I can remember the day well, it had been the most strange day of my life, but also one of the best. It had been a beautiful day when I decided to go out for a walk, but just outside of town it started to rain, I didn’t mind though. Rain can be very peaceful when you have a lot on your mind. I thought about everything that had happened to me. My exams were starting so I had to start learning as soon as I got home. My friends had parted from me, because I started acting different. At least, that was what they said. I had turned my back to them completely now, ignoring them as if I had never known them. As I thought that over tears had started rolling down my face. I missed the company of friends. Classes were already over when it happened, so I didn’t have to put up with them in school. But no one can live without friends. Everyone needed someone to talk to, not only their parents.
That was another thing I was thinking about that day. My parents. I hadn’t seen my father in months now and it had started to bug me. My mother had a terrible fight with him a few months ago. Since then I’m not even allowed to talk about him. My parents had divorced when I was little, so I didn’t know how it was to have a big family. My mother had started acting weird too, she sat behind the computer much more than before. I didn’t want to confront her with it, because I know it would upset her and I didn’t want to upset her.
The rain started pouring on the streets harder and I didn’t have much on except for a simple t-shirt and jeans, so I started running. I would be a while until I came to my house, but I didn’t like being soaked. The moment I started running though, something unusual happened. There was a loud boom behind me and, as I turned around, I was hit by an enormous gust of wind that blew me over. I had screamed, but I was out of town, there was no one around.
“What was that?” I had asked myself.
As I stood up from where I had landed, I saw a huge boulder a few meters away, maybe a kilometer, but not much. I slowly walked towards it. My breathing became ragged as I fastened my pace.
What was this thing? How did it come here? What do I do? Should I touch it? Those questions clouded my mind as I neared the boulder. It was round and had holes. As I got a clearer vision of what it was, I started thinking the impossible. Was it a meteorite? As I came nearer the impossible seemed possible. From what it looked like, it was a meteorite. I gasped when I came to that conclusion and doubted about what I should do. Should I just leave? Or should I do something? I took a deep breath and slowly took the last few steps forward. I noticed it had a slight green glow around it, it beamed at me as I approached it. I stretched out my arm, ready to touch, but there was suddenly a loud thunder which made me jump and fall right onto the big boulder.
I had screamed as I fell.
Luckily nothing had happened so I stood up and took a step back. A lot of questions ghosted in my mind again. What happened? What would happen? What am I going to do? Those questions. I didn’t know what to do so I looked around desperately, but there was no one in sight. I looked at the big ball again. Had it just fell out of the sky? I had asked myself. I shrugged and touched it again. Very slowly I traced the lines on the boulder as the green light started fading. Suddenly it started cracking open. I backed away, scared of what would happen. The big thing cracked in two as my eyes stayed focused on it. As it had split in two another gust of wind had blown me over. It had come from the meteorite again. As I opened my eyes I looked stunned at what I saw. A small egg was inside of this enormous boulder. What to do now? I had asked myself again.
I took a deep breath and stood up, walking towards the egg that had rested inside the meteorite. I carefully touched it. It felt smooth under my skin. It was a dark purple-bluish color with two vertical stripes across it, one pink and one purple. It was almost as big as an ostrich egg, maybe even bigger. I very carefully grabbed it and held it in my arms. The destroyed meteorite had left my mind as I focused on this small piece of live. I wondered what to do. Should I take it with me? I didn’t know, but I did know that the raining hadn’t stopped. It had gotten worse. I should really go home and warm up. My clothes were soaked and my hair stuck to my face. I sighed. I couldn’t just leave this tiny live form alone, could I? No, so I took it with me as I left the broken meteorite behind me and ran home.
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I can’t remember much after that. Just that I did my best to hide the egg, so that my mother wouldn’t worry about it or want to eat it. I shivered at the thought. This was my egg now. I made a warm place in my closet, my mother never came into my closet. I had ‘borrowed’ my mother’s extension cord to put my desk lamp in the closet to heat the egg. I had asked my mom again about the key of my room, but she didn’t know where it was. So I decided to take things in my own hands and went to a key shop so I could lock my room.
“Hello miss, how can I help you?” The cashier asked as I approached him.
“I have a lock on my room, but I lost the key. I would really like a new one.” I said as I looked around the shop. All kind of keys had been locked behind glass windows. I wondered why there were so much keys. A key shop makes keys on request, so where are those keys for?
“I don’t know if I can help you with that. We can only make copies” The cashier said.
“Oh alright, I’ll just look on the internet then” I said.
He nodded as I thanked him for his time before I exited the shop. Internet, always my prior solution.
As I came home I noticed a note on the table.
‘Anna dear, would you please wash the dishes?
I'm going to a friend, see you tonight'
Of course, my mother was gone for the night again. She always was. Well, she was since she found this new site she’s always on. It looked like a dating site to me, but I’m not sure. I decided to just do what she wants and start on the dishes as soon as I could. But before that, I went upstairs to check on the egg. I haven’t named it yet. I didn’t know it’s gender, so why name it? I just called it ‘egg’ until it comes out, if it ever will.
I opened the door of my closet and found it sitting in its place, heated by the lamp and all the blankets around it. I already love this small creature as if it were my own. I smiled and closed the door again, leaving to wash those stupid dishes.
After finishing the dishes I went upstairs, took my laptop and sat on my bed as I watched my ‘child’ in its own bed in my closet. My room wasn’t that big, so I could watch the egg when I sat on my bed. I had shoved a big chest against my door so that my mother couldn’t just barge in. I went to Google and searched for ‘key replacements’.
Nothing. ‘making your own key’ maybe? Eventually I found something I could use. To make a key I did need some things. It was an old style key, so it wasn’t easy to make, but I know I can do it.
Days passed as I searched, bought and used the material I needed to make my key. I had read some tips on the internet, but mostly I was just improvising. Finally I did it. I had made my key. I was nervous when I tried it. What if it didn’t work? Would all my effort be worthless? I had thought. But as I pushed the key in and turned it, it clicked and my door was locked. I had made a silent scream of happiness as I unlocked my door again. This meant I didn’t have to push that chest constantly.
As far as I could see, the egg was still the same. I carefully grabbed it to check it and noticed a small crack at the back. I smiled at it. This was a good sign, it was going to hatch in a few days.
I suddenly went pale, it was going to hatch! What to do!? What if it’s a human eating monster? I panicked, but slapped myself. It’s an egg, what could it possibly do? It’s probably small and innocent. At least I hoped it would be.
After about one and a half month it started opening. I was sitting on my bed, learning a bit, because I was going to retake one of my exams, otherwise I would fail. I didn’t want that. I just needed one seven to make up for those two fives. I had heard a quiet crack from the closet, so I walked towards it.
“Egg?”
I looked at it, it didn’t do anything. It wasn’t cracking any further. As I turned around I heard another crack. This time a tiny bit louder. I looked at the egg again. Nothing.
“Hmm…?”
I sat on the ground as I watch the egg closely, not taking my eyes off of it. Suddenly it cracked again and started to move. I went on my hands and knees to look at it even more closely. Is it going to hatch? I wondered. It cracked further and pieces started to fall off. The top came loose as I heard a very light noise. It sounded as the noise of a horse? Well, that was interesting. As I lightly touched it I heard it again, this time loader. It did sound as a horse.
“egg?” I called again.
The egg started moving more and rolling a bit in the blankets, so I removed them to give it space. I watched silently as the shell broke more and more. After a few minutes I could see a light purple fur. I wanted to help it, but I had read somewhere that it is bad to help a chick out of an egg, because it could hurt it. So I decided to just let mother nature handle this as I watched it carefully. After a few moments I had a good look at it. My eyes widened and my face went pale. I didn’t move a muscle as it crawled out of the egg. It was as large as a few weeks old kitten. It looked a lot like… No that was NOT possible. I looked at it. It had a light purple coat, that was already something that wasn’t from this planet. This creature was obviously a mammal, though it came from an egg! It had dark purple-bluish hair, the same color as the egg, and it had two stripes in its hair, pink and purple. It had its eyes closed, but I was almost certain I already knew what color they were. My mind went blank as I thought all this over.
This is a dream.
I told myself, but it wasn’t. The small creature opened its eyes and looked at me. Purple. I was sure now, there was no other solution. I looked at it as it opened its mouth.
“Mama” It said. My eyes widened and started to water. This was even a better day then the day I had found the egg. My mind had given up on trying to find answers. This wasn’t logical, that was sure, but it wasn’t a dream either. This was real. This was happening. This was amazing.
This was Twilight Sparkle.