Filly woke up the next day. It was 2:00 in the after noon. Filly didn't recognize this place. Where was she? She started to panic. She heard a voice she recognized. It was Sunshine Velvet, but she was talking to somepony she didn't recognize the voice of. Filly started to move, leaning against the back of the bed.
Sunshine and the other pony stopped talking. "Did you hear something?" The other pony said, putting a hoof to her ear to try and listen again.
"I think Filly might be awake now." Sunshine said. They walked to Filly's room. Sunshine opened the door and went inside, shortly followed by the other pony. "Hey." Sunshine said, cheerfully. Filly followed Sunshine as she walked by the bed and sat down next to it.
Filly turned her head to see the pony Sunshine was with. She was a white earth pony with a pink mane.
"Filly." Sunshine said. Filly turned to look at her. "This is Snow Lotus." Filly turned again to look at the new pony. "She's a home school teacher. She's going to help you with speaking. Is that okay?" Sunshine asked. Filly nodded. "Good." Sunshine said while taking a breath. "Now I'm going to be downstairs getting you breakfast or lunch." Sunshine said while questioning which it is. "Is it alright that I leave Snow Lotus alone here with you?" Sunshine asked.
Sunshine started to leave. "Go slow with her and be careful, she's shy and gets scared easily." Sunshine whispered to Snow. Snow saw a small table in the room. She pushed it over next to the bed. Filly moved away from it. Snow Lotus sat down on the other side of the table.
She took a board out of her saddlebags and placed it on the table. It had capital letters, lower case letters and numbers on it. Snow placed a hoof on the capital A. "AAAAAA." She said dragging out the letter. Filly just looked at the table and back at her. "AAAAAA." She repeated, trying to get Filly to copy her. "AAAAAA." She said again.
Filly lifted her hoof and placed it on the capital A, but didn't say anything. She was looking at Snow Lotus with a blank expression.
"AAAAAA." Snow Lotus said, trying to get Filly to repeat her. Filly looked down at the board and then up again at Snow. She opened her mouth. "a-a-a-AAAA." She said with a stutter.
"Good, very good." Snow said, happily smiling at her. "Now." Pointing at the lower case a. "aaaaaa." Filly opened again to copy the sounds Snow was making when Sunshine came back with a breakfast tray and pancakes. "Sunshine, you just missed her speak." Snow said, excitingly.
"Really!" She said, while placing the tray and the pancakes on the bed. Sunshine and Snow were excited.
"Okay, lets do the first one again. AAAAAA." Snow said
"a-a-a-AAAAA." said Filly.
"Wow, that's so good Filly, your doing so well." Sunshine exclaimed. "Now, I'm going to let you continue." Sunshine left, letting Filly eat and continue working. They continued until it was time for dinner. They only made it to the capital E when Snow Lotus left.
Filly still stayed in her room, not going down for dinner.
A week went by and Filly had finished the board and was starting to learn how to put letters together to create words.
"M-y n-a-m-e I-s S-n-o-w L-o-t-u-s. W-h-a-t I-s y-o-u-r n-a-m-e?" Snow Lotus said, separating each letter with the board.
"I-I-I-m F-F- FFF-i-l-l-l-y." She said, using the board and still with a stutter.
It was getting late and Snow Lotus had to leave, but before she had a gift for her. "Filly, I want to give you something for how well you've been doing." She gave Filly a book.
"A d-d-dic-c-c-ctionar-r-r-ry?" She stuttered.
"Yes it has may words in it that will help you pronounce things better and learn the meaning." Snow answered.
"Th-th-thank y-y-you." Filly thanking for the gift.
"Your welcome." Snow said, waving goodbye.