//------------------------------// // The tree // Story: Bubbles Popping // by mageli7 //------------------------------// "Hey, hey dweeb!" Chip Mint yelled at Ditzy as she walked by the colt. "Please, not now," Ditzy said under her breath. "Hey! I was talking to you!" The colt walked in front of Ditzy stopping her, "What's with your stupid eyes?" It had been a week since Ditzy had gotten back to school and it wasn't going very well, everypony was making fun of her and she had no way to stop it. Teachers had become harder on her, if she got a question wrong they stared at her in disgust. What had happened? Her eyes had changed, that was it, she was still the same filly. She wasn't normal, she didn't have her cutie mark, her eyes were weird, and she was smaller then the rest of the fillies and colts in her class. "Mint, please, go away," Ditzy sighed as she stopped walking. "What are ya gonna do about it, huh, pipsqueak?" Chip Mint yelled at her. Ditzy sighed, she wasn't able to stand up for herself because then she'd get in trouble with the school who would contact her parents, she didn't want them angry, she didn't want anypony angry. Just then she felt a push on her back and Ditz fell forward on the ground. Ditzy coughed as she fell face first into a mud puddle. Ditzy got up glaring at Chip Mint who was laughing at her. "You are the worst, you're beating me up because I got hit by a car! It's cause of people like you that I have my eyes like this!" Ditzy yelled, flying over to Mint, "How would you feel if I beat you up for the fact that you can't fly?" The colt looked back at his wings which he opened and closed gently. He wouldn't like it very much but making fun of Ditzy was different, she deserved it, being a freak... "S-so what? Lots of colts can't fly!" Chip Mint retorted. "And lots of fillies are different! Can't you accept that?!" Ditzy yelled. "I... FREAK!" Chip Mint yelled running away. Ditzy sighed and began to wipe mud off of herself. Vinyl walked over to Ditzy and began to speak. "You shouldn't let them get to you, I mean, they don't know anything," Vinyl said gently. "B-but they're so mean! I hate it! I hate this school!" Ditzy cried in frustration. "Here, let me help," Vinyl said using a spell to get the mud off of Ditzy. "Thanks Vinyl," Ditzy said hugging her friend. "No prob Ditz, now let's go inside," Vinyl said smiling. ---------------- Ditzy's father walked around the house grumbling. Nopony really knew why he was mad, he had gotten worse ever since Ditzy had been hurt. Even before the accident he was constantly out working or drinking, now he was hardly ever at home. "H-honey... Are you ok?" Ditzy's mother said, walking into the room. "No Stargazer, as it happens I'm not, where's Derpy?" Ditzy's father asked. "D-Derpy? Don't you mean Ditzy?" Stargazer asked, how much had her husband been drinking? "Mhmm, ya, just go get her," Ditzy's father said quietly. Ditzy's father sat down on the couch looking around, his house seemed so much darker, quieter ever since his daughter had been hurt. "D-daddy?" Ditzy said walking into the room. "Der- I mean Ditzy, why are your grades getting worse?" Ditzy's father questioned. "Well, the teachers, they don't like me anymore," Ditzy replied. "Don't like you? What does that mean?" He asked. "Comet, please..." Stargazer interrupted. "Not now!" Comet snapped at his wife, he looked back at Ditzy, "What do you mean?" "They don't like my eyes and everypony calls me a freak..." Ditzy trailed off. Comet snorted, who would like those eyes? She looked like a freak, "Derpy, look, you better get those grades up or else you aren't going to flight school this summer. I don't care if you look stupid, no daughter of mine is failing," "My name isn-" Ditzy began. "Shush! To your room! Now!" Comet roared. Ditzy ran to her room, afraid of what could happen to her. "M-maybe you were a little hard on her dear," Stargazer said quietly. "What did you say to me?" Comet asked looking up at his wife. "I... Nothing..." Stargazer said, looking down at the ground. "That's what I thought," Comet growled at his wife. ------------ Ditzy looked around her room, today was Sunday, there was no school and Vinyl wasn't home. Daddy was off with Mommy doing errands and Ditzy was here, alone. "Why do I always have to be here alone?" Ditzy groaned. Ditzy looked at the bubbles sitting on her desk, smiling, she walked over and picked up the bubble wand. Ditzy loved bubbles, they were so pretty and they had so many colors in them and.... Ditzy played with the bubbles before a faint light came from behind her, not noticing the light Ditzy kept on playing until she got bored. Ditzy sighed and looked out her window noticing a large tree. Ditzy smiled and walked out of her room, she was going to take a little trip. She walked down the dirt path towards the tree. Two fillies stared at her from behind some bushes. "What are we gonna do?" the first filly said laughing. "Shhh, we gotta be quiettt, but here, take a rock," the second bully replied with a grin. Ditzy walked along smiling and looking at the sky, how fun would it be to fly all the way up to Cloudsdale? Ditzy closed her eyes and imagined flying all the way up. The first bully threw a rock, hitting Ditzy on the wing. The second threw another hitting Ditzy on the head. "Ow! W-who's there?" Ditzy said stopping and rubbing her head. The two threw some more rocks which hit Ditzy, hard. Ditzy began to cry and ran faster to the tree. She had gotten away from the two and sat down at the base of the tree sobbing. Why did she always get hurt? Ditzy heard a large crash coming from some trees and looked around, "W-who's there? If you're just here to bully me then go away!" A brown stallion with a hourglass cutie mark walked out from the trees looking at Ditzy wearing a multicolored scarf. "Who are you?" Ditzy asked the stallion wiping her eyes. "Well little filly, the first question is, who are you?" The stallion said with a grin.