A Wonderful Friendship
Colette sat up in the hospital bed as her daughter was being handed to her by one of the nurses. She was wrapped in a pink blanket. Colette and Sven stared down at her and started to cry with tears of joy. After a few minutes, their daughter opened her eyes and she had dark blue eyes just like Sven's and she had his hair colour as well. She had Colette's body colour.
"Isn't she just precious?" Colette said in delight and she gave her daughter a kiss on the head.
"What should we name her?" Sven asked tickling their daughter and she giggled a little.
"I think we should name her after my middle name," Colette said happily. "My middle name is Eloise."
Sven thought for a moment then nodded and gave her a kiss.
"Eloise it is!" Sven said with excitement and he tickled their daughter again and she giggled even harder.
"Which one is it? Is that one?" Thaddeus asked in excitement, pointing at every foal that was there.
"No, it's that one." Madeleine said pointing to a filly that had a light blue body, yellow hair and violet eyes that was sitting in the middle.
"How do you know?" Jordan said, scruffing his daughter Lulu Belle's mane as she was asleep in her carrier.
"You mean the one that was just born some minutes ago. She's right there in the middle." a nurse said in an uninterested voice.
Everypony turned to the filly and all said "Awww" with Madeleine jumping and giggling with delight.
"She's just so cute!" Annabel said in excitement.
"She looks so much like her mother." Olga said in delight and she felt like she was going to cry with tears of joy.
"She's got her father's eye and mane colour." Magnus said as he wiped a tear from his left eye.
"Got an arrival within the hour. The father is somepony named Ivar, do you know him?" another nurse asked in a much cheery voice.
"Oh I know him! He's somepony I've known for years. I wonder which foal is his. I never knew he had a marefriend." Annamarie said in excitement.
"Oh, oh, she's right there." Ivar said as he walked in and pointed to the filly next to Colette and Sven's.
Everypony turned to the unicorn filly that had a mint green body and had a dark blue and white mane. She also had light pink eyes.
"Ivar!" Annamarie squealed then galloped up to him and gave him a hug.
"I named my daughter Lily because she looks like her grandmother who is also called Lily. I just wish her mother was here to see her." Ivar said in a delighted voice before it turned into a sad one.
Everypony went silent for a moment and they looked at each other in question and sadness.
"Where is her mother?" Magnus asked in worry.
"I have no idea, I came to go see her and she was just gone, I think she just abandoned our little Lily," Ivar said in a low voice and he gave a sad sigh. "Well, I wouldn't mind raising her on my own, I'll be just fine."
He then sat down on a chair and lowered his head and sighed. After a while, Colette and Eloise were allowed out of the hospital and everypony adored Eloise so much. When Colette or Sven had to go out, Annabel or Olga would go and take care of her alongside the other ponies' foals including Ivar's if he felt like it.
As Eloise, Lulu Belle, Lily, Miracle and Mandarin grew up, they joined the Cutie Mark Searchers and had decided to be best friends forever. They had been friends ever since they were in diapers and only had a few fights but made up very easy.
The friends were bullied just for being blank flanks just like what Elizabeth, Autumn and Dahlia had ever since primary school but they ignored them or stood up to them no matter what.
"What should we try next for our cutie marks?" five year old Lulu Belle asked, looking at her best friends.
"How about we try cooking?" Mandarin yelled and he flipped his orange hair out of his face.
He turned to Lily then turned away with a blush.
"We've already tried that and we almost burnt down your mum's kitchen." Lily said and she crossed her forelegs.
"Let's try cricket." Miracle said with confidence in her voice.
"Oh, but I don't want to get myself dirty." Eloise said as she was checking her hair in the mirror.
"No problem, Eloise, you can be the batsponies and Mandarin and I can be the fielders." Lily said and Mandarin blushed again.
"No, unicorns should do the batting since it's easy to hit the ball with the cricket bat with magic, while the non-unicorns do the fielding." Lulu Belle said and she hit the floor with one of her hooves.
The other friends agreed and walked out the door of their club room which was actually a bedroom that they all shared except Lily because she lived with her father not too far from the castle. The five friends went to get their cricket equipment then ran out onto the field.
"Good luck, guys!" Miracle yelled then she laughed and put on her cricket helmet.
"We'll see who will win!" Lulu Belle yelled back and she put on a cap and a glove.
The game got started with Lily batting first and she used her magic to levitate the bat. Mandarin bowled the ball then he looked at her and got distracted by her light pink eyes, Lily didn't have enough time to swing the bat and the ball hit the top of her helmet.
"Ow! Mandarin, what gives?" Lily asked in an annoyed voice and she took off her helmet and rubbed her head.
"I'm so sorry, Lily, I don't know what just happened there." Mandarin said nervously and he rubbed the ground a little with his hoof.
"I'll throw it this time." Lulu Belle galloped over to pick up the ball with one of her wings.
Lulu Belle then bowled the ball to Lily, Lily then swung the bat with her magic but it missed the ball and it hit Mandarin who was just standing near her.
"Oh I'm so sorry, Mandarin." Lily said apologetically and she dropped the bat.
"I'm fine, Lily." Mandarin replied and he rubbed his head.
The five foals went home with sore heads and legs. Cricket certainly didn't work out very well for them.
"What do we do now?" Eloise said and she winced from the pain in one of her back legs.
"Well, we go home and rest, cricket was way too exhausting and painful." Miracle said as she had an ice pack on her head.
"What do we do tomorrow?" Lily asked as she also had an ice pack on her head.
"We could try skateboarding." Lulu Belle said in excitement.
"Oh, there's my house, see you guys at school tomorrow!" Lily yelled and she used her magic to keep the ice pack on her head and she galloped into her house.
Mandarin stared back at her and he then imagine that he and Lily were on a romantic trip around the world. He sighed softly until he heard somepony calling his name.
"Mandarin, are you alright?" Eloise asked and he shook his head and the fantasy went away.
"Yeah, yeah, I'm alright," Mandarin replied and he rubbed his eyes. "I'm just a little tired is all."
"Race you guys to the castle!" Miracle squealed and she galloped off.
"Hey no fair, you started early!" Lulu Belle yelled and she went after all.
"Wait up for us!" Mandarin and Eloise said at the same time and they galloped after their friends on the way home.
