Sitting in the corner of the kennel was a live lavender Unicorn: Her coat was covered in dirt and looked like it hadn't been combed in a while including her mane and tail. The light within her eyes was gone as if a part of her soul left her body; how sad it was for him to look at how broken she was, she barely even notice Anon looking at her broken form. The very first thing Anon thought besides the fact that there was an actual real pony sitting inside the kennel was:

"What happened to her..?"

"Crazy, right?"

Anon heard a voice from behind him and instinctively whipped around facing a man in a black suit and blue tie. He wore a button on the right side of his chest resembling the logo for the store, his eyes were chocolate brown and his glasses fit just right as he adjusts them properly.

"I found her like this yesterday." said the owner adjusting his glasses.

"What happened?" He asked looking at the man curiously.

"Come, let's have some tea." He responded without answering your question and pass by Anon leaving all the animals.

Anon looked back at the broken unicorn before letting out a sigh and exit the room. Anon spend his next five minutes talking to the owner while sitting down and having tea with him. Drake Henson, he introduced himself: He began telling anon his side-story on how he found the broken mare sitting sadly in the corner of her kennel. It all started yesterday, all of his employees had just head on home leaving him there all by himself. He was done working on his computer & taking a few calls from other companies and decided to call it a day, before leaving he turned off every light-switch around the store and made sure all the animals, the critters reptiles all of them were well fed. When everything seemed fine to him he exits the building walked towards his car.

On the way, he heard something. something crying? He tried to look for the source but couldn't find it anywhere; he looked to his left saw nothing, looked to his right saw nothing. Looked under his car found nothing! He rolled his body around his eyes focus on the dumpster.

"Coming from there?" He thought while taking slow steps towards it.

As he got closer he took a turn to his left and when his eyes went down his reaction left him in total shock & mute. Laying tiredly on the ground was a sobbing unicorn. As Drake stood there looking at her he noticed a few things: cuts and bruises from her hooves to her back, her coat covered in dirt. Her eyes were puffy due to the many of times she was crying, but it stopped when she felt a presence near her. Drake swore to god as soon as she saw him she ran, but she didn't get far. She tripped on her hooves due to her injuries and that gave him enough time to tackle her.

The lavender unicorn struggled to break free using a bit of her strength to almost hit the man, but it was no use. all of her energy was drained and she was too weak to go on and eventually she passed out. When Drake notices this he let go of the small creature and just stood there spending his next two minutes thinking. Should he call someone? But who would he call? Without knowing what else to do, he pushes his phone back into his pocket then took the unicorn in his arm and carried her towards the pet-store almost without thinking.

"And the next day when I came back to work that's when I found her looking like that."

Anon took another sip of his tea then cleared his throat.

"So, she was still like that before I got here?"

The man nodded answering your question.

"Has anyone else seen her beside me?"

"No," he said. "You're the first one, however, I do hope that you don't speak of this to anyone, for her sake."

Anon nodded to his advice assuringly. He’d given himself a moment to think, about all the information he gotten from Drake. Those bruises, those cuts and all of that dirt. What did she go through that was so awful she ended up like that? where there people hunting her, has she been abused by someone? The way she looked in that room there's a possibility that she was; no wonder the poor thing was so frightened at humans.

"What're you planning to do with her? Anon asked.

"Well to be honest with you kid I really don't know." He replied crossing his arms. "Nothing I do ain't seem to be doing anything for her so I got nothing."

"Would you mind if I take her off your hands?"

Drake turned his head to face Anon his eyes widened and his eyebrows raised shortly, he couldn't tell whether he was joking or being serious or both. He adjusted his glasses once again while clearing his throat.

"Are you sure? I mean you don't have to."

"No, I know I don't have to but I want to take her with me. Besides, she'll probably be a lot safer with me than out here"

He wasn’t wrong. Sometimes in this world, it can be a cruel place to live in and it's hard to trust anyone nowadays: Anyone could have that one friend that could be so dear to them but they'll never know when or where they'll decide to stab you in the back and betray you and once that happens. Who do you think you can trust? Trust your friends, or yourself?

As minutes go by Drake took a long minute to think before making his decision. Once it was made he turned around to face Anon again smiling at him and said.

"Alright, she's all yours."

He smiled back at his response before giving him his hand and shaking it slowly.

"But a bit of advice kid. Never let her out of your sight keep her close."

He’d nodded and took his advice to heart. As the sun sets over the horizon the moon takes it's placed and drove back to the pet store to pick up the lavender unicorn, once anon got there he find her sitting beside drake's right leg facing down. He said his goodbyes to the owner and watched as he got in his car and drove off leaving the them in the dark. Anon let out a collective sigh then looked down at his new unicorn pet. He got down on one knee facing the broken lavender before taking her cheeks into his palms, and that action was enough for her to finally move her eyes off the ground and stared blankly at him.

He gave her the warmest smile and reassured her with kind words.

"Don't worry, everything's going to be okay... I promise."

Author's Note

Thank you all for reading! more will be coming soon, so stay sharp.