Unsent Letter
Dear Mom and Dad,
I guess it’s been a while since you heard from me, huh? Ten years today, and it’s only today you get this letter. Been doing some thinking lately. I don’t think you were wrong to do what you did. Don’t think you were right, either, but you weren’t wrong. I suppose we’ll never know, right? Can’t go back and undo it all. Wouldn’t want to, anyway. For better or for worse, I’m here.
Let’s see...I suppose I should catch you up on ten years’ worth of news. I live in Fillydelphia now. During winter, I’m a heavy weather consultant. Saved the city a few times. The rest of the year i work in a music shop as an instrument specialist, and that’s a pretty cool gig. I mean, the manager, Tight Ship (I call her Shippy whenever I can get away with it, because I know she hates it) she knows her music, ‘specially the classical stuff, like Mom used to listen to before...you know. Our other employee is this earth pony called Cuddles, real name Broken Record, and he’s really fun to annoy. Gets this wonderful twitch under his right eye that you could use in place of a metronome, it’s that regular.
Sometimes, I just wish I could come home, and curl up next to the fire, like we used to when I was young.
I still hate you guys. Why did you have to be so stupid?
I’m not good at this kinda stuff. Maybe one day I’ll make it back out there. Maybe not, though.
Love,
Regards,
Thunder Tempest.
Tight Ship didn’t like going through her employee’s personal things, but when her pegasus instrument specialist Thunder Tempest had left the letter crumbled up and half shredded in the shop’s break room, she couldn’t really help herself. She wasn’t normally this curious either, but Thunder was oddly tight lipped about anything from before he came to Fillydelphia. This was a clue into his past. Tight Ship didn’t like mysteries, and Thunder’s past was a big one. Still, even reading something this private left the unicorn feeling uneasy, so she scrunched the letter back up, placed it back in the wastebin, and then emptied it out into the larger bin out the back, and didn’t look back.