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// My Only Piece of Happiness 
// Story: Take This Life Away 
// by DubStepPony 
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My Only Piece of Happiness
(Nelson)

I was walking home, the bruises still intact on my body. Life for me was no walk in the park. As I got home I was greeted by no one as usual. Everybody was to them selves as usual. Not that my parents would care about me, considering I'm the only adopted child in my family. They would always pay attention to every one of their kids except me, I was always left out.
Alone in a family that seemed distant from me I decided to do the only thing that brought my spirits up. As I head toward my computer I am greeted by my mane six wallpaper. I then load up equestria daily to read all the new articles posted threw out the day. Seeing all the new fan fics, original animation, and art makes me just make it threw another day. 
As I was searching threw EQD  received a mysterious email that was from an unknown address. I opened my email and looked at the message I received. Again there was no name, number, or address in this email. Only a simple message, I began to read out loud “Dear Nelson,” *How did he know my name*. 
“You may not know me, but I know you, I know how miserable your life is and how much you hate your family. I Know that they don't respect you in any matter and they don’t even notice you, your just invisible to them.” These things are true I thought out loud I continued reading.
“I would like to make a proposition for you, but be warned this offer is a once in a life time offer and is not to be overturned quickly, your choice?” After that there is just two hyperlinks, one that said yes and one that said no.
There was many thoughts racing threw my head like how did it know me, how did it know about my family, and just what is this deal it talks about. The questions rambled on in my head. But now the only thing that stood in front of me was the yes or no hyperlinks in this email. 
I thought about this carefully and I just thought about what could happen if I click yes and thought what would happen if I clicked no. In the end I have nothing to lose. I clicked yes, in my mind I could tell there was no going back this was final. The hyperlink opened a page with a huge amount of writing but the most noticeable writing was at the top saying “Portal to Equestria” this very well intrigued me as I read the instructions.

Portal to Equestria rules:
This spell can only be used once
You only can return to your world once and never go back to Equestria
Your world will remain unchanged as you are in Equestria

(Warning: you will not age while you are in Equestria and you will be the only one that will notice this.)

And that was almost it, under that was the words that must be said to go to Equestria. 

For these souls that look so gloom
Take them from here and let them bloom
To another place where friendship stays strong
Take them to Equestria, When I sing this song

With all the rhymes I could only think of Zecora but other than that, the message was finished. Any normal person would have just push this aside not pay attention to it or even believe what it said is true, but with a person like me what else do I have to believe in.
I thought to my self when and where do I wanna try this? I thought about this long and hard and concluded I would try this tomorrow. Because I want to see the world for just one last time.



(Derrick)

I finally made it to the place just out of town where I knew I wanted to stay for a while. Turns out it was a camping sight that not much people know about. I set up my tent and began to start a fire. After all that was finished I began to cook some of the food I managed to sneak out of the house and I looked threw my Iphone. While looking threw it I looked in my videos and found episodes of a show called My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. My sister was on my ipod again I thought as I thoughtlessly deleted them of my phone. 
I began to think of what I'm gonna do now that I'm on my own. One thing that was for sure is I do want to finish high school, If theres one thing I want to prove to my dad is that theres someone in the family that can finish high school. I will go back to tomorrow. I said to my self as I began to fall into deep thought. This thought didn't last for a couple seconds it lasted for a long time and even it was there when I was eating, putting out the fire, and making something to sleep on. As I got in my sleeping bag the thoughts overcrowded my mind about my mom and sister, and how I just abandoned them there to get beat even more and to just to get hurt by the evil fucking psychopath. After that I began to cry and the tears wouldn't stop, so that night I had to cry myself to sleep. 

(Nelson)

Today was my last day of school and honestly I not sad that I'm gonna leave this place. The more I focused on the things around me the more I notice that no one ever even attempts to talk to me or even say hi or thank you. I’m not even mad that I'm gonna leave this all behind me I can live with that..
I was making my way to my last class, the hallways were empty and it was quiet to no extent, I could probably hear a feather drop. As I was making my way towards my class though I heard something in the distance, it was the sound that only sadness could make. The sound was at its highest point when I reached a janitors closet located by my classroom. I heard the sounds of tears coming from a person inside that closet, after some thought I decided to peek inside and I saw Derrick there crying his heart out. He was about to look up but I quickly shut the door and made it into my classroom. As I sat there, thinking just about things he could have been crying about I started to hear the people around class gossiping. From what I got out of it is that he had just ran away because his dad had beat him.
This devastated me and made me realize just why he messes with people. He doesn't want to beat up people he just doesn't want to be beat up. And now that he has ran away, no family, no true friends, I say he has nothing else to lose. I knew I had to something and I think I thought of just the thing to do. Could be risky but don't want to see someone even more miserable then me live like this.