Chapter 2: Bad Day
It has been three weeks after Dinky's first day of school. Derpy was making Dinky's lunch again like she's been doing everyday. She even adds a second muffin to Dinky's lunch for Bells. But since it's not her first day of school anymore. Dinky has to go home alone but she walks home with Bells everyday at the end of school. Dinky had her backpack ready and Derpy gave Dinky her lunch. They went outside the house and Derpy put Dinky on her back and flew her to school. Once they arrived to the school Derpy gave Dinky a kiss goodbye on the forehead and Dinky went to her classroom. Dinky walked inside the classroom and noticed that Bells wasn't in her desk. She found it odd because Bells is always at her desk before she is. "Maybe she's running late" Dinky thought to herself. She took a seat and waited for her friend.
The school bell rung and Dinky was a bit nervous without her friend being around. She felt vulnerable in the classroom. Ms. Cherilee walked in the door.
"Good morning everypony." Ms. Cherilee said.
"Good monring Ms. Cherilee." All the students greeted.
"Now today we are going to talk about addition and substraction." Ms. Cherilee said.
Dinky barely paid attention because she was worried that someone was watching her. She looked around the classroom and noticed that everypony was paying attention to the teacher. She quietly sighed and put her attention back to the teacher.
"Now can anyone do this question that I am writing on the board?" Ms. Cherilee asked the class.
Ms. Cherilee looked and saw three hands go up. Dinky was thinking about the question in her head. Once she figured out the answer somepony had already got the answer correct. Dinky wrote down the question in her planner that was on the board and the answer in case if she had to study it for later. While she was writing it down she felt something wet behind her back. She put her hoof on the back of her head and pulled out whatever was in her mane. She looked and noticed that it was a spitball. Dinky turned around and all the looks on everypony's face showed innocent. Dinky had suspicion that it would be Silver Spoon. But she didn't see who did it so she ignored it and payed attention to Ms. Cherilee.
"Now what happens when I have two numbers and put the subtraction sign in the middle of them. Then, the equal sign at the end and come out with a number that's less then these two numbers. Can anyone figure out this problem?" Ms. Cherilee asked the class.
All the students were thinking about the problem. Dinky started going back in her planner to see if there was anything that lead back to the subtraction problem. A student on her right side was poking her on the shoulder and gave her a note. Dinky looked at her and the student pointed her hoof at her.
"Me?" Dinky whispered quietly.
The student nodded. Dinky unfolded the note and it said. "Try putting one eye to the back of your head so you don't get wet from spitballs. I hear that's what your mother did when she was in school." Dinky read. Dinky looked at the student on her right.
"Who is this from?" Dinky asked in a whispered voice.
"I don't know. I was told just to give it to you." The student replied.
Dinky's suspicions lead towards Silver Spoon and Diamond Tiara. She looked back at the note and slowly ripped it up.
Lunch time. Dinky sat alone at lunch today. She pulled out her food and saw the extra muffin that Derpy puts in her lunch so she could share with Bells. She looked across the table and saw nopony sitting there. She put the extra muffin the garbage that was right behind her. Silver Spoon and Diamond Tiara walked up towards Dinky.
"Oh. Where is your little shiny knight in armor?" Silver teased.
"Did she forget your sword?" Diamond teased as well.
They both laughed. Dinky tried to ignore them but they wouldn't leave.
"Why do you keep on bringing those awful muffins to school? You know that muffins are gross especially if they're from your mother." Diamond teased.
"Good one." Silver said.
They both high hooved each other. Dinky was holding back tears. Students started gather around and watch. Dinky looked up and saw all the students watching them pick on Dinky. Silver Spoon picked up Dinky's muffin and threw on the ground and stomped on it.
"Why'd you do that?" Dinky asked.
"Because you don't need those gross things. Just admit it your mother is retarded." Silver replied.
"No she's not!" Dinky yelled.
"Oh yeah. Well why does that muffin of hers look like dirt?" Silver asked.
"Because if you weren't stupid enough to step on it and actually give it a try you would see that it's actually really good. Just like her personality." Dinky snapped back.
All the students started going "oh" at Silver Spoon. Silver felt threatened and slapped Dinky in the face. Dinky couldn't do anything because she didn't know what to do. The students were silent after the slap.
"Come on Diamond let's go somewhere to eat real food." Silver said.
"Right." Diamond acknowledged.
Dinky rubbed her cheek and saw all the students going back to what they were doing. Spreading the word that Dinky was slapped by Silver Spoon. Giving Silver more power then what she had. The school bell rung and all the students went inside except for Dinky. She waited until all the students left the courtyard. Once all the students were gone Dinky went back to class. Dinky entered the classroom and saw all eyes on her. She got in her desk and a note was on her desk. Dinky opened up the note. "It's not your fault that you were born from a retard." Dinky read the note. She ripped it up and took offense to the note. Ms. Cherilee walked in the classroom.
"Okay class I hope we all got full from lunch. Now let's continue from where we left off, shall we." Ms. Cherilee said.
Dinky didn't pay attention but she tried to look like she was so that the Ms. Cherilee didn't ask her why she looked sad.
2:48. School would be over in less than two minutes. Dinky was eager to get home. She didn't want to be at school anymore. Dinky thought she was safe at the school but she knew that she wasn't. The bell rung and all the students walked out the class. Ms. Cherilee said goodbye to all the students as they walked out of the class. Dinky walked out of the school and somepony grabbed DInky by the backpack and pulled her back. Dinky was flat on her back and Silver Spoon kicked her in the eye.
"Don't come back here ever again! We don't need anymore retards!" Silver Spoon yelled and ran off.
Dinky got back up and ran straight home. She was crying the whole way. She had to go through Ponyville and a couple of suspicious ponies tried to stop her. But she ignored them. She walked out of Ponyville and started to head down the road that led to her house. "Dinky what's wrong?" a voice asked her. She stopped and turned around. It was Rainbow Dash. Once she saw Rainbow she hid her face from her.
"What's the matter? Are you okay?" Rainbow asked. But Dinky didn't turn around.
Rainbow walked up to her and saw that she had a black eye.
"What happened?" Rainbow asked.
"It's nothing. I just want to be alone!" Dinky yelled and ran off.
"Dinky wait! Come back!" Rainbow tried to stop her. But she was already out of sight.
Dinky finally made it home and grabbed the key that was under the mat that said "Welcome". She unlocked the door as quickly as possible. Once the door was open Dinky put the key back under the mat and locked the door. Dinky went to the couch and started to cry.
4:00. Dinky was lying on the couch. Then, she heard a knock on the door.
"Dinky i'm home my little muffin." It was Derpy.
Dinky ran upstairs into her mother's room. Derpy unlocked the door and walked inside.
"Dinky are you home?" Derpy asked.
"Yes!" Dinky yelled back. She tried to cover up the black eye with her mom's makeup.
"Dinky why are you in my room?" Derpy asked.
"I'll be out in a minute." Dinky replied.
"Dinky come out here right now." Derpy demanded. Derpy didn't like to give orders to Dinky but she was worried about her.
"Please don't come in." Dinky said.
"I'm coming in there on the count of three." Derpy said.
"Please don't." Dinky pleaded. She found eyeliner and tried to put it on her other eye. But she kept on dropping it and kept on messing it up.
"One! Two! Three!" Derpy yelled and walked in the room.
"No don't!" Dinky yelled.
Derpy looked at Dinky but Dinky didn't look at her back.
"Dinky why are you in my room?" Derpy asked.
Dinky was quiet.
"Dinky why are you won't you look at me when i'm talking?" Derpy asked.
Dinky still didn't look.
"Dinky look at me." Derpy demanded.
"I don't want you to see me like this." Dinky said.
"Dinky please look at me muffin." Derpy pleaded.
Dinky sighed and slowly turned around. Derpy gasped and ran up towards Dinky to give her a hug.
"What happened Dinky?" Derpy asked.
"I...I...I didn't want you to see me like this." Dinky replied.
Derpy started to get teary and picked up Dinky and brought her down to the living room and they both sat down on the couch.
"Muffin. You know you can talk to me. Right?" Derpy asked.
"Yes." Dinky replied.
"Tell me what happened, please." Derpy said.
"Bells wasn't at school today. A filly slapped me earlier and at the when school was out she threw me to the ground and kicked me in the eye." Dinky said.
"Oh muffin." Derpy held Dinky in her arms and wrapped Dinky in her wings.
Dinky looked up at Derpy and saw that Derpy was crying. Dinky put pushed her head against Derpy's chest and started to cry as well.
"Why did they do it?" Derpy asked.
"They kept on making fun of you and calling you retarded. They called me retarded because they said that it runs in the family. After she kicked me in the face she told me don't come back. We don't need more retards at this school." Dinky sobbed.
Derpy started to think about the way she was. She thought to herself. "If I wasn't like this. My filly wouldn't be crying in my arms right now." Derpy thought to herself. Derpy looked down at Dinky and saw that she was still crying.
"It's okay muffin. Mommy's got you. I'm going to call the school tomorrow." Derpy said.
"Don't." Dinky said.
Derpy was shocked once she heard Dinky said that. She looked at Dinky with a confused look on her face.
"Why don't you want me to do anything about this?" Derpy asked.
"Because..If you....do then....she'll just keep...on....doing this to me." Dinky tried to speak in a full sentence but she kept on crying in her mothers arms.
"Dinky if I don't do anything then she will keep on doing this. She'll think that she has more power than you if I don't do anything." Derpy said.
"But what if....she keeps going?" Dinky asked. She looked up at Derpy.
Derpy looked down at Dinky and wiped the tears away from her eyes.
"It's going to happen. We can't control other ponies decisions. It happens to all of us at some point in our lives." Derpy replied.
"But...but." Dinky tried to say something but she was interrupted by Derpy.
"When these things do happen. We always talk about them. You can always tell me. I'll be when you need me." Derpy said.
Dinky put her head up against Derpy's chest again. Derpy put her head on top of Dinky's head. Derpy tried to calm her down with a song.
"Hush now little filly don't you cry, mommy's gonna make you alright, everything is going to be swell, don't you worry mommy's gonna make you well, there maybe bad people out there, but mommy's going to be there as well, so hush now little muffin, and don't you worry, mommy's going to turn frown upside down, I'll always be there for you, so when somepony gives you any trouble, mommy's going to be there on the double, so hush now little filly, and don't you worry, mommy's here." Derpy sang.