The Rocking Horses of Ponyville

While Mel was having fun with the others, Ketamina was lost in thought.

"Oooh, did you finally get your cutie mark!? Cocaine? And a rolled-up dollar!? how much of a failure do you have to be to have that as your cutie mark!?" Sugar Plum shouted at Keta. Sugar Plum was one of Ketamina's bullies and was as pleasant as spoiled milk.

"yeah, does your mommy not love you enough to not care what you're destined to do for the rest of your pathetic life?" Sugar Plum's best friend Sea Wing said, tauntingly.

The memories changed like scenes in a movie.

Ketamina was hiding, leaning against her bedroom door. A set of heavy hooves pounded on the other side of the door.

"let me in Crack Baby, I just wanna play house..." Whiskey Twist slurred loudly. Tears streamed down Ketamina's face as she held the door. She felt the door beginning to give so she hid under her bed.

"Mummy, save me..." Ketamina whimpered softly as her drunken older brother came into the room.

"Ketaminaaaaa...." Whiskey called out, his hoofsteps echoing throughout the empty and dirty room. "come on out, I'll give you some cupcakes..."

Again.

"Don't bother me now Ketamina, mummy is busy..." Sugar Cakes slurred at her daughter as she lay in her bed, surrounded by pill bottles.

"but mummy, Whiskey tried to hurt me again..." Ketamina whined, digging into the disgusting carpet with her hoof. Sugar Cakes sat up and got in her daughter's face.

"I DON'T GIVE A FUCK! YOU SHOULDN'T LET HIM ON IF YOU DON'T WANT THAT TO HAPPEN!! THIS IS WHY YOUR DAD LEFT YOU DISGUSTING SLUT!! TAKE SOME OF THIS AND GET OUT OF MY FACE!!" Sugar Cakes screamed, throwing a bag of cocaine at her daughter and slamming the door in her face. Ketamina found herself lining up the cocaine and rolling up a dollar before she was interrupted by her older brother, Cherry Roulette.

"Can I borrow that dollar, Keta?" he asked, his tie loose and unflattering.

"no, go away." ketamina said grumpily, using the dollar to inhale the cocaine with ease. She sneezed and went cross-eyed for a moment before her world went funny. She saw silly shapes in everything she looked at, and she saw her. The gray filly had deep blue hair done in two plaits that hung about her neck. She looked dead at Keta, her eyes piercing right through her...

And again.

"please please please bring her to life!! I want her to be my best friend!! please??" Ketamina begged her Aunt, Three Leaf. Three Leaf sighed, annoyed at her niece.

"fine. imagine your friend as best as you can, and I can try to manifest her into the physical world." Three Leaf said dryly, preparing her magic. Ketamina thought with all her might of the gray mare, squeezing her eyes shut tight. she felt a tap on her shoulder and when she opened her eyes, she was there.