Family Day

                             The school bell rang. Rainbow ambled down the long corridor, reflecting deeply. It seemed to last endlessly. It was deserted and empty and even though she'd hate to admit.... lonely, almost mirroring the current emotions that were painfully being shoved down and kept from surfacing.

                             The lockers were a metallic, deep sea-green. Each locker, however, had a slightly unique shade than the other. Her locker, a brighter shade of sea-green, in particular read "Rainbow's Awesome Locker- Don't touch!! " in carefully sprayed rainbow-coloured, bubble-written graffiti that she'd tagged personally on the front of the locker. She twisted the combination skillfully, no effort included. As the door opened, many heavy books tumbled out of the locker onto the marble hallway floor. Rainbow let out a heavy-hearted sigh of frustration, reluctantly shoved each book into any open space of the messy container of a locker she could see, slammed the locker shut and locked it afterwards. She then continued her ambling down the hall towards the exit.

Today was a cheery day, or at least meant to be one. A day to pass time with those who are the first ever friends one receives immediately from birth, those who've been there for support and accompany you through every stage of life.... those who are family.

"Well... I guess it's back to the same routine, huh?" Rainbow thought to herself. She'd hoped at least one of her friends would've been free so as to spend the day with them, her expectations of that happening weren't that high, as she already expected something like this to be the result. It wasn't like she had to hang out with them 24/7, they needed their personal space as much as she did and it wasn't like she lived a lonesome, miserable life or felt like she needed to be in someone's company constantly. She just figured maybe it would've been nicer to have an etxra somepony to stay with at home with, right? Rainbow had fans and friends there was no need to feel lonely. But for some reason practising stunts to pass time or watching videos wouldn't be the same, though the TV on her mind would wander off, and trying stunts in mid-air would prove dangerous without any proper concentration, which she kept losing, anyway. Nothing just seemed to want to work out as far as she was concerned.

Family Day, which was celebrated throughout Equestria was a well known holiday, all schools and workplaces would close early on the pretence of people getting to spend the whole day with the ones they called family. Her thoughts skipped back to this afternoon before school closed.

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"Twilight and AppleJack are immediately  crossed off the list, and Rarity said something about taking Sweetie Belle to an amusement park near Canterlot." Her thoughts bounced from one friend to another. She soon spotted a certain pink haired pony, who looked like she was waiting in anticipation for someone.

" Pinkie, got any plans for today??....Uh Pinkie??"

Rainbow frowned, perplexed at her cotton-candy friend who was negligent to her words. She stepped closer to Pinkie, raising her voice so she could be heard.

" Hey Pinkie, I-!!" Rainbow's words were immediately cut off.

"MAUDE!!!" screamed Pinkie almost taking her sister and Rainbow ,who was already aware of her, by surprise.

"The college let us take a day off today" Maude spoke in a dry almost robotic tone that sounded like its host body was in a complete state of boredom not capable of feeling anything, which everypony knew was false of course. At certain times, especially when a loved one's life is at stake, Maude proved herself to be very affectionate. " So do you still wanna go to tha-" another interruption from Pinkie Pie.

"YES!!" She squealed ,not giving her dear sister a chance to finish, squeezing her sister in a hug so hard, Rainbow was worried that Maude would pass out any moment from now. Pinkie ceased her death-grip on Maude and spun round facing her now disheartened friend. "What was it you were saying?" questioning in her sing-song voice.

"Oh, it's nothing" lied Rainbow. It took only minutes to break what remaining hope she had left, but she wasn't gonna let it show.

"Okie-Dokie-Lokie" she replied before skipping alongside Maude out of the school.

Pinkie was now crossed off the list. Fluttershy was next. Rainbow searched the school gardens. She found the shy, pale pegasus frolicking with the animals, Barry the bear cradling her in his large, hairy paws. The other animals were either playing or chatting with each other almost as if a little get together was being held. They seemed to be in such great harmony.... Rainbow found no encouragement to even try, what was the point in ruining a thing like this.

She was once again crushed and suddenly the day felt like it'd just gotten longer.

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