THE SPARK
It was a normal day for Dream Caster. she woke up went down stairs and ate breakfast and kissed her mother Fluttershy and her father Somber goodby and went off to school. she liked her parents she talked to her mother when she was going through changes and she would always talk to her father for guy questions. but the one thing she never talked about was love. love was the one thing she could never talk about. and the one thing she wanted more than anything was a stallion to hold her on Hearth Warming day. Some stallion to kiss her under the mistletoe and to sit by the fire with. Dream trotted into school like she did every day. "hello Dream" "how ya doin?" "nice mane Dream i like what you did". "thanks you guys" she would often say back but these were all nothign compared to what she felt when she saw him. the stallion she always wanted and more. his name was Flare Spark. a handsome red stallion with golden hair with streaks of orange and red. he was kind caring nice and best of all he was one of her closest friends. she trotted up to him "h-hey Flare" her voice soft and timid as it always is when she is around him. "hey there Dream! how are you today?" he asked in a voice that was almost to cheery. "i-im fine how are you?" her stomach flutters as she thinks about letting hi mknow her true feelings towards him. "im fine thanks for asking. oh and i have some good ne..." the bell rings and Dream sighs half in relife, half in frustration that she didnt get to hear the good news. "oh sorry gata go to class. see you at lunch ok?" "y-yes at lunch" her stomach flutters at the thought of him telling her that he likes her or some other good news along the sort. Dream sits through many boring classes such as math, science and her favorite gym. she was always at the top of the class in flying speed and running. then she went to lunch were she sat with her friends. "oh my gosh did you hear about what Flare Spark said earlier?" said her friends Flower Dancer. "yes i was very surprised" said her other friend Teal Splash. "w-what did he say?" Dream asked holding back the excitement and hope that she had in her mind. :oh what if he said he likes me and was going to ask me out? what if he really will be my special somepony on Hearths Warming!" she thought to her self. her friend looked at her and said "he said he was going to" the bell rings and once again cuts her off from hearing the news. she couldnt concentrate for the rest of the day. all she could think about was what he might have said.
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when she got home she kissed her mother and father. "how was school?" Fluttershy asked in a soft voice. "it was fine just really boring" Dream replied in her voice that was almost as soft as fluttershys. "did you learn anything?" somber asked as he trotted out of the kitchen and kissed fluttershy on the cheek. upon seeing this Dream got a little bit embarrassed and she blushed slightly. "y-yes i did father. i learned about science and chemical reactions" she said with some excitement. "i find it very intresting" she smiled. "ah science i remember that class. how was music?" Somber asked with much curiosity. "oh r-right music" she quickly tried to think something to say since she was not paying attention in that class. "it was fun we just practiced how to smoothly mix tracks together" she smiled and nodded. "your going to be a great DJ just like your father one day i just no it" Fluttershy said as she nuzzled Sombers cheek softly. Dream blushed and thought back to Flare Spark. "th-thats what i hope to be one day" she said with all honesty. she really did like her fathers job as a DJ and she loved music just as much as her father does. "i hope you do to sweetie" Somber said in a cheery voice as he russtled her mane. "DAD!" she groaned as she fixes her mane. "you know i hate it when you do that. you know i spent 15 minutes getting this the way i want it" Dream said looking at her father is annoyance. Somber laughs and kisses her cheek. "i know thats why i do it". Dream sighs and smiles as she trots into the living room and sits down helping Dream with her language home work. "i never understood how you of all ponies got so good at laguage darling. you were always so shy and could hardly say a sentance without stuttering but now your helping our little filly get all A's. you never fail to amaze me flutters" Somber says as he goes into his music studio and works on his newest remix. fluttershy blushes as Dream groans and giggles. "mom" Dream said in a very annoyed tone. "yes Dream?" Fluttershy says as she looks over the home work. "can you please tell daddy to stop calling me a little filly. im 13 im not little anymore". Fluttershy nuzzles her cheek and kisses her "sweetie you could be 39 and you would still be our little filly". Dream smiles and kisses back "ok fine but can you at least make him stop rustling my mane". "yes i will tell him to stop that". Dream smiles and then goes back to her home work but is unable to concentrate because she still cant stop thinking about Flare Spark. "are you feeling ok sweetie? you seem kind of out of it" Fluttershy asked after a while. "y-yes im fine. im just ready for winter break". Dream says and Fluttershy seems to buy it but deep down she just wants to talk to Flare Spark.
THE CRUSHING TRUTH
Dream woke up to a rather chilly morning. she got up and did her hair and then looked out the window and noticed with extreme joy "SNOW! THERE IS SNOW!" she hopped and jumped around happy as could be. Somber and Fluttershy smiled at each other and waited for there happy little filly to come down. Dream was so excited she hopped down the stairs and tripped on the last 8 steps and was sent rolling down to the bottom. Somber rans over to her and picked her dazed body up "Are you ok?" he asked as he sat back down next to fluttershy on the couch. Dream nodded and rolled over so she was laying stretched across her fathers and mothers laps. "did you guys see the snow?!" she asked a big smile on her face. "yes we have dream" Fluttershy said as she brushed dreams mane and she opened her wings and wrapped Somber and Dream in them holding them for warmth. "i even made and smow sculpture of us all in the snow" Somber said a grin on his face. Dream opened up her wings and fluttered around the room hovering and going in circles. "i wana make an igloo can i can i can i?!?!" Dream pleaded. "yes you may but stay close to the house i dont want you wandering off to far in this cold" Fluttershy said with a worried face. "yay thank you" Dream said as she bolted out the door. "i hope she dosnt get to cold... maybe i should get her coat or...: Somber puts a hoof on fluttershys mouth. "shh flutter darling she is very capable of handling her self out side" he said lowering his hoof. "b-but what if she gets cold or hurt or...mmm" Somber leans in and kisses her lips silencing her.
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Dream rolled around in her igloo and the snow laughing. "i love snow" she stated to know one in particular not knowing that there were ponie sout side waiting to greet her. "BAM!" shouted teal as her snowball hits Dream in the face. "got you good there!" a barrage of snowballs go flying towards a stunned and snow covered Dream. "w-what? AHH!" she yells as the masive amount of 15 or more ponies snowballs hit her in the head side and wings. "he-hey who hit me?" teal shouted as she wipes snow from her mane. "hahaha" laughs a pony as he runs out from behind a bush and dives into the igloo. "wh-what? who?!" shouted on of the ponies from the group. Dream runs into th eigloo to hide from the second barrage of snowballs and to find out who her ally was. "Dream how you doing?" flare said as he rapidly packs more and more snowballs. "F-Flare? w-why are you h-here?" her voice shaky and soft from the cold and the excitement of being in the igloo alone with Flare Spark. "i saw you needed help so i ran over here to help the damsel in distress" flare looks up and smiles at Dream as a snowballs goes flying through the igloo entrance and hits flare in the ear. "now if you could lend a hoof and help me get out of this mess" Dream nods and starts to throw snow balls out of the door using her wings to lob them far and fast. "sorry about the igloo" flare says. "wh-what?" Dream says as she looks at flare stand up and break the roof throwing snowballs out and ducking back in to avoid being hit. "we will get you next time Dream" as the group runs away. Dream smiles and hugs Flare "th-thanks" Flare hugs back and then lets go "no problem". "h-hey Flare...um" dream says quietly making up her mind to tell him how she feels towards him. "Flare?! Flare were did you go?!" says a pony from out side the igloo. "ill be there in a minute!" he yells back. "sorry i gata go. my special somepony is looking for me". Flare hugs Dream then bolts out of the igloo and Dream is left stunned. "s-special s-somepony..." she can hear the two kiss and then silence as they trot away. Dream is left sitting in the igloo alone, covered in snow, crying and broken hearted.
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"Dream please come down for dinner!" Somber yelled up the stairs to her. "ok..." Dream replied in a less than sad tone of voice. Fluttershy trots over to Dream and nuzzles her cheek. "whats wrong sweet heart? you have been acting so sad and strange ever since that snow day" Fluttershy stated in a concerned mothers voice. "its nothing mother". Somber trotted over to the table and sat down pushing some fruit bowls to Fluttershy and Dream. "thanks honey" Fluttershy said with a smile. Dream just poked at her food and then put her head down on the table. Somber and Fluttershy exchanged very worried and nevus glances then ate there fruit. Dream got up from the table and trotted back to her room not even taking one bite from her food. "Somber i think something is wrong with Dream" Fluttershy said tearing up. "hey now darling don't cry." Somber said as he trotted over to Fluttershy and nuzzled her cheek softly. "yea i think so too. normally she would have gobbled that fruit that you prepared in about 10 seconds flat" Somber said with a smile. "thanks honey" she got up and wiped the tear from her eye and hugged him tightly. "i think im going to go and check on her make sure she is alright" Fluttershy said as she went up stairs. Dream laying on her bed cried softly into her pillow her mind and heart still destroyed from the cold realization that she missed out on her chance. "dream darling? A-are you ok" fluttershy said softly knocking on the door softly. "I'm fine mother just tired" dream said doing her best not to sound sad and cheery. "ok well if you need anything just let us know". Fluttershy trotted down stairs and looked at Somber eyes teary. "S-she is lying" fluttershy rushed towards somber and hugged him tightly. "there there dear" somber said in a hushed calming voice "she is a teen it's normal for them to go through these phases". Fluttershy sniffed and nuzzled Sombers neck and into his mane. Dream layed up stairs murmering to herself. "I'm not good enough for him. I'm not good enough for any one. N-no one loves me". Dream burried her face into her pillow and let out a loud cry of frustration and fell asleep. Somber holds fluttershy in his lap brushing her mane. "she will be fine just give her time. We all get confussed some times". Fluttershy curls up in his lap and cries softly. "I know but I'm worried. This just feels like its something more"
Accepting Help
Dream Caster sat in her room and looked out the window. "so much out there in the world... none if it is for me though" she stated sighing as she lays her head down on her pillow and closed her eyes. "I already lost the only thing i wanted". Somber and Fluttershy were out of the house at the market buying some berries and vegetables. Dream looked around and trotted down stairs and sat on the couch. "you shouldn't have been so hopeful..." she teared up as she thought of the way it could have been on hearths warming day but instead she spent it alone. "that stupid mare stealing my stallion!" she screamed and hugged a pillow and sobbed. "Come now flutters lets go home and check on our little darling" Fluttershy nodded and followed Somber as they trotted home. When somber opened the door he saw Dream on the couch sobbing. "DREAM!" he rushed to her side and put a hoof on her back trying to comfort her. "Dream what is wrong?" Dream shrugged off her fathers hoof and continued to cry. Fluttershy trotted over to her side and put a hoof on Sombers shoulder and gave him a look of please leave the room. Somber nodded and trotted into the other room. "Dream darling" Fluttershy said in a quiet calming soothing voice as she put a soft delicate wing on dream. "Dream dear what is wrong?" Dream lurched and hugged her mother tightly not a single word was said but Fluttershy could tell that something had changed in her daughters attitude. "there there Dream, your alright" Dream cried into her mothers wings as they wrapped around her and there softness bringing her comfort. "M... Mother... i-im sorry for how i have been acting lately its just..." she fell silent as she thought and decided weather or not she wanted to tell them. "Dream its ok you can tell me" Fluttershy nuzzles her daughter on the cheek softly and she kissed her. "mother its this stallion at school" she looked down embarrassed. Fluttershy smiled brightly "Dream you have no idea how long i have been waiting to have this conversation with you" Fluttershy sat down with Dream in her lap and one wing wrapped around her back. "wait... you have?" Dream asked confused as to why her mom would want to talk to her of such things. "Yes i have dear. its always a mothers happiest moment when she can talk to her little angle about stallions" Fluttershys wings fluttered slightly at the word stallions and she thought of Somber. "mom? your wings just fluttered?" she asked her mother curious as to why her mother looked so pleased by this word. "oh sorry its just i was thinking of somber..." Dream looked at her mom curiously. "daddy?" "yes daddy" Fluttershy smiled. "now tell me Dream what is it about this stallion that makes you so sad" Dream sighed and cried and laughed and just about everything else as she told her mother what happened that day in the snow. "Oh dear... " she nuzzled Dream softly and hugged her close. "i remember when i was like you" dream hugged her mother back and cried into her mane and smiled knowing that she has such loving parents but still wished she had a stallion to call her own. "i remember when i first met Somber..." Fluttershy remembered back to when she saw the strange zebra unconscious at the edge of the Everfree that one day and how her life had never been the same since she took care and saved his life. "when i first met Somber i felt a strange feeling of being conferrable around him... l-like i could trust him. call him a friend" the yellow pegasi smiled and closed her eyes and her wings fluttered once more. "Somber... he has helped me so much..." dream put a hoof on her mothers chest and looked into Fluttershys eyes. "what do you mean mother?" Fluttershy nuzzled Dreams nose and smiled softly. "he helped make me less shy and more out going" there is a loud crash in the kitchen as Somber drops a few pans. "DARN IT STUPID HOOVES!" Fluttershy flinched and cowered holding Dream as she curled up. "mother its ok it was just dad being clumsy" Dream giggled as she said this and she kissed her mother on the cheek. "thanks mom for listening to me it really helped" Fluttershy smiled back. "no problem dear its my job as your mother to help you with this kind of thing" Fluttershy got up and trotted towards the kitchen then turned around. "oh and you have school tomorrow" Dream groaned and followed her mother. "BUT MOOOOOOOM!" Dream and Fluttershy giggled and went into the kitchen to help Somber with the pans he dropped.
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After Dream had talked to her mother and a little bit to her father about what she felt she was able to be happy again. This only lasted for around two weeks. One day Dream trotted into class and saw Flare Spark and his special somepony Diamond Dusk kissing each other in the hall way out side of her class room. she stared for a moment until her friends trotted to her and pulled her back to reality. "yo Dream how was your break girl!?" one of her friends said in a loud cheery voice. "oh i suppose it was ok..." Dream stated as she forced her self to look away from the stallion she always dreamed of having as he kissed another mare. She forced a smile and trotted to her class passing by the couple as they continued to kiss long and passionately. although she tried very hard to pay attention in class her mind kept pushing the image forward of the two kissing making it hard for her to listen. "Dream would you please come to the board and answer the question?" her teacher asked as he smiled and looked at her. Dream came back to the ground and scrambled to try and remember what they were talking about. "u-uh what?" she said sounding dazed and clueless. "i said would you please answer the question on the board Dream". She looked down at her black paper of notes a single word written on it but nothing more. "s-sure?" she said in a less than confidant voice and she slowly trotted up and grabbed the chalk and held it. she looked at the problem on the bored and her mind raced and she panicked feeling all the eyes of her classmates bearing down on her like hawks on their pray. "well Dream? do you know how?" her teacher asked in an almost bored and annoyed tone of voice. Dream dropped the chalk and ran out of the room crying and she rushed to the mares bathroom and closed herself in one of the stalls. Her face red from embaressment and her eyes red from crying and her mind broken from loss. she cried for the next hour until Somber came to the school and picked her up to take her back home. it was the longest and most quiet walk home she had ever taken in her life and it only made her feel more alone and unwanted.
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Dream sat on the couch in between Fluttershy and Somber. Fluttershy has one of her wings warped around Dream to confort her. Dream cried silently into her mothers wing as somber nuzzled her back and rubbed it trying to get her to calm down. "dream darling whats wrong?" Fluttershy asked in a soothing calm voice. "i-i love him so much...AND HE IS GONE!" she cried harder and her body shock with every sob. "baby... please calm down..." Somber kissed his daughter on the cheek and hugged her tightly and she returned the hug even tighter. "i just love him so much!" she cried into his shoulder as he rubbed her back slowly. "mmmmmm thank you dad... i-i have been very stressed lately." she said and she relaxed yawning. Somber laid Dream down and pulled a blanket over her body and then put a hoof around Fluttershy and rubbed in between her wing joints. "S-Somber~" Fluttershy moaned as she smiled and looked at him. "S-Somber please not now... not no-mmmmmmm" Somber smiled and pressed a hoof into her back in between the joints again and Fluttershys wings go limp and she eeped, relaxing completely going limp in his hooves. "yes Flutters" he nuzzled her cheek and kissed her lips softly. "yes i do know how that makes you feel" he picked her up and carried her to the bed room and laid her down and smiled at her. "you get some sleep my beautiful pegasi. you need it"
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Dream woke up later that afternoon and get up and looked at her self in the mirror and sighed. "your not pretty or smart or popular... he will never love you... no one ever will" Dream said as she sees no hope. "no one will want you" she trotted to the front door and opened it slowly and ran out. "you could disappear and no one would care" she ran away into the dark night crying. she ran until her muscles ached and she layed down in a grassy meadow. "where am i?" she asked scared slightly. "i-i guess it doesn't matter no one cares so why should you" she layed down and closed her eyes and fell asleep far from home.