We wanted to tell you

by OB

Everything changes

It was a dark and stormy night in ponyville. every so often you might hear the thunder and see the lightning. If you were a fanciful person, you might say that nights like this stormy night were made for dramatic reveals, the consequences of which would be felt for ages to come.

But we're not fanciful people are we? and that would be ridiculous. Speaking of ridiculous, pinkie pie was putting the cake twins to bed. Pinkie pie thought she was prepared to deal with their antics, but every time the twins managed to surprise her. Like this evening for instance, pumpkin thought it would be a good idea to turn the floor into a trampoline. or when pound escaped out the window, and pinkie had to chase him through town. Or when they both got frightened by the thunder and lightning and ran away to hide, which meant pinkie had to track them down and make sure they didn't endanger themselves... you get the gist.

But now pinkie had finally managed to put them into bed, after some bath time adventures and an impromptu game of towel tag (like regular tag, but you have to try to dry the pony you're chasing as well as catch them, which makes it a lot harder), she put them in bed and them read them their favourite bedtime story, "the adventures of the mane 6 (featuring pinkie pie!)". Currently they were on volume 7, where the mane 6 were facing off against the storm king, but they had fallen asleep before the big climatic fight. Probably just as well (Pinkie was getting kind of tired of acting it out for them)

Now pinkie pie could engage in her least favourite part of babysitting for the cakes. CLEANING UP. It was a long gruelling process that took pinkie longer than she thought it take, and DEFINATELY longer than it should have been.

As she was mopping, dusting, washing, fixing, air-freshening and vacuuming (All at the same time mind you, just one of her MANY talents, the other being, baking, cooking, drilling, making ponies smile, singing, dancing and saving the world) she bumped into a bookshelf that promptly proceeded to topple over.

pinkie pie sighed and began the ardous process of picking up and putting back the books in the correct order (or so close that nopony would notice, especially the cakes!) As she arranged the books she occasionally flipped through them, to see oif they contained anything interesting. Most didn't.

Many of them were books included in genres that pinkie pie wasn't interested in. Some of them, however, did pique her interest. Like this one novel about a girl living with her employers who eventually (and dramatically) finds out that they are in fact her parents!

If you were a fanciful person, you might say that this way a premonition, a sign of future drama and tragedy. But we are not fanciful people are we? and that would be ridiculous.

others included photo albums containing the cakes memories, like when the twins were born, or their wedding anniversary or that time when they all travelled to the Jurassic period (that was an accident and an absolutely WILD weekend, in more ways than one!) But pinkie pie couldn't spent all day basking in the memories of the past, like when she accidently created that paper monster (but in her defence, she didn't think that the pencil would ACTUALLY bring it to life, though she might have guessed by the way the proprietor said it would make her drawings more "life-like" and cackled maniacally)

Or when she accidently got them lost in the multiverse for two weeks, to be fair, nopony DIED (that didn't have it coming anyway) and doctor whooves did rescue them in the end but... Pinkie pie was getting off track, like the time she was driving a train and... NO, she had to finish organising these books.

It was a good thing she took all those organisation lessons from twilight, which eventually devolved into gossip sessions. (Except that one time when they found a wish granting genie trapped inside one of twilights books and used him to make some wishes come true before releasing him to re-join his genie family, what did they wish for well...) NO pinkie had to finish organising for real this time!

After putting back all the books, pinkie pie, walked away satisfied, until she tripped over one still on the floor (it reminds her of when she tripped and fell down a hole and became friends with members of a race of underground spirits, who taught her some of their tricks, but that's another story for another time.),

As pinkie pie picked up the book, she noticed that it looked unfamiliar, which was strange because she had at least seen every book on that shelf or so she thought (this actually reminded her of another time in twilight's library when she and twilight had discovered another entity trapped within a book, only this one was less than friendly.)

If you were a fanciful person, you might think that pinkie tripping over that book was destiny, as was toppling over the bookshelf in the first place. But we are not fanciful people are we? And that would be ridiculous.

As pinkie pie looked at the books unmarked purple cover, she wondered what knowledge awaited her inside. Anything could be in that book (anything, but she was pretty sure it wouldn't suck her inside and force her to play a deadly game, where either you win or you die in order to escape to the real world.). And so, pinkie pie opened the book.

It was mostly pictures of Mr and Mrs cake in their youth, Mrs cake hanging out with pear butter (AJ's mom), her and Mr going out on dates, the usual stuff. But then she sound them, pictures of Mrs cake holding a positive pregnancy test, pictures of her being pregnant AND a picture of her in hospital, holding a little pink earth pony foal with a caption underneath: "Welcome to the world Pinkamena diane cake.
(no. NO. NONONONONONONONO!)

"Pinkie?" said Mr cake.

Shocked, pinkie dropped the photo album. she hadn't even heard them come in. she couldn't believe what she had just seen. All at once, her world began to spin.

"We've wanted to tell you for so long" Mrs. cake quivered, tears in her eyes,

Then Pinkie pie began to run.

She ran straight out of sugar cube corner.

It didn't matter where she was going, all that mattered was that she was ANYWHERE but there.

Author's Note:

When i saw the picture, I knew I HAD to make a story on it. I hope you guys enjoy

Comments

[Aiwhisper]

Interesting start.

[i_am_the_jam]

Good premise, but please get yourself an editor.

[OB]

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How do I do that?

[i_am_the_jam]

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You ask around for one.

[Silver Butcher]

I'm interested

[HumanSVD]

You really need an editor.

[OB]

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You're interested in being my editor?

[Silver Butcher]

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oh no, I'm interested in the story, sorry for the misunderstanding.

[OB]

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That's Ok!

[Silver Butcher]

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I can't help you find an editor, but I can offer the simple advice of writing your stories in Google Docs with Grammarly enabled and, or using a text-to-speech app to have your story read to you so you can find any errors.

However even after doing that I get a lot of comments telling me to find an editor (without much thought on how someone without a budget could find one) so in the end the best I can offer is the recommendation to try and improve on your own.

I can't wait to read the next chapter

[ponynemesis]

Story is fine, but as others have said, you really need an editor.