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// My Sweet Melody 
// Story: Child Of Wonder 
// by Artist 
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A month ago, Melody came home, Stevie and Applejack were happy to have their little daughter, even though it was a challenge at times and many sleepless nights for the couple.

If you would have told Stevie that he would be a father a year ago he wouldn’t have believed you. 

The gentle strum from a guitar emanated from the nursery, Stevie was sitting in a rocking chair, strumming a guitar.

Melody lay in her crib and listened with interest to the noise that strange instrument made.

The nursery was decorated with stars on the walls that lit up when the lights were turned off, the floor of the nursery was carpeted with a white carpet, the walls were painted a light pink, the crib stood in one corner of the room against a wall, and in another corner of the room stood the chair that Stevie was sitting in.

“Oh my sweet Melody, how I love you.” Stevie whispered, putting his guitar aside and walking over to the crib.

“She’s just so beautiful.” Granny Smith’s voice came from the doorway.

The elderly green earth pony hobbled over to the crib and looked down at the small pony leaving within it. 

“Ah know, but Ah wish see her, but Twilight hasn’t found a permanent spell yet.” Stevie spoke, tears starting to form in his eyes. 

“Hey, now, it ain’t like you can never see her, she knows you’re there, so you can see her more than you know!” Granny Smith gently put a hoof on his shoulder. 

“How long were you standing there?” Stevie asked when he pulled away.

“Long enough, to know that ya love her very much, and you do anything to protect her, right?” Granny answered. 

“Yes, I will do anything to protect Melody.” Stevie answered, wiping the tears from his eyes.





That afternoon at sugar cube Corner, a large banner hung in the center of the room with the words “welcome home.” written on it in pink and dark red colors, in one corner of the room stood a table with presents and next to it stood a large cake with the words “welcome home” written in red frosting. 

Pinkie had thrown a welcome home party for Melody, and the girls were so happy that they were aunts, especially Twilight and Rarity who constantly wanted to spend time with their niece.

“Wow, Pinkie, you really threw all this together for us?” Applejack asked the pink pony, when they sat down to have the cake, since Melody wasn’t allowed to have cake yet, she was given a bottle of warm milk.

“Yeah, I sure did, I’m just so happy to be an aunt.” Pinkie squealed in delight, bouncing up and down in place.

Melody was in a baby carrier next to Applejack, the baby carrier was dark red with Stevie’s and Applejack’s cutie marks emblazoned on both sides, Melody was sucking on her pacifier that Twilight had given her shortly after she had been born. 

“Ohh, she’s just so adorable.” Twilight cooed bending down to the baby carrier. “Come to your Auntie Twilight.”

The alicorn picked up the infant and carried her to the table then she blew on Melody’s belly, making a farting noise, which made the infant laugh. 

“So AJ, are you gonna teach her to harvest apples?” Rainbow Dash asked.

“Maybe when she’s older.” The cowgirl responded looking lovingly down at her daughter in Twilight’s hooves. 

“I’ll be teaching her everything I know there is to know about music, she’s going to love it, and there is no better time to start than the present.” Stevie spoke as he retrieved a hoof held device and placed it on the table, when he pressed a button, it started playing sweet music.

The song it was playing was called “isn’t she lovely” which was one of Stevie’s songs he made before coming to Equestria.

Ray who with Twilight’s permission had used the same spell to restore his eyesight sat next to Stevie, for Ray since he went blind at a young age, his eyesight could have been restored, but he chose not to then, after several years of living in Equestria it was only now that he had decided to have his eyesight restored. Ray had green eyes, and black fur, his cutie mark was a musical note.

Ray didn’t like talking about how he went blind, but since Twilight had performed the spell to give him his eyesight back permanently, he seemed happier, after his eyesight got restored, he stopped drinking and going to bars.

Since Melody had come home a month ago, Ray had spent most of his time over at the farm, babysitting her for Stevie and Applejack when they were too busy out in the orchard, but sometimes Apple Bloom would babysit her with him, on a particular nasty day where Ray needed lots of help from Apple Bloom they grew very close.

Melody was a tough baby to handle, even though she couldn’t fly or do magic, she still was a very tough infant, especially when she wanted something she would cry for hours until either Applejack or Stevie figured out what she wanted, but none the less they loved her and would do anything to protect her.

“Soren and I are getting married in a few weeks, you’ll be there, right, AJ?” Rainbow asked.

“Sure, we wouldn’t miss that for the world!” Applejack answered putting hoof around her husband.

Stevie nodded in agreement, Melody not knowing what was going on started to cry. 

“Your turn or mine?” Stevie asked his wife. 

“It’s my turn, this time round.” Applejack answered as Twilight handed her Melody.

The music box that Stevie had brought had been turned off.

“Please don’t cry Melody.” Applejack calmed her.

But Melody was having none of it, she just kept crying.

“Sorry girls, I think it’s time to get this one home and off to bed!” Applejack apologized as she put Melody back into her baby carrier.

All of her friends waved goodbye as Applejack, and Stevie made their way home.