//------------------------------// // Bliss // Story: Derpy Who? The Story of My Life // by Cabral095 //------------------------------// Chapter 9 - Bliss ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ My friends had all gone, and the day was soon to end. I could here Dinky's tender snoring coming from her room. I walked to my bag, and pulled out the book I had obtained earlier in the day from the hospital. I set it on my kitchen table, and opened it up, it was a photo album. Looking at the first page, was a picture of me as a filly. I turned the next page, and it was my parents holding me when I was born. Their resent didn't come until a little later I suspected. What shocked me most, is that my father had done his best to preserve pictures of me, and us as a family. I could see that most were of him and mom, but I didn't mind. I continued looking at each photo of them, my heart skipped for joy knowing that they lived happy lives, that is until the end. I flipped to the last page with a photo, it was a picture of my mom and dad smiling. They were on the outskirts of Cloudsdale from what I could tell, with the beautiful Equestrian landscape behind them. It looked as though they were smiling at me from the picture. The next pages were blank, so I flipped back to the picture of my parents smiling, and took it out. Upon taking this picture out, a folded piece of parchment fell onto the floor. I set the picture down, and unfolded the parchment; it was a note from my dad. The letter read, "Dear Derpy, If you are reading this note, it means my time has passed. I just hope that you can find this letter, so I can tell you; that I love you. And that no matter what, I want you to be happy. By now you must have noticed that the rest of this album is blank. Those pages are for you. I want you to place your happiest moments in your life there, as I have with mine. "Cherish each moment you have with your daughter, because each moment with her, is a moment lost. Place your best memories here; so that when Dinky grows older, she can remember the good times and know that you lived your life without regrets. Remember to never forget who you are. You aren't just Derpy, you are my beautiful mare of a daughter who I missed grow up. "Remember to hold memories close to your heart, no matter how much they hurt. I'm just glad I could have seen you one last time. I love you Derpy, and I hope that you live a happy life. Your father, John Hooferman." By the time I finished reading, there was a small puddle of tears next to my hooves. I held the letter close to my chest, and tears flowed from my eyes, blurring my vision. Once the tears ceased, I folded the letter, closed the book, and took them to my room. I placed both under my pillow, and laid down on my bed. I knew my father was gone, but I wasn't entirely sad anymore. I knew he was happy, and wanted nothing but the best for me. I couldn't just stay this way the rest of my life. That would just disappoint him. I closed my eyes, and dreamt of my father smiling at me saying, "Goodbye Derpy. I love you." The next morning, I woke up to find Dinky in the living room playing with the new stuffed animals she had received last night from my friends. Most of them thought that Dinky would be hit the hardest, so they all gave her stuffed animals. She played with them all day, and would only stop to eat. I was glad this wasn't a really hard hit to her. Dinky was soon back in school, and I was back to work by the end of the week. Another month went by, and soon I began to feel less sorrowful about the whole father ordeal. Summer was nearing it's end, but something else was coming along with that; my birthday. Last year nopony did anything, but that was only because I hadn't told anypony. This year, I made the mistake of telling Pinkie; it was only because she asked... Repeatedly. I now began to regret the decision as the day drew closer. About 3 days before my birthday, I would often hear ponies hushing each other as I walked by, this scared me a little. Friday, the day before my birthday, I went out to do some shopping since I had the day off, but the weirdest thing happened, nopony was in town. It was completely deserted. I walked to the stores, and there was still no sign of anypony. I flew up into the clouds to get a better view, but it didn't help me; for nopony was in sight. I flew back down to the ground, and saw something unusual in the street. A muffin just lying there. It looked as if it was just placed there. It wasn't dirty, and there weren't any signs of it being trampled. My belly craved for the muffin, I hadn't had one in a few days because I was so caught up with the suspicions I had on everypony. My curiosity soon turned to hunger, the muffin stood no chance. Upon chewing the delicacy, I saw another muffin nearby, Hunger had become the only instinct I knew now. That muffin soon vanished as well. Looking up only I was to find yet another muffin. glee spread through my body, it was muffins galore I thought. I continued and followed what would turn into a trail of muffins. Follow the tasty trail, I knew it was leading somewhere, but as long as there were muffins, I was satisfied. I followed the path for a few more minutes, thankfully it wasn't a muffin every single step, other wise I would have gotten full really fast. A few minutes ticked away, and I reached the door to my house. Oh no. I thought. I slowly and hesitantly opened the door to my dark home. I peered in, and a thundering, "SURPRISE! HAPPY BIRTHDAY DERPY!" Slammed into my face. I fell onto my back from the screams that were thrown at me. The lights flickered on, and I regained my hoofing. I saw everypony that I knew standing in my house, each of them with a large smile written across their face. Pinkie jumped out from the back of the crowd, "Do you like it?" she inquired, "I spent all week getting everypony involved, and look! The cake is a giant muffin! Mrs. Cake knew that you loved muffins, so she made it!" I looked at the cake sitting on my kitchen table, and sure enough, it was a giant muffin. My eyes gleamed, and I beamed a large smile to everypony who was standing there. "Thank you all so much." I stated, "I couldn't ask for better friends in life. So, thank you all so much." We spent the last hours of the day partying. It didn't end until the sun had set, and everypony was getting tired. Soon after my friends began to leave for home while Drew, Pinkie, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, and Raindrops stayed behind to help clean up my house. My house was soon clean, and I thanked my friends. We all said goodbye, and I slept peacefully that night. Fall went by quickly, and the same happened with winter. Soon enough, Winter Wrap Up was coming up again. I knew what to expect this year, but there was something else on my mind. Dinky, and when I found her. I really didn't know when her birthday was, but it was about this time that I found her. I was going to have her birthday be the same day I found her. The day of Winter wrap up came, and I was assigned to help bring the southern birds back again. I was ready earlier than most of the other pegasi, so I decided to head off on my own, and meet them there. I flew off into the thick gray sky. I flew higher and higher into the sky, and the higher I went, snow became more prevalent. It became colder, and harder to see. Thankfully the blue coat I had on kept some of the cold out. As I continued to fly, I noticed that there were a few other pegasi following from behind; they must have noticed me taking off. Raindrops was in the group, she flew up next to me. "Hey there Ditzy, decided to leave early too?" Raindrops inquired. "Yep." I replied. We continued flying for another hour, but the weather hadn't changed. I knew that the southern birds traveled far, but it just seemed odd how much snow there was. We finally flew over a mountain range, expecting the snow to finally die out. However, there was snow all over the valley. Finally it hit me, I stopped in mid flight, and turned around to face the 15 other pegasi following me. "Um." I began, rubbing the back of my head, "Hey guys, wouldn't it be funny if we were just by chance, flying the wrong direction? Because, at this point in time, oh how funny would that be? They all stopped and glared at me. "I think we may have possibly maybe flown north." I finally chirped. The other pegasi looked at the current surroundings, and then realization hit them. "Ditzy!" yelled Raindrops, "Didn't you make sure you were going south first? We flew all this way for nothing!" I lowered my head, and the pegasi turned around and began to fly south; I did the same. Towards the end of the day, we were finally heading back home. I couldn't wait to see Dinky. By the time we reached home, it was dark. Most of the streets had been cleared of snow, and the sky was clear. I left it to the other pegasi to get the birds settled in their new nests. I flew home, only to find the lights out. Precariously opening the door, I peered inside. Darkness lay before my sight, and the cool night air had invaded my home. I walked inside, and removed my blue coa. I tiptoed into Dinky's room, only to find her asleep. I wanted to say happy birthday, but I didn't want to disturb the quiet filly. So, I waited until first light tomorrow. I decided to go out that night, and tell a few of the ponies about Dinky's birthday, they were mad with me for waking them up this late; but were all delighted to hear the news none the less. The sun shown bright and warm the next morning, everypony I asked to come gathered with me in the living room. We waited for Dinky to come out, so we could all say happy birthday. We all waited impatiently, soon, we could hear the creaking of a door. We all looked down the hall to see the small light purple unicorn come out rubbing her eyes. She entered the living room, and we all screamed in unison, "Happy birthday Dinky!" She looked up with shock, and saw all of us smiling at her. A smile grew across her face. She saw me and ran to me, she jumped and gave me a great big hug. "Thank you mommy!" she exclaimed. I hugged her back and said, "You're welcome sweetie." Over the next hour, we all gave her gifts, and partied. Dinky seemed to have had an amazing time, and that's all that mattered. Everypony left, and soon after the house was cleaned up.