Through the wind and the rain. She stands hard as a stone. In a world that she can't rise above. But her dreams give her wings. And she flies to a place where she's loved. Concrete angel.
Martina McBride "Concrete Angel"
The alarm buzzed as I slowly woke up to yet another day to my hard life. My mom in the next room, probably holding a big bottle of cider, drunk as a skunk; not even thinking about me and my needs.
I put on the dress that I had on yesterday because my mom was too lazy to even do the laundry last night. I slowly trotted into the smelly bedroom where my mom always slept. She was laying, sprawled out on her bed. She turned her head towards me.
"How many times do I have to tell you child! Walk to school by yourself! If you die out there, oh well!" my mother yelled at me.
I didn't respond to what she told me, I just trotted away from the smelly room; grabbing my lunch, I headed out the door. Walking down the beaten paths to my school. All I could think about was my mother, how if she wasn't drunk, she could take me to school; instead of me walking alone to school.
When I arrived to the front steps of the school, I noticed a fairly nice dressed filly, wrapping her hooves around an older mare. It had to of been that filly's mother; I just looked, wishing it was me. How my mom could be hugging me, instead of hugging the bottle of cider that she had just bought.
***
"Alright class! Pull out last night's homework and show me all that you have done." Ms. Reelz announced to the class.
I pulled out an empty sheet of paper as my homework. I didn't even get the chance to do it because the moment I set my hoof inside my home, my mother yelled at me, telling me to go to the underworld. When she finally finished with me, I laid in my bed, crying myself to sleep that night.
"Very good Ninja." Ms. Reelz told my classmate in front of me.
When she made it to my paper, I laid my head down on my desk, not wanting to see her look of disappointment when she saw my empty page. Soon I heard her trot away without saying a word. I could feel a single tear run down my cheek; wiping it away, I put the empty piece of paper away in my saddle bag.
***
It's after school and I stopped at the park to watch all the foals play without me. All of them were smiling, having the best time of their lives. I just sat there, wishing...
"Hey! Why are you alone?" a colt voice asked.
I looked at the sound of the voice, a small brown colt was sitting beside me.
"I'm just waiting for some pony." I lied.
"Well, you look like you would enjoy some company until that some pony arrives." the colt responded, "What's your name?"
"Angel Song..."
"That's a beautiful name you have."
"Thank you, my father gave it to me. He thought that I was his little angel and thought that my special talent would involve music."
"That's sweet."
I didn't tell the colt the story behind my father. He named me Angel Song, he was the only pony in my life that loved me. When his health declined when I turned four, he and I couldn't do many of our normal activities together. He died only after four months of being sick, and my mom thinks that it was all my fault that he was dead.
"Are you okay?" the colt asked.
"Yeah I'm okay. What's your name?" I questioned.
"My name?"
"Yeah, I mean..."
"No, no it's okay. My name is Drawn Heart."
"That's a nice name."
"Thanks, my mom chose it for me."
There was a long silence, Drawn Heart just looked at me, wanting to start a conversation.
"Have you ever played a game before?" Drawn asked.
"Long time ago..."
"Come with me, let me teach you how to play a game again."
"But what about my friend?"
"What friend? I could tell that you were just here alone."
My eyes widened, he saw past my lie! How is that even possible?!
"You coming or what?!" Drawn asked again.
I got up from where I was and followed the colt. I could tell that he had a heart, and he was going to share it with me. Him and I played catch together, which was great. I smiled the entire time we played our game. That was the first time I had smiled in years.
***
"Get to bed Angel! You're better off in there so I don't end up having to kill you." my mom snapped holding up her hoof to my face.
I galloped off into my room, not even hesitating to leave; slamming the door closed and the tears streaming down my face.
"Angel! Angel Song!" a familiar colt voice called out to me.
Wiping the tears away from my face I went to my window. There on the opposite side was Drawn Heart; I opened my window a little more than it was.
"Hey Drawn! I didn't know you lived next door." I responded, "Did you know that I was here?"
"Just so happened that I did know that." Drawn answered.
"Oh. How come I have never seen you before today?"
"I never left my home basically."
"Oh..."
"Did you have fun this afternoon?" Drawn asked after a lull.
"I did, that was the first time-"
The door to my bedroom slammed open, revealing my mom. My heart and body froze in place, my eyes fixed onto her.
"I thought that I told you to go to bed!" my mom snapped, "What are you doing with your window opened like that?!"
I looked over at Drawn Heart; he looked just as scared as I was. Through my eyes, I was trying to plead to him, "Help me..."
My mom took her hoof and yanked my head to hers.
"Is that what you are doing?! Talking to that little colt! How many times do I have to tell you to not talk to strange ponies?! Even our neighbors!" my mom snapped.
I couldn't respond to what she was yelling at me.
"I'm not afraid of you anymore!" I snapped.
"Alright! That's it! You have ruined my life just enough!" my mom yelled holding up a gun she pulled out from behind her.
Flipping it around, she had the end up. She yanked me to the corner of my room and she began to hit me on the sides, my head, and every place that she could get to. I tried to scream and get away, but my body wouldn't let me.
I could feel myself getting weaker and weaker as the beatings kept coming. Soon I heard sirens coming to the house. My mom stopped beating me, she threw the bloody gun to the side as the officers that were outside entered my room. They saw me, covered in a pool of blood, and speckles of it on her.
"Is there a problem officer?" my mom asked still a little drunk on cider.
"You are under arrest for domestic abuse!" one of the officer ponies announced.
A paramedic came running into the room and went to the floor where I was.
"You are going to be alright dear, stay calm. Stay with me!" the paramedic told me.
My eyes started to get heavy, like I was dying.
"We better get her to the hospital!" the paramedic ordered to the other ponies surrounding me.
***
My eyes started to open slightly, I could make out a fuzzy brown colt, with his face at mine. Tears flowing down his face; I took my hoof and touched his hoof that was sitting nearby. He jumped up, seeing me awake. It was Drawn Heart; he stared at me. He quickly wrapped his hooves around me.
"I thought I lost you!" Drawn cried.
"I don't want to die. Not without you." I responded.
"You don't have to.. If you die, you'll die here with me by your side. No matter what."
"Drawn, you are the only friend I have. When I met you yesterday afternoon, and you made me smile. I have to say that, the last time that I ever smiled, was when I was four."
"What are you saying Angel?"
"This is the first, and the last, time that we will ever meet."
"Why do you say that?"
I couldn't respond, the pain from being beaten started to disappear. The cold air from my room started to get warm and comforting.
"Goodbye Angel, see you in a few."
That was the last thing that I heard from the world, until things went completely dark.
***
Drawn Heart here...
I'm standing at the neighborhood cemetery, staring a the ground. I started thinking about Angel Song; she never mentioned to me anything about her home life. She was scared here in this lifetime, now she's at a better place where she can't be scared. My home...
Staring down at a small grey stone, with an angel pony sitting on top of it; reading, "Angel Hope Song 1995-2002."
Turing around, I walked through one of the ponies standing behind me. Looking up I saw the familiar light grey filly with a long gold mane looking at me.
"What are you doing here Drawn? You're not dead." Angel exclaimed.
"I am... The reason I came to you a couple of days ago, I was alone as well when I was alive. I know everything about you Angel, I know your problem. I lived it. I even knew that you were going to die. I came because I wanted you to be happy when you left the world." I explained.
"You wanted to give me a good time before I was killed?"
"Exactly, I wanted you to be happy. I didn't have that when I died, that was what I wished for, was to be happy before I died. But it was too late for me, so I did it for you."
Angel got close to my face, wrapping her hooves around me. She didn't let me go, and I didn't push her away.
"Thank you." she whispered in my ear.
I wrapped my hooves around her, we stood there, embracing each other for a while.
"Are you my guardian angel?" Angel asked the moment she let me go.
"You can say that; or I could be your spiritual lover." I told her.
She gave me a light kiss on my cheek, I blushed. Looking over Angel's shoulder, I saw a group of young fillies and colts; it was my friends in heaven.
"Angel. Do you want to play catch?" I asked.
