Sisters For Something

by Sputniik

Storm of Emotions

It was about a few hours after noon, now, and Cupcake barely moved a muscle from her warm spot by the downstairs window. The storm began to worsen, as rain angrily beat the glass, doors, and trickled down the roof. Normally, she'd jump--run away from the booming of thunder, or the ear-piercing crackle of lightning, as it flashed it horribly brilliant light across the horizon. But this time, she just stared. Stared as if it was all perfect and harmless.

Cupcake Stared. She just sat there on her haunches on the cold floor, an untouched cup of cocoa sitting on the floor next to her. She breathed slowly and steadily, the rain the only sound in existance. Thunder growled and shook the ground, but Cupcake, she just.... stared.

She'd hung up on her older sister a couple hours ago, yet it felt like she'd just left her. And left her sibling to venture out into the snowstorm of Wintry Wisk Hollow for, Celestia knows, how many hours! "I can't..... I can't hover over this problem anymore!" Cupcake sobbed, tears dripping onto the white-wood floors, like the rain that splashed outside into the green-grass lawn.

There was that sound again; the hoofsteps. This time, it was her younger 'sister'. Everytime she saw her, she couldn't help but shed a few tears at the thought of her harsh past, nothing compared to her own. Balloon Burst-- or just 'Balloons' as she was unfortunatly called back in Kindergarten, had to watch her own parents die.

They loved her, so much, but one Christmas Eve, on a sleigh ride, it went out of control, after crashing into the side of a tree, spinning out of control. The reins latched onto a bush above the clift, as it hung over the edge, in the process, throwing several riders off.

It took three and a half hours for rescue to come, leaving the deerponies with severe frostbite. The survivors were more than greatful when help arrived, and the others, who fell over the edge were rushed to the hospital. Those victims were her parents, her older brother, and three stallions. There were four survivors. A foal and her mother, Balloons, and a young mare.

That mare was Cherry.

She, without hesitation, had adopted her, on Christmas Day, but Balloon Burst was scarred for life. It had been four years ago, the accident happening when she was just five years old, when she was brought into a new home for another chance. She had gotten badly injured, in fact.

She lost most of her tail, having it ripped off by the metal edge she was suffocating underneath for almost an hour. That hour, being her very worst. Fortunately she surived, but suffered lung issues for a few years. Several bones were fractured, and she was probably the luckiest one on that ride, having surived without too much major injuries, unlike the other passengers. Unfortunately, she had to get multiple stitches on almost every inch of her body.

Said filly came trotting down, blanket wrapped across her hot pink colored fur. It barely took a second before she spotted her older sister, she so much looked up to.
"Hi, Cupcake!" she screeched. Cupcake jumped, tossing her head around. She breathed a sigh of relief. The filly scooted next to the older one and rested her head, covered in crazy black and red hair, on her shoulder. It was silent for several minutes, until the sound of Casey, one of the house cats, claws' clattered the wood floors, jolting the two back to reality.

There was more silence, even as the wind outside began to blow tree branches in multiple directions. Cupcake looked at the drowsy pony resting on her shoulder.
"D-do... do you ever miss.... your parents....?" she slowly asked. Her immediate response was for her ears to uncomfortably twitch, and her eyes to go wide, but only for a short second. Balloon Burst took her blanket, and lay half of it on her sister's back.

"Yeah, of course I do! I... I miss them everyday, and... and my brother.... I remember all the fun times we had as a family... we had parties with our cousin, Pinkie Pie, and we'd...." she trailed off and looked up, as if she was reading her memories off the ceiling.

"I wish...." she quietly whispered, "I wish that.... that I could remember everything we did... I never got to really enjoy our time as a family together since we were all so young, I can barely remember their faces....." A tear rolled down her furry cheek, but she rubbed it off and her frown was replaced by a small smile.

"But you are my family, too, and I'm prepared to make new, fun memories with you...." her eyes fluttered closed, as she slowly drifted off, with a soft yawn. Cupcake pondered that. With a smile of her own, she recalled the crazy and fun things they'd done, even once, she had helped Cupcake to get to Lily's concert while her parents were out at the movies, and SugarSweet, her 17 year old friend she met at a bakery, had to foalsit them.

The two had gotten to Rainbow Dash and Pinkie, who drove them to the trainstation to Lily's place. The train, for some strange coinsidence, was out of service, so they had to drive back, and 'borrow' a helicopter, that Rainbow still claims was "Out in the open". Balloons had corrected her and said that Rainbow Dash had stolen it, but the pegasus remained stubborn.

"For the final time, I didn't steal it!" she'd rable. Anyway, Pinkie flew the thing over to the party, only to find that they were an hour late. The thing was, Sugar was too occupied watching Frost, the youngest of the family, Sunny Sweets, the thrid oldest, and Black Heart, the oldest-

Black Heart.....

"Oh, Black Heart....."

The unicorn's past life had been, for sure, one living nightmare. One that nopony should have ever experienced. One tale that ruinded her life. One that could have killed her....