Goodbye is not farewell

After that I patched up Twilights wound on her shoulder. She struggled at first, saying she didn’t need it, that she was alright. But I insisted and she eventually gave up. I at first didn’t want to go out with her anymore, scared of what might happen. But she was so sad when I told her that I couldn’t help but give in so I decided to go out for walks at night or early in the morning so that there were less people around. She was okay with the idea and loved the early morning breeze and late night darkness. It could be so soothing.
Twilight had grown to, she learned more magic and could talk even better now. She could let thing float more easily and she could summon simple things as a glass of water or some hay. I was so proud of her when she summoned her first thing. It was glass that had been on my desk, she focused on it and it disappeared from my desk, only to appear again in her tiny hooves. I loved learning her magic. I couldn’t do it myself, but I used internet for it. It’s still my number one solution.
My mother was still talking on the phone as I went downstairs to grab some juice of my own. She was probably still talking to the same guy she had been talking to these past few months. I didn’t pay any attention to her, because I was busy with my own ‘child’. I loved hanging out with her in my room and having her sleep beside me at night. Sometimes she would sleep in my closet, but only when she wanted to. She mostly wanted to sleep beside me, safe and sound.
My friends had started contacting me again. Well, only Nicky that is. She constantly asked me the same question: ‘What was in that bag the other day? It had been going on for weeks now and it was getting on my nerves. I never answered her until today. I wanted it to be over. Of course I’m not going to tell her what was in the bag, I’m going to ask her a question. This would probably result in a conversation, but I didn’t mind. Twilight was sound asleep next to me as I sat on my bed with my laptop on my lap. I started typing.

‘Why do you want to know that?’

It wasn’t lying, I did want to know why she wanted to know so badly. I waited a while for an answer and it came pretty quickly.

‘Just because…’

What an answer. I sighed. Stupid girl.

‘That’s not an answer. I’m not going to tell if you don’t come up with a better excuse’

I typed quickly, but silently, being sure I didn’t wake Twilight. I got an answer quite quickly again.

‘Alright. I was just wondering. I mean, there was something alive in it, because it yelled when Spike bit it. So I wanted to know what it was’

Now that’s an answer. But… How am going to respond? I can’t just tell her there was a purple unicorn in it that hatched from an egg I found two and a half months ago. I sighed, I could tell that. She wouldn’t believe me though… But trying can’t hurt, I had already ruined my ‘friendship’ with her anyways.

‘There was a purple unicorn in it’

I entered it quickly so that I wouldn’t doubt and say something else. I bit my lip. Was she going to believe me?

‘yeah right. Forget it, you’re not going to tell me anyway. Bye’

I sighed relieved. She was going to stop asking about it. YES! I looked at the sleeping figure beside me. Her breathing was normal as her small belly silently went up and down. I scratched her head softly, if she was a cat she would have purred, but instead she smiled and sighed happily. I smiled widely too, my life couldn’t get any better now, unfortunately, it could only get worse. What would happen if she grows to big? She would get about half my length, that’s for sure. I don’t know what I would do if that happened. But I just have to wait, maybe someone, uh I mean somepony, would come to pick her up? I shrugged it off as I focused on what was happening now, the future didn’t matter right now.

Not yet anyway…

I went downstairs for a moment to get something to eat. I didn’t want Twilight to just summon something from the kitchen, ‘cause that would just scare mom. I heard her talking again, but this time I could hear someone talking to her too. It was a man’s voice. As I quietly neared the door to the living room I heard them almost clearly.

“Do you have any kids, Margo?”

The man asked, using a weird nickname for my mother. I heard my mother giggle. My eyes narrowed. What was she going to say?

“No, or course not. I don’t see them, do you?”

I could hear her laugh confidently. She was lying to him, she was keeping me out of her love life. What had got into her head!? I growled under my breath and doubted my actions. Should I just leave? Or should I barge in and ask her why she lied? No, I should barge in, but I’m going to act like I had not heard their conversation. I opened the door swiftly and walked towards the kitchen. They had probably not heard me as I unconsciously walked very quietly. So when I had grabbed an apple from the basket I walked towards the living room casually.

“Hey mom, who’s that?”

I looked at the man. He sat on my couch. On my place. Not next to my mother, who was sitting on the opposite couch. She looked at me with fear in her face. What did I do? I had destroyed her lie. And probably her chances on a relationship with this guy too. Like I cared about that. I wanted to know who he was and what he was doing here.

My mother gulped for a moment, but the man talked first. “I thought you didn’t have any children?” He had asked. I looked at him, then at my mother. With a confused look on my face I looked around the room. She had removed all of the pictures with me in it and with my dad. I huffed.

“Where are all my pictures?” I asked as innocently as I could. I couldn’t let them suspect I knew about her lie. She looked at me with pain in her eyes.

“I’m sorry Albert” She said. “I just didn’t know how to tell you” She looked at her lap, where her hands lied down silently. I had to hold in my laugh. She was lying, again. I still don’t understand her. It was obvious she wanted to hide the fact that I was here. Didn’t that guy see that?

“It’s okay. Should I go?” He asked politely. I ‘hmm’d in my thoughts. Maybe he wasn’t a bad guy? I just waited for my mother to answer him, but instead she just nodded.

“That would be better” She had said. I groaned silently. Why was she acting so stupid!? She was like a schoolgirl who had her first date! When ‘Albert’ had left she turned to me. Her eyes showed anger and hurt and her face was completely red.

“Why did you barge in!?” She yelled at me. She hadn’t yelled to me in a while. Probably because she was too busy with dating to talk to me. I looked at her annoyed.
“What do you mean? I just wanted to grab something to eat” I said bored. I shifted my eyes to the side and took a bite of the apple, crossing my other arm partly over my chest. My mother groaned. And walked past me.

“That man was Albert Johnson. He is a very nice guy, but he does not like kids. That is why I told him I didn’t have any”

She walked towards the computer, sitting behind it again. I sighed. This would take a long while until she finally realized I was her daughter and that she had to pay attention to me, not only guys.
I walked upstairs, not saying anything to her as I closed my door and locked it. I walked towards my bed. Twilight was lying on it peacefully. She was so cute and lovely like that. Her stomach still went up and down steadily. I loved watching her sleep, it was soothing. I had promised her to take a walk outside tonight, because it had been raining other days, so we couldn’t walk then. Today was a bit cloudy, but still sunny, no raindrop to be seen.

“Twilight”

I woke her up carefully, being sure not to scare her. She slightly opened her eyes and looked at me sleepy. I smiled at her and she smiled back as she sat up slowly. Rubbing her eyes a bit she looked around.

“Have I slept so long?”

I giggled and nodded. “It’s alright, Twi. Do you still want to go for a stroll?” I asked.

Twilight’s face went bright and happy and she nodded excitedly. Suddenly her face fell. I looked at her confused.

“It’s not raining, is it?”

I looked at her kindly. “Of course not, otherwise I would have let you sleep” I said. She smiled, making me smile brightly. It couldn’t get any better.

Outside I held her in my arms. Her head moved just slightly from time to time, but she mostly held still, making people who would see us think she was a doll. I smiled, it was a nice night. Not to cold, not to warm, just perfect. We walked the same route as every other day, past the key shop and just a tiny bit outside of town.
As I let my thoughts wander through my head I thought about my past ‘friends’ again. Nickita wouldn’t contact me anymore. Jane missed me… She really missed me. Maybe I should contact her? I don’t know. I was so caught up in my thoughts that I hadn’t noticed we went a bit too far out of town. I looked around, this was the place I found Twilight as a egg. Maybe I should tell her? Yes, I should do that. I looked down at the purple unicorn in my arms. She was looking everywhere she could.

“Twi?” She looked up at me, wanting me to continue. “Do you want me to tell you how I got you?” I asked her. Twilight looked surprised but smiled nonetheless and nodded.

“Okay, so it was here that I had somehow found you” I told her. I also told her about the meteorite she was in and that had been an egg when I found her. She looked surprised by that, but continued listening.

“I decided to take you home with me and care for you” I said smiling. Twilight also smiled and said something. My eyes had widened when she said that.

“I love you, mama” She had said. My eyes had started to water, surprising Twilight again.

“What’s wrong?” She had asked. I shook my head.

“I love you too” I said as I hugged her tightly to my chest, her head in the crook of my neck. “So much…” Twilight started crying too, she didn’t know how to handle this and tried to hug my neck with her hooves. It hurt slightly, but as I cried with her in my arms, I didn’t pay any attention to it. My life couldn’t have been better. I just hoped that she wouldn’t have to leave.
After that we left there and went back home, both smiling widely. I was finally really happy in my life. I hadn’t been that happy in a long time. I loved the feeling of having a child that loved you. I didn’t want that ever to go away. Though I knew in the back of my mind that some day, she would have to leave,

forever.