Derp.

The next few weeks were torture for poor Ditzy, and more often then not she’d find herself locked in one of the un-used, nasty bathrooms, crying her little heart out. This bathroom is where she was now, crying. Why am I different? I never chose to be this way… She felt the tears come again, harder this time.

She sobbed openly, knowing no one could hear her in here. This was her only peaceful place anymore. She stood shakily to her feet and made her way to the sink. Turning on the water and enjoying the white noise for a second she splashed some water on her face, the cold water a welcome to her flushed face. She let the sink run, watching the water swirl down the drain.

I wish I could just disappear down the drain too. She looked up slowly at her reflection and grimaced at what she saw, a tired pair of “Derped” eyes as she had learned to call them, stared listlessly back at her, tears falling from both. She found herself thinking more depressing thoughts, you can never be like them, you're too different, clumsy...She hadn’t realized that she had started smashing the mirror into bits until she found herself panting at the shards of glass around her feet. She stared into the last shard and thought bitterly, too "derpy!"

Her vision slid into a straight stare for a moment as she lifted her hoof and with a guttural cry smashed the last shard to bits. She looked at the mess around her and stepped over to the sink again, the glass making a satisfying crunching noise beneath her hooves. She put her hooves under the sink, enjoying the burn of the soap and water. She went to get more soap, but the dispenser wouldn’t budge. This wasn’t exactly the best way for anything alive or not to respond to the emotionally exhausted Pegasus, and she found her hoof smashed into the dispenser moments later.

Soap and a little bit of blood mixed together making little bloody bubbles that floated around and captured the filly’s attention instantly. She felt a smile, the first in weeks, tug at the corners of her mouth as she watched them float around her and pop. Ditzy felt a tingle on her flank, and glancing down she couldn’t help but burst out laughing and smiling happily. A string of iridescent bubbles covered her flank. And in the first time in a few weeks, she felt truly happy.