Derpy and Hurpy

One day I saw a poster on my way to school. It was a poster about a missing dog named Susan. There was a picture of the dog and beneath and picture there was some words, “If found, please call Mrs. Ring at xxx-xxxx”

I just scanned through it and quickly forgot about it afterwards. My mind was on something a lot more important, such as how to deal with the pain from the bruise on my side. I couldn’t even concentrate in class because of the pain, so I decided to visit the nurse. The white Pegasus gasped as she saw my wounds.

“Dear Celesta, what happened?”

“I tripped and accidently fell below the clouds and ran into a mountain.”

I lied. Last night when mom came home to take a shower, she found some strange of yellow hair in the bath tub. She got angry and came to beat me. When I was getting hit, I accidently fell over and hit myself on the edge of the table.

“This is disgusting! Do you hate mom? Every I work hard to get money to feed you, and this is what you do?”

The same thing happened before, so I was always careful and decided to never take a shower in mom’s bath tub ever again. The hair wasn’t mine, it was Derpy’s. But she left after she took the shower and went to a friend’s party down in ponyville, and I knew explaining to mom while she is mad will do me no good, so I just kept silent.

“Well, good thing it looked like the bones are fine. But if it kept hurting, I think you should go to a hospital. But Hurpy, did you really fell? Didn’t the same thing happen last week?”

The nurse said as she put bandages around my body. I nodded and left as soon as possible. I thought I need a new reason to convince others.

I had always been hiding the fact that mom was beating me. Because mom told me to not slip a single word, or she would kill me.

“Listen, the reason I hit you is because you are the WORST KID EVER. But you couldn’t tell any pony about it. If I don’t, then I won’t press the button.”

I nodded while tears flow down my cheeks. Mom finally moved her hoof away from the switch of the fruit grinder, and also my hoof that was right there. I quickly took my hoof out of the machine.

Mom was not good at talking to other ponies either. Even though she acted like a devil in front of me, when she was out of the house she was just like me, quiet and depressed-looking. Even though she had to work really hard to feed two fillies by herself, she never talked to others about it. So when she had some trouble with work, she would come home and release her rage on me.

“I gave birth to you, so I can do what I want! I can kill you if I want to!”

Then do it, it might be better. I thought sometimes when she held my hair in her hooves and beat me with her other hoof.

The second day, some pony talked to me at school. It had been three days and six hours since I have chatted with any classmates, and that conversation was like.

“Hurpy, do you have an eraser?” “Sorry, I…”“Dimmit.”

“Hurpy, you are not really Derpy’s twin, right? You girls look so different.”

A filly said to me while we were cleaning the room. Every other filly laughed. I was prepared for her words, so I didn’t react much. But for some reason, the laugh made me feel uneasy.

“Come on, that’s mean.” A blue Pegasus with rainbow mane and tail said.

“Oh sorry, I didn’t mean it.”

“Yeah, it’s fine.” I replied. Maybe because I haven’t talked in so long, I couldn’t even hear my own voice. When can every pony leave so I could be alone? I thought as I cleaned the window with a piece of cloth. Even though every pony takes turns cleaning the classroom, it was always me who was actually working.

“Oh Hurpy, you went to the nurse right? You got another bruise? We know it, we saw you changing in the bathroom. I told them but they don’t believe me. Come on, take off your cloths, we want to see.”

I stood there silently, not sure what to do. Luckily, the teacher came back. The students went back to their business, pretending to be cleaning. I felt relieved.

On my way home, I decided to flew down and sit near the forest. I sat down on a rock. For some reason I felt really sad and angry. I felt like I was tricked like a fool again. How can I every talk to others like Derpy?

After a long time I finally realized that there was a puppy right next to my hooves. She had a collar around her neck. At first I thought the owner was somewhere else in the park, but soon I realized that it’s not the case. I was alone. The puppy smelt my shoes, so I sat up and rubbed its back. She wasn’t scared, and she licked my hooves gently. I suddenly realized she looked awfully like the dog on the poster. Could this be Susan? I picked her up and walked towards the address on the poster.

Eventually I reached the house. The sun was setting and the front yard was all golden and beautiful. I knocked on the door gently and after a while, an old earth pony walked out.

“Susan!” Her eyes shine with surprise and joy. She hugged the puppy tightly in her hooves. This must be Mrs. Ring.

“Thank you so much, I had been really worried. If you don’t mind, please come in and take a seat.”

I nodded and I trotted inside. I had a dirty thought inside of me. I wanted something in return, doesn’t matter if it’s money or food. I was always hungry, so I would take anything.

I sat down on a chair in the living room.

“So what’s your name?”

“My name is… is Hurpy…”

“Ah nice to meet you Hurpy, I am Ring. Wow, I put up the poster just yesterday. I didn’t except her to return so soon, hehe.”

She rubbed Susan’s cheeks and walked out of the room. It looked like she was living alone.

Ring came back with some coffee and a plate of sweets. Susan was following her. She put the plate down in front of me and sat down in the opposite chair. She wanted to know how I found her. Even though it was in fact quite boring, she kept smiling as I told her about it.

I tossed ALL of the sugar into the coffee and drank it in one breathe. I finished the treat in two bites as well. They were delicious. I had not tasted anything sweet for a long time.

Ring poured another cup of coffee for me, and she smiled as she told me to enjoy this one slowly.

“Actually, would you like to have dinner here with me?”

Of course I would, I wanted to say. But my brain told me to be not act so rude in front of some pony who you have just met.

“Oh sorry, I haven’t prepared for a good dinner since I’ve been worrying about Susan this entire day.” Ring hugged Susan tight with love. I was so jealous, Susan must be so happy right now!

“I must give you something in return. Hold on, I will be right back.”

Ring put Susan down and stood up. She walked out of the room.

What would she give me? My heart was pumping like never before. If it’s food or something edible, I would finish it on my way home. But if it was some object, then it would be taken away by mom as soon as she sees it.

Susan sat around and smelt me. I didn’t take a shower yesterday, so I must smell terrible right now. I looked around in the room. There was a TV and a radio, both of them looked brand new. Maybe Ring wasn’t used to the new technology and stuff.

There was a HUGE book shelf filled with all kinds of books. It was so big that it covered an entire wall. I was staring at the book shelves when Ring returned. She looked a little sorry, “I am really sorry. At first I wanted to give you my most previous thing, but I am so old and you know how old ponies have bad memories. I forgot where I put it. Please, come back some other day. I will try to find it as soon as possible.”

I thanked her and promised to come back, then I left Ring’s house and flew up into the air towards my own.