//------------------------------//
// Chapter 4: The Story of Derpy and Greyson 
// Story: Dinky's Bucket List 
// by Br0nyb0y123 
//------------------------------//

Dinky came into her home, wondering what her mom would think about coming in late. Dinky walked in to see that her bucket list was on the desk beside the front door, Dinky already knew what Derpy was going to be saying to her, but Dinky decided to act as if, it's nothing, she went into the kitchen to find Derpy sitting in chair, like she was waiting for Dinky,

"Where have you been, Ms. Hooves?" Derpy questions.
"Oh, sorry, Mommy, I was at Sugarcube Corner to pick up this basket of muffins from Pinkie Pie" Dinky explained.
"Why was Pinkie giving you muffins" Derpy questioned yet again.
"She heard about my cancer and felt sorry for me, so she said she'd give me a free basket of muffins" Dinky explained once more.
"Oh, that was nice of her" Derpy then smiled, "But I was expecting you home 35 minutes ago, I don't mind you going to other places, but come back here to tell me where you're going. OK?"
"Yes Mom. Sorry Mom." Dinky apologized.
"It's OK, baby, just be sure to check with me next time" Derpy said.
"OK Mom, I'll be sure next time" Dinky replied.
"Good good. There's some soup for your dinner over there, take a seat and I'll bring it over" Derpy said.
"OK" Dinky said as she took a seat at the table.

Derpy brought over her daughter some soup, which also happend to be made by Derpy, Dinky looked into the bowl to see it was chicken noodle soup, Dinky's favorite. Dinky took a slurp off her spoon and it tasted brilliant, just as brilliant as the muffins she had today, Derpy had a smile on her face, a warm smile, seeing her daughter happy a day after she found out her cancer chances, made her really happy, but Derpy had something to say to Dinky,

"I read your bucket list when I came back from work" Derpy said, "And I see you added an extra thing to your list"
"Oh, umm..........you read that?" Dinky asked.
"Yep, it probably wouldn't stay a secret for long, Dinky" Derpy replied.
"I guess Mom, but why are you and daddy not with each other anymore?" Dinky asked once again, "Was it because of me?"
"It wasn't you at all, baby, it was an argument me and your father had" Derpy replied.
"What was the argument about?" Dinky asked.
"Your dad had always dreamed of being a star on Broadmane, he wanted to take us to Manehattan, but I decided for the better that me and you shouldn't" Derpy told her.
"Why?" Dinky asked.
Derpy sighed, "The life of a star is bad, for the star himself and the star's family, if I was recognized by the press as the wife of a star, they would make fun of him for having a wife like me, and I wouldn't want all the pressure of the press to make fun of my eye, I don't mind some pressure, due to the fact some ponies make fun of me here, but having ponies spreading news that Greyson Hooves has a stupid looking wife, I wouldn't be able to handle that" Derpy explained.
"But Mom, you're not stupid" Dinky tried to comfort her mother.
"I'm not saying I'm retarded, I'm saying I'm stupid looking, yes, I dropped out of high school, but that was only to look after you, I'm not stupid, ponies just make fun of me. They don't make fun of any other pony, for example, why don't some people make fun of Fluttershy for being shy as anything, or Rainbow Dash for chasing a dream she can't catch" Derpy teared up, but calmed down slowly, "Anyways, tomorrow morning we have to go to the doc's again, he wants to tell us about an operation that he thinks can take away your cancer, he hasn't told me what the operation is yet, but he'll tell us once we arrive at the hospital"
"OK Mom. Are you OK now?" Dinky asked.
"Yeah, I'm fine" Derpy sighed with slight relief.

Dinky had finished her bowl of soup while her mom was rambling on, Dinky carried the empty bowl over to the kitchen sink, on the way there she almost tripped over a raised floor board, Dinky was curious of something her mom and dad, so Dinky decided to ask,

"Mom? How did you and Dad meet?
"I never told you that story?" Derpy asked.

Dinky shook her head,

"Hmm. OK then, I'll tell you." Derpy said.





It was back in high school, around 9 months before you were born, it was a party before our Heart's Warming vacation in Winter, me and my class were going to Canterlot for the party, I was dressed in a dark blue dress, Fluttershy was in a light green floral dress and Rainbow couldn't make it to the party, she was already away on vacation with her brothers, it wasn't the same without her, she would've brought the fun to the party, but it was still a little fun none the less, at the party another few classes from other schools were there, there was a class from Baltimare, another class from from Appaloosa and finally, one from Canterlot. There was disco balls and confetti, and the lights were bright, the party host told us to find a dance partner not from our own class though, that's when I met your dad, Greyson Hooves, a handsome grey Unicorn with a dark brown mane and slightly dark blue eyes, he was wearing a fancy tuxedo. There was no other partners to go with except from him, so I came up to him and asked shyly, I was probably more shy than Fluttershy had ever been,

"Um........can I have this dance please?" I asked covering my wall eye with my long mane at the time.
"Sure thing" Greyson said as he raised his right front hoof, waiting for my left front hoof to be on his.

Once we held hooves, we danced, I had taken dance classes during my time, so I was good at it, but Greyson, he danced as if he was allergic to music, he wasn't to good at it, but the moment we both shared was beautiful, the music in the background, the lights in the room, it was beautiful, and for the first time in my life, I was in love at first sight, and so was he. We must've danced for a good 10 minutes, and after the 10 minutes, we stood there and looked into each other's eyes, he looked at one of mine since my wall eye was covered by my mane, he wanted to see my other eye, so he tried moving my mane out the way of my wall eye, but I snapped my head towards the left and he asked me,

"What's the matter?"
"Nothing, it's.........just....." I hesitated for something to say.
"What?" he questioned again.
"Um.....what's your name?" I changed the subject, hoping he didn't notice.
"My name is Greyson, Greyson Hooves. What's yours?" He asked back to me.
I gulped, "People call me Derpy"
"Derpy? Why is that?"
I sighed as I flick my hair back, revealing my wall eye, "Because of my so called derped eye, my real name is....."
"Shh" Greyson said as he interrupted my sentence and placing his hoof on my upper lip, "Do you think you're not pretty because of your eye?"

I nodded.

"Well that's silly, Derpy" He smiled as he said my name, "You're a pretty pony, where you from?" He asked.
"Cloudsdale" I replied, "What about you?"
"Baltimare" He replied, "Seriously, you are a pretty pony"
"Stop it, please" I smiled.
"Let me say it one more time" He smiled back.
"Go ahead" I replied.
"You're a beautiful pony, miss Derpy" He said.
"I said you can me pretty once more" I was overwhelmed he called me beautiful, no pony had ever called me beautiful except from my relatives.
"You're more than pretty. Say, do you want to go out sometime? I can meet you in Cloudsdale" He said.
"How?" I was puzzled because a unicorn on Cloudsdale can't work, he would just go through the clouds, because he isn't a pegasus.
"I have my ways, I learn magic, I'm thinking of going to college here in Canterlot, but I want to take it for acting" He said.
"Oh yeah, you can use it for playing wizards, can't you?" I asked.
"Yeah, so I'll give you my address, and you can give me yours" He said as he pull out a napkin from his tuxedo jacket pocket and split it in half.
"OK, sure thing, have you got a pen or something to write with?" I asked him.
"Yeah, It's in my pocket" He said once he pulled the pen out.

After that, he wrote his Baltimare address on one half of the torn napkin and he passed the pen to me and I did the same thing with my half of the napkin.
After the party was over, we went our separate ways for a while, he said he'd promise to meet me in Cloudsdale which I was still puzzled about how he would be able to stand on the clouds, but I was still excited none the less. On the way home, Fluttershy asked me what I thought of the party, I said to her it was one of the best times of my life, and I asked Fluttershy the same thing, she said it was OK, but I knew for her, due to her shyness, that she didn't have much of a good time.
Once I arrived back at my house, I asked my dad, if I could go to be Baltimare for a trip, he blatantly replied "No" and it upset me for a while, I waited a month and he arrived, he was in Cloudsdale, he must've learnt a spell that made him walk on clouds, either way I was really happy. On our date we went and got some dinner and he took me back to the hotel he was staying in, on that night, we shared something special together, our first kiss, once my lips locked onto his, I knew he was mine and I was his. Once that night passed by, he went back to Baltimare and promised he'd meet me again, about a day after that, I found out I was pregnant, with you, Dinky. Dad didn't take too kindly to that, because I had to drop out of school because of my pregnancy and 8 months later you were born and I moved to Ponyville with Greyson to have you, and a year after you were born, me and Greyson got married, but you were too young to remember that. Me, you and your father lived a good and peaceful family life for many years until your dad with his acting dream wanted to fulfill it once again.





"He left a day before 24th birthday, he left for Manehattan, I sent letters from the post office, over to him a few months after he left, but I didn't get any letters back, I never got any divorce papers from him, and I never sent any over, because I thought I knew he would come back, but he didn't" Derpy teared up.
"I thought it was my fault, Mom" Dinky said after her long silence.
"It was never your fault, Dinky" Derpy said as she cleared her eyes, "You don't need to think it's your fault, because it wasn't, OK?"
"Yeah, Mommy" Dinky replied, "Can you write another letter please? To tell him I want to see him one last time, before I die"
"I'll see what I can do, Dinky. But you have to go to bed now, we'll be up early for the doctor's" Derpy explained.
"OK, good night Mom" Dinky said as she hopped of her kitchen seat and gave her mom a hug and a kiss good night.
"Good night, sweetie" Derpy said.

Dinky went upstairs and went over to her bed, she laid against her large pillows and her mom's story manage to make her sleepy, and while she laid in her bed, slowly going to sleep, a tear came from her eye, the story made her uplifted but also made her sad. What if she sent a letter and dad never came? what if he wasn't in Manehattan anymore? Dinky cried a bit more, the more she cried, the more she thought about the last thing he said to her before he left,

"Dinky, no matter what you do, always be yourself, don't let anypony else tell you otherwise"

She thought more and more about it, and she cried herself to sleep, for the 2nd night in a row. Again, hoping that her dad being away was just a dream, but again, most of the time, Dinky knew most dreams never come true for her.