She was coming.

This was it. After all the other times of narrowly avoiding it, now was the time. She had to come clean. She had to stand up and face it. It had been months- no- years, since she had seen her. It felt like centuries, and that's just how she liked it. She wanted it to be that long. She wished it could be that long. But you can only hide for so long. The worst part was that it was not her, he was coming too. That just made her an even bigger nervous wreck. She couldn't have just gone the rest of her life without ever seeing them again. She prayed at times that they would just forget about her, but no one can. It would be too hard for anypony. How does one just go about forgetting their own siblings? Especially if they were triplets. She knew what ponies said about twins and triplets. They're rare, and because of the rarity, they never forget about each other. They are all that each other has. They have a bond that nopony can ever break or come between. Fluttershy only laughed at that. She knew better. She knew way better. There was never anything between her and her siblings. Nothing but the fact that they shared the same parents and birthday. That was that. Nothing more.

Fluttershy flew frantically around her whole cottage. It was very rare that the pastel Pegasus ever did. Usually she just paced, but no- this was a flying worthy worry. She was so worried she even asked Discord to kindly leave her alone for the weekend. No matter how bad he took it, she did not care. Not at the immediate moment, at least. She said the same to her friends, who took it better than she had thought. Her animals seemed concerned for her, but she tried to reassure them. They didn't buy it, though. They knew her too well. It was very rare that anypony ever saw her so nervous. The only other time that they do is on Nightmare Night, where she would shut herself into her home and scream at any visitors that she received. Nopony ever asked why if she was as nervous, anyway. They all assumed it was for good reason, though she has the reputation of being scared of the tiniest things. But nopony ever questioned her. She was too fragile when in that state.

It always went like this. Fluttershy would have to put on her best to impress her siblings every time she was the one roped into hosting their “reunions.” No matter how hard she tried, however, it never pleased them. Her sister called her life too “boring.” Her brother tried to be more polite, often times calling it “simplistic” or “quaint.” Both were very successful(and rich, to say the least) in their short lives, while they viewed her simple happy life to be unsuccessful. No matter what she accomplished, Fluttershy felt as though it was never enough for her brother and sister, as they always found some way to one-up her in pride. Both had huge egos, and loved to flaunt them as much as possible around their shy younger sister. There were even times, that Fluttershy even knew of, where they would only admit to having a twin. Not two. Not to being a triplet. Fluttershy herself, though, could be guilty of this. She did not tell her friends that she herself had siblings until a little after the whole Changeling fiasco.

She shook like a leaf. As her siblings seemed to be showing up late,(as they often do to... well... everything) Fluttershy decided to just dust her cottage one last time. The first pony to usually show up was her brother, and he was the most critical with how the location of reunions looked. Her brother was a very successful and acclaimed architect back in her hometown of Cloudsdale. He even apparently had done some work on Rainbow Dash's home, as he was one of the only home constructors that implemented personal rainbows into cloud homes. He had an eye for detail and was very precise with just about everything that he did. Many times he had offered to give Fluttershy's humble cottage “a little spruce up,” but she had declined each offer. Each time she did, he would often say something along the lines of “I don't work with earth materials, anyway. Now, what you need, is a cloud home!” As if she was only but a client to him, not a sister. He never treated their sister that way. Never, because she shared the same fame and wealth as he did. Ever since the days that they achieved such they stopped treating her as family. Though they barely ever did in the first place, their rise to fame made it final. They never viewed her as a sister, and in Fluttershy's mind, probably never will. She was always just the there. Always just the third one. To everypony.

Fluttershy's sister was usually around double their brother in lateness. She always had an excuse as well, unlike him. “Well, you know, practice and all takes a while... We just finished a show, like, an hour ago! You can't expect flying from Cloudsdale to here to take, like, three seconds you know!... I was just discussing some routines with the rest of the team. The meeting took a little longer than expected...” Were among her sisters favorite excuses. Being the forgiving and kind spirit she was, Fluttershy couldn't help but just sigh and forgive her siblings for being late. Only once had Fluttershy raised her voice to her siblings. They learned their lessons then. For that one day, Fluttershy was finally treated as an equal. But that day is long gone, and a new one is afoot. A new day where her siblings throw out any memories of ever showing genuine love and care towards the poor Pegasus and only showed her pity. A day where she was always the lower, just because of how she chose to live her life.

As if right on cue, there was a knock at her door.

Author's Note

first story! i really hope you all like it! if you want more, please tell me and i will submit the second chapter! for any mistakes: i am very sorry about that and i am working on fixing them as soon as possible. please enjoy! :)