//------------------------------// // Hello? // Story: Bubbles Popping // by mageli7 //------------------------------// The world had gone black, everything had stopped and slowed, and Ditzy Doo couldn't see a thing. Where was she? She couldn't figure it out, the bully had pushed her into the street, Vinyl Scratch yelled something, and now all was quiet. Ditzy closed her eyes and sighed, she didn't like the darkness, it looked scary. Just then a faint beam of light appeared, Ditzy opened her eyes and looked towards the light, it looked so welcoming, so warm. Ditzy walked over to the light, she smiled as she stood under it, it warmed her whole body and made her feel almost new. Ditzy opened her wings and shut them again, she could fly up there if she wanted to, nothing could stop her. Ditzy looked up straight into the light and flapped her wings, hovering above the ground, she flew towards the light until something stopped her. "We're losing her!" a voice screamed out of nowhere, Ditzy looked around, was somepony there? "CLEAR!" the voice yelled again, a small jolt went through Ditzy's body, the light disappeared and Ditzy fell down, what was happening? "C'mon kid, you gotta make it," a new voice whispered. Ditzy closed her eyes and shuddered, the voice was comforting. Something was happening but Ditzy didn't know what, another jolt went through her body as she began to feel tired, Ditzy sat and slid forward, laying on her side. Why was she so tired? Another jolt, and the voice whispered again, "Please kid, wake up,", then everything went black again. ------------ Ditzy snapped awake, the darkness was gone and was replaced by a hospital room. "H-hello?" Ditzy said, her eyes widening in fear, "I-is anypony there?" Ditzy was swept up in an enormous hug and heard sobbing. She looked over and saw her mom sitting there crying, "Mommy? What happened? Why am I in the hospital?" Ditzy said looking around the room. Ditzy's mom didn't reply, instead she hugged Ditzy tighter and cried louder. Ditzy looked around the room and noticed her father sitting in a chair looking at her, tears in his eyes. "Daddy? Please, what happened?" she asked her father. "D-Ditzy, you... you got in an accident," her father replied, wiping his eyes. "What kind of accident?" Ditzy asked. Her father sighed gently, "A car accident, do you remember? You were walking to school with Vinyl." Flashes of the day went through Ditzy's mind, she was with Vinyl, two bullies had come and then... The push, the car, the road. Ditzy looked around again realizing something, she couldn't see through her right eye. "D-daddy? I can't see, what happened to my eye?! Why isn't it working?!" Ditzy cried. "Ditzy, Ditzy! Calm down honey, when you got hit you got hurt... Your eye got hurt, I'm sorry," her father explained, holding up a mirror for Ditzy to see. Her left eye was working perfectly and she could see it in the mirror looking back at her, but her right eye's pupil had drifted in a different place, what was happening to it? Ditzy shook her head trying to get the eye into place, sadly the eye didn't move and the pupil stayed up in the corner of her eye. "I-I.... Why did this happen to me?" Ditzy said aloud. "Darling, it wasn't your fault at all, you did nothing wrong, Vinyl told us what happened and it wasn't caused by you," her dad said quietly. "How long have I been asleep?" Ditzy asked putting down the mirror. Ditzy's father sighed again, "Two weeks exactly, at first you weren't responding and we thought you were dead... They realized you were breathing and your mother and I have been switching off waiting for you to wake up." The door opened gently as a familiar unicorn walked in levitating flowers in front of her. "Is Ditzy awake yet Mr. Doo?" Vinyl said looking down at her hooves, not wanting to see her best friend hurt. "Vinyl? Vinyl! It's me, Ditzy!" Ditzy said smiling, her best friend had come to visit her, to see if she was ok. Vinyl looked up in surprise, "D-Ditzy? You're ok? YOU'RE OK!" Vinyl ran over to Ditzy hugging her and smiling. Ditzy's mother got up and wiped her eyes, her daughter was ok, everything was going to be alright. "Wait, Ditzy, what's going on with your eye?" Vinyl took off her purple glasses and looked at Ditzy's right eye in wonder. "Oh I umm... It got hurt, I know it looks stupid..." Ditzy said blushing. "No, not at all! It looks awesome!" Vinyl said smiling. "Thanks Vinyl, you're the best," Ditzy said hugging her friend. -------------- Ditzy got out of the hospital a week later and went back to school a week after that. She was extremely worried, her eye wouldn't go back to it's normal position. Ditzy had tried everything, trying to move her eyes back into place, asking Vinyl to practice spells on her, anything to fix the mistake before she got back to school. Everypony would make fun of her and none of her friends would want to be with her besides Vinyl. Ditzy sat in her room and groaned in frustration, she had been holding a mirror all day and had been trying to move her eye into place but nothing was working. "C'MON YOU STUPID EYE! FIX YOURSELF!" Ditzy yelled. "Honey? Ditzy?" Ditzy's mother opened the door to her daughter's room quietly, "Is everything alright?" "My eye, it wont move back," Ditzy said sighing. Ditzy's mother bit her lip, nopony had told her. She didn't know it was never going to fix, it was stuck like that. "Honey, maybe you should just forget about it... I don't think it's going to fix," Mrs. Doo said quietly. "What?! I'm gonna look like a freak forever?!" Ditzy cried out. "Darling, you aren't a freak, bad things just sometime happen to good ponies," Ditzy said, pulling in her daughter for a hug. Ditzy began to cry quietly, "I want to be normal, like everypony else! I don't want this eye!" "Honey, you're ok, it's ok, don't worry," Mrs. Doo said, rubbing her daughter's back. A large yell came from downstairs and Ditzy's mom looked up. "Oh, it's your father, here, I'll come back up later, ok honey?" Mrs. Doo said gently, hiding the fear in her voice. "Ok mommy," Ditzy said quietly and laid down on her bed. Ditzy's mom walked downstairs gently to her husband. When she walked in he glared at her. "Where's dinner?" he growled. "I was just about to make it," Ditzy's mother said walking over to the stove. "Do it quickly," Mr. Doo hissed at his wife. Ditzy's mother smelled the alcohol on her husband's breath, what had he become? Ever since Ditzy had been hurt Mr. Doo avoided talking to her, ignoring her as if she was just an annoying pest, what had Ditzy done wrong? She had been the one who was shoved down and hurt, it wasn't her fault, it was the two bullies, they had caused all this. Ditzy's mother cooked dinner as tears ran down her cheeks, what was happening to her family?