Chapter 4 – Maybe for the...
You flop your left ear down and raise your right hoof to your mouth as you stare to the little filly that sits on her pillow and blanket made throne of softness that sits in front of you. You have a dumb expression on your face, you know you can feel it but after a few hours of practicing how to flop your ear down you take all the joy you can muster from your victory as you hold the ear and hoof to the proper question.
You know Violet is most likely to young to understand anything you're doing but doing this somehow make you feel better. You place your left hoof to the cleaned up book and then bring it to the bottle that is being held in the little fillies mouth by her tiny grasp as you talk, "Was it good Violet?"
She stare blankly at you as she sucks down the last little bit.
As the bottle comes down from her mouth you feel a smile come across your face at the sight of her right ear twitch. But instead of her copying you the little filly lets out a decent sounding belch.
"Well that counts." You give a little chuckle as the filly smiles to your voice.
You look back to the book and flip the page as you read the top, I love you. You look over the instructions on how to do this, unlike the other phrases this one is only two motions and is really easy. You smile to Violet as you walk your mind through the steps. You place your hoof on your chest as you talk, "I.." You give a little chuckle as you take your hoof off yourself as you continue , "I.." You move your hoof through your coat as you follow the words slowly through your mouth, "...Love..." You extend your hoof to her chest as you say the last word, "...You..."
Violet looks down to your hoof that is pressed into her coat and wraps her tiny hooves around it instead of following the motion. You smile to her as that happy stomach feeling consumes you were tired. Your thoughts. Her button like eyes stare to you with her silent smiling open mouth.
"Well Violet, you have successful failed every instruction today."
Violet continues to hold her smile which only brings you to a laugh as you look back to the book as you read it silently to yourself.
After a few second you turn your eyes back to her, she is wiggling her front legs towards another part of the room, "What?" You turn to her gaze as you try to see what she’s looking at. As you do this you lose your smile a little, "Hi Twilight."
Twilight has an emotionless face as she look to where you both sit. Her coat around her eyes still look damp and her mane is now ruffled from where she was laying. She looks to the broken high chair as she talks, "What are you two doing?"
You clear your throat as you hoof to the book that sits toward where she stand, "I'm uh going over hoofing."
Twilight looks at the book with a silent nod and stand with an awkward silence for a moment. She gives another nod as she walks over to Violet with a half cracked smile, "And how are you?" Twilight brushes Violet with her hoof.
You hold the book up to her as you sit on the ground in front of Violet, "You want it?"
Twilight stares at the book for a moment and then back to you. Her soft purple eyes fix on you for a moment almost as if she was questioning what you just offered her. Your hoof lowers a little as you start to bring it back down.
But as you bring it back down she nods her head and sits down next to you. She smiles to Violet as she takes the book in her hooves, "Tell me Violet is daddies reading as bad as I remember?" Twilight gives you a sweet smile to reassure you that she joking, and you give her the same as you both look to Violet.
Violet smiles to her voice.
"Ok, Violet." Twilight flips the book back to the first page and silent reads it for a little bit.
You shift your eyes between her and Violet as you sit up a little bit uncomfortable on the ground waiting for her to talk again.
Twilight smile she got from looking at Violet fades as she begins to flip through the pages at a slightly heightened pace. You blink at her trying to understand why she is being so unaccepting of this...you know it’s not the best thing that you two could had hoped for but Violet is still fine and safe...so how can she be acting like this? You stare at her silently as you wait for her to stop.
The pages of the old book finally stop and Twilight's eyes scan the page for a moment. She shifts where she sits as she moves some off her overlaying mane out of her face and looks to Violet, "Ok Violet, you want to try something."
Twilight pause for a moment as Violet stares around the room. As Violet finally looks back to Twilight you watch as she puts her hoof to her own chest as Twilight look to Violet with loving eyes, "I..."
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You don't know how long you and Twilight have sat on the hardwood floor staring to the little filly on her soft throne. But you don't really care, over the last few hours you would guess you and Twilight have moved closer to each other and at each one of Violet's smiles you feel that the events of earlier today are starting to be erased.
"...Ok Violet left hoof up." Twilight taps on Violets left hoof as Twilight goes through the motion again, "Like that Violet."
You chuckle to the little filly as you talk, "Or you could just wiggle your legs like you did before."
Twilight again taps on Violets hoof as she talks in an encouraging high pitch voice, "Come on Violet."
But Violet doesn't follow her motion and instead wiggles her legs to Twilight high pitch voice.
Twilight lets out a little giggle as she smiles to you.
You nod your head as you think to yourself, well Mrs. Sparkle that makes two today.
"Ok..." Twilight brings the book up to her as she read aloud from it.
You try to listen to her but you're drawn back to the little filly who now is yawning big and starting to have drooping eyes.
You nudge Twilight as you motion to Violet.
She gives a light giggle as she stands from the ground, "I think somepony wants to go to bed." Twilight scoops the little filly into her grasp and start to make her way out of the room.
You give a loud sigh as you try to get yourself to stand, "Oh crap." You mutter this to yourself as you try to move but are unable to move for a second. But you’re feeling to your two bottom legs comes back pretty fast as you stand from the ground. You roll your neck and kick out your back legs as you give a loud stretching sound, I need to remember not to sit like that for so long.
As you finish your movements you look down and pick the book up to bring it to the table. You give a light chuckle to yourself as the normal thought that plays through your mind is slightly changed, This would be a lot easier with magic.
You lay the book on the table as you look over the no longer dusty cover, you know this won't be the last time you touch that book...it’s a better reminder but you smile it off as you picture Violets happy face in your mind.
The hooves hitting the wood of the stairs brings your head back as you talk, "Oh you don't have to worry about Violet eating, I already feed her."
Twilight gives a silent nod as she walks past you to the kitchen.
You squint at her as you talk again, "I also changed her before you came down. I think she is ok for a little."
She gives another silent nod as she stops and turns back to the stairs at a slightly quicker pace.
"Twilight?"
She stops as she for a moment as she waits for you to continue.
"Don't you want to look through this book like you do all the others?" You point your hoof to the pile of parenting books that still sit on the table.
Twilight blankly turns back to the you and the book that sits on the table, "We'll worry about that later."
Later? You're stuck on the word as you smile and shake your head to her, you're the one who has to convince her to wait, "Twilight what's wrong?"
She shakes her head and gives a faked smile as she talks, "Nothing, I just think we should deal with this later."
You shake your head again as you talk, "Deal? I think we should do this now."
She look to the ground as her voice gets lower, "I don't want to right now?"
"So just wait till....when?" Your voice carries a little of the annoyed feel you're getting to her words as you stare at her.
Twilight doesn't bring her head from the ground as she whispers something that you can barely hear, "I'm sorry..."
You give a loud exhale as you calm all of your emotion and voice, "Twilight, I’m sorry for toda...-"
She cuts you off again as she talks in her low voice still directed to the ground, "No...I’m sorry for..." she pause at her words before she continues, "I'm sorry for all of this..."
You stare at her a little confused.
"It's my fault I-I should not have used ma...-" Her mouth quivers as she brings her head up to you to finish her sentence.
You cut her off as you walk closer to her, "Shhh, don't-don't cry... It's not your fault."
"I-if I had just..." She chokes up a bit as she tries to continue, "Violet would b-be ok." Her head droops down to the ground again as she starts a light sob.
You move her head to you as you press a kiss to her.
Her low whimper doesn't stop...but as you break the kiss you talk before she can, "Twilight there’s nothing wrong with Violet..."
Her eyes are water but from the look of her coat around her eyes she doesn't have anything left. It hurts you a little that you didn't know how she felt all day until now but you do your best at trying to deal with it now. You place your two front hooves around her as you talk again, "There’s nothing wrong with Violet...ok?"
You look to her head that now is pressed towards your chest, "ok." She nods her head slowly as she answer you. With another light kiss to her mane she stops her light whine.
End of chapter 4