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Just an Average Day
It was just another day of hurrying to class, coffee brown pegasus could be seen flying across the university campus. Everypony knew who it was, Sumatra a pegasus who loved coffee and blended her beans to make new flavors and also was a coffee connoisseur. She finally made it to class and when she sat down a unicorn leaned in and whispered, "Glad you made it cunt." She hated this unicorn, his name was Blueblood; the last time she had interacted with him was unpleasant. It was after a buck-ball game and he had been drinking, still sweaty he had come into the confections stand that she worked after she was closed and all the ponies had gone home except her.
Blueblood had raped her after she had to swallow his semen he decided he needed to urinate; she had finished cleaning her booth and re-mop the floor and smell like urine for several hours. In her school, most stallions either wanted to knock her around or the mare that clung to Fancy Pants, or the mare that Filthy Rich was dating. She was a loner, and it didn't help that her locker was next to a unicorn who was a junior recruit training to one be among the royal guard. This unicorn named Dark Star was always swinging his locker open and in turn, slammed hers shut.........right into the side of her head..........that so happened to be her blind side. As they left the dean of the University An alicorn named Cadence was setting up pairs to be study partners for the entirety of the school year. To Sumatra's horror, she got paired with Dark Star and she heard him right behind her curse. As she was at her locker her timing was terrible Dark Star was there waiting.
"Look pipsqueak, I don't need a half-blind coffee addicted pegasus slowing me down..........so we're gonna fake doing the homework assignments together and we'll meet up once a week to make sure the reports are lining up properly."
Sumatra felt her eyes water up, life wasn't fair. All she could do was nod at that moment. She was at her coffee shop located near the school tavern, she could see Blueblood strolling over with a few friends. The aforementioned group walked in and locked the door. The group of six unicorns began tearing the place apart and, she tried to stop them but B because blue blood pinned her down and she saw her product get dumped on the floor............that product was the equivalent of her rent plus school payments. Now she was gonna be months behind having to acquire new equipment. If things couldn't get worse, they did. Blue blood used his magic to break one of her wings and then hurled her against the wall causing her to land on the broken wing. Several hours passed and she had missed all of her classes for the afternoon cleaning. The bell over the door of her shop tingled and in walked Dark Star, inwardly she moaned why him?
"What the hell happened in here?" She didn't answer but ordered him to leave. She should be stayed home like her sisters and be content with a mundane life but she had to be the one to want a business degree and degree in finance. Once the mess was cleaned, she sat down and realized she was gonna have to make an alternative income. Weighing her options she was going to either sell herself to the students or work for Blueblood, to make her more desperate she realized that her hospital bill once she got there will be expensive.
[Dark Star]
Dark Star swore when he heard he was paired with the pegasus in front of him. When class let out he went to his locker to wait for the pegasus. When she arrived he leaned in and said, "Look pipsqueak, I don't need a half-blind coffee addicted pegasus slowing me down..........so we're gonna fake doing the homework assignments together and we'll meet up once a week to make sure the reports are lining up properly." She nodded in response and he could see her eyes watering and as they went their separate ways he went to Blueblood's coffee shop. The shop was called "Royal Grounds" and across from it nestled cutely between the library and the school tavern the coffee shop owned rented by the pegasus called "Grounded Creations".
Blueblood had left with five of his friends and went across the small patch of green grass called "The Commons". A little whole they came back. Dark Star after finishing his studying went to the shop across the Commons and entered. It was a hell of a mess, " What the Hell happened in here?" He asked Sumatra, she whipped around painfully and ordered:
"Get out!!" As he left he felt like something was wrong, not that he cared about her or anything. Why did he out of all the cute pegasi at this university Sumatra was the only one he didn't get along with? The next day at their lockers, he saw her right wing was in a cast and her ribs were bandaged up. He was going to ask how it happened but he snapped his mouth shut.
[Sumatra]
Sumatra wanted to apologize for how she acted the day before but couldn't bring herself to do it. It's not that Dark Star deserved her hate but he reminded her of a middle school bully; who had in front of everypony, broke her wings and raped her, and he and his friends shot their cum all over her face and body and also took turns fucking her every way possible.
All she could remember that day besides the humiliation was thanking the deities that she couldn't get pregnant. Dark Star's coloring was similar to the bully's but noticeably darker. When class let out again she hung out at the library, it broke her heart that she couldn't do what she loved to do, making coffee.
In her eyes, life sucked like some cheap amateur whore who didn't know what they were doing. She looked up and saw Dark Star in front of her with a couple of cups of coffee from an off-campus coffee shop.
"You wanna talk about yesterday?"
"I know what you're trying to Darky but I can't talk about it right now. So let's talk about the assignment, "Studying your Partner" thing isn't gonna work, it's too personal. So big off and let me study for my history quiz." Dark Star opened his history books up to study for the quiz as well; he stayed there for the sake of appearances. They spent the time studying and glaring daggers at each other.
Struggling
Sumatra trudged to Blueblood's locker dorm and ask him for a job, and the idea made her stomach churn. When she entered, she saw Dark Star and all of the more popular ponies on campus enjoying their drinks. She saw the stallion she needed to talk to taking inventory of his stock. "Blueblood..............I'm here to ask for a job, I need it, I'll do anything you want." Dark Star was observing the interaction.
Blue blood gestured to a black and grey griffin, and in a quick motion careened his mass into the much smaller pegasus. Sumatra tried to roll her small figure to a position when they hit the wall it would be head-on and not against her broken wing. She hit the wall and on her broken wing, she could hear and feel more bones breaking. Whimpering she looked at Dark Star and pleaded silently for help. Blueblood walked up and laughed and ordered the griffin to lay a few good hits. Collapsing Sumatra hit the floor. Dark Star stormed over, "I wouldn't try to stop me Dark if you try id expose your skeleton from the proverbial closet. How bout this, I'll keep your secret if you lay a few good hits."
The griffin picked up Sumatra and hurled her toward Dark Star. Dark used a foreleg to pin her down and the pressure on her neck was unbearable. Gasping for air, or at least trying to and struggling to ease the pressure on her neck. Sumatra looked into Dark's eyes pleading for him not to hit her.
Dark Star had straddled her and had a hoof raised to slam it down. "Come on dude just get it over with. You'll like the sensation it gives." Cheered Blueblood.
One of the more popular mares, Fleur De Les prodded him as well. "Darky, she's just a low-class pegasus she won't matter." Dark slammed his hoof down and he heard a small pathetic whimper below his mass.
Sumatra tries to have a brave face but it was so hard to do so. Dark at that moment saw the face of a demon of his past. In a rage, he pummeled several more blows and Sumatra was silent. Standing up, the grey puddle mass tried to stand but the griffin kicked her in the ribs, Blueblood levitated her and shoved her through the door. He raised her off the ground and hurled her to the cobblestone path leading to the commons. She hit with a loud thud and she heard bones breaking.
She stood and limped back to her apartment. That night she cried herself to sleep. The one pony she hoped would defend her inflicted more pain than Blueblood and that griffin. She woke the next morning and dialed the emergency room, she found that through the night she had been coughing up blood, and a lot of it.
[Hospital]
Sumatra stared at the X-rays, five, broken ribs, wing structure was almost destroyed, a broken leg and hair-line fracture in her right foreleg. Her hospital bill was stacking up and she was so deep in debt she'd figured she was gonna have to drop out of school to just get a job and try to survive. To make her day worse she had a minor concussion. She called her dean, the Dean Cadence, and told her the news. Every cough almost killed her because it hurt so much, she spent most of her day whimpering in pain as she tried to get comfortable.
Go figure, no visitors not even her family. Her family grew coffee for Filthy Rich to sell, and she discovered that she had a natural skill and blending coffee beam flavors and just dealing with coffee. On her last day when she was finally released, she found that somepony paid her debt. Inquiring who had the pony had legally made it so that she will never learn who had. However, trudging back to campus she saw Filthy Rich driving further down the block. It clicked and she felt grateful.
[Dropping out]
"Ms. Cadence ma'am, I need to drop out. I'm acquiring bills and I need to work full time. You heard already I'm sure you've heard, but I'm unable to stay awake in classes and my grades are shitty and ever since I showed up here I spend more time with the nurses and doctors than studying. So I'll manage to get my stuff out of my locker and I'll be gone."
"Before you go, who trashed your cute shop? I loved being there."
Sumatra gulped in the air as she was about to sign her life away. "It was Blueblood and his cronies. I'm competition for them they've won, I can't get new equipment, I can't...........I can't afford it."
Sumatra broke down and cried. "I know where I can get some second equipment for you to help you get back up again. Sumatra leaped up and hugged Cadence, her life is beginning to turn itself around. Cadence covered her school bills and placed Blueblood in a very strict regimen of study and a tracking anklet.
[Grounded Creations]
Sumatra was back in business again, her second-hand equipment was pretty decent in its condition, and " Like New" functionality was purring nicely. Her first customer of the morning was Dark Star, he placed an order and waited. He had asked for a chai tea latte and of course iced. When she handed the beverage to him be paid and walked out...............stingy bastard he didn't even tip! What manners, she had seen him tip plenty at "Royal Grounds" loads of times. When her classes were about to start she locked her 80 bits in earnings in a double-locked safe. She trotted to get classes. While she grabbed her books, she heard a squeak she saw her door slam into her face.
"Damn it Dark! Be careful!" Dark Star turned abruptly and she saw Blueblood was with him. On cue, Blueblood pinned her to the lockers and slugged her a couple of times. Crumpling she wished she had died.
Back at her sanctuary, she ground coffee and began brewing, her lunch crowd was filing in, and she felt like Dark and Blueblood were going for round 2 with her sometime soon.
Violated
It was a late evening and Sumatra with her hoof pushed the door and it swung open, she hadn't even turned the key yet; she could've sworn she locked it. She closed the door and flicked on a lamp by the door. Walking further cautiously she flicked on the overhead, the sight that met her made her squeak in fear. Blueblood sat on her sofa with his griffin friend she had learned was named Hornbill. And to her shock a blast of magic sent her crashing to the floor, turning her head she saw Dark Star.
"Dark Star, please don't do this?" She pleaded. He just shrugged.
"My dear little filly, he won't stop me cuz I know about his past and it would withdraw his application to the royal guard. Dark pin her down!" Blueblood ordered.
Dark pinned her with his magic while Hornbill and Blueblood positioned themselves, one at her head and the other at her rump. Her wings flapped furiously ad she tried to get away. Dark was given a dirty look from Hornbill, and he with his magic broke both her wings.
The two rapists started her off easy and just urinated on her. They followed that up by soaking her coat with their cum. They each had brought heavy sticks for clubs and they beat her until all they heard were her whimpers of pain and her writhing from shock. Once they got bored they shoved their cocks into their respective holes.
While Hornbill fucked her ass as hard as he could and he occasionally would utter things like, "How do you like it bitch?" and other degrading comments.
Blueblood enjoyed fucking her face and shooting his hot cum down her throat. Sumatra could feel Hornbill's seed fill her abdomen and all the while the most pleasant thing in her mind was that she couldn't get pregnant because of genetic reasons. Once they were done Blueblood pinned her down with his magic and ordered Dark Star to take a shot at her. To her, horror Dark complied and took her missionary style followed by forcing her mouth onto his cock and ramming her head back and forth, and sending more cum into her mouth forcing her to swallow it. Then he held his cock in her mouth until she passed out from not being able to breathe. When she woke up, Dark gave one of her wings a sharp tug causing her to scream in pain which resulted in a stick crushing her ribs. When her attackers were gone Sumatra just slept where she lay and crying the whole night.
[Dark's self-hate]
Dark went home and looked in the mirror, what had he just done? He was now a partner in an assault and battery case and on top of that rape. He pulled from under his bed a bottle of beer, he hadn't the stuff since high school but here is needing it again. Dark had heard that another pony was accused and charged with Sumatra's rape. He saw her a few weeks later in the library, and they were studying together and not much was said. When they did make eye contact her eyes didn't sparkle and shine as they used to, they were dull and lifeless. That night back in his house on campus he slugged another bottle of strong beer, he pulled from a nightstand a framed photo of him and a mare similar to Sumatra and he felt sick.
[Humiliation]
Sumatra was in the hallway and Hornbill was there, he slammed her down and backed up, "Fight me bitch, if you don't I'll have fun with you where you lay." She stood up, unable to use her wings her fighting was very poor, having to balance on her back legs and jab with her hooves or forced to lay on her back and kick with her back legs. She also tried to headbutt Hornbill. Hornbill had her pinned and looking over Dark Star saw in her eyes that she was pleading for him to save her.
Dark Star would've intervened but Blueblood walked up and mouthed, "Dark if you try to stop him your secret is gonna be out."
Dark Star just smirked as Hornbill pissed on Sumatra as he drove a letter opener into her abdomen slower than was necessary causing so much pain as he slowly twisted it around. Blueblood them used his magic to slowly burn Sumatra and as she screamed many of the ponies cheered the bullies on. Dark's voice was among them.
That night Dark cursed himself, why couldn't he protect the small pegasus? He knew that one day he was gonna have to come clean but he was afraid to do so.
[Sumatra]
"Why doesn't Dark Star protect me?" Thought Sumatra to herself. I can't keep fighting them all, it'll kill me. Out of the times, she could take her bullies out she clam up be silent. Behind her counter serving customers, Blueblood walked in and mouthed that he had a special gift waiting for her and he walked out. She knew from his body language that she was gonna be raped again.
Gang Raped
Of course, it had to be raining, Sumatra trudged home in the rain, it was cold and the thunder felt like the earth, flashing brilliantly the lightning lit up the night. Sumatra felt like she wasn't alone that night on the streets when they were clearly empty. At one point she glanced back pensively and could've sworn she saw Blueblood behind her a few feet back. All she could think about was him mouthing, "I got a special gift for you"; that was two days ago and nothing had happened yet.
She was now a block away when something slammed into her sending her sliding into an alley. When she stood she saw Hornbill looking over her ad several other griffins had enclosed her. She could smell beer on their breath and she knew what was coming, if they'd been drinking then they'd need to relieve themselves soon depending how much beer they consumed. Hornbill grabbed her mane and brought his cock and shoved it in her mouth. She tasted the acidic bitterness of his urine flowing down her throat, "Swallow it whore!" He ordered, she began to swallow it and it burned all the way down. She was forced to swallow the urine of twelve griffins who then left her in the mud soaked in rain and urine and feeling sick from the piss she just swallowed. She quickened her pace, a car sped by and the ponies inside shouted profanities at her.
"Looking Hot tonight bitch wanna fuck?"
"You must be a good slut, wanna swallow my cum!"
"Bitch! Get over here and suck my dick!"
Sumatra tried to ignore their vulgar and crass comments as they drove along beside her. She was now just the length of five stores from her apartment she ran as fast as she could. The car had stopped and she felt herself pulled into the alley by her apartment, she screamed and realized that the windows in the whole block were sound proof..........that's what she gets for being able to afford an apartment in the "Red Light" district. She quickly stood up and looked around her, Blueblood sat smoking a cigarette and Dark Star held a video camera under a door awning. She spun rapidly around and Saw Hornbill and his cronies and the alley had new arrivals, all unicorns and pegasi. "Dark, begin recording." Dark nodded.
Blueblood did her first, he had shoved his large cock in every hole possible and even managed to shoot his seed into her ears and nose. Once he was done he pissed on her mane. Hornbill went next, for fun he used his beak to punch holes into her ears and drove tent pegs into them so she'd stay put. She was soaked with rain, urine, and semen; she felt so violated that she'd actually felt like begging for death. Blueblood went for a round two and by the time he finished Sumatra found herself saying the unthinkable.
"Yes Blueblood, fill me with your cum, make me you little whore, take me whenever you want." Having her say that made Blueblood excited but once she had said he didn't want her anymore so he drew a switchblade and pinned her to the wall and began stabbing her repeatedly.
Dark Star had by this time quit recording, he felt more guilt and shame than before. He just saw thirty males rape a single pegasus are who was half their size resort to telling her antagonist to rape her whenever he felt like and was being stabbed to death.
"Dark Star! Record this moment!" Dark Star sat silently and brought the camera up, he saw Sumatra crumple to the ground bleeding out. He laid the camera down and he felt sick now, bleeding out, Sumatra was again raped by three unicorn stallions. Horn lighting up Dark Star sent a blast of magic killing the unicorn who had his cock in Sumatra's mouth. Next he aimed for the one at her rump then the who had shoved his shaft into her pussy. The whole gang fled as Dark used what combat training he had.
Dark teleported her to the emergency room and he held the camera in his hooves.looking up he saw the most successful team in Equestria. Knuckles glared daggers at him his partner Sparks was talking to Shining Armor and Cadence. He had told them everything, even about his highschool fling with pegasus minor named Frappé, who had dumped when she got pregnant. He later learned or was told that she and the filly had died a few blocks from where he lived. Sumatra was just reminder of were he failed.
[Sparks]
Dark Star was in Sparks office being questioned, he retold everything but at some point Lenova screeched, "How could you even sit there when a mare is begging for you to save her from being raped! As a potential pony for the royal guards you should've fought to protect her, not participate! I oughtta put a bullet in your dick you sick cunt!"
"Lenova, please calm yourself." Snapped Knuckles.
"I know my chances at the royal guard are screwed up. Can I step outside for some air?"
"Sure you can, don't try to run because I'll be sending Makita after you and you'll never be able to hide."
Dark went outside and made his way to the fire escape. He climbed up three flights of steps and was on the roof. He breathed deeply, he thought back to Frappé and how he treated her, he also thought about Sumatra and he helped Blueblood rape and mail her small pathetic figure for months.
As he was about to jump he heard heavy breathing behind him. Looking back he saw Sumtara and a cream colored pegasus mare who looked about thirteen and those side by side reminded him of Frappé. "Dark Star, I know you're about to jump by hear me out. Frappé had died, but not before she gave birth, this is Latté...........your daughter. I found her with some help and she had a few words for you."
"You fucking failed as a dad! Right now I shouldn't be caring that you jump. But I'm willing to give you a chance, yeah you missed thirteen years of my life, but there are so many more left in me.................when the day comes I want my dad to walk me down the aisle on my wedding day. My dad is the one I want to dance that father daughter dance then too, teach me how to drive a car when I turn sixteen. Most importantly I need you in my life to protect and guide me."
"I didn't even protect your mother, or Sumatra; I'm not fit to let live!" Dark leapt off the roof top and Sumatra bolted after him
Running and using her wings caused excruciating pain but she pushed through it. Latté screamed in anguish. Dark felt a soft velvet cost land on top of him and roll itself under him. Suddenly he was crashing through a large top story window. Recovering, he saw Sumatra looking panicked as she kept falling. Looking into her eyes he saw that same look he ignored for months, teleporting under he put a protective barrier under and as he hit the pavement he felt his spine snap and as blacked out he saw Sumatra land on top of him roll over with a enough force to break one of her wings.
Latté called the hospital, Sparks and Knuckles asked Latté how she knew Dark Star ad she told him with some pride because she had been keeping up with the news and the trial. Latté had been able to see that he was changing, "My dad I know doesn't deserve a second chance but still deserves a prison, but Blueblood blackmailed him, can you help me ask for a lighter sentence for him?"
Sparks nudged Knuckles because he was dating a princess himself, "I can as Princess Luna for you, but I don't know what she'll say."
Sparks awoke in the hospital with a cute nurse with a pink mane yelling at her subordinate, "Why the hell did you let Sumatra sign herself out! I told you to keep her here! This is the last time you'll disobey my direct orders, pack your gear and get out! You have thirty minutes!"
The nurse turned toward him and he slid under the sheet further. "Glad you're awake a pony is here to see you." The nurse said sweetly. "Come in now Latté!"
His daughter walked in sat by his bed and cried, "I thought I was gonna lose you today............I know you're carrying a lot of guilt, mom told you'd do something like that...........she had you nailed............granted she didn't tell me by word of mouth but a letter she left me when she passed away when I was six. Most teens my age I know wouldn't be wanting to give their dad's a second chance after they did why you did. I guess I'm a lot like mom.............and I've got your consciousness as well............." She stopped and glared down at him, "Don't die on me until I'm sixty years old..............got it!" He couldn't resist a smirk she was so much like Frappé it saddened him and yet cracked him up. A coughing sound caught their ear turning they saw his room mate was awake.
"Why that night did you stop Blueblood?"
"I couldn't take anymore, besides you reminded me of Frappé and I felt like I was just watching Frappé the only girl I loved being killed and my guilt and shame finally pushed me to try to change. I wouldn't blame you if you hate gutts."
"Dark, look, you've screwed really bad but I asked Cadence to hold you back a year and so we can graduate together. I see a good stallion heart in you, but now, with your skeleton out of the closet no pony else will be able to blackmail you ever again."
"I deserve you to hate me why save my ass when I jumped is what I don't get?"
"Because you're a father, and any life is worth saving."
All Dark could do for the weeks that followed wondered how he had managed to have to mares who would give him a second chance after the shit he's done.
Clean Slate
Dark Star stood at his locker, Sumatra was trotting up, she sure was cute. Why did he ever hurt her? He gently swung his locker open and began to sob, she had managed to get him free of jail or prison time and made him be a victim as well, besides his one might fling was all caused by Blueblood from the very beginning. She popped her head around how door and beamed a huge smirk, then she realized his tears.
"Dark............... I just want you to know I forgive you............ I know how you feel about my sister............... Frappé always said that you'd come back for her, in a way you did. You're here now for Latté, she needs you...........and there's a skateboard competition and it requires your signature. She's amazing and you should watch her at the park this afternoon." Dark just nodded.
[The Park]
Dark and Sumatra watched Latté practice she was exceptionally good, her best trick was a quadruple flat-spin from thirty feet up cork-screwing down to five consecutive flat spins before doing a reverse grind on a grind bar. The other ponies at the park were rivals
"Hey, Latté you should just quit there is no way in hell you'll win."
"You should just follow your mom's hoof steps and go get laid!" Several crass remarks were thrown at her. A unicorn colt levitated her skateboard and smacked her in the ribs and then smashed on the concrete and rolled away. Latté cried her heart out, it had been her mother's and it was trashed.
Dark was able to use his magic to repair the board back to brand new condition. "I'll sign your waiver forms today and you'll knock em dead this weekend.
[Competition]
The competition was starting and Dark and Sumatra sat drinking coffee (her own blend) and watched the ponies compete. They all were very good and stiff competition for Latté. After several rounds, it was down to Latté and her arch-nemesis "Grease". He did every trick he could do and was ahead by six hundred points. Latté felt her eyes water, there was no way she'd win. Then a voice rang out above the crowd.
"You got this! Knock him dead!" Her dad did keep his promise, she just now realized he had been the loudest fan cheering for her. She gave it her all and more, being a pegasus showed off her amazing skills. Off the first ramp, she used her wings to land on an edge of an apartment building and performed her finisher in reverse and she pulled ahead by a thousand just for the flawless execution of her tricks. She won first place and Dark bolted to her and presented her with a bouquet of Roses and Carnations.
Leaning on he whispered, "These were your mom's favorite flowers." She hugged him till he couldn't breathe, he took the two pegasi mares to a fine restaurant to celebrate the amazing win. Latté knew that her father truly had changed, and she and Sumatra had asked Shining Armor about letting Dark Star join him in working with Sparks and Knuckles.
[New assignment]
Dark sat once again in Sparks office and he was being told that if he screwed up working for Sparks his life was gonna be over. That cute nurse with the pink mane was there he noticed and she seemed too familiar with Knuckles to be appropriate. Then he learned that they are married, and Knuckles had a herd of wives going for him; granted it was legal. Three nurses and dating royalty? What's next? A chieftain's daughter and perhaps those super hot sisters of Spitfire's was Greenfield had hot Cyborg mare, and Flytrap had Lenova.............then there was Hazel was cute but Sparks told him to leave her alone and that she was too good for him. What he meant he never knew until the office played a trivia game and Hazel swept the floor with him...........she had to be a genius or something? It felt like her mind was ten steps ahead of anypony.
He could tell it drove some ponies crazy when she was able to tell where they had been in the city from the scent coming off their garments. Spark, Knuckles, and the rest were very smart but Hazel took it to a whole new level...........she also played several instruments and was multilingual. And very efficient with her time.
It infuriated him that she could show up fifteen minutes late and not get reprimanded at all while he did. Hazel was not field trained but Sparks was sending her on a job in a bad part of town and she didn't have a gun.
Dark's New Job & Sumatra's New Coffee Shop
[Sumatra]
Sumatra had gotten a new coffee shop after she and dark finally graduated from college. It sat half a block from a detective agency and her most frequent customer was a grey unicorn named Hazel, she was cute but odd. Always mumbling about trying to figure out a genetic problem, or so she had for the last few days. Dark Star would pop in, and so would a dark-colored bat pony named Knuckles. The pony who scared her the most was a cream-colored mare with a mane the color scheme of Bon Bon's but styles like Twilight Sparkle's mane. She could be smooth like silk but if you cross her she'd use the language of an uncouth sailor. She was a bitch to everypony. Sumatra and Dark started the process of buying a nice modest house and Latté was moving in with the pair. Latté's school grades were soaring and she'd win the school trivia matches. Sumatra was happy and she could see Dark Star briskly walking up the sidewalk.
[Dark Star]
"I can't stand that mare anymore! She shows up late every fucking morning and she gets away with it! I show up late I get yelled at! What the fucking hell am I missing!"
"Dark Star, calm down and tell me what's wrong?"
"It's Hazel..........again, she almost got killed and the boss went and bought her a gun. She almost screwed an operation up, and I'm expected to go see her. I swear I'm going crazy and to top it all off she just swept the floor with my ass in an office match of trivia. I'd love to see her be beaten by Twilight Sparkle or something."
"Well, there is a trivia match going down in my shop tonight. Twilight is gonna be here, so is Starlight Glimmer, Sunburst, Knuckles and his herd, Sunset Shimmer, and all of the most brilliant minds are here. Why not bring her down here and see how she holds up. Surely no pony is as smart as you say."
"Does an undergraduate in genetics mean anything to you? How about a BA degree in the fields of science and medicine or how about being only seventeen and graduated from the best school in Canterlot? She also somehow managed to set up a whole security system in the office and complete twelve super sudoku puzzles in an hour. When I left she had balanced four pencils and five fidget spinners on her horn and kept them balanced while spinning circles in an office chair spinning circles."
"Sounds rough. Look at it this way, at least she's nice compared to that Butterscotch Brulé. Brulé comes in and demands her order and doesn't even leave a tip! Who does that? Hazel on the other hoof, I know struggles financially but she tips well.
[Trivia]
The trivia match began, Sumatra saw the ponies show up. Hazel felt awkward for being there. It was tough but she shone like a star, her brilliant mind matched Twilight's, Starlight, Sunset's, and Sunburst's when it came to magic history. When it got to the music segment two ponies were sipping their drinks chuckling, because they had picked obscure songs, and artists, for the questions. These two were Octavia and Vinyl and were surprised at how fast teams fell behind.
Starlight and Sunburst
Twilight and Sunset
Sumatra and Dark Star
Hazel and Sparks..........
Several other teams were present Hazel and Sparks led by a good portion. Sumatra and Dark tried their best but kept a consistent five points back behind Twilight, Sunset, and Starlight and their respect of teams. The match ended around 1 A.M. that morning as ponies left Dark was blown away at how much Hazel knew! With everypony gone, Dark and Sumatra shared some coffee, and Latté joined them.
[Sumatra]
Sumatra woke up and began making breakfast, her small household consisting of herself, Dark Star, and Latté were enjoying breakfast when Latté spoke up, "Got a foal sitting gig tonight, I'm babysitting for Knuckles. He's got a ton of kids, let's see if I remember all of the names.
Staccato
Vivacé
Strawberry
Cupcake
Hibiscus
Alamadine
Snare
Lily Shade
Demeter
Coeus
Tethys
Cherry Blossom
Evening Joy &
Night-Glider
Cherry Blossom will be easy or so they say, I'm to make sure they get their homework done and have them in bed by 9 P.M. or the latest at 9:15 P.M. and no later.
"You'll do fine. Your father and I will be looking at another set of houses today, hopefully, we find the right house."
Like clockwork Butterscotch, Brulé showed up and she was the most ruse she'd ever been. I almost threw her out, once she left, sweet Hazel strolled in with her shades balanced on her head and a wireless earbud in one ear and head bobbing to music.........I saw the song title and knew she got hooked on music composed by Vinyl & Octavia. Hazel also had developed tastes for jazz and listened to Beauty Brass some too. As she left Dark watched her leave. He commented on how she was almost as random as that party-pony Pinkie Pie. I laughed, no pony can be as random as that mare! I watched him leave for work and that was usually when the day began. The news was flying that Clyde and his crew were locked in prison for various crimes and that Blueblood had been gang-raped by the inmates he was locked up with. That afternoon Latté stopped by to grab a few board games that her evening would love:
Chutes and Ladders
Checkers
Candy Land
Catch Phrase
Clue &
Life
Latté was covered, she hugged her honorary daughter good-bye and she was surprised to have Latté not pull away, most teens don't like being hugged.
I shrugged, maybe her having her dad back had softened her up since I met her? The day was very busy like any other when Dark and I left I closed up shop and we looked at houses and we found the perfect one, on one side we had an elderly couple for neighbors and on the other side we somehow ended up next to a massive mansion, who would've guessed that Knuckles was gonna be our neighbor?
Babysitting
Latté arrived at the home of her fist foal-sitting gig. She was nervous as Sweetie Belle opened the door and was shown in. She officially met all of the kids and didn't know why exactly why she was there? Staccato was old enough to take care of her siblings she had figured but in two minutes she figured out why Staccato wanted her so badly.
"Lily Shade you had better apologize to Demeter!"
"That bug just ruined my art piece for class Celestia-damn her! My grade for the year hung on that project!" Latté gulped, now she was gonna have to prove herself.
"Staccato, Lily Shade what is going on? I could hear you from almost across the house!" When she got the whole story she latched onto Lily who was in the wrong by reaction not by deed.
"Lily............look, Demeter said it was an accident she had no reason to wreck your artwork. Besides darling, it shouldn't be so close to the door-way. Now apologize for yelling at her and calling her a bug..............and for asking for Celestia to damn her.................I'm not gonna ask again." All she got from Lily was spat on and Demeter got kicked in the ribs. Lily then went outside.
Latté followed her and bit down on her ear and dragged her back in and up the stairs to the room labeled 'Lily Shade' and ordered her on the bed.
"Look Lily, this night can be fun or absolute hell. As one of the eldest, you need to be setting an example, now please go and apologize and I'll start you with a clean slate." Lily just sat there and glared.
"Bribing me won't work bitch, we don't need you. If I could I'd sell my changeling sisters, or better yet torch them!" Lily was appalled deep down, glancing over her shoulder Knuckles watched still.
"Do you realize that there are foals who'd give their most prized possession to have a sibling to make memories of with? You'll be staying up here tonight, I wish I didn't have to but your actions need consequence..........my dad wasn't in the picture till now, and in every foster family I was in I broke the rules and rebelled. I was trouble and a tome bomb before I'd get myself killed somehow. You had a good start, where is this rebellion coming from?" Latté was turning to leave when she caught the scent of something odd. Looking around she saw nothing. She'd look later.
When Knuckles and his wives left the evening was a blast, Latté found Lily had snuck out of the house at some point panicked she called Knuckles then she dialed the only mare she knew, Sumatra. Poking around the room for that odd scent she found a pack of cigarettes that smelled like marijuana.............she should know, she'd had used the drug once and almost OD the substance. When Knuckles arrived with his wives, Latté was pacing the living room. She showed what she had found and cried, her handling of the situation earlier got one of his daughters on the streets. Knuckles was making phone calls while Sweetie, Savannah, and Redheart comforted Latté and told her she had no idea this was gonna happen. Lily had a missing pony report placed and the family searched but never found her until they finally got a lead.