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// Chapter Eleven 
// Story: Bubbles: Derpy's Return 
// by RoxyMoronNERDy 
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Chapter Eleven

Dinky walks, shivering through the dark, frozen world. She really was all alone this time. She felt really sad and sick inside, knowing that not even the amre she like most was able to see it her way. Mommy works so hard to care for her and loves her very much, yet Dinky finds it hard to find somepony who can see the world trhough her eyes. Dinky sighs sadly and continues. The wind has picked up and she is very cold. She forgot to grab her saddle and boots before she left. She was practically naked. Dinky giggled. Well, technically she was always naked, but she knew what she meant.

She then saw a snowflake land on her nose and it melted, sending another chill down her frozen body. She tread through the snow path to her home as the snow picked up, each flake amking her body mor and more numb. She was shivering terribly now, her body aching from the frozen wind nipping at her every joint. She was hardly moving at all, and she was so young that she barely had any fur to rely on for winter. She shivered and a gust of wind knocked her off her feet. She sighed as she lay on the side of the road. The snow storm was so bad she couldnt even see her hoof in front of her face. She shivered as she lay there, she body frozen and aching at every joint. She was going to die. Her whole life suddenly started flashing before her eyes.

She barely remembered when she was born, but she remembered the day she realised that she was a unicorn and her mother was a pegasus. Dinky was always confused, but she never got the answer. Sometimes, a colt would come by to visit her. His name was Cloudy Daze. He was a unicorn, but he knew magic that allowed him to fly. Even if for a short amount of time. He was always getting in fights with Mommy, and that's why he hardly visited. Dinky never really knew him that well, but more and more he stopped visiting. Mommy said that he was a jerk and that the other mare he was with was an old friend of hers. But Mommy wouldn't tell her who. But whenever Mommy and Cloud got in fights, she would always yell in her funny voice he was a cheater. Mommy would yell that the other mare was one of her best friends, but since he cheated and her friend never told her, Mommy wasn't friends with her anymore. Dinky always got confused though, because Mommy said he "cheated." What does cheated mean? Were they playing a game? Why would Cloud cheat?

Dinky shivered as she lay in the snow, unable to move. She suddenly pictured one time when she was with Mommy at the store. Dinky was always in charge of remembering what to get, since Mommy always forgot. Dinky never asked Mommy for things other than what they needed, because Dinky knew that nothing could make her happier than being with Mommy. Dinky and Mommy went to the store more often than usual during summer, because Mommy had a lot more mail jobs in winter and fall than in summer and spring, so she had more fun during that time with Dinky. 

Dinky suddenly remembered when she was on her way to the first day of school. She was really scared, because she was afraid that the other fillies in class wouldn't like her. So when Dinky said she was going to school, she actually went to Twilight's library. But when she got there, Twilight told her she shouldn't give up. That she should be brave and show them that she was unique. Dinky liked that word. Unique. It made her feel special. Twilight explained that special was exactly what it meant! Dinky felt really smart that day. She loved feeling smart. 
She smiled to herself as the cold wind relentlessly abused her, and she felt as if the snow what building on top of her. She saw a warm, fuzzy light ahead of her and smiled as she allowed herself to drift off into a cold, shivery sleep.