//------------------------------// // 2- Bar // Story: Incotinens Nos et Cochlearem Argenti // by Daxn //------------------------------// The two fillies walked side by side towards the bar: While the two were walking, the gray filly asked to Noi; “So, you want to know the reasons behind why I didn’t insult you at the start of school today; and why I defended you from the stupidity of everypony else of our class”? Noi nodded. The gray filly cleared her throat, while she entered in the bar with the diapered filly. “Well, do you remember what happened in the class, before your hospital visit ?” “Yes, I recall: the whole story of the professor with Asperger Syndrome, what you said about his obsession... and how Cheerliee seemed ready to bite your head off” Silver Spoon sat frowning on an iron chair, followed by Noi, who made a slight crinkling sound with her diaper. The gray filly placed her left hoof on the mouth of the yellow filly, and said: “Yes, yes, no need to retell me the whole story: I already got my rightful punishment on the spot, and at home, and I truly regret my behaviour. Anyways, once I came back home, my father gave me a very long lecture, not only about respecting the disabilities of others, and how to deal with them; but also about my overall behaviour. I found fun in mocking my peers for no reason, and treating them like garbage. He said that, while sometimes it was good to tease somepony, he also told me that I should not do it everytime I had the occasion and that, if I keep attack the others, I would end up alone. Since I don’t enjoy total solitude too much, I decided to stop, and try to be nicer with everypony. However, being friends with Diamond Tiara, a complete bully, and my reputation as an insulter didn't made the things easier for me: in the last few days, I've tried everything, to change the mind of our classmates about me, and get them accept me in their groups, but to no avail. Today, when your dress tore apart, I was genuinely disappointed by my classmates, and felt empathy towards your current situation. And so, I did what my instinct from my new self told me to do, after my decision to change my behaviour: to try to dispel the stupidity that our classmates were practicing.” Noi's eyes grew a bit in size, and smiled weakly: “Really ? Did you really feel the desire to try to help me ?” Silver Spoon nodded, while with a hoof signaled a waiter. Noi's smile grew in size; her body filling with a relaxing sensation, similar to when she had been administered painkillers by the hospital staff, during her recuperation from her operation, and quaked with some kind of positive energy that made Noi wish that she could hug tightly Silver Spoon. However, the yellow filly kept her energy at bay, even if it was a hard task, and just said with a pealing voice: “You defended me!.... I-I-I don't have any words for this. Really, I don't even know how to react!” The gray filly blushed a bit, twisted her right rear hoof over the chair , and said with a wry tone in her voice: “Glad to hear that, Noi.” Then the waiter, a light blue unicorn pony with a striped light red and green uniform, reached the two fillies, and asked with a voice resembling the one of a chain-smoker that once worked at La Trave who was a baritone, before his voice became weak: “What would you two ladies would like to order ?” The smile of the waiter was actually genuine, despite that the bags under his eyes, sign of a rather long and grueling workshift, a shift that began early that morning, and went on into the night, and part of today. The stallion must surely be on his last legs. After some seconds of thought, Silver Spoon chose to drink some strong matè, while Noi chose to order a cup of Earl Gray tea. When the two drinks arrived, Noi smelt the pleasant scent typical of the minced coca leafs boiled in water, a smell similar to the one of cut grass, entered in her nostrils, and mixed with the fainter smell of the bergamot, typical for that tea, creating an odour that relaxed the diapered filly. The cups that contained the beverages of the two fillies were also different: Silver Spoon’s cup was dark green, resembling a beer glass in terms of height, and had golden geometrical patterns. Noi’s cup was orange, smaller than Spoon’s, had two purple stripes, and, overall, seemed stolen from a luxury porcelain set. Silver Spoon slowly took in her right hoof, the dark green cup of murky matè, placed it close to her lips, and took a noisy sip. After taking the sip, the gray filly asked: “Now that you are more calm, can you please explain to me the whole story behind your... er... situation? I heard that you went in to have your appendix removed, and in my limited medical experience, I didn't know that removing your appendix could cause so dire consequences.” the filly inquired, before taking another sip of her drink. Noi breathed deeply, sighed, put some sugar in her beverage, and while she stirred her tea, she started to talk: “It's not a pretty story...” Silver Spoon slightly flattened her ears, and bowed her head: “If you don't want to talk about it, just say so. I won't force you to talk about it.” Noi noticed Silver Spoon's behaviour, moved her left hood from the top of her head to the base of the chair, in a manner that expressed “it's nothing”, then continued talking: “No problem. After all, you are just curious to know how I ended up like this; and, I had no one willing to listen to me in several days. Anyway, yes, supposedly, the operation doesn't have side effects.” Noi stressed the word “supposedly”. “But, in my case, it wasn't.” The yellow filly took a sip. “You are likely wondering about what caused me to lose control of my bowels? Well, the answer is simple: a surgical charlatan, with stolen medical license, and hooves covered, figuratevely, in pig dung. “ The gray filly eyes widened a bit, causing Noi to cease from her narration. Silver Spoon moved her right hoof foward, signaling to go on. The filly continued her story: “I was supposed to be asleep, during procedure, and wake up in the recovery room. However, that unlicensed son of a bitch, clearly gave me half of the dose necessary to make me uncoscious for the entire operation: since it was half of the dose, I woke up mid-operation instead, and...” The gray filly hissed, and closed her eyes for a brief moment: “I can only imagine, how much it hurt.”She symphathized, before taking a gulp of her drink. “Not really: for some reason, I didn't feel any pain, while he carved my flesh like a cucumber. However, you can bet that I felt fear! I was seeing in front of my eyes somepony cut me open, and getting his hooves covered in my blood, and yet I felt nothing, like if I was having a very twisted dream, and indeed, I had hoped that it was so. But, deep in my heart, I knew it was real, and so I started to feel fear: I was so terrified, that I cried like a little foal! Also, the lack of the feeling of pain didn't last long: as soon that surgeon tore a good chunk of my flesh away from my body, I felt a surge of incredible pain, which made me faint. The situation hadn’improved when I woke up: my sister Carrot Top left me a card, which she explained very briefly that I was going to be in diapers; and from then on, Carrot Top doesn't do much else other than insult me, and treating me like garbage, saying that whet I’m going though is very minor thing, and that I’m being immature ..” Tears formed in Noi's eyes: Silver Spoon promptly took a paper napkin, and cleaned the eyes of the filly, telling her: “Come on, Noi, don't cry: you aren’t weak, or childish as your sister pictures you. You seem to be perfectly normal: you are shaken by this change; I guess you feel violated by that doctor; you can't help, but think about it.” The yellow filly sniffed, then drank the whole cup of tea in one gulp. After doing that, Noi said: “Yes, exactly. I’ve been feeling all that.” “Well, don't worry, time will fix everything, but if you have somepony helping you going to get through this, it will take less time to get over it.” Noi smiled awkwardly, and watched her surroundings, as if she had a bad impression on her defender. Since Noi felt uncomfortable in such situation, she gave quick glimpse to the clock, only to exclaim: “Oh goodness, I'm late for lunch !” Noi took off two bits, and left them on the table. “That's my payment. Goodbye”, and ran out the bar, leaving a confused Silver Spoon behind, and an amused barkeeper. Later on, in Carrot Top’s house, Noi entered into the dining room of her house, and sat down on the chairs, waiting for the dishes prepared by her mother: While she was waiting, the father also sat down, and asked to her daughter: “So, how did school go today? Did your classmates made fun of you?” The yellow filly replied, slightly annoyed: “Yes, they did. After having soiled myself, I ran to the bathroom, tripped, and got my cape ripped by a hook on the wall. Needless to say, with my cape ripped, the used diaper was in plain sight of everypony, and almost everypony laughed at me!” Carrot Top entered into the room, and said: “I've heard what you said few seconds ago, and let me tell you: it serves you right” Bronze Hoe barked: “Carrot Top !” Then the father returned to his younger daughter: “Anyway, sweetheart, why did you say 'almost everypony'?” “Because two ponies in the class didn't mocked me: Miss Cheerlie, and Silver Spoon.” Bronze Hoe's eyes widened, and his jaw dropped: “Silver Spoon ? Is she the same Silver Spoon we are thinking ? Or she is a namesake ?” The yellow mare with orange mane sniffed up, and said: “If it is the same Silver Spoon that insulted her before going to hospital, then she must have hit her head very hard.” Noi smiled: “Sister, she is the same Silver Spoon that insulted me before my hospital stay. She didn't hit her head: she just got a lecture by her father about teasing and insulting and, after her attempt to change, she saw in me the opportunity to appear a better pony to everyone else.” “Is she that desperate, to resort to give pity to somepony like you ?” The yellow filly was going to answer to her sister, when her mother Modina entered in the dining room with the dishes: Noi swallowed bitterly, and whispered: “I'd wish to know why you are so mean towards me. I mean, this is getting ridiculous.” After lunch, Noi went back in her room, and started to tidy it up. While doing so, she started to talk to herself: “Let's see how I can recap the day so far: I've woke up early, and Carrot Top made an acid remark on my condition; in the class, until the fourth hour, no one knew a thing; and then I got insulted by everypony in the class: even my those I considered friends could not help, but laugh at me. On the other hoof, everything went better than expected with other adults, since the waiter treated me like any other customer, and, I didn't receive strange looks by strangers along the way; plus, it seems that Silver Spoon is interested in defending me. But she said that she wanted only to defend me, not befriend me. And, as she said, it would be easier get over this problems, if I had some companions... but who ? My former ones, likely have changed their colors, and I have no idea about where to find more... it seems that I only need to bear this for a long time.” The conversation was heard by Carrot Top, who enetered in Noi’s room, and asked mocklngly to Noi: “So, for how long you need to bear this mental condiction ? Three hours ? That’s a long time, noi. You should be faster ! But, while you wait, you can have a bottle or two of milk ! Or, and keeep this blocks !”, then the yellow mare launched in the four alphabet blocks, residuals of when Noi was a foal for real. That insult was the straw that broke the camel’s back for Noi: not only she was insulting her AGAIN, despite the fact that the diapered filly had her fair share; she was also saying that she lacked of sense of time and measure. Noi jumped down from the bed, and said with narrowed eyes, and a red face: “I’m not a baby, Carrot Top. You know this, but you don’t want to admit it. Well, time to show that I’m more than capable of hurting you.” Then Noi jumped over her sister, biting the left front leg of Carrot Top, who reacted at the pain with a jump backwards, and the raising of her usually undulate mane; then she answered back with a slap that missed for few millimeters Noi. Then, the yellow filly went under her sister twitching, and kicked her torso, and causing the young mare to move back, collapse, and emit a suffucate sound of pain. At that point, Noi left her sister panting on the doorstep of her room, and went back to her buisness.