.” So not long.
“Okay, well...what time is it?” She said looking outside.
“Its seven o’clock! My alarm clock said so!”
“Are you sure you didn’t read it wrong? I thought the sun was supposed to rise around this time.
“No, it said seven. I checked twice.”
“Huh, well that’s weird. Well let’s have breakfast anyway. What does Sunshine normally make for you?”
“She makes muffins! But I know how to make them too!”
“Oh that’s good, care to show me? I don’t know how to make them.” So Dinky and Cheerilee got to baking, the right way. They decided to make some banana muffins that morning to Cheerilee cut up the bananas and Dinky mixed the dry ingredients. Cheerilee was on edge the whole time, fearing an unscheduled drop in by Pinkie. She always was when she was baking. Then she remembered that Pinkie had gone with Twilight and Sunshine to Canterlot for the festival. Not long after they had started they had all the ingredients mixed up and ready to go into the oven, which Cheerilee had prepd. Dinky may know how to use it but she’s just a filly. The muffins went in and Cheerilee set the timer for 20 minutes.
As they waited for the muffins the pair sat at the dining table discussing future plans of the day. “So, what would you like to do today Dinky?” That is if the sun rises.
“I don’t know it’s kinda weird to go outside when there’s no sun.” Even when Dinky sat on the chair she needed books to be able to put her hooves on the table. “But we normally go to the park in the morning. How about you? Wadda ya want to do?”
“I think the park is a fine idea.” They continued to chat until the muffins were done, they each had two and Cheerilee put the rest in her saddle bag to eat at the park. After putting on some warm clothes set headed out for pony ville’s park.
The night was cold but it wasn’t freezing. The wind had stopped and the snow wasn’t falling. Ponyville’s lamps were still on seeing as the lamp man hadn’t woken up on account of the sun failing to wake him. The park was dark and desolate, Cheerilee couldn't see any pony. But once they had arrived at the center she could see a single lamp flicker away in the night. She couldn’t see who it was but she intended to find out. She almost lost the muffin in her mouth when she realized it was Pip. He was wrapped in what looked like 4 blankets, and a beanie. The lamp set down next to him was a jack o lantern that she recognized from this year’s night mare night. What’s he doing all alone out here? As they got closer Pip heard them and spun round to see Cheerilee and Dinky walking up the park path. He shed the blankets and ran up to them “Hi miss Cheerilee! H-Hi Dinky! What are you guys doing here?”
“Hello Pip, I could ask the same thing of you.” Dinky just waved.
“Oh me? I’m here to watch the sun rise, but I think I’m a little early. Did you guys come to watch too?” Pip was about Dinky’s age and they were both in the same class together, he always seemed to either where his pirate suit of his school uniform so seeing him without one was rather interesting. Cheerilee had always found him to be a very good student, and often thought the brown splotches on his coat were rather nice. Dinky thought the same thing but her thought patterns were a little less ordered, she particularly liked the brown splotch on his eye that made him naturally look like a pirate.
“No I’m afraid we didn’t come to see the sun rise, it’s actually past seven o’clock Pip.” His brows dropped and he scrunched his nose in confusion.
“But the sun is supposed to rise at six, how come it hasn’t risen? Did Celestia forget?”
“Oh I doubt she did, maybe she’s just sick.” Cheerilee knew the situation was far worse but she didn’t want to scare the children. And a dark and desolate park is the worst place to do it.
“Oh, well I hope she gets better soon so she can raise the sun. It’s too cold at night.” Pip began to shiver, he longed for his blankets.
“It is rather chilly isn’t it? Oh Pip your shivering, here I have a extra jacket in here...” Cheerilee set her saddle bags down and began rummaging through them, after a few seconds of silence she tried to talk again (with the jacket in her mouth) “Herf ur gof Pith, takt tit plth.” Despite freezing to the bone Pip managed to chuckle a little.
“Thanks miss Cheerilee!” He tried putting it on, it was a little big and made him look like he was wearing a trench coat. It was a brownish sweater with buttons along the front of it. It was big but boy was it warm. “Wow, it’s really warm, thanks so much miss Cheerilee!” Cheerilee smiled.
“It’s no problem Pip, but what are you doing out here so early? And where are you parents?” Come to think of it, she didn’t know Pip’s parents. She hadn’t seen them at the parent teacher conference, or the beginning of school year meeting. And she hadn’t seen them come pick up Pip once.
“I came to see the sunrise remember! I don’t know where my parents are Miss Cheerilee.” His face dropped a little, not enough for Cheerilee to notice but it was there.
“Aren’t they at your house?” Another thing she didn’t know; where Pip lived.
“No... I told you, I don’t know where they are.” Now Cheerilee could see the despondent look in his face.
“You don’t have a momma...? I know I have two momma’s so we can share together!” Dinky whom had been rather quite the whole time suddenly spoke up. And completely shocked her company with the outburst.
“Tw-two?” Pip, whom was the most shocked was trying to wrap his head around the idea of two mothers. Who can blame him, he is only ten.
“Yea! You know how your momma makes breakfast and takes you to the park and stuff? Well with two mommas the fun doubles!” Dinky raised both her hooves to try and emphasize her point.
“N-no, I can’t say I have...sorry.” The sadness in his voice grew heavy with memory. Memories of watching everypony have those things, but not him.
“Well now you can know!” Dinky was bouncing around unawares of how Pip felt.
“H-How?” Cheerilee couldn’t say she wasn’t sad for the little colt but what Dinky was offering warmed her heart. Dinky was really trying to help even if what she was offering was not something she could offer. It was the thought that counted.
“Come stay with us! Come on it’ll be so much fun! Have you even tried my momma’s muffins? Their soooooooooooo gooooooood!” And at the remembrance of muffins she bounced over to Cheerilee’s saddle bags and stuck her face in eager to locate the sweet treats. Pip just stood there, wrapped up in the sweater. His mouth agape, no pony had ever offered him something so...so. He could find the word to describe how incredibly happy he felt.
“Yo-you really mean that?” He truly hoped so. A family... It sounded...nice.
“Of course silly! Here want a muffin?” She held a muffin out in front of him.
“Yes please.” He smiled warmly... The trio sat in the park, silence rang out like a sweet melody. But Pip couldn’t sit still; he was actually going to know what it felt to be part of a family. And honestly who could blame him?
Authors notes:
I cannot apologize enough on how sorry I am to have had you wait for so long. I just haven’t had the time but after new years I will have much more time.
So before you move on to hopefully rate and comment I want to wish you all happy New Year!