Sunburst nudged little Starlight, trying to wake her up.
"Starlight, wake up!" Sunburst said, nudging her again.
Starlight slowly woke up and yawned as her pacifier fell out of her mouth.
"Sorry sweetie but...here's your new playroom!" Sunburst said excitedly. He also placed Starlight's pacifier back into her mouth.
Once Starlight fully opened her eyes, her mood instantly changed to happiness as she saw her new playroom!
She crawled to some of the wooden blocks and started to play with them. Since she was new to the whole block-building thing, she just banged them together. She giggled as she made noises.
"BANG, BANG!" Starlight said happily, banging them together.
Sunburst understood that, and used his magic to take the blocks away.
"No, no, Starlight! You're not supposed to bang them! Here, this is what you do." Sunburst started to pick up the blocks with his magic and made a little castle. Starlight was captivated by the blocks and so, tried doing the same. But, her horn just fizzled out, not even picking up a single block.
Starlight started crying. She was a failure! Her Dad can build a cool tower with his magic, so why can't she?
"Hey, it's ok. You can use your hooves too." Sunburst explained as he knocked down the tower using only his hooves, making Starlight feel better.
Starlight started to use her hooves like her Daddy, stacking each block on top of the other until it leaned over her head. Then she smashed it, the whole tower falling down, blocks scattered around her, making her grin from ear to ear.
But, after that, she got bored with blocks and decided to use her plushies instead to make a tower, but she didn't have very many so, her tower was short but, she was ok with that. She smashed the tower down again, making giggles each time.
Starlight walked away from her plush tower and crawled towards her Daddy.
"Dada, caw I have a cuddwe? Pwease!" Starlight said, extending her tiny arms out towards Sunburst.
"Aww, did you want a hug Starlight?" Sunburst guessed since he didn't understand foal language.
Starlight nodded eagerly as Sunburst picked her up and held her tight. Starlight really loved this. She loved this so super much.
"Tanks Dada." Starlight babbled as she cuddled even more into his soft, orange, fur.
Sunburst just blushed as Starlight cuddled into him, but it made him feel loved. It comforted him to know that a little foal named Starlight, loved him dearly.
"I love you Starlight." Sunburst said as he embraced his daughter.
Starlight just gurgled happily in response. But then something broke their cuddle, the sound of Starlight's stomach.
Sunburst picked up on it right away and cooed. "Looks like somepony is hungry." Starlight just giggled as she broke away.
"Let's go get that tummy of yours filled up. Then we can go outside to the park. It's quite lovely in the spring you know." Sunburst said as he and Starlight went to the kitchen for lunch.
Sunburst took out her bottle and placed it on the counter. Then he took out his milk pitcher and poured the white liquid into her bottle till the second last line, closing up the bottle, placing his milk back in the fridge. Then he levitated Starlight in the air and gave her the bottle, which she hungrily suckled down, taking a few seconds to breathe, before suckling it all down again, until the bottle had no more liquid. Starlight was then burped and placed back onto the floor while Sunburst cleaned out her bottle.
"Now, don't break anything! Ok Starlight?" Sunburst warned, looking at his precious daughter.
"Otay Dada!" Starlight could still partially understand but Sunburst never did.
"Good, good." Sunburst said, assuming that she said okay.
When Sunburst left the room Starlight scattered all of her wooden blocks on the floor, along with her stuffies and jumped! Which failed miserably.
Instead of landing on her stuffy she landed on one of the wooden blocks, plus the floor. It hurt so bad that she started crying!
"Dada!!!!!!!!" Starlight wailed through her crying. Her hoof hurt really bad!
Sunburst heard her cries and immediately ran to her, embracing her in his arms.
"Starlight, what happened!?"
"I huwt my hooffy!" Starlight wailed, showing her dad her hurt hoof, which had a red hue to it.
"Aww, you hurt your hoofy?"
Starlight nodded.
"Here, let me kiss it to make it better." Sunburst kissed her red, hurt, hoof.
"Is that better?"
Starlight shook her head. "It stiww weawwy stinwy."
"No? Let's put some cream and a bandage on that." Sunburst carried Starlight to the bathroom to get cleaned up.
"Starlight! Hold still!" Sunburst said as Starlight squirmed due to the coldness of the cream.
"No! I dun wanna!" Starlight whined, trying to divert her hoof away from the cream's touch.
"Starlight, if you don't stop, your hoof will only worsen and you won't be able to go to the park." Sunburst said, which caught Starlight's attention, so much so that he was able to quickly apply the cream on her hoof. Then he added a few bandages and kissed her hoof again.
"There you go, all better." Sunburst cooed as he lifted her back up.
"Now, are you still up for going to the park?" Sunburst asked Starlight.
Starlight nodded her head.
"Ok then, to the park we go!" Sunburst said but then stopped, realizing something.
"We need a stroller. Good thing I have one." Sunburst placed Starlight on the floor and went down to his basement where he kept all of his unneeded or storage items.
"Oh, Starlight, don't hurt yourself again. Or else you really can't go to the park." Sunburst explained as he made his way down the basement steps.
"Ok Sunburst, you are looking for a stroller. It's black with decorative jewels around the hood." Sunburst said to himself as he scoured the basement floor.
He kept doing so until he saw what he was looking for. He used his magic to levitate it up the stairs as he left the basement.
"I hope you're still in one piece Starlight!" Sunburst said as he closed the basement door behind him. He placed the stroller on the floor and rolled it to the living room where Starlight was.
"Good! You're still in one piece." Sunburst said playfully,
Starlight looked at the stroller in awe. Why did Sunburst have this anyhow?
Noticing Starlight's expression he said "you know, my Mom actually gave this to me for 'the future', that mare keeps on making future plans for me, even as we speak! Good thing I still have it."
Sunburst placed Starlight in the seat of the stroller and buckled her in. The stroller also had come with a diaper bag, so, he placed a few diapers, some powder and wipes, a bottle, her pacifier, and closed it. He put the hood up so that the sun didn't go directly into her eyes.
"Alright, we got everything! Let's go to the park!" Sunburst announced as the made their way out the door, the door closing behind them.
Sunburst and Starlight arrived at the park.
"Alright Starlight, even though you're a foal, we still need to go over some rules before you get to play in the park."
"Rule 1: No running off, you need to stay close so that you don't get lost.
Rule 2: No running off with strangers. It's okay to have friends but don't run off with them. You guys need to stay in my sights.
Rule 3: Please stay in my sights.
Rule 4: Please play safely, and come crawling to me if you need anything, ok." Sunburst explained, before taking Starlight out of her stroller.
Starlight immediately crawled to the big sandbox next to the swings and began to play, filling (or at least trying to fill) a blue bucket with her hooves, though her other hoof stung a bit. As she was playing, Sunburst sat down on the nearest bench, watching his daughter from afar.
Starlight kept playing in the sand, when a little foal that looked to be about 2 years old, still in diapers, crawling to the sandbox.
"Hi! My wame is Wasper. Wha ya name?" The foal said.
"Ma name is Starwight Wimmer!" Starlight said excitedly.
"Wat wa doin' Starwight?" Jasper asked.
"I pwayin' wit da sand! You wanna pway in da sand wit me Wasper?" Starlight asked.
"Sure. Wet's make sand angew! Ya know wike a snow angew but wit sand inwead?" Starlight suggested, squirming in the sand playfully.
"Ya! Wet's do dat! Dat sounds wike fun!" Jasper said excitedly, laying down on the sand.
While Starlight and Jasper made sand angels, Sunburst just smiled at seeing his foal befriend another. He did this until a sleek, light yellow unicorn mare walked up to him, which made him blush a bit as she sat right next to him, on the exact same bench.
The mare noticed him and blushed a bit before saying "hello."
Sunburst looked both ways until he asked "are you talking to me, Ms?"
"Of course, silly! There's nopony else next to me."
"I-I guess you're right. I'm S-Sunburst. What's y-y-you're n-name?" Sunburst asked, his forehead sweating.
"Nice to meet you Sunburst. My name is Jewel Box. Is that your daughter over there?"
"Yeah, her name is Starlight Glimmer. Is that your son?"
"Yes, his name is Jasper."
"Wow, they really like the sand. Do you think they're friends?" Sunburst asked.
"Probably, since they're nicely playing in the sand together."
"Yeah. So, how old is Jasper?"
"He's one years old. How old's Starlight?"
"She's only 10 months old. But, she's almost one."
"Wow, so Jasper's older than her."
"Yep, but i'm sure it's ok with Starlight."
"Yeah, to foals, age doesn't matter."
"That's true."
Sunburst and Jewel Box looked at their foals blabbering together.
"Wonder what they're saying?"
"I know, right. Why do foals have their own language? And why can't we understand it?"
"I ask myself that whenever I foalsit Flurry Heart."
"Y-you foalsit Flurry Heart?" Jewel Box was astonished before she put the pieces together.
"Y-you're Sunburst! F-Flurry Hearts crystaller right?!"
"Yes. Surprised it took you so long to figure out." Sunburst teased, making Jewel Box blush.
"Y-yeah. I-i'm sorry..." Jewel Box stuttered.
"Don't worry Jewel. I'm just teasing."
"O-oh, I knew that."
"Sure ya did."
While the grown-ups talked Starlight and Jasper moved to the seesaw.
Starlight went on the right side and Jasper went on the left.
As they started the seesaw, Starlight striked up a conversation.
"So, wa ya tink da gwon-ups talkin' bout'?" Starlight asked while she went up and down.
"I dunno, maybe bout' us?" Jasper suggested.
"Maybe."
"So, Starwight. Why do gwon-ups talk funny? An,why caw't we underwand it?" Jasper asked curiously.
"I-I dunno. I never tought of dat before. But. why caw't gwon-ups underwand us?" Starlight countered quizzically.
"Gweat question. Too wad I don know da answer."
"Yeah, I don know da answer eitha."
"Whateva. Wanna pway on da swide? You know, da weawwy big swide dat swirls around." Jasper said, climbing off his side of the seesaw, Starlight did the same.
As they made their way to the slide three tall colts in blue pull-ups came out from somewhere.
"You fiwwies aren't allowed ta play here! Onwy big colts like us can play!" The big, mean colt said.
"Hey! I no fiwwy! I a cowt!" Jasper yelled back.
"Yeah! An why do ya have ta be so mean?! We just wanna pway on da swirly swide! So, why caw't we?" Starlight asked the bullies.
"Because you too young to play on big slides that were made for big colts like us! So go and play on the wittle slide with the rest of da foals!" The bully yelled at them, kicking sand at them.
"B-but we wanna pway!" Starlight whined, trying to kick sand at their faces, but unable to do so.
"HAHA! You even kick like wittle foals! Go pway in da sandbox!" One of the other bullies said.
"But we dun wanna anymore! We wanna pway hewe! On dat fun swide, meanie!" Jasper said, spitting at them.
"Ew! They spit on us!" One bully said, disgusted.
"They'll regret that!" The other one said, charging straight for them.
Starlight and Jasper ran like the wind while the three bullies chased them.
"Hewp! Daddy hewp!" Starlight yelped as she was almost tackled to the ground by the leader of the bullies.
"Mama! Mama!" Jasper yelped as he, however, was tackled viciously to the ground by the other bully.
While Starlight tried to reach her Dad, she was tackled by the leader.
The bullies dragged them all the way back to the slides, except, one of them was holding a jump rope.
"W-what are ya doin'?" Starlight asked, a little scared.
"We awe gonna tie ya to da slide with this rope, since ya wove it so much." One of the bullies said.
The bullies placed both Jasper and Starlight Glimmer on the side of the swirly side, tying them with the jump rope aggressively, all laughing their heads off, until their parents called them over.
"Sea Blue, Sky Blue, and Aqua Blue! Time to go home!"
"Aww, but Mama! We wanna play!" Sea Blue said.
"Sorry but we can't be at the park all day! Now get over here!" Their Dad yelled, making them wince as they ran back.
"Bye bye foals! See you tomorrow!" They all said as they ran back to their parents.
Once they left, the foals started to wriggle in their bindings but, couldn't get out. Until a pegasus filly who looked to be about four years old, walked in their direction.
"Wescuse me!" Starlight yelled to the filly.
The filly looked around before asking "ya talking to me?"
"Yes! Can ya hewp us!" Starlight said, still wriggling to get out.
"Oh! Yes of course." The filly said, fluttering slowly to the side of the slide, untying them with ease, though the wriggling did help.
Starlight and Jasper plopped onto the ground, their diapers cushioning their landing.
"Tanks so much! I Starwight and dis is Wasper." Starlight said.
"Oh, no problem and my name is Tanner." Tanner replied.
"Well, tanks Tanner." Starlight thanked, going off with Jasper to the grassy area.
"Starlight! Time to go!" Sunburst called.
"Jasper! Home time!" Jewel Box called.
"Oh no! We caw't go wome! Or ewse we might come back hewe agwain. Wet's run away!" Starlight said, running as quickly as possible to the hole in the black fence around the park.
"But, wha happwens when ouwa pawents find out?" Jasper asked, running to his new friend.
"Den, dey will twy to wook fow us, and den dey will neva bwing us back to da pawk!" Starlight said as she went through the hole, Jasper following right behind.
"If ya say so, Starwight."
Jasper had a bad feeling about this, a really bad feeling.