Disharmonious Heart

It was another ordinary morning like any other in Ponyville. The bright and beautiful golden sunlight was shining, the dew on the grass sparkled like glitter, the bright sunlight beamed upon all the houses and buildings. Even the window of little Dinky Hooves. She was a very light purple filly unicorn with beautiful, brilliant eyes yellow as the cute little buttercup flowers that grew upon her yard every spring after the sparkling snow melted every winter. Dinky also had blonde hair like her mother but had a darker shade on one side and lighter on the other. The filly slept in her bed silently, she was having another dream about her father again who disappeared a year ago. Her mother seemed to be the only one who knew about his disappearance, but she wouldn't tell nor talk about it ever because all it did was upset her even more every time she thought about it. Dinky's dream was of her and her family together like old times until she saw her father disappearing and screaming something she couldn't make out which suddenly jolted her up from her slumber and brought Dinky downstairs to the table with her sister Sparkler and her mother Derpy. Sparkler had a pinkish- purple like color to her body and dark and darker purple in her mane and tail, she too like her younger sister Dinky was a unicorn. She already had her cutie mark while Dinky did not. Sparkler's cutie mark was three diamonds close together neatly, two of the diamonds lined together on the top and the one i the middle but on the bottom. Dinky and Sparkler's mother Derpy was a light grey mare with yellow eyes just like her daughter Dinky. She had shiny blonde hair that glistened in the sunlight and moonlight and upon her flank were bubbles as her cutie mark which represented her ditsy and some may call it a bubbly personality. The only thing that was missing was their father... Where could he be? How did he just disappear like that? Why did he disappear? There were some many questions running through the little fillies head that today she was determined to get answers from her mother.

Dinky was sitting at the wooden kitchen breakfast table in a chair that matched of course because her parents liked it when stuff of theirs matched, because in their eyes it was proper to have matching things. As she looked at her mother's back turned making breakfast she decided to ask now for the answers she had waited a long time for but never did, regarding how upset it seemed to make her but today she was going to speak about it.

"M-mom?" Dinky stuttered a bit trying to search for the right words to her questions.

"Yes my little muffin?" Derpy replied, her voice sounding full of joy. "What is it honey?"

Suddenly Dinky had a feeling about backing down and not asking. NO! She wanted to know. She needed to know. And if she didn't ask now she maybe wouldn't get another chance at asking about her and her big sister's father and her family would feel incomplete forever...

"I um... I wanted to know... er something..." She finally said back to her mother

Derpy's left ear twitched as she kept cooking but still was listening. "What do you want to know darling?" She asked turning around finally, her strange eyes that no other pony had were looking at Dinky. It may not have seemed it but Dinky knew.

"W- what happened to dad?" Dinky blurted out nervously

Derpy turned around and her voice went from joyful; to upset. She could even hear the shakiness in her mothers voice

"Oh uh... your father..." She looked down to the floor and leaned against the marble kitchen counter for support like she was going to fall like a freshly cut maple tree in yard. "He....." Derpy stopped cooking and dug her face into the counter and her own hooves. Dinky could hear a muffled sob coming from her hidden mother, she felt bad that she had asked and got down from the wooden chair that her flank did sit upon moments ago; she walked over to her mother and hugged Derpy's legs tightly.

"I'm sorry mommy... I didn't mean to upset you... I'm sorry..." Dinky kept saying i'm sorry over and over again like a broken scratched up record on an old record player machine. Her mother placed her hoof on Dinky's head gently and stroked her daughters mane and told Dinky, "It's okay... don't be sorry..." She said as Sparkler was quiet for a while, she joined her little sister and mother too so no one would feel awful.

Where is dad? Why hasn't he come home? Is he dead? Did something important come up? My daddy is and always will be known as "The Doctor"

As the day dragged on longer and longer till DInky wanted nothing more but to fall asleep and start a new day. Too bad she would be in school tomorrow though; Dinky felt she had no time to go since she was trying to figure out why her father had missed out on a year with them. That night Dinky lied awake in her bed. She looked at the ceiling and still was puzzled why her mother was keeping secrets from her and maybe even Sparkler knew about their father while she did not. She uncovered herself from the safety of her warm blanket and walked out of her room downstairs to the living room. The fireplace was filled with pictures of what was once a happy family. These pictures contained herself of course and her older sister Sparkler, her beloved mother Derpy and the brown stallion with the hourglass cutie mark and the blue glittering eyes; Whooves, who is also known as "The Doctor" which is what her mother used to call him. Some of the pictures were also school pictures of her big sister and herself and some best moment pictures, etc...

"If mommy seems so upset when she is reminded of daddy... then why does she still have pictures of him?" Dinky quietly thought to herself so she wouldn't wake any pony up from their deep slumber. Dinky grabbed the family picture with her light purple hooves and sighed sorrowfully.

Derpy woke up the next morning so she could wake up her two gorgeous unicorn daughters so that they both could get ready for another boring, exhausting day in school. She knocked on Sparkler's door and heard her yell she would be down in a minute, then their mother went to Dinky's room and looked in seeing that her daughter wasn't there.

"Dinky?!" Derpy called out with concern. She went downstairs and immediately saw the little unicorn sleeping on the couch while snuggling the family picture that Dinky grabbed off the shelf last night. Dinky twitched in her sleep as if she were having a nightmare, she jolted awake and looked at her mother with frightened eyes.

"S- something terrible must have happened to daddy!" She said out of nowhere

Derpy gave her a scornful look, "Honey... I know you miss him and all but I don't want you speaking of him..." She replied sadly

"NO! MOM!!! Listen to me!!!! Dad must be in trouble!!! He's..." Her mother put her hoof on Dinky's snout

"Yes I know... I love him too... but he's changed. GONE! EVERYTHING!!!" Derpy finished as she cried

Dinky's mind was racing for what to say to her mother about what she just heard, there was no way that her own father could have changed! She closed her eyes and saw nothing but darkness under her eyelids... something wasn't right and Dinky didn't like it.