Lyra and Bonbon decide to get a child, with the help of magic. Little Sweet song grows up to learn about the hard tings life can bring, when you're not born in a normal way.
On the other side of the door she could hear Lyra scream. She had been screaming for what Bonbon felt like hours, and she sounded like she was in great pain, which she probably was.
‘It should have been me’, she thought; ‘I should have been the one in there not her.’
But she insisted, so there was not really anything BonBon could do. Once she made up her mind, she was impossible to stop.
So now she was in there in such pain and BonBon couldn't do a thing besides wait.
They had discussed this over some weeks and finally came to the conclusion that they should have a child.
They had tried everything, including going to Zecora for advice, only to get the answer that some things are just not meant to be.
They had left the hut in the forest and walked towards their house, almost giving up on the idea when Lyra suddenly bumped into a purple unicorn.
"Hello there, Lyra and BonBon," Twilight had said happily to her two friends. Then she saw how sad they looked and asked, "What’s wrong?"
BonBon explained the entire story to Twilight, explaining how they wanted a way to have a child, one that was their child, and that it seemed to be impossible.
Twilight only smiled as the story went on and said, "I might be able to help you with your problem,” with a smirk, "but I’m not sure you will like the idea".
They’d listened to what Twilight had said and looked at her in horror, but in the end agreed to do it.
When they got home they’d discussed their decision, deciding who should do what.
Twilight had a spell that could, for one hour, make one of them to a stallion, making it possible, but she wouldn’t promise the child would be normal; it was a risk they had to consider before doing it.
They’d decided to do it, but Lyra had insisted to be the one carrying the child and BonBon couldn't get her to change her mind.
It would probably have been best if she, herself, had carried the child, but Lyra wouldn't listen to reason and in the end BonBon had given in and the treatment at Twilight’s library had begun. Now, 12 months after, they were in the hospital.
They explained everything to the hospital staff and they agreed to help and make sure the child was born like a normal child.
Suddenly the screams stopped and a foal’s cry could be heard, and Nurse Redheart came out of the door smiling to Bonbon.
"You can go in now, sweetie; everything went well."
She led BonBon into the nursing room where she saw her beloved Lyra in the bed with a foal as mint green as her.
"We did it love... we finally did it," Lyra said with a smile as BonBon went over to Lyra and gently hugged her and gave her a kiss.
"We did it Lyra!" she said with tears in her eyes and looked at her daughter.
"Wait... she has WINGS?" BonBon jumped back in shock.
"Yes, I think the magic might have something to do with it," Lyra said and gently gave the foal to her beloved.
BonBon gently took her daughter and tears were still falling down in happiness.
"What should we call her?" Bonbon asked.
"HUMAN!" Lyra said with a big smile.
"No, Lyra... just no," BonBon said with a sigh.
"How about Sweet Song?" Lyra said suddenly turning all serious. "I mean... your sweet candy and my love for music?"
BonBon just smiled and kissed Lyra.
"I think it's a lovely idea. Her name is Sweet Song!"
"SWEET SONG!," Lyra called up the stairs, "IT'S TIME TO GO TO SCHOOL! YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS YOUR FIRST DAY!"
Sweet Song was in her bed and sat up slowly, rubbing her eyes with her hooves
"I’M COMING, MOM!" she yelled back while slowly getting out of her bed.
She went to the bathroom, washed her face, and went down to find the biggest breakfast she had ever seen her mother make.
"Wah...?" was the only thing she could say.
"It's all for you and for your big day at school!" Bonbon said and went over to her daughter and hugged her and gave her a little kiss on the forehead
"MOOOOOTHER! I’m not a baby anymore,” she tried breaking loose, only to find yet another one of her mother’s hugging her and kissing her.
"Not you too," Sweet Song said while trying to avoid the incoming hug and kisses, but failed to avoid it.
Lyra pushed Sweet Song over to the dinner table, where all three of them began eating and Lyra, as she always did to lighten up the mood, told stories of humans and how wonderful they were, while Bonbon rolled her eyes and smiled to her daughter who was laughing at her mother.
After Breakfast, Sweet Song went outside with her saddle back ready to go to school with her mothers.
It didn’t take them long to get to the school.
Lyra smiled at her daughter. "Now you be a good filly and learn a lot of stuff and make mommy proud!"
"It's her first day Lyra; she’s probably going to meet her classmates first."
"Awww, I thought I would get an even smarter daughter when she got home," Lyra said with a big smile and gave Sweet Song a big kiss on her snout.
Sweet song blushed and kissed both her mothers goodbye and went into the classroom.
Inside Miss Cheerilee welcomed Sweet Song smilingly. "Ahhh you must be Sweet Song, remember to say hello to your parents when you get home." She showed her into the classroom, which was already packed with lots of fillies.
Sweet Song never really had any friends, so she had no idea what to say or do in front of so many, so she just went a little to the side and waited to Miss Cheerilee finally began saying their names.
"I would like you all to take the seats one by one when your name is said, just sit wherever you find fitting".
One by one they were seated and Sweet Song got her seat in the back all the way to the right. No pony really paid attention to her, and she just listened to what her teacher was saying. After a while the teacher said to them all, "OK, children we’ll take a little break, you can play outside if you want, I’ll call when it is time to continue the class.”
"YAY!" all the fillies yelled and most of them went outside to play.
Sweet Song didn't really talk to anypony, just went slowly outside and went to the sandbox.
She was used to having fun by herself so it was not unusual for her and she smiled while she hummed a little song her mother had taught her.
Suddenly behind her she heard hoof steps.
"Well, well, well, look what we got here!" Sweet Song turned her head around and saw three other foals behind her.
One mare and two colts walked up to her, the mare had an evil grin and the two others just laughed in a mocking way.
"Do you know how disgusting it is that you’ve got two mothers? You shouldn't even exist! You are nothing but a freak!"
"I....I'm not....." tears were forming up in Sweet Song’s eye, why were they like this? She hadn't done anything wrong, she only kept for herself but still this happened.
Before she knew it she ran, just ran, tears were flowing down her chin.
The only place she could think of was her home, so she ran for home.
Lyra and BonBon had just finished cleaning the kitchen when suddenly the door slammed open and closed almost as fast.
Sweet Song ran to her room and closed the door and threw herself on the bed. Lyra and BonBon opened the door slowly.
"Sweet Song?" Lyra asked, "What’s the matter sweetie?" Bonbon said with a worried look.
"Is it unnatural to have two mothers?" Sweet Song asked with tears rolling down her chin. Lyra began walking over too Sweet Song.
"Lyra?" BonBon said worriedly.
Lyra put her snout against Sweet Song’s snout and smiled to her daughter.
"Honey, as long you love that special somepony, then it doesn't matter that you have one or two mothers, BonBon is my special somepony and one of your two mothers!" she said smilingly and then asked, "you do love us don't you?"
“Of course I do!" Sweet Song said with a big smile at her mother.
"Then come ON!" Lyra said and began jumping out the door followed by her daughter. BonBon smiled at the scene; Lyra could be kind of weird at times, but when it came to problems like this, she really could be something special, BonBon thought as she saw the two she loved jump towards the park.
"Wait..." BonBon said outloud, "You promised to help me clean the house today..." BonBon smiled at this and thought to herself that this time she’d get away with it, JUST this time.
The next day Sweet Song begged and pleaded with her mothers not to go back to school.
"I don't want to go back there! It's not a nice place and I don't like it!"
"Sweetie...." BonBon said to Sweet Song, "You have to, I’m sure there is somepony there you can talk to." She said without much confidence.
Lyra just sighed and went over to her daughter.
"Sweetie, I know how you feel. Come here I'll tell you a little story from when your mother BonBon and I were just fillies."
"Back when I just started in school, nopony really talked to me either, not even your mother there." Lyra looked over at BonBon with a sly smile and BonBon looked away a bit ashamed.
"Everypony thought I was crazy, just because I had a love for humans, just in case you haven't discovered that about your old mother," Lyra said while grinning at Sweet Song.
"Well I was probably not the easiest pony to be around, I was loud, did whatever I wanted and just minded my own business while reading what I could about humans. Which reminds me, I have SO many books I...."
"MOM!" Sweet Song said to her mother.
“Oh sorry love, I kind of got side tracked.”
“You don't say," BonBon said smiling and waited for Lyra to continue.
"Ah yes the story! Well most ponies left me alone so I kind of didn’t mind, but one day while I was reading alone in the library I heard that I wasn't really alone and somewhere, some ponies talked. It was not that I used to listen to what others did or said but this time it kind of sounded serious and I just closed my book and sneaked like a human ninja I had just been reading about.
When I got to the back of the library I saw two older foals, they were about to attack one that was laying on the ground.
When I saw this I couldn’t hold back anymore, I rushed in and sort of beat the two ponies up!"
"Or rather they beat you up and I had to take you to the infirmary," BonBon said.
"Wait! Was it you MOTHER? They beat you up? But why?" Sweet Song asked in shocked.
"Well you see sweetie, like you I was special, I didn't have parents and the older fillies had found out and thought I was an easy target."
"Okay, okay! You took me too the infirmary, big deal. At least they left you alone and they also gave up after that!"
"Yes, they left us alone because they thought you were crazy. But from that day on we were always together, EVEN if Lyra can be hard to live with." BonBon winked to her love and went over to her daughter and gave her a big hug.
"What we‘re trying to say is that there will be somepony for you when you least suspect it, just you wait sweetie," BonBon smiled and hugged her daughter and Lyra joined in. They stood there for a time and Lyra grabbed Sweet Song by her shoulders and said "Now go make mommy proud!" and pushed Sweet Song out the door and she went to the school, even when she knew she would hate it, but she loved her mothers SO much and wanted to be strong for them so she went to school.
Sweet Song was a bit surprised that nopony asked why she was gone yesterday not even the teacher, but she just sat down and followed the teaching. Again Cheerilee said they could go out and play.
"Yaaaay!" the ponies all yelled and hurried outside.
"Sweet Song could I have a little word with you?" the teacher asked when she walked by "Yes?" she said.
"I won't ask what happened yesterday but if you ever want to talk about anything remember, I’m here for that too as your teacher."
"Ok, but it's nothing, it's ok now. It won't happen again," she said smiling and the teacher smiled back.
"If you want a place for yourself, I suggest the library. There you can find interesting books." She took sweet Song to the library before she could say anything.
Sweet Song soon find out that this was a place she would enjoy and could be herself if she wanted. She walked around a bit and looked at all the books.
She soon found some interesting books and took them to a place near the window so she could look out at the other ponies playing while she was reading.
She saw them again, the group who was after her yesterday.
"Now that you can't find me you already picking on some other pony?" she said out loud to herself as she saw the three fillies going towards a light greyish violet filly, in the same mocking way they did with Sweet Song the day before.
Sweet Song opened the window a bit and could hear a little of what they were saying, but she knew it was as bad as what she experienced.
It just looked like this was not something she would interfere with, even though her mother did it and somehow it happened to her too. As she watched she could see the grey filly say something back that kind of shocked the others and made them mad. One of the male foals raised his hoof and was just about to hit the other one in anger. Sweet Song threw open the window and spread her little wings and flew right at the male filly and they both tumbled around ending with Sweet Song on top of him.
"YOU DON'T DARE LAY ONE HOOF ON HER!" she yelled at the pony with a look that could only shock and scare the male pony.
Before Sweet Song knew it a hoof was planted right on the side of her head and she tumbled off the other pony and looked angry at the one hitting her. It was the mare who had done it.
"You dare lay your freaky hooves on my friend?" and she sent yet two other hits on Sweet Song's head and she fell over, landing on her back while the other one just stood over her.
"I won't forgive you for that FREAK!" she said and raised both her hooves ready to stomp down on Sweet Song.
"WHAT IN THE HAY IS GOING ON HERE!" a grownup voiced called
"WHAT DO YOU TWO THINK YOU’RE DOING IN MY SCHOOL! BOTH OF YOU IN MY OFFICE AT ONCE! The rest of you go into the classroom, recess is over and wait for me.... NOW!" Cherrilee looked angry, and took the two fillies into her office.
"What were you two thinking!" the teacher asked.
"Fighting in my school, I have never..... BOTH of you two, your guardians are gonna hear about this! I don't care the reason just make sure to get along!"
"But....." Sweet Song tried to say that she only did it to help the other one.
"No BUTS here miss. Lily Feather, you go back to the classroom and Sweet Song, you go to the infirmary at once and get those looked at." They did what the teacher had ordered them to do. The rest of the day went slowly and the tension in the classroom made it a very silent one, beside the teacher teaching about Equestria.
After school Sweet Song went on home, but not far from under a tree the light greyish violet unicorn stood with a shy smile.
"Thanks for........what you did back there," she said nervously.
"It was nothing," Sweet Song tried to hide her embarrassment with a grin.
"NO! It was not nothing! They have been teasing me a lot before about my mother and today I just wanted to stand up for myself and then you appeared out of nowhere and saved me!"
"It's nothing......" the light greyish unicorn hugged Sweet Song and said "Names Dinky, and you must be Sweet Song!"
"I am.... so you you’ve heard of me and how much of a FREAK I am!" she said and pushed the filly off her.
“NO!” Dinky said. “I don’t care who you are or what your parents are! You did something for me no other pony would do, you saw how everypony just let it happen! You did care and you took all the beating for yourself and I’m really happy that you did!” Dinky said with tears forming up in her eyes, before Sweet Song could react Dinky hugged her tightly.
“I WANT TO BE YOUR FRIEND, WHY CAN’T YOU UNDERSTAND THAT!” Sweet Song was out of words and just looked at the crying filly in her hooves and hugged her tightly with tears also coming out of up in her eyes.
“I want to be your friend too,” she cried. From that day on Sweet Song gained a friend for the first time in her life.
Sweet Song was walking alongside her new friend. They were on their way to school. Almost three weeks had passed since Sweet Song had saved Dinky from the bullies. Since that day they had always stayed together; the more time Sweet Song spent with Dinky the more she found out how alike they were.
Dinky came by every day to pick up Sweet Song and they both went to school together. In recess they spend time reading and talking in the library, and they followed each other home from school.
There had not been any confrontations with Lily Feather since that day; Sweet Song and Dinky had tried avoiding her as much as possible and it looked like Lily Feather did the same.
“SO,” Dinky began. “My mother asked if you wanted to have a sleepover at my house here next weekend? Or rather I asked if it was ok and she thinks it was a GREAT idea,” Dinky said while smiling to Sweet Song.
“SURE!” Sweet song said grinning “I’ll ask my mothers when I get home, but I think it’s ok.”
They soon arrived at school and took their seats. Since they hadn’t known each other from when they got the seats, they were sitting almost as far from each other as possible, but they didn’t mind that; after class they spent the time together so it wasn’t bad at all.
In recess they both went to the library to get something to eat and read a little before going back to class. The librarian had given them special permission to eat in the library as long they didn’t do it while reading and they had to clean up after themselves. Twilight Sparkle had taken the part time job of keeping the library running for the school, she came in three days a week to keep everything updated and to make sure everything was in order.
Sweet Song and Dinky opened the library door to see Twilight walking around like she used too.
“Hey there Twilight,” the girls said. “Hey there girls,” Twilight said with a smile and went over and hugged them.
“How are my two favorite book worms today? OH wait, I have something for you that just arrived from Canterlot, I BET you two would love reading them!” Twilight was gone before the two foals could say anything. She came back with four books, and gave them to Dinky who levitated them over to their favorite spot.
“The Adventures of Night Rose and Banana Boss,” Twilight said “It’s the same who wrote Daring do, and they have become quite popular with the younger foals.” Twilight smiled and said, “These four books are what’s out so far and let me just tell you that most people only have read the two first since I was lucky I got the two next books before everyone else! And who would fit more than my two favorite book worms to read em before everyone else,” She said smiling proudly.
“Banana Boss?” Sweet Song said skeptically. “Is the books really that good?” Dinky said confused. “Give it a try!” Twilight said. “You might be surprised”
Twilight gave them both a hug and went back to her chores at the library. Sweet Song and Dinky began eating the muffins Dinky’s mom had made for them.
“Your mother makes the best muffins I’ve ever tasted!” said Sweet Song while munching on a banana muffin.
“I KNOW!” Dinky said, “She is the best muffin maker of all of Equestria, she just eats ‘em, faster than she can make ‘em” Dinky said and they both laughed.
Sweet Song had really grown fond of Dinky since she met her. They could talk about everything, share secrets and just laugh.
After school, they both went home. They’d been reading the first book of Night Rose and Banana Boss out loud for each other, and had found that it was better than the title suggested. “I’M BANANA BOSS, the most handsome stallion you will ever know, my pretty mare!” Sweet Song said to Dinky.
“I am Night Rose, the cool and silent.” Dinky said and tried walking cool.
"Well well well, so the freaks are playing on their way home?" A cold voice said from behind.
"Lily Feather!" Sweet song said coldly back. "What are you doing out here, beside making fun of ponies?"
"None of your business, freak. I just happen to fall over you two freaks! Carry on with your childish play and go home to your freakish mothers!" she said as coldly back to Sweet Song.
"AT LEAST WE HAVE A FAMILY THAT LOVES US!" Sweet Song yelled. Lily Feather froze where she was, she looked shocked and furious.
"MY.FAMILY.LOVES.ME!!" Lily said through her teeth "MY FAMILY IS MORE NORMAL THAN YOURS!" she yelled back and ran away from Sweet Song and Dinky. What the two foals didn't see was the tears welling up in Lily's eyes as she ran home.
"What was that about?" Dinky asked Sweet Song.
"I have no idea, but at least she left us, so that fine with me." Sweet Song smiled to Dinky and hugged her and they went separate ways.
When Sweet Song came home, she went into the kitchen and looked for her mothers. In the kitchen only BonBon were there and she looked a bit worried but lightened up when she saw her daughter.
"Welcome home sweetie, did you have a good day today?" she asked after hugging her daughter
"It went well. I should say hello from Twilight. Where is mom?" She asked looking around for her mother.
"She is resting in the bedroom, she is not feeling well again today. If she is not sleeping, you can go see her," BonBon smiled.
"OK," Sweet Song said smiling and went quietly into her mothers bedroom. "Mom, are you asleep?" she whispered.
" No I’m not sweety, come on in," Lyra said with a smile "I always want to see you, you know that! I just haven't been feeling well today, nothing to worry about!"
Sweet Song went over to her mother and sat beside her bed, looking worried. "You ok mom?"
"Yes Yes! I’m fine, just need some rest and I’m all on top again." Lyra said with a smile, "No worries, no worries! You know your mother is strong!"
"I do! I Love you so much! Dinky asked me if i wanted to have a sleepover this weekend, can I mom? Oh please please say yes!" Sweet song said excitedly. Lyra looked at her daughter with a thoughtful look. "Hm... I'm not so sure..." Sweet song began looking sad and Lyra said "I’M KIDDING Hun! Sure you can, I'll follow you over there but tell your mother too. She might want to know," Lyra winked to her daughter.
"I can find my way over there by myself, I’m not a child anymore!" Sweet song said a bit angry. "I know hun, but I have something to talk to Dinky's mom about, can't I visit my friends too?" she said smiling.
"Oh... I’m sorry mom, I didn't know," Sweet song said a bit guilty "It's ok sweetie! Come here and give your old mother a hug." And she leaned forward and hugged Sweet Song. "Now go tell your mother!" Lyra said as she saw her daughter almost fly out the dim lighted room. 'I fear the day I have to tell her, and I fear that it might be sooner than I thought,' Lyra thought to herself and began crying silently.
Finally the weekend came. Sweet Song was jumping around Lyra while they were walking through the park on their way to Dinky and Derpy’s house. The weather was good and the weather ponies had cleared the sky for clouds so the sun was shining. Lyra looked at Sweet Song jumping around happily. Normally, she would jump with her, but her health hadn't been the best the last couple of months, but she wouldn't let her daughter know, so she began jumping around with Sweet Song who smiled and laughed with her mother. Suddenly Lyra could feel some pain in her body and slowed down a bit. "Sweety dear, could we rest a bit over at that bench?" Lyra said and sat down on the bench like a human; she had always done it and Sweet Song sat down beside her mother the same way. "You feeling ok mom?" she asked her mother. "No, I feel a bit sick sweetie. I think you need to go to Dinky by yourself. I know you’re big enough to do it." She smiled to Sweet song and kissed her forehead. "And take this letter with you to Dinky’s mother, would you? And say I’m sorry I couldn't be there."
Sweet Song hugged her mother worriedly. "You gonna be ok, mom?"
"Yes my sweet daughter, don't worry I’m just tired today".
As Sweet Song looked over her shoulder to see if her mother was ok, Lyra waved to Sweet Song smilingly, and Sweet Song went towards to the Everfree Forest on the way to Dinky's house. She wanted to look at the old orphanage that was just in the outskirts of the forest. It was a big old building with a huge wall around and a giant iron gate in front. Sweet Song loved to look at the building; she always walked this way with her mothers and Lyra always told stories about how she wanted to “check the dungeon,” as she called it. She was convinced they hid humans down there. Sweet Song knew it was not true, the orphanage was used for foals and fillies who didn't have a home or parents, so they could have a place to live.
Sweet Song hadn't seen many go in or out of the building, but she’d seen some foals play in the big garden surrounding the house. As she went by the orphanage in her own thoughts, she suddenly saw somepony standing inside the gate looking out. It was a familiar mare, one Sweet Song didn't like. Lily Feather stood inside the gate looking out and then saw Sweet Song; if her already white fur could turn whiter, it would. She looked shocked at Sweet Song.
"So now you know..." Lily said with a low voice, shaking all over her body. "I wanted to keep it a secret, but now it's out, you can finally do what I’ve been doing to YOU!". Sweet Song was speechless; everything just fell on place. Now she understood why she acted like that last time. She DIDN'T have parents, she just acted like she did because she was jealous. Before Sweet Song could say anything, Lily yelled "JUST GO TELL EVERYONE AT SCHOOL, SEE IF I CARE," tears now fled down like waterfalls as she turned around and ran for the orphanage and slammed the door before Sweet Song could react.
Sweet Song went to Dinky's house, lost in thoughts. What should she do? Was there anything she COULD do? She began realizing that maybe Lily Feather was just lonely? Maybe she really just wanted friends but was afraid that she would be teased if anypony found out that she didn't have parents, and in defense just ended up teasing others. Before she knew, it she stood in front of Dinky's house and knocked on the door. A filly totally covered in cake batter opened it.
"SWEET SONG, you’re late! Where’s your mother, wasn't she supposed to come too? And why you look so sad?" Dinky talked so fast that Sweet Song almost couldn’t get what she said.
"I... I'll tell you later, ok? And why you covered in muffin dough?" Sweet Song said almost laughing and Dinky smiled.
"We are making muffins! COME, you can help too, we are making GIANT muffins!"
The kitchen looked like Discord had been in there; there was muffin batter all over, tools laying around, and some chairs turned over. "What happened in here?" Sweet Song asked in surprise. "Hurry over here. The muffins are attacking!" Derpy was hiding behind a turned over table. Dinky hurried over to her mother laughing and gestured Sweet Song to do the same. Sweet Song also hid behind the table and thought that there actually were muffins attacking. But of course they were only playing, and Sweet Song played along.
Later in Dinky’s room, the two fillies sat with two of the biggest muffins Sweet Song had ever seen. After they’d made them, they all helped clean up the kitchen, which looked more like a battlefield than a kitchen. The war with the muffins had been hard, but in the end they won and now the kitchen actually looked as if nothing had ever happened in there.
"Do you always do this when you bake?" Sweet Song said smiling; it was one of the funniest times she’d had in a long time.
"Yes, my mother’s so fun when it comes to baking muffins, she just loves it and I love helping her!” she said while munching on her blueberry muffin.
“OH!” Sweet Song suddenly yelled. “I forgot that I had to deliver a letter to your mom. Be right back!” Sweet Song said and hurried downstairs to where Derpy was.
“Derpy, I have a letter for you from my mom, and she’s sorry that she couldn’t come but she didn’t feel well,” Sweet Song said hurriedly. “Thats ok Sweet Song, I kinda guessed that was the reason she didn’t come today.” Derpy took the letter and Sweet Song went back up to Dinky’s room.
Later that night, when Sweet Song and Dinky laid in dinky’s Bed, Dinky asked “What was it that made you worried when you arrived here?”
“OH, I almost forgot about that.” Sweet Song told her the entire story of what happened at the orphanage. “Wow...” Dinky said, surprised. “I didn’t know that, nor do I think anypony else does.” “I feel really sorry for saying that she didn’t have any parents the other day,” Sweet Song held Dinky’s hooves tight.
“Same here, so what are we going to do about it?” Dinky asked. “That letter actually gave me an idea!” And she told Dinky all about her plan. Dinky just smiled to Sweet Song and said: “That might even work!” and hugged Sweet Song. They both just laid there until they both went to sleep.
Derpy stood in the doorway looking at the two fillies sleeping. She held the letter in her hooves and looked at Sweet Song, feeling sorry for her; she had read the letter many times, still not believing what was in it. She had to go to Canterlot as the first thing in the morning and deliver the letter to Princess Celestia. She took one last look at the two sleeping fillies and quietly closed the door.
The next morning, as Sweet Song woke up to the smell breakfast, she rubbed her eyes and looked at the sleeping Dinky. She smiled and pushed Dinky gently to wake her up. "Ugh," was the only reply she got. Sweet Song leaned over Dinky and whispered in her ear, “Wake up sleepy head, the muffins are ATTACKING!” The last word she almost yelled, and Dinky sat up fast. “WHERE?” she said, confused, and Sweet Song couldn’t help laughing. When Dinky finally understood what was going on, she laughed with Sweet Song. They both went down to the kitchen only to find that it was not Derpy but Sweet Song’s foalsitter Lyniv. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE, LYNIV?" Sweet Song yelled and jumped into Lyniv’s arms and hugged her tightly.
"Where’s my mother?" Dinky asked confused while looking around the kitchen.
"She had some things to do with Sweet Song’s parents, so they asked me to foalsit you two for the rest of the weekend till they get back." She went over to Dinky and took her hoof out. "Hello, you must be Dinky! I’m Sweet Song’s foalsitter"
Dinky looked at Lyniv and took the hoof and said: "I’m Dinky, Sweet Song’s best friend!" with a smile.
"SO, after breakfast, what should we do? It looks like it’s gonna be a good day today, so I suggest we go to the park today. What do you two say?"
“Sounds fun!” Dinky said. Sweet Song was looking at the white unicorn with a pink mane. She had loved her ever since the first time she foalsat her. At first she was skeptical and was afraid Lyniv would hate her like everyone else did since she had two mothers, but Lyniv proved to Sweet Song that even if she was unusual, she was loved, and everytime Sweet Song was with Lyniv she felt like she had a big sister. “How’s Fluttershy?” Sweet Song asked. Lyniv had been living at Fluttershy’s house.
“She is just fine, she might join us at the park later,” Lyniv said with a big smile.
“So you planned this already?” Sweet song said with a smile. “N......N...No, No I didn’t”, she said, trying to hide a smile. “YOU DID!” Sweet Song smiled and hugged her foalsitter.
They began eating the breakfast Lyniv had prepared them. It had all the things Lyniv knew Sweet Song loved. Sweet Song and Dinky ate a lot. After they were done, Lyniv said:“SO, are you two ready? Of to adventure!” And they began walking towards the park.
“What do you think your special talent would be?” Dinky suddenly asked Sweet Song. “I Have been thinking a lot on what mine might be and what cutie mark I would get,” Dinky said, looking at Lyniv’s cutie mark; a g-key note.
“I think yours is gonna be a muffin!” Sweet song said grinning. “Just watch out your mom doesn’t try to eat it.” She laughed and Dinky joined in. “I don’t know what mine would be or what I’m good at....” Sweet Song said thinking about it. “I might know a way to find out,” Lyniv said “Lets see if your name is what it seems to be. WHEN we get to the park, so hush hush my trustfully followers!” Lyniv said and walked in front of the two foals, and the two foals followed Lyniv to the park.
When they arrived at the park, they saw Fluttershy had already arrived and was unpacking the things she had with her. “Hello, girls” she said in her shy voice. “Hey, Fluttershy!” Sweet Song said and hugged her tightly. “Oh...” Fluttershy whispered and hugged her back.
They all just sat and talked for awhile and laughed at Lyniv’s stories she told.
After a while, Lyniv said: “SO....... Sweety Song” Lyniv began. “IT’S SWEET SONG!”, Sweet song said grinning, “you always forget that.” She said. “OH no my filly, for me you are always Sweety Song!” Lyniv winked and used her magic to levitate her Violin over to her and opened it.
“I’m gonna play a song and I want you to close your eyes and listen to what I play and just sing, just sing what ever you find fit.” Lyniv said seriously. She began playing her Violin and a sweet melody was floating through the air. Sweet Song closed her eyes and let the music flew into her ears and she just began singing; a sweet and wonderful song came over her lips. Fluttershy, Lyniv and Dinky, all three had their mouth open; they had never heard a more beautiful song.
Sweet Song finished and opened her eye just to see three ponies looking at her. “Did I really do it that bad?” She asked a bit sad. “Sweety,” Lyniv began, “I think you know what your special talent is now.” She went and hugged her. “Never stop singing,” Lyniv said, “NEVER”. The rest of the day, they all played in the park until the sun was about to go down.
On the way home, Dinky asked: “Sweet?” “Yes?” she replied. “We are still going with the plan?” “YES we are, and I really hope it works”.
When they got home, they both went to Dinky’s room upstairs while Lyniv and Fluttershy began preparing dinner in the kitchen.
The two fillies began working on the letter that would be the start of something new.
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Autors note:
OK guys that was chapter 2, I make this little note to tell about some things that happened in this chapter that might be a bit confusing. Or mostly Lyniv.
She opened her eyes and looked at the gray, cold ceiling. The room was almost bare; a cabin in one of the corners, a desk where books and parchment was laying all over, and a bed were the only things in Lily Feather’s room; not that she couldn't put stuff in it, she just didn't feel like it. The only thing on her wall was a Wonderbolts poster of Spitfire.
She’d been a Wonderbolts fan ever since the orphanage went on a trip to Canterlot to see the display. She didn't really feel like going. When they all were there to see it, she snuck away and began looking at the surroundings. Suddenly, she heard a voice behind her say, "Hey, you're not allowed to be here!" Lilly turned around and saw a yellow pony with orange hair. "I'm...."
"It's OK sweety," the yellow pony grinned. "Are you lost?" "No, I just didn't want too look at that boring race," she said. The yellow pony looked at Lily. "So you don't want to look at my friends race? You do know, I’m going to race in this," she said proudly. Lily looked at the yellow pony, saying “Are you Spitfire?”
“You bet I am! For someone that doesn’t like us Wonderbolts, you sure know my name well,” she said smirking at Lily. “Well....” Lily began. “Doesn’t matter sweety, at all! I was your age once, believe it or not,” she smiled. “What you need is something special.... hmm.... I KNOW,” she suddenly said, “how about I take you to the VIP and you can see the display from there? MUCH better view than where the normal ponies are!" Spitfire pushed Lily over to the entrance of the VIP lounge.
Lilly went inside and saw a lot of fancy looking ponies. When they saw Spitfire, they all ran over and began talking to her. Lily went a bit away from the crowd and walked over to the side and looked out. "WOW!" she gasped. The view was amazing; everything could be seen from there and it looked like one of the races was about to start. She looked excited as the Wonderbolts flew around.
"Amazing, right?" Spitfire asked Lily; she’d been standing beside the filly and looked smiling on the excited pony. "Didn't think you’d like the display," Spitfire teased. "I must admit it's much better from here," Lily said. "Its my turn next. Just be here and watch if you like, and after my race I think you should sneak back to your group before they notice you’re gone." Spitfire went down to the track and Lily waited, excited to see Spitfire race.
Just before the race started, Spitfire lifted her goggles and winked to Lily and then the race started. Lily hadn’t seen anyone fly as fast as Spitfire did; there was no doubt who’d win this.
Lily snuck back to the group just after Spitfire won. She could hear some of the other foals being excited about Spitfire and smiled to herself. ‘If only they knew,’ she thought, knowing that this would be her secret. After the race, she began following Spitfire and became a Wonderbolt fan.
After staring at the ceiling for a bit, Lily went out of her bed; she couldn’t sleep anymore. She knew the caretaker would come soon anyway and wake everyone up so the older foals could go to school on time. She went out in the hallway and went to wash up and get ready for the boring breakfast she knew would be the same she had been having for as long she had been in the orphanage. On her way to the dining room, she met the caretaker.
“Good morning Lily! You’re up early,” the earth pony with a gray mane said to Lily. “Morning,” Lily just said in a low voice and went to get something to eat before she went to school. She knew this day was going to be a bad day, the entire school would probably tease her now, why wouldn’t they? Sweet Song had probably already told them to get back on her for what she did. She didn't know why she had done it in the first place, but she had found it easier to deal with the fact that she had no parents by bullying others.
She had always wanted parents, and all her so called friends she had in the orphanage had found a home. Every one of her friends but her. She didn't know why no one wanted her, and she tried not to get too close to anyone for the fear of losing something again. Her Mother had died not long after she was born, so she didn't know who she was. Her mother had given birth to Lily while knowing she was weak and would not be able to survive it. Lily’s Father had been killed in an accident eight months before Lily was born and since she had no other family she was brought to the orphanage to live there. The only thing her mother had left her was a picture of both her parents and a letter. She had kept them both and had been reading the letter so many times she knew everything in it by heart. Her Mother had just before she died made a letter for Lily. Her last words for her daughter.
To My Beloved Lily Feather
I know that I don’t have much time left, it has taken the most of my powers just to make this letter, but I just has to tell you how much I love you. I know I will not be there for you, or your father but I want you to be strong for me. I lived my entire life in an Orphanage just like you will. The Doctors have said they will put you in the care of Miss Sprinkle Flower, the caretaker of the Orphanage here in Ponyville. When I grew up, I didn't think I would ever care for somepony, until I met your father. He was living in Ponyville and I met him one day when I was out shopping, and we felt in love fast and not long after, I moved in with him. His job was to travel a lot around Equestria, so he was not home that much but I still loved him so much. One day when he was away on one of his travels, I found out that I was pregnant with you. You don’t know how happy I was; finally being able to have a happy family which I never had myself. But the happiness didn't last long. One month after, a letter came in which told me about a collapse in a mine your father was exploring with his team. No one had been found and the collapse was so deep underground that it was not possible to save them or find out what had happened. I was devastated by this; somehow I grew weaker and weaker and you grew bigger and bigger. The Doctors said there was a very little chance for me to survive if I had you, but I knew that I had to do it! even if it meant leaving you alone. How could I not? You were the best thing that have ever happened to me. No, you ARE the best thing that ever happened and you should know I will always love you no matter what. I made an agreement with the Orphanage that all the bits I got from the house and the things will be given to you when you are able to live by yourself. I know you probably will hate me for taking this decision, but I regret nothing and I LOVE YOU, my dearest Daughter.
From Your Mother
Lily didn’t really hate her mother, but not being able to have experienced what love was, she had a hard time being able to love her mother. The picture was one of her mother and father, Lily could see that she looked a lot like her mother, and she had her father’s eyes. Her father was an earth pony with a green mane and crimson eyes, and her mother a pegasus as white as snow with deep blue eyes; she probably got her pegasus genes from her mother.
After all that had happened to Lily, she’d had a very hard time trying to get close to ponies; no matter what she tried, she always ended up hurting them before they would be hurting her. All she ever wanted was someone to love her and actually have a friend, but she knew it would be no good since she knew she would always be hurt in the end.
After breakfast, she went to her room and got all the stuff she needed for school. She didn’t want to go today; she knew the secret would probably be out by now and then it was too late for her to ever be who she deep inside wanted to be.
She walked slowly to school, looking at all the other fillies and foals who walked happily with their parents. She hated all of them, for being able to be happy when she was imprisoned. When she got to school, she was expecting the others to look at her and even talk behind her back, but that didn't happen; everyone ignored her as she was used to and nothing had changed. 'What’s going on here,' she thought, 'why are this like it use to be? Didn't she tell everypony? Is she planning on hurting me even more?' Lots of thoughts went through her mind.
She went into class to see Sweet Song and Dinky sitting and talking happily like nothing had happened. She went to her seat and sat down. Sweet Song suddenly saw her and went over to her desk. "Ummm.... I know we are not the best of friends but would you PLEASE take this letter and read it?" Sweet Song stood with a letter in her mouth looking a bit worried. "What are you planning?" Lily said in a cold icy voice "I don't want any pity from a freak like you!" WHY did she say that? She didn't mean to, but she instinctually said it defensively.
"I didn't mean it like that, and believe me, I would never sink to your level, so don't worry nopony will know," Sweet Song said almost as coldly. "But at least read it and decide what you want to do." Sweet Song turned around and went over to Dinky again. 'Who does she think she is?,' Lily thought. 'Like I would read her stupid letter.' She threw the letter into her saddle back and waited for this stupid class to be over.
When recess finally came, she went outside towards her private spot she had in the far corner of the school grounds; there, she could be herself and just read. Reading was something she had found exciting, and she could get lost in her own world and imagine that she was somepony else on adventure. She didn't get far before she was stopped by two familiar foals. "Hey there Lily," one of her so-called friends called to her. "Hey, Sunburn,".
"So what’s new? Still grounded for getting in trouble?," Sunburn asked; Lily had told them that her parents had grounded her for what she did to Sweet Song. She really didn't want to hang out with them, so she had told them that. "Yeah, I hope I get out of it soon,". "Well that's a shame. We’re going to find some easy targets somewhere, care to join?," Sunburn asked and Lily shook her head. "Not today, had a really lousy day." Sunburn just looked at her and smiled. "That can happen too all of us. See you later Lily," He said and they both went away.
Lily sighed; she couldn’t avoid them forever, she knew that, but that was not something she would think of now. She only needed to get away and keep her mind off of things. She found her place and sat down, taking out her book; it was a nice little spot she’d discovered, surrounded by trees and a little opening in the middle so no one could see her from outside.
She could not concentrate: no matter what, the letter Sweet Song had given her kept crawling into her mind. She had decided to not read it and just let it be, but her mind kept wandering to it and curiosity got the better of her and she opened it. It was not a big letter and there were some small drawings on it that probably should be ponies. After she had read the letter she felt sick to the stomach. 'So that is what she is planning,' Lily thought. The letter said:
Hello Lily Feather. I know that we have not been the best of friends, and that you probably didn't like that I found out you lived in the orphanage. I feel very sorry for what I said the other day, really I do and I will like you to for just ONE day be a part of our family. I know it sounds very weird but please just do it! After, I will never talk to you again and we can leave each other alone. We will be waiting after school for your answer, just say yes or no.
Sweet Song
'So that was what she was planning,' Lily thought, 'she wants to step on me even further by rubbing it in my snout, how much a family she got!' She felt sick, but decided, “I will not let them step or look down on me like that; I will say yes to this and show them that I will not let this get me down!” She wandered in circles to calm down a bit, but it didn't help much. She just went back to class and waited for it to end.
After class she went outside to see Sweet Song waiting under a tree for her, and Lily walked over to her. "So?" Sweet song asked looking nervous. "I don't know what your are planning to do, I don't really care, but I agree to this," she said again coldly and walked away before any of them could reply. "We’ll get you next Saturday morning," Sweet Song yelled.
The week went really slowly for Lily; she’d regretted that she said yes so many times now, but she knew she couldn't take it back they would think she was scared, witch she actually was; and in a way, wasn't this what she wanted? To have a family? But she knew that this was impossible; why would they like her in a family, being as she was? So, the only thing she could think of was ruining the day for them in some way when she know more about this.
Tomorrow was the day and she felt anxious; there hadn't been anything at school and Lily just went to her spot and was thinking. After school she decided that she wanted to go to Twilight Sparkle’s library; that was the only place where she felt secure. Some time ago, she went on an errand for the caretaker and was greeted by Twilight, who invited her inside and began looking for the books on the list. She had never been in a place with so many books and she just walked around looking at the book covers and wanted to read so many of them. Suddenly Twilight asked, "So you like books? You can take one with you home if you promise to bring it back, then you can borrow one more after that." Twilight had smiled and Lily took the first book in the Daring Do series.
She had loved the book so much she came back the day after to borrow one more and this put on for some time until Twilight had said she could take more books with her home. Eventually, she had given permission to sit and read in a corner of the library if she wanted, so she had a place to be, and she needed that today so she went over to the library.
When she entered, she saw it was more messy than it used to be; Twilight was running around, taking one book out, reading through it fast, throwing it on the floor, and onto the next. A baby dragon went after her, trying to clean as well as he could, just to have some of the books he just put in the bookshelf be taken by Twilight again. Lily went slowly inside; "is this a bad time?" she asked slowly. "OH, hi there Lily," Twilight said, "No, don't worry about it; I'm just looking for something to help my friend and I can't seem to find anything," and she hurried on with looking for whatever it was she was looking for. Lily began picking up books and Spike looked up and smiled. "Thanks, it’s not easy following her sometimes". Lily sometimes helped Spike clean up; it was her way of thanking for borrowing books. Spike just kept on talking about all kinds of stuff and Lily just nodded and said yes when she felt like it was time for it. Cleaning helped her keep her mind off of things, and she could forget a little about tomorrow. After a while, Lily could see there wasn’t need for much help anymore and went to her spot in the back of the library..
After some time, she stood up and packed her saddle back and went into the other room of the library just to find only Spike doing the last cleanup. "Where’s Twilight?”, Lily asked. "She went to Zecora’s house to look for help there." "Zecora?" Lily asked. "She’s a zebra living in the everfree forest," spike explained. "Oh, I’ve seen her sometimes," she said and just after, the door burst open, and Twilight came in with an annoyed expression, " ARRRGGH, that zebra, she drives me nuts sometimes, blaming it on me.... OK, I was the reason we’re here now but I did it to help" talking to herself. "I’m sure they don't blame you Twilight. I know they didn’t want anything but this," Spike tried calm her down and Twilight saw that Lily was on her way out. "WAIT," , " I'll follow you home, on my way to Applejack, it's on the way".
They walked without saying anything, until Twilight broke the silence. "Sorry about that, it's just been a stressful week". "It's OK, Twilight, may I ask what’s wrong?". "It's just that I tried help two of my friends with magic and now it’s backfired quite a bit and I feel so guilty, and there’s not a thing in Equestra that can stop it," Twilight explained. They kept walking in silence and Lily thought how wonderful it would be to have a friend that would fight no matter what for you. “I guess I'm just not that lucky”. They came to the orphanage and Twilight gave the filly a little hug and went towards the Apple Family Farm. Lily went on in and just waited for the dreaded day to arrive.
The next day, Lily was dreaming about her mother, not something she did often, but today she did. “Lilly, hun, time to wake up,” her mother said to her in a gentle voice, “in a min, mom I’m still tired” Lily replied and turned around. Wait, something was not right here. Lily opened up her eyes and saw with horror a grownup Sweet Song beside her. 'Grown up, Sweet Song?' she thought and saw that her mane was different and her eyes more bright. She finally realized that this was not Sweet Song but probably one of her mothers, and sat up quickly and asked, confused, “How did you...” Lily looked confused and the mint green pony answered, “never mind that hun, I'm here to pick up my lovely daughter”.
Then she realized that Sweet Song probably got her mothers in on this too, and they probably were planning on getting to her. She didn’t know HOW she got in here but she had, and she led her guard down.
Lyra pushed Lily gently out of bed and towards the washing room, “Now go in and freshen up, I’ll be waiting outside, we have a BIG day ahead of us!,” The mint green pony said and left Lily. Lily did what she was told and a lot of thoughts ran through her mind. 'This was unexpected,' she thought, 'but I’ll follow their plan. I don't want them to think I'm weak,' and so she did.
Outside, the mint green pony was waiting and she smiled when she saw Lily. “LETS GO” she said happily and began walking and Lily followed her. They didn’t say anything to each other; the mint green pony just smiled and went on. Lily broke the silent “umm miss....?”, “Call me Lyra, or mom!” Lyra said grinning “Miss Lyra, where are we going?” Lily asked a little confused since she had no idea.
“We are going home to eat breakfast and then a little surprise for you,” she smiled at Lily. 'A surprise? So they wanted to surprise her and then mock me even further,' she thought and went on.
They arrived at a nice looking house and a little garden surrounding the house.
They went in the kitchen and Lily saw that Sweet Song and another pony were there. She had the same mane and eye color as Sweet Song, so Lily knew this was the other mother of Sweet Song. She also smiled when she saw Lily. “Ahh you must be our new daughter!,” and went over and hugged Lily. Lily pushed her off “Yes I'm Lily, and I'm NOT your daughter!” She said more coldly than she wanted to do. BonBon just smiled at Lily Feather and showed her to the table. “Eat sweety, we didn’t know what you liked so we did a little of everything,” BonBon said as if nothing was wrong, and they all sat around the table and Sweet Song and her mothers laughed and talked like nothing was wrong. Lily just looked down at the table not eating.
“Not hungry?” Lyra asked Lily. Lily couldn’t take it anymore, why did they mock her so much? WHY? and she just lost it “why..... WHY ARE YOU SO NICE TO ME!? I HAVE BEEN SO MEAN! I DON’T DESERVE ANYONE’S PITY! JUST LEAVE ME ALONE!” she yelled and tears were gathering in her eyes. She couldn’t hold it back anymore; she let the tears flow down and looked down at the table again. Suddenly she felt a hoof lift her chin up and she looked into two bright eyes that actually looked concerned, and Lyra said, “Sweety, we don’t care at ALL what you did. And we really mean it that we are going to be your family today! Everyone deserves a chance to be loved and we wanted you to see that we are not really some kind of freaks, we are just normal ponies, nothing else.”
Lily couldn’t take it anymore she began to cry. Cry as she hadn’t done before, since there was no one she could cry to, and now after all these years, she broke down and cried. Lyra embraced her and stroked her mane until she finally calmed down.
Lily looked up at Lyra and asked again, “why” in a tiny voice.
Bonbon went over to Lily and Lyra stepped back, Lyra knew this was something BonBon had been waiting for, it was really her part and she let her love handle this.
“Sweety, may I tell you a story? One from when I was a child?,” BonBon asked and Lily just nodded and Bonbon began.
“When I was just your age, I’d been living in an orphanage almost my entire life since my parents both died. You could say I was just like you, afraid of getting close to ponies afraid of being hurt and left, so I began bullying others to keep my distance from others. But in the end, it ended up that some of the other ponies found out and I ended up being the one teased, and someday it almost went wrong and I was almost beaten up by somepony, but then that crazy pony over there,” BonBon pointed her hooves at Lyra who just smiled. “She came out of nowhere; actually, I think she came out of the bookshelf itself, but I was kinda busy trying not to get beaten up so I didn’t really see.”
“Actually, I DID jump through the bookshelf. The librarian didn’t really like the mess” Lyra looked embarrassed. “After she jumped the older ponies and tried to beat ‘em up, she was the one ending up beaten, and I had to take her to the infirmary. I didn’t know what to say to her at ALL. Nopony ever did this for me before, so I was sitting there crying over Lyra’s bed and I just asked. Why did you help me, I don’t deserve this! And can you guess what her only reply was?”
“N...no?” Lily was still crying a bit. “I really like you,” BonBon said, “those were the only words she said to me and from that day we never were apart and became friends, and see where we are today!” BonBon said, and pointed at Sweet Song. “We got a child, the best thing ever happened to us, and we love her just as much as two normal parents would, and sweety, we really want you to feel the same way! No plans on hurting you at ALL.”
Lily didn’t know what to say; she finally realized that they actually meant every word they said, and she decided to do it. “May I tell you all a story too?,” she asked, and everypony nodded, and she told them about her mother and father, the life she had in the orphanage, everything.
BonBon came over and hugged Lilly and gave her a kiss on her forehead. Lily hugged her and said, “Thank you ,mother.” Lily went over to Sweet Song, saying, “I’m so sorry, I truly am,” and looked down the floor shyly. Sweet Song put her snout against Lily’s snout and said, “Don’t worry! I'm really happy that you decided to come!” Sweet Song hugged Lily and Lily did the same. Lily wasn’t really used to it, but she liked it and welcomed the new feelings she had. They continued the breakfast and Lily hadn’t had anything like it! For her entire life, she only really tried what the orphanage served, and she had gotten used to it so she didn’t really know how much better homemade food tasted. Lyra entertained with some stories and Lily really found some of them weird, but she liked the way she told them and was laughing before she knew it.
When they finished, BonBon asked, “Did you like it sweety?” and Lily nodded happily.
“OK, time to go to the park!,” Lyra said and pushed Sweet Song and Lily out the door, walking with them to the park while BonBon stayed behind to clean the kitchen.
Lily was surprised when she saw how many ponies had gathered in the park; it looked like almost all of Ponyville had gathered there. She saw Twilight and smiled. Lily yelled “Twilight!” happily, hugging Twilight. Twilight was a bit taken by the sudden change of character in Lily, but hugged the filly, “Hey Lily, looks like the plan worked just fine!” she said smiling.
“I didn’t know that I really needed this, but I think I do, and I thank everything to Sweet Song.” Twilight Smiled and went over to some of her friends. There were so many ponies here that Lily had only seen sometimes in Ponyville. A rainbow pegasus she had seen sleeping around on clouds at times, a white unicorn she knew was a famous dress maker, a yellow pegasus with pink hair she didn’t know who sat beside a white unicorn with pink hair. She knew who Applejack was, who didn’t? The family who ran the apple farm outside town, and Pinkie Pie she had always given her an extra cupcake when she went on errands for the orphanage. There were lots of others there she had only seen very little of.
Sweet Song came over to Lily. “I can see you know Twilight, so no idea in introducing her,” she smiled at Lily. “The yellow one over there is Fluttershy, and just beside her is my awesome foal sitter Lyniv. I think they might like each other but I’m not sure,” Sweet Song said with a smile and went on. “That’s Applejack, the one working on Sweet Apple Acres.” “I Know who she is, and Pinkie Pie, but the rest I’ve only seen a bit,” Lily interrupted Sweet Song.
“Oh, OK! That over there is Rarity, she runs the Carousel Boutique and she makes a lot of fancy dresses for ponies in Canterlot. Over there you have Rainbow Dash.” Sweet Song pointed a hoof to where Rainbow Dash was floating; Rainbow Dash saw and came over. “Hey there squirt!,” Rainbow said to Sweet Song, “who’s your friend?”
“I’m Lily Feather,” Lilly said and put a hoof forward Rainbow Dash. “Rainbow Dash here wants to join the Wonderbolts, and met ‘em lots of times!” Sweet song explained. “I LOVE THE WONDERBOLTS” Lily yelled and almost scared both Rainbow and Sweet Song. Lily began telling about her story with spitfire and Rainbow listened excitedly.
After a good talk, Rainbow said, “SO, those tiny wings of yours are they any good?” with a sly smile, and said “Race you to that tree!” and went off. Lily was quick to chase. Her tiny wings couldn’t keep up with Rainbow Dash at all, but when she came past the tree, Rainbow smiled and went over to Lily. “That was impressive, very impressive! I think I could make you even faster then me with some training, what do you say? Want to be trained by the fastest flyer in all of Equestria?” Lily couldn't even begin to explain how happy she was right now; not only did she find a friend, she also found a teacher who’d train her in flying. “YES YES YES YES YES” was the only thing she could say, hugging Rainbow Dash tightly.
“OK OK, I got it!” Rainbow blushed and tried to push the filly away.
“Hello!” Dinky came over after just arriving. “So, did it work? Is she still being a mean filly?,” she asked Sweet Song teasingly. “Hmm... I think she might, so be careful,” Sweet Song caught on and teased Lily.
“HA HA, very funny you two” she said and went over to Dinky. “I’m really grateful that you two did this for me. I really am and I’m so sorry for what I did. I hope you can ever forgive me,” Lily looked down embarrassed. Dinky just hugged Lily and she hugged her back, knowing that she’d forgiven her.
For the rest of the afternoon, they just played and had a lot of fun; Lily was so happy. What Lily and Sweet Song didn’t see was the sadness and tears when ponies gathered around Lyra.
When they had said goodbye to everypony, Lily and Sweet Song went home with Lyra to have some dinner. When they all sat there eating, Lily said, “I don’t know what to say, but I’m really grateful that you all did this today. I think that if you hadn't done this I probably would have kept on doing this, believing that nopony could be my friend and I think I would’ve been lonely.” Lily looked down at the table and couldn’t hold her tears back, which were dripping down on the table.
BonBon lifted her head and looked into her eyes. “Sweetie, that is exactly why we did it. You deserved better than being alone, and now you have a place you can call a home. You’re ALWAYS welcome here.” She hugged Lily and wiped her tears away. They continued the dinner and Lily knew now that even though they were not her real family, she now had one that would at least love her as much as it were her own family.
The next day around noon, Sweet Song and Lily were walking toward the orphanage alone. Lily was really sad that the day was already over; she had, for the first time in her life, slept at somepony else’s house. She had a hard time falling asleep since so many things had been on her mind. She’d asked Sweet Song why she really did this and Sweet Song replied, “There had to be a reason that you acted like that, so after I saw you at the orphanage I somehow figured out that you probably were just lonely, and I don’t think anyone ever deserves that. So I figured that if I let you meet my parents, you would open up a bit and we could work something out. I can only say that it worked like a charm.” Sweet Song had cuddled up beside Lily and they both fell asleep.
When they arrived at the orphanage. Sweet Song said, “Dinky and I will be here Monday morning to pick you up so we all can go to school together.” “Are you sure that's going to be OK? You know not many ponies like me, and the new side of me might be too much for them....” Lily said worriedly. “They can just TRY! I won’t let anything happen to my friend!,” Sweet Song said and hugged Lily. “And you ARE my friend now if you like it or not.” Lily could do nothing but smile as she waved at Sweet Song and began her way home. Lily wanted to thank Sweet Song and Dinky for what they had done, and she knew what she would do; she had read that in a book.
That Monday Lily was so excited to, for the first time, go to school with somepony else. She went out washing up and went by the caretaker. “Good morning,” Lily said with a smile and was gone before the caretaker could reply. ‘I have to thank Lyra and BonBon for making her finally realize that there is a meaning to everything that happens,’ the caretaker thought and smiled.
When Lily went outside, Sweet Song and Dinky were already waiting for her and they both waved when they saw her. They all went to school. Everyone was looking when Lily came in with Sweet Song and Dinky; they didn’t expect to see a smiling Lily and one actually laughing with another pony. In the start, they couldn’t believe that this was the Lily Feather that had been so mean before, but after some time they began realizing that she had changed and this was what she was for real.
In recess, Sweet Song and Dinky took Lily with them to the library. She felt at home when she was surrounded by books. Sweet Song and Dinky Smiled to her when they saw how she actually enjoyed books. Lily took some heavy reading books over to the seat they usually sat at. Dinky looked at the thick book in amazement. “That’s some heavy stuff you like to read Lily...”
“Not really this is only light reading, I love to read about everything,” Lily smiled. “Light reading.... You could kill somepony if you dropped that on them!” Sweet Song said with a smile. Suddenly Lily sprang up on her hooves, “OH! I forgot something in the classroom, going to get it right away!,” and she almost flew out of the door toward the classroom. She went over to her saddle back and took out 3 bracelets with a small silver trinket. Lily had spent the entire day making those friendship bracelets. The materials were borrowed from Rarity. When Rarity heard what she wanted to use it for, she found some of her best materials and gave them to Lily in the promise that she would someday come work a little in the shop. Lily would love helping in the shop, because she always wanted to know more about dressmaking. She read lot of it in books. After she made the bracelets she went to Twilight's house and asked her to perform a spell on the bracelets. After Lily explained, Twilight had agreed and it had taken her almost the entire evening to cast the spell.
Lily looked at the three bracelets she had made in the colors of her friends and herself, and she added 3 trinkets that twilight gave her that were made from the magic.
She went back toward the library but when she turned a corner she bumped into somepony and she looked up and saw who it was. “Well if it isn't Lily our fearless leader, what’s the hurry? On your way back to your new friends?” Sunburn smiled mockingly “OH yes, we know that you began hanging out with those freaks! And we also know that you live in the orphanage, do you really think we are that stupid?” And Sunburn pushed Lily down on the floor. Lily looked angrily at Sunburn, “DON'T.YOU.DARE.CALL.MY.FRIEN...” She was suddenly hit and fell down again.
“We call em exactly what we like, freak lover,” and Lily felt that her arms were twisted behind her back and Sunburn’s friend was holding her tightly. She could see Sunburn’s grin as he prepared to hit her again. She closed her eyes and waited for the hits she knew would land on her soon. 'Please help me' was the only thing she thought. The hit never came; she heard someone say “ugh” and she slowly opened her eyes to see Sunburn tackled by Dinky, feeling the hold loosen up and seeing that Sweet Song had planted a hoof on the side of the one holding her.
Almost synchronized they both said “DON'T YOU DARE LAY YOUR DIRTY HOOFS ON OUR FRIEND!” Dinky backed off Sunburn and went over to stand in front of Lily; same did Sweet Song, saying, “And I suggest that you two keep away from us from now on. We are NOT afraid of you,” she said with a ice cold voice. Sunburn and his friend backed off a bit and began walking away. “You have not heard the last of us, believe that!” he sneered and they wandered off.
Sweet Song and Dinky turned around and helped Lily up on her hooves again. “You OK?” Sweet Song asked, “I tried worse, I believe your hit hurt more than his did,” she smiled and hugged both her friends. “How did you know?” Lily asked in wonder. “Oh, Twilight saw you and hurried in and told us. I think she didn't want to interrupt since she is not a part of the school, or she had other reasons? Who knows,” Dinky said. Lily really loved her friends; this was what it felt like to have friends, and she would never change it for anything in all of Equestria. “Thank you for standing up for me. I didn't know why I felt so weak. Maybe I’m more weak than I thought” Lily didn't know why she hadn't stood up to Sunburn. “No, you are NOT! You would do the same for us, that makes you strong,” Sweet song said while she hugged Lily tightly.
They returned to the library. Lily went over to Twilight and thanked her, and returned to her friends.
“I have something for you two! I spent the whole day yesterday making these.” She showed the bracelets to her friends. Both fillies let out a little gasp when they saw them. “WOW,” Dinky said. “That must have been expensive to get all that!” And she looked at the gift in wonder. “Not really, I have some work I need to do for the treads and Twilight made those silver charms with magic. They have the ability to sense if one of us is in danger. I know it’s not much, but I wanted to thank you for doing this for me and I found this the best way.” Lily blushed and looked down on the ground and circled her hoof around. “Awwww.... You didn't had to do this, but we thank you very much!” They all hugged.
From that day, Lily had gained two new best friends, unaware of the events that soon would unfold.
