"Fine you ungrateful feline, rot for all I care!" A disgruntled Sharp yelled as the cat happily ran away, looking quite victorious as Sharp was left covered in scratches. Letting out a sigh, she moved the bucket back to its original position and began washing her muddy hooves off. As the freezing cold water sprayed out across her hooves, she shivered suddenly feeling that something was wrong. Putting the hose back and turning off the water, she decided to run her daily tests to make sure everything was ok. Sharp stepped back to admire the rather large house, it was made of brick and was passed through her family, although she was the only one that stayed around to take care of it. After the quick once over of her estate, she ran to the front yard checking the neighborhood and her lawn to make sure both were adequate. No foals running around and the grass was a perfect one and a half inch high, she gave a little stretch as the last thing she had to check on was her favorite little foal.

"Tea! Come to the kitchen little one, its checkup time and afterwards we can have lunch!" Sharp Note began tussling around the oddly designed kitchen, opening the lock on a cabinet and pulling out a few knives and forks. The kitchen was rather simply put together, a table resided in the middle with a little space to walk around it. Beyond the table was the counters, fridge, and of course the cabinet which contained all the utensils and everything else you would need for cooking. Sharp was worried Tea might get hurt one day if she decided to search through drawers, so she put everything in the cabinet and locked it, only opening it if Sweet asked her for something.

After looking around to make sure no one was watching, especially Sweet Tea, she locked it back up and began levitating random ingredients out of the fridge. She was a rather peculiar pony, very skittish and always paranoid, although having a daughter helped her fight a few of her fears such as living with others. Of course Tea wasn't her actual daughter as the thought of reproduction scared her, but instead she was a lone foal that she found one day. She'll never forget that rainy evening as she was running from the home she now resides in, furious that she had to spend the rest of her days there because her siblings 'couldn't be bothered with it anymore'. She was afraid of change and decided that they couldn't make her stay if she left, so she ran until she nearly fainted from exhaustion.

"T-trying *pant* to make me stay in this celestia forsaken town *pant*, i've paid my dues and would rather watch this place burn." She kept her voice low in case she was followed, and slowly moved behind one of the similarly structured buildings. She tried to keep her breathing calm and closed her eyes, starting to let sleeps calming embrace take over her.

"H-hi don't tell anypony I'm here please?" Sharp tried to stifle a scream and jumped up, her eyes searching for the source.

Suddenly she saw a little green foal crawl into sight, her eyes going wide as she wondered whose foal this was.

"What're you doing out here little one, outdoors aren't the best place for such a cute little filly like you. Now let's go find your parents." Sharp moved to pick up the foal when she noticed that its eyes had grown wide and filled with tears. "W-whats w-wrong? Was it something I said?"

"I...d-don't have p-p..." The filly began tearing up even more, unable to finish the sentence before bawling. Sharp realized the error of what she said and quickly picked the little foal up, rocking her in her hooves to help calm her down.

"T-there there...uhm...now tell me how you got out here and where you're supposed to be." Sharp proceeded to pet her mane, hoping it would cheer her up a bit. The green filly pointed towards the building they were leaning on and sharp nodded, hoping to quickly drop her off and that hopefully she could eventually forget this huge blunder. Sharp put the foal on her back and trotted around the building, quickly barging through the front door before the filly got sick. Her eyes opened wide as she saw a bunch of mares catering to groups of tiny colts and fillies, her hoof instinctively hitting her face as she realized that she was perched against an orphanage. Sharp moved closer to one of the mares that handled the front desk and moved to introduce herself and drop off the filly.

"Excuse me, I found this foal and I..."

"Hold on I'll get the adoption papers right out!" Sharp looked bewildered as the mare excitedly took off.

"N-no I don't think you underst-..."

"Alright here we are, I'll just fill this out...Race...earth pony...name...Sweet Tea...blah blah blah...Now I'll just sign here and what's your name madam?"

"Its Sharp Note but I dont wann-"

"Ok now just sign here and you'll be able to leave with your adorable little filly" The mare smiled brightly and notions for Sharp to sign the sheet, Sharp leaned in and saw that the mares name was Care Taker and that she had filled out just about everything that would enable her to adopt the now sleeping foal on her back.

"No...you see I was behind your building and I found her, I was just returning her to where she belonged." Sharp sighed and smiled, feeling that this mess was all cleared.

"Aww and you wanna adopt her? That is precious! And i'm glad she's taken a liking to you as well, makes this process a lot easier." Care Taker gave her unusually bright smile and kept looking at the sheet, expecting Sharp to sign it.

"Taken a liking to me?" Sharp asked, rather confused seeing as the foal was just sleeping on her back.

"Yeah normally we cant get her to calm down, she's always very hyper active but with you... I mean she clearly sees something in you! I mean she's sleeping on yer back for celestias sake." Care Taker giggled lightly at the confusion that was still on Sharps face. "Trust me darlin', I'll even make a deal with you. You take her home and if within a week you decide that maybe parenting isn't your thing you bring little Tea back here and we'll never speak of this again!"

Sharp Note sighed and signed the waiver, deciding she could at least give the poor filly a warm place to sleep and a few meals before bringing her back. "One week...I'll see you then..." Sharp walked out and decided to go back to the Manor, thinking that maybe having a little company would make her inevitable stay there at least semi bearable.

"Cant believe that was nine years ago...boy does time fly when your a mother." Sharp giggled as she finished making the salad for the both of them. She turned around expecting Sweets smiling face to be there to greet her and smiled as she was proven correct, however she let out a light gasp as she noticed a very familiar stallion next to her.

"Hello Gentle...and what brings you near my daughter?" Sharp glared daggers at him and dropped the plate near Sweet.

"Oh well I just happened to run into her and was surprised to hear that my favorite mare had such a cute little foal..." Gentle Breeze snickered darkly, brushing Sweet Teas mane with his hoof. Sharp's horn glowed and Gentle felt his hoof being forcefully moved away from the filly. "Well then I seem to have hit a sore spot, I know that it takes quite a bit to make you use any type of magic."

"Don't test me colt...I know how you are around the..." Sharp leaned in so Sweet, who was busy scarfing down the salad, wouldn't hear her. "...Fillies...and I'd recommend that if you get 'those' urges again to stay as far away from her as possible, or else this time it wont just be a near death accident...understand?"

Sharp moved away before he could respond and sat down at the table, proceeding the eat the portion of the salad she made for herself. She sighed, knowing that Tea was safe around him if and only if the problem wasn't still around.

"Don't worry about that, I'm better now! And Tea also let me know that your in need of a foalsitter, and I know how you are with trusting people so here I am!" Gentle smirked deviously, as he played agains't Tea's trusting nature and Sharp Notes clear flaws.

Sharp gasped and looked at Sweet, knowing that she was old enough to make her own decisions. "Little one...do you want Gentle over here to be your foalsitter?"

Author's Note

To be continued!