Diamond Tiara's friend (Sad Feels/Slice of Life)

>Diamond Tiara had just invited Silver Spoon to one of her super-exclusive swimming pool parties.
>SS: "Yah, we showed those blank flanks didn't we?"
>DT: "Of course I did. It's not even surprising. There isn't even a chance that they could outsmart me, the most clever pony in all of Ponyville!"
>SS: "Uhh, you mean 'we' right, hehe?"
>DT: "Oh yah, fine, sure, whatever."
>Silver Spoon decides to sprawl out on of one of the chaise lounges, while Diamond Tiara floats on her back in the center of the pool

>And that's when George Wilson runs up and shoots her in the stomach!
>No just kidding, this isn't The Great Gatsby
>Back to the story

>DT: "Are you coming in or what? You just gonna lie there all day?"
>SS: "Well, I mean, I don't know, I just don't really like swimming..."
>DT: "Ugh, you always do this. Whatever fine."
>SS: "Thank you." she says, with a little venom on the words.
>Diamond Tiara wasn't so ready to give in just yet, being the clever pony that she thought she was, she devised a plan.
>While Silver Spoon was sleeping, Diamond Tiara got out of the pool slowly, so that she was silent.
>The stealthy little filly snuck up behind the chaise lounge of Silver Spoon, which was directly facing the pool.
>DT: "Hey Silver, you look like your getting a little burned." she said with a giggle
>Silver Spoon rises from her slumber
>SS: "Huh?"
>DT: "You look like you need to cool off!"
>She then uses all of her strength to push the chaise lounge, with her friend on it, into the pool
>They both eventually fall in, with the chase lounge
>They both poke their from the water,
>Diamond Tiara starts splashing her now soaked friend
>DT: "Haha! See, that wasn't so bad was it? Whaddaya wanna play?"
>SS: "Oh no, no NO! Sorry Diamond Tiara, I gotta go! NOW!"
>Diamond Tiara gets flustered as her friend gets out of the pool and puts her towel on
>She gets out of the pool as well and chases after Silver Spoon, who now starts galloping as fast as she could from her

>The towel, proving to bulky for Silver Spoon, slowed her down allowing for Diamond Tiara to catch up and
>Tackle her to the ground
>Her towel falls off as she is eventually pinned to the ground.
>DT: "What is this all about? Why are oyu acting like this? ITS JUST WATER!"
>Silver Spoon is now on her back, pinned down by by her hooves
>SS: "Get off, please! I just... i gotta go!"
>Diamond Tiara decides not to get off, she continues to interrogate
>DT: "Why are you acting like this?!"
>Silver Spoon deosn't answer, instead, she decides to try to wiggle her way out of her grasps
>She starts to succeed, but falls onto her left side

>Diamond Tiara is speechless at the sight of Silver Spoon
>It was the pony she had been friends with for the last couple years, yet something was different
>Besides the fact that she was wet, something was wrong with her cutie mark
>Diamond Tiara, confused, moves one of her hooves to Silver Spoon's morphed cutie mark
>Upon contact, the image of the spoon smears away, with a residue left on her hoof
>It was paint

>Silver Spoon never got her cutie mark

>DT: "Wha..."
>Silver Spoon, no longer struggling, rises up
>SS: "No, no. Its, not what it umm its not what it looks like..."
>They remain speechless for a couple seconds, although it felt like an eternity
>DT: "Why didn't you tell me that..."
>SS: "No, Its..."
>DT: "Why didn't you tell me that you were.."
>Diamond Tiara scrunches her face for the biggest smile of all time
>DT: "...a BLANK FLANK!"
>Silver Spoon, now in tears, tries to run away from her mean friend
>Diamond Tiara chases after, laughing the entire way
>DT: "BLANK FLANK BLANK FLANK!"
>Silver Spoon hops over the bushed surrounding the pool, but lands in a pile of mud
>Dirty, hurt, and emotionally destroyed, Silver spoon tries to run away from the worst day of her life
>Diamond Tiara stays by the pool, keeping her insults going until she was out of sight

>Diamond Tiara walks to school the next day
>Once again, she is by herself
>She usually just meets up with SS when they get to school
>She didn't want anyone walking with her anyway
>Her time alone gave her time to think about how amazing she is
>DT: "Oh man, there truly is nopony better than me. I mean, did you see the way I busted that blank flank the other day?"
>She arrives at school, just in time.
>She sits down at her desk, which is now all the way in the front corner of the room, because Cheerilee had to separate her and Silver Spoon, who liked to chat during her lessons
>Diamond Tiara decides to zone out for the rest of the math period.
>Time flies by as Diamond Tiara thinks about the concert that she and Silver Spoon are going to attend

>C: "Alright fillies! Play time!
>Scream of excitement are emitted from the ponies as they run out the door, some stumbling and tripping over each other
>Diamond Tiara waits back, to hang out with Silver Spoon, the usual routine she would do
>DT: "So, Silver, I was thinking today we could go over to the-
>Diamond Tiara turns her head, but doesn't find Silver Spoon in the usual spot she sits in
>She always waited for Diamond Tiara in that seat, so they could talk when the class went on break.
>DT: "Where did...?
>Diamond Tiara walks outside, not sure where to find Diamond Tiara
>She decided to lurk around the yard checking all of the areas
>Nope, she wasn't by the swings
>She wasn't by the building blocks
>Where in the world was this filly?

>DT: "No."
>Diamond Tiara refused to believe it
>DT: "No, this can't be."
>She looked over to the Cutie Mark Crusaders, sitting by the lunch table
>Except a certain white/silver pony was sitting with them
>Silver Spoon
>Diamond Tiara had emotions she never knew existed, as she watched Apple Bloom say something to Sliver Spoon, eliciting a giggle from the 4 mark-less ponies

>Diamond Tiara, too shocked to believe the sights before her, started to approach the 4 ponies without a plan on what she was to say to them
>A distance of 20 yards seemed like a mile as walking to her friend felt like it was taking hours
>Diamond Tiara finally reaches the table
>The four ponies, joking about some story about Pinkie Pie, didn't even notice the pony that walked up to them
>Diamond Tiara decided to get their attention by noisily clearing her throat
>The four ponies turn to her, confused that she would even try to approach them
>AB: "Uh... hi, Diamond Tiara?"
>SB: "Yah..."
>S: "What are you doing here"
>AB&SB: "Scootaloo?!"
>S: "What?
>After the small bicker, they turn back to the pony who was still staring at them with wide eyes
>She finally gains her composure, ready to ask a question
>DT: "uhh Silver Spoon? Don't you want to hang out or something? What are you doing her with these blank flanks?"
>Silver Spoon sighs as her eyes grow cold to her old friends
>SS: "These 'blank flanks' are my friends, now."
>DT: "WHAT?"
>SS: "They except me for who I truly am."
>DT: "For how long has this been going on?"
>SS: "Since yesterday"
>CMC: "Yep! Meet the newest Cutie Mark Crusader, Silver Spoon"
>Besides the corny line, Silver Spoon appeared to be pretty proud
>DT: "Yesterday?"

>Silver Spoon and the rest of the CMC tell her the story about how Silver Spoon was running through the streets dirty and bruised
>Apparently, the CMC stopped to help her, invited them to the Sweet Apple Acres, got her cleaned up
>She asked the CMC why they would go out of their way to help a pony that used to be so mean to them
>They answered her, saying that even though they had their differences, they wanted nothing more than to help a pony in need
>Eventually, Silver Spoon realized that these "blank flanks" were nicer to her than Diamond Tiara ever was
>After determining that she wanted to be their friend, she asked if she could join the Cutie Mark Crusaders

>SS: "These are my new friends now, see?"
>Silver Spoon proudly displays her own mark-less flank to Diamond Tiara
>DT: "You didn't really think I meant all those blank flanks things I said to you yesterday, right?"
>Diamond Tiara looked desperate for her agreement
>DT: "Cuz' I mean, yah you HAVE a blank flank, but that doesn't make YOU a blank flank, you know?"
>SS: "That has nothing to do with it Di."
>DT: "What do you mean? Then why else would you still stay away from me?"
>SS: "Because, getting to really meet these ponies right here, showed me what friendship should really be like. Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo... They've all made me feel welcome, and they did it in one day. To a pony that previously hated them!"
>DT: "Cmon Silver Spoon, we're friends!"
>SS: "And that's my point. I was friends with you because I had no idea what TRUE friends could be like, after meeting these 3, I realized that real friendship like this is a beautiful thing. And that's something that you never showed me."
DT: "I'm sorry, I take back all the blank flank jokes!"
>SS: "That's not why I'm their friends! I'm their friend because they genuinely care for me!"
>AB: "Yah, we wahnt to see 'er happy!"
>SB: "So we can all have fun together!"
>S: "Because that's what freinds do!"
>SS: "And that's why I'm their friends not yours. You never really seemed to cared for me. Did you care for me at all? Didn't seem like you really did."

>Silver Spoon was Diamond Tiara's best friend. Even though at times Diamond Tiara could prove to be really mean to her, she cared so much for Silver Spoon
>She loved Silver Spoon
>Silver Spoon was everything to her, her only friend, the only one she could talk to
>Diamond Tiara was faced with a dilemna, one that her riches could not save her from
>Either she could admit that she was wrong, and that she cared for Silver Spoon a lot
>Or she could uphold the appearance that she was too good for a blank flank

>For the sake of her friend, and their happiness together, she knew she had to come clean and admit that she cared for her and was wrong to treat her so poorly
>But her personal traditions were at stake
>She knew she wanted to save Silver Spoon...

>DT: "I never really cared for you! You were just another pony at school in my eyes!"
>Diamond Tiara didn't understand why she did that
>SS: "I guess I have my answer."
>The cutie mark crusader walk away, with Diamond Tiara still there
>Her interior conflict was gnawing away at her very loins
>This was her last shot to win her friend back, and the only person who ever cared for her back
>DT: "Yah that's right. Walk away! BLANK FLANK BLANK FLANK!"
>Diamond Tiara had a face full of victory
>and a mind full of agony

>There she went. Her best friend, with the rivals
>Who was she without Diamond Tiara
>Money could fix many problems, but this was a special problem of friendship
>After just standing there, contemplating in her mind for 20 minutes, she was disrupted by Cheerilee's call
>C: "Alright everypony, back inside. Time for Math."
>All the ponies entered, including Diamond Tiara, her ex-friend, and the CMC
>Diamond Tiara was unable to focus the rest of the day
>She couldn't shake the fact that she had just lost her closest friend
>Well her only friend
>It was a cruel reminder that, as popular as she was, she still was a very anti-social pony due to her personality
>School ended in what felt like centuries, and she walked out of school alone, wondering what to do
>She decided to go to her father, he must've had some sort of advice, as he had pictures of his college years on his office wall, which boasted many friends
>Time to visit her dad, Filthy Rich

>Diamond Tiara runs home as fast as she physically could
>Panting, she decided to rest for a minute to catch her breath
>She composes herslef, and then heads for her father's door
>She hears him yelling from inside the office
>He's always yelling, always over some trivial business plan with some other rich ponies in Canterlot
>He's so stuck up in his business that he never spends time with her
>Diamond Tiara was never really ever able to communicate with her busy dad, ever since her mother died
>Essentially, a father like Filthy Rich was equivalent to not having a father at all
>But she had to try

>She opens the door, ready to ask for his father's advice
>Filthy Rich is yelling furiously through the phone
>FR: "...Did you say about me you little faggot? I'll have you know I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am highly trained in gorilla wa-"
>DT: "dad?"
>FR: "-Top sniper in Equestrian Forces-"
>DT: "Dad?"
>FR: "You're fucking dead kiddo!
>DT: "DAD!"
>FR: "Gimme a sec, my kid wants to talk about me
>Filthy sighs as he looks angry to annoyed to see his daughter
>FR: "Now WHAT could you possibly want Diamond Tiara?"
>Diamond Tiara was shocked to see that her father would even acknowledge her presence, something that hasn't happened in years
>DT: "I need to talk to you, get your advice on something"
>FR: "That's can wait sweetie... Daddy is on a very important phone call right now."
>Filthy eyes her in disapproval, as he picks the phone back up
>FR: "Yah I'm back..."
>DT: "But dad, I really nee-"
>FR: "I can kill you in over 700 different ways. And that's just with my bare hooves."
>Diamond Tiara is virtually silenced by her father's belligerent yelling
>It's apparent that he's been drinking tonight, not drunk yet however
>He's quite the alcoholic, and not only could Diamond Tiara smell it on his breath, but she could tell once again by the 110-proof sitting beside the folder on his desk
>But she had to figure out a way to get his attention

>Slinking around to the side of her father's desk, she locates the phone cable.
>She knew it was only the way to get her dad's attention
>In a couple quick moves, Diamond Tiara grabs the alcohol from his desk and smashes the bottle over the hard corner
>She then picks up a shard on the ground and slices the phone cable
>She cuts herself in the process, but doesn't feel pain
>Adrenaline pumping through her veins proves that it could protect her from the stinging pain of the gash
>It couldn't protect her from her father however
>FR: "What the hell are you doing you little brat! What the fuck is wrong with you!"
>She knew her dad could be angry, but he's never been this angry directly at her
>It kind of caught her off guard
>DT: "I-i was j-just-"
>FR: "What is wrong with you, you just fuck everything up don't you!?"
>DT: "But, I just needed to talk to you..."
>FR: "Then don't break my fucking bottle and the fucking phone, the fuck were you thinking?"
>DT: "But you wouldn't pay attention to me and I-"
>Her father decides to start mocking her
>FR: "Oh look at me, I'm a spoiled litle brat, gimme attention, gimme attention!" "So fucking needy, no wonder your mother didn't want you
>That was uncalled for, no matter how bad of a kid she was, her mother always loved her
>DT: "Don't say that, dad..."
>FR: "No but she fucking hated you, you wouldn't stop bothering us. If it weren't for you, she would still fucking be alive, you know!"
>Diamond Tiara's gash was now starting to hurt her really badly, her right hoof starting to look like it had its own red coat
>She didn't ask for any of this
>DT: "Dad... please stop"
>FR: "Aww, I'm so sad, I'm Diamond Tiara... I have so many problems."
>DT: "Dad, I'm sorry, just please stop, my leg hurts"
>Filthy Rich responds to the severity of her injury by slugging her where the gash was
>Diamond Tiara falls to the floor in pure pain, crying as she was writhing on the floor

>Diamond Tiara, now hurting emotionally as well as physically, just wanted to get out of the office
>Her abusive father was scaring her to death, if his physical attack wasn't already helping that
>FR: "Oh what's wrooong? Did I hurt your little-wittle aaarm? Grow the fuck up, kid!"
>DT: "Dad, stop! Please!"
>He responds by putting his hoof on her wound, only making the pain more agonizing
>DT: "Dad! I'm sorry!"
>Diamond Tiara is sobbing as her father continues his montage of verbal insults
>FR: "Now get the fuck out of my office. I HATE YOU!"
>He drags her across the room by her bloodied hoof, before opening the door
>He gived her one last jerk, and sends her flying out of his office, leaving trails of blood on the carpet.
>FR: "And STAY out!"
>Diamond Tiara just lays there
>Sobbing
>In pain
>Alone
>This is what loneliness feels like
>This is what pain feels like
>Her though process is robotic
>She has to clean the wound, then just go to bed
>She gets herself up, at the expense of a lot of agony to her hoof
>She doesn't bother asking for the assistance of any of her butlers as she slowly drags herself past them
>She gets to the sink in her room after some time
>She watches it off
>DT: "Ouch..."
>Clean, now she just puts some bandaids on, she doesn't know how to properly clean out a wound, besides doing that
>Emotionally shattered and physically incapable, she decided to call it an early night

>She crawls her way under her covers
>Thinking about all the shit she went throught
>She thinks to herself 'will this happen again?'
>She has to get her friend back
>Her friend...

>Damn, her hoof hurts
>No friend, nopony to talk to
>Her dad is too angry to even reason with, pretty much hates her at this point
>Who was there to talk to?
>She cries herself to sleep

>She waked up the next morning, its raining outside
>She looks down to see the bloody bandage on her hoof, yet it doesn't startle her
>She's too emotionally drained to be able to react
>There was really one last person to talk to
>Princess Twilight Sparkle
>She knew that Twilight at one point barely was barely friends with any other pony, and that maybe she knew something about getting a friend back after one loses them
>Its pouring pretty heavily outside, but she needs to talk to Twilight
>She feels like she is becoming less of what she used to feel like, like she was slipping into depression
>Not caring to take an umbrella, Diamond Tiara walks a half mile over to Golden Oaks Library
>Her bandages fall off of her as she walks through the rain
>She gets soaked on her journey
>But she finally gets there, and knocks on the door
>?: "Coming..."
>The voice was childish from behind the door
>A little purple and green dragon opens the door
>DT: "Hi, I'm looking for Twilight."
>S: "Alrighty then. TWILIGHT! Someone's here to see you!"
>Diamond Tiara waits patiently at the door, soaked, as Twilight descends the stairs
>TS: "Oh no! Come inside, let me get you a towel."
>Diamond Tiara enters the house as Spike gets a Towel from somewhere in the home
>DT: "Thanks"
>TS: "Now, what can i help you with?"
>Twilight, unlike her father, genuinely would like to know what was on her mind
>DT: "Well... I-i just..."
>She starts sobbing thinking about the events that happened to her
>TS: "No, no I'm so sorry, please don't cry was it something I said?"
>She puts a hoof to her mane to calm her down, which ends up working after a couple seconds
>Diamond Tiara regains her composure and says with a sad tone...
DT: "I... well, I just have nothing left"
>She knows she has nothing left to lose when it comes to her feelings, so she decides to just come clean to the Princess. It's not like she had anything to prove at that point

>So she comes clean

>She tells Twilight about the incident at the pool
>She tells Twilight about her actions in the schoolyard
>She tells Twilight about what her Dad did, but drowns it down so that Twilight doesn't have him arrested
>Although it only happened in a day, it summed up the reality of her future as the mare she was
>She tells Twilight about how lonely she is now
>She tells Twilight that, even as the richest filly in Ponyville, she had nothing

>TS: "Ahh, I see..."
>The tales of the pains from this young filly brought a tear to her eye
>She wipes it away and gets to her advice
>TS: "Sounds like you just need to tell Silver Spoon how you really feel."
>DT: "But I've tried that! And instead of doing it, i couldn't help but just continue to make fun of her
>TS: "I understand its hard my little pony"
>DT: "I just want to tell her how sad I feel. And how bad I want her back as my friend, but I just can't bring myself to do it. I'm just..."
>TS: "Too proud. I know. I understand."
>Diamond Tiara starts tearing up again
>TS: "You know I used to be the kind of mare who pushed other ponies away"
>It doesn't make Diamond feel any better
>TS: "I guess if there's one piece of advice I could tell you, is that friendship is a valuable thing. And it often comes at the price of a little of yourself. But there's no doubt its something that's worth losing that piece over."
>She listens to her intently
>TS: "Because friendship is a beautiful thing that you should always want to have. You know? Because, what is a pony without friendship. What's the point without friends?"
>Diamond Tiara understand everything she said
>DT: "Thanks Twilight, that helped a lot"
>Twilight grins
>TS: "Don't mention it"
>Diamond Tiara leaves the library thinking about what was said to her
>She knew she could never win back Silver Spoon with how she was
>So she couldn't stop focusing on one phrase Twilight said

>What's the point?
Simple. There was no point.

>She determined that without a friend, a way to get that friend back, or any real family...
>There was no point
>She walks home, the phrase burned into her mind
>There is no point


>You are a pony working at a home-improvement store
>Business is pretty slow, so you're almost excited that someone came alone
>You look across the counter
>It's a light pink and white filly
>You didn't know it was Diamond Tiara herself, you treat her like any other customer
>No rules against minors so you ring her up
>She puts one item on the counter for checkout

>A length of rope

>Don't think much of it
>It's just some rope
>You: "That'll be 12 bits"
>The little mare puts the money on the counter and weakly says
>DT: "Thanks"
>You look over to her and say happily
>You: "Don't worry about it"
>She smiles a little bit
>DT: "Th-thanks... you too."
>She walks out of the store with the rope
>She doesn't look back

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