The mare looks up at Pete happily chirping in his stroller
“Ugwy dummy babie!”
You grab the mare by the mane and hoist her mere inches from your face
“You are Never! To talk about him again! Do you understand!?”
“Buh Buh him ugw……screeeee!”
You toss her back into the shed
“NU MOWE!!! NU MOWE!!!”
You close the door again and lock it
You spend the rest of the morning making sure all the fluffies are being loved and looked after
Pete simply sucks on his hoof and coos
You know you can’t leave the mare in the shed forever. I mean you could but that’s technically a violation of company policy
You definitely understand why some people torture these things
You open the door and the mare slinks out like a worm
“Anything you wanna say?”
She looks up at you with hopelessness in her bloodshot eyes but says nothing
“Good”
You drag her over to the other fluffies
“All right everyone this is what will happen to anyone who doesn’t love and feed all their babies!”
“If you have any sensitive babies let myself or one of the other humans who work here know immediately!
Sensitive babies need a human momma or daddy to make sure they don’t go forever sleepies !”
About a week goes by and Pete opens his eyes
But something is wrong
His eyes are crossed
You rush into Zoey’s safe room
“SIS there’s something wrong with pete!!!”
Zoey calms you down
“Let me take a look at him”
After finishing examining him she sighs
“Sis he’s got strabismus it’s not common in fluffies but it’s most likely nothing to worry about”
A couple of days later he starts talking
“Pete wub mumma”
“Pete pwomis make good poopies an pee pee fow mumma”
Pete loves to snuggle with you
He flaps his little wings in excitement every time he sees you
Eventually Pete grew to full size
And would follow you around on the farm as you did your job
The other fluffs didn’t particularly like him but they knew what would happen if they tried anything
Pete was nice to everyone even those that others of his kind deemed undesirable
Pete’s mother the blue and yellow mare
Would walk away when he tried to hug her
She was repulsed by her own child
The shed incident taught her simply not to vocalize her feelings towards Pete
Pete would cry
“Mumma pwease hug Pete!
Pete wub mumma!”
His desperate plea for his biological mother to treat him with the bare minimum of love she afforded her other offspring, fell on deaf ears and a callus heart
Unfortunately you know all too well the feeling of a mother’s rejection
Seeing Pete beg for even a mustard seed’s worth of compassion
Opened up old wounds
In one final attempt pete tries hugging his mother only to be pushed over and given sorry poopies
You finally have had enough
After giving him a bath You leave Pete in the safe room with Zoey then go back to the yard to confront his mother
“You !!! You and i are going to have have a chat!”
The mare looks up at you with an expression of dread
“Pwease!!! Fwuffy nu wan shed nu mowe!!!”
“The shed is too good for a sorry excuse of a mother like you!!!”
You put the mare in a pet carrier and take her to the main house
You explain that situation to your other sister Vicky
The usually calm and levelheaded Vicky is now barely containing her rage
“I see. Have you anything to say for yourself?”
“Fwuffy nu undastand why mumma an wowna gib ugwy dummy pete
Wuv an toysies buh gib pwedy fwuffy shed?”
Vicky’s glares at the fluffy with fury and malice
“Lorna. Why don’t you let me handle this? How about you take pete into town and get him a bowl of spaghetti. My treat.”
You rarely saw Vicky this angry
But you knew no matter what you had planned for the mare , Vicky had something worse in mind
You leave the room and do exactly as your big sister told you to
And as much as you wanted to witness the horrors to come
You also understand that Vicky vanderholt does her best work free from the prying eyes of an audience