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// Chapter 3 
// Story: Newpony 
// by RagingBrony19983 
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	It was wonderful to see Derpy but she did seem a little bit fidgety. I ignored it though. It was probably because she hadn't seen me in so long. I went up to my room and sat on the window seat staring out the window for hours watching the ponies go into their homes for the night. I felt odd being in this room. I wondered if dad had found out I was gone by now. I just hope he didn't come looking for me or Derpy. It will be easier for him since we're together again.

My fears are silly though I have nothing to worry about. We are so far from Manehattan. He won't find me or Derpy, but I still had the nagging fear at the back of my mind. What if he did find us? What would he do to us? I tried once more to shake the though out of my head. 

I went to sleep and had a nightmare.  Suddenly i'm in a strange room and Derpy's dead body is laying across the floor with a trail of blood leading to a door. I try to get up to leave but then I discover I have i'm chained to the wall. I start frantically pulling at the chain trying to get out. Then my dad enters he says nothing. I crouch in the corner to hide but he turns his head and sees me and comes over. His horn glows and I feel his power is set on me. An overbearing, intense pain fills my body and I can't take it.

Then I wake up. It's only 3:00 a.m. So I try to go back to seep but every time I close my eyes even if i'm not asleep the nightmare replays the images dancing on my eyelids like I've lived it. The whole night I keep my eyes wide open by morning they are burning that I have no choice but to blink but luckily the nightmare doesn't try to start up. 

I go downstairs to leave and go see about this job at Sugar Cube Corner. Baking was the only thing I could do to get away at home. It kept my mind off everything else as I concentrated on baking the food. As soon as I walked in Pinkie Pie ran up to me.

She practically screamed at me,"Yay you're going to work here it's final. Derpy already told us about your special talent, and we trust Derpy. We have needed extra help ever since Mr. and Mrs.Cake had their baby, they've needed extra help at the bakery."

I nodded my head as her words went though my mind trying to process them. 


Nothing interesting happened today at work just did orders and helped bake them. On my way to Derpy's I picked up a newspaper and when I got there. I sat in the Kitchen looking for a place of my own. I guess i'm gonna stay for a while. I can't leave Derpy or Pinkie Pie. I hope I can make new friends as long as they don't ask about my past. I found one near work and decided I would check it out tommorow.

I went upstairs to bed and the second I fell asleep the nightmare instantly went on replay. I couldn't even wake up out of it. After the the third time it replayed I awoke screaming and I went over to the window seat exhausted and I sat down watching everypony get up and get ready for the day.

I headed off to work still tired. It was the same thing today just baking. No talking except to say an error. I went out and went to look at the house it was the near the Everfree forest and it had some nice neighbors around. I checked the house out. I decided to get it. 

I moved in right away because honestly I didn't want to be at Derpy's much longer. Not because I didn't like being there. No pony lived in it before it was just built and I really had nothing but what was in my bag. So I guess i'll have to get some furniture.

I was still exhausted so I slept on the cold floor that night. The nightmare was there again. When I awoke I was more exhausted than ever. I went to do some shopping for furniture. 

When I trotted around the corner to go get some furniture I saw my dad and stopped abruptly and backed back around the corner. He had a stack of posters with him with a old picture of Derpy and me in the middle of it. I ran to Derpy's in a rush and explained what I had just witnessed. So we went to the hospital to tell Dr. Whooves. 

He said,"Go to straight to your house Nightrush and hide there. Don't come out until I come to get you. I will figure out food issue later."

We were still in astonishment so we just nodded our heads and ran out. We had never run faster in our lives before as we ran side by side. We heard nothing around us just the pounding of our hooves against the roads and the beating of our hears in our ears. 

As soon as we got there I fumbled with the key and tried to do my best to get it in. Then I heard him yell our names and that's what made me more frantic. Derpy took the key out of my hoof and tried but with the problem of her eyes she failed too. I took it back as I heard the sound of the hooves get closer. We ran inside slammed the door and locked all the locks. I whispered urgently for us to get upstairs. We closed all the blinds fumbling madly. Then we sat in the empty bedroom as close as the floor we could get as all we heard was the matching punding of our hearts. 	

Then the banging at the door. How did he find us. We listened as it grew louder. As the banging grew louder so did the beating of our hearts and we feared he was going to break down the door.