I was pretty depressed the entire time I was at my mom's. Zeb's usual snide remarks didn't even hurt me. The entire time I was holding back crying. It was hard not to cry. Everypony else had a few months to get over Lady's death but I had just found out. I cried every night. I went upstairs one night to the dining room and sat down with Holly Pop. She was drinking and setting out cards.
"Mom and Zeb are going to play Indian poker with me in a bit, you wanna join?" My eyes were red and my face was puffy from crying. I really needed a break from thinking about Lady. I sat in the chair next to Holly Pop and she poured me a shot. Mom and Zeb came in all giggly and drunk.
"I'm so glad I get to be a fffff-fun parent aaand let you drink flu-utter sssshhhy." My mom slurred. I was a little shocked that they were ok with me drinking at 17, but whatever. It was a lot of fun though. We were drinking, laughing, joking, and just being a somewhat normal family. I hadn't had this much fun with my mom and Zeb in….well ever. Zeb was the first to be completely shit faced. He fell out of his chair and fell on the ground passed out drunk. I was proud of myself, I outdrank a grown stallion. My mom said she wasn't drunk as she stumbled up the stairs to bed. She kept saying it wasn't from drinking, she was just tiered. Then it was just Holly Pop and me. We started going shot for shot till neither of us felt like drinking anymore.
Not from drinking so much but we wanted to watch a movie. Watching a Disney movie is amazing when you're drunk. We sat together in her room laughing and trying not to wake up Red Ryder. I looked over at Red. He had grown so much. He was 6 years old. I wondered if his mind blocked out the whole incident with me and Zeb, like my mind had done with so many memories. We left the room because Holly Pop was afraid of waking Red up after a while.
Summer Flowers and Rarity were sitting in the living room watching TV. We decided to hang out in the shed with Summer Flowers and Rarity. Because Holly Pop wanted to smoke.
She had some crushed up poison joke. If you smoke it, it only has a minor effect. It makes you high but it also changes your voice, kind like helium. Anyway. Holly Pop started smoking the poison joke and she passed it to Summer Flowers. And thankfully Rarity didn't smoke. I was just having fun sharing memories, I didn't really want to smoke.
Holly Pop laughed and told me that, when we were ponies, she was vacuuming and sucked up the vacuum cleaners cords. She told mom I had done it!
"I can't believe you told mom that I sucked up the cords! That's why she never let me vacuum. She always yelled at me that I was going to suck up the cords again!"
Everypony laughed.
"I got you back though. When I was living here, I had swept a bunch of dirt under the living room rug. Mom was doing some spring cleaning and found all the dirt! I told her that you did it!"
"Oh my Celestia! Mom cussed at me for hours!" We laughed so hard. It was nice laughing with my sisters and not hounding them like a mom. We shared secrets and told each other stories. Rarity got tiered, she needed beauty sleep. I got a little sad though Summer Flowers told us that she had already lost her virginity and had been smoking poison joke for a while now. She had been drinking and mom didn't care. It made me feel sad, I was stupid and lost my virginity at 14 my LITTLE sister lost hers at 11! To a perverted little 16 year old stallion!
I would kick his ass if I found him! Summer Flowers eventually went to bed, me and Holly Pop stayed up. Holly pop tried to talk to mom about all the stuff going on with Summer Flowers, but mom freaked out on her.
"It ain't none of your business Holly Pop! I am her mom I will parent her however I want! So fuck off!" Mom screamed at her.
How the hell could mom do a complete 180 like that? Holly Pop and me even sneezed out of line and our asses would be grass. Summer Flowers and Rarity would scream, cuss, talk back, sneak out, do drugs, have sex, and just be little tyrants! Mom and Zeb didn't care! WTF?
I went back to my dad's soon after that. And also soon after that Holly Pop got kicked out of mom and Zeb's house. She called me and told me that Summer Flowers beat the shit out of her. Now Summer Flowers is a big mare. She was bigger than me already. Holly Pop was trying to tell Summer Flowers she couldn't have foal-friends over while mom and Zeb were gone. Summer Flowers lost her mind! She kicked, stomped, punched, and bruised Holly Pop all over. Holly Pop didn't fight back because Summer Flowers was under age. She would have gotten arrested for hitting someone underage. Mom and Zeb came home and kicked Holly Pop out of the house. Summer Flowers told them Holly Pop started it. So Holy Pop and Red Ryder were kicked to the curb. Luckily Holly Pop was dating a sweet stallion who let her and Red move in.
Red had his own room. He enjoyed it so much. Holly Pop grew up a bit. She got a job, signed Red up for day care, stopped doing drugs and got on with being a grown mare. I was quite proud of my sister.
I was sitting on the couch with my dad telling him about Lady dying. I wanted a Chihuahua puppy to kind of get over Lady's death. Not that Lady didn't matter but everypony does it. Once you're pet dies you get a new one to try to help forget how bad them dying hurts.
I had an animal caretaking cutie mark, I was getting my grades to where I was still passing everything, I worked at a vet/ doggie daycare, and I had my own money to take care of it. My dad said those were pretty good points and he'd talk to Lemon Tart about it to see if it was ok. I was so excited I knew they would say yes. I mean they would never have to fork out any money or have to take care of it, I would be completely responsible over my Chihuahua puppy. I was quite stupid in thinking that they would say yes though. Lemon Tart marched down stairs and start screaming at me.
"You are so selfish Fluttershy for wanting a dog! Bennie is deathly allergic to dogs and that's why we didn't have one!"
"Funny. Your parents, we'll all your family have dogs and so does Papa Foal but Bennie never has an allergic reaction with those dogs." Lemon was speechless. Did she really think I was that dumb to believe that lie?
"Well if he pets a dog and rubs his eyes, his eyes turn red."
"That would happen to anypony if they rubbed a dog and then rubbed their eyes." Lemon stormed off. My dad told me that I couldn't have a dog because of Bennie. I decided that I would wait to have a dog.