"Well, look at that! The Cutie Mark Goofsaders are doing a pathetic attempt to get a mark. I say we sabotage it!" Diamond Tiara grinned evilly.
"But... what about my suggestion for going to bowl together?" her best friend, Silver Spoon, asked, her ears drooping.
"Not now, Spoon. My plan is way better." Diamond claimed.
"Oh. Okay. So, what are we gonna do?"
"I heard they were gonna go make a garden. We're gonna go make sure they don't have the right plants, and they'll end up growing poison ivy!"
"But wouldn't that..." Silver shook her head. She knew better than to argue with Diamond Tiara. "Never mind. That's a great idea!" she plastered a fake smile across her face.
"I knew you'd agree with me! Now, come on!"
The two rich fillies trotted to the garden shop.
"Oh, hi Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon!" a pink Earth Pony with a yellow mane and tail and gold eyes greeted. The mare had her usual flower in her hair.
"Hi, Miss Lily Valleys!" Silver chimed.
Diamond rolled her eyes and as she banged her hoof on the counter Lily stood behind.
"Listen, Valleys! We want poison ivy seeds! Now!" Diamond demanded.
Lily shivered in fear. This girl was scary, and she was only in kindergarten or first grade!
The mare ran off and got the best poison ivy seeds she could find.
When she came back, Diamond took them and left the store without paying.
The girls planted the seeds, and in a few hours, they grew (thanks to Twilight's magic).
Diamond pulled Silver into a nearby bush when the Crusaders came.
"Ooh, there's stuff already planted here!" Sweetie Belle marveled.
"Let's examine it!" Scootaloo exclaimed.
"Cutie Mark Crusader Plant Observers!" the Crusaders cheered.
As they got closer, Apple Bloom stopped the other two with her hoof. "Wait! There's something about this plant; I can feel it."
Apple Bloom got closer to the plant and looked at it carefully.
"This is all poison ivy! Don't touch it!" Apple Bloom yelled.
The three ran out of the field. When they were out of sight, Diamond started to guffaw.
"Ha, ha, ha. Funny." Silver fake-laughed.
"It would've been funnier is they actually touched it. If only Apple Block didn't ruin it, but oh well! Now I have another idea!" Diamond was just about to explain when Silver interrupted her.
"Di, my birthday is in a few days. It would actually really help me if you stopped talking about this until after my party. Don't worry; we'll go back to the sabotaging business afterwards, I promise."
"Fine. But we'll go back to it after the party."
"Deal,"
They shook their hooves.
"Happy Birthday to you!" everypony sang as Silver blew out the candles.
"What did you wish for? My daddy can go buy it for you 'cause he's so rich!" Diamond bragged. Her father, Filthy Rich, nodded.
The silver filly blushed. "Uh, my wish won't be able to be bought. It's something I'll have to make possible."
"Then what kind of wish is that?" Diamond huffed. She took a slice of cake and then flounced back to her seat.
Silver felt hurt that her best friend was saying this. She then remembered her wish. She knew just what to do.
"Diamond, we need to talk," Silver said.
Silver had made the decision a few weeks ago at her party to talk to Diamond about something important, and she had just worked up the courage to do it.
"I'm not gonna be your friend anymore," Silver announced.
"What?! No one says that to me! Why are you doing this, Sil?!" Diamond fumed.
"Don't call me 'Sil' anymore. Sorry, but I developed a nasty attitude with you around. Remember when I said my birthday wish couldn't be bought, and that I had to create it? That meant wishing for a new and nicer self. Sorry, but we're not BFFs anymore." the silver filly walked away, leaving the pink filly shocked.
The Crusaders were surprised when Silver Spoon approached them at recess. At first, they thought she was going to start bullying them, but they noticed that Diamond Tiara wasn't with her.
"Hey, Spoon," Scootaloo said nervously.
"Hi. Hey, can I ask you a question?" Silver asked.
"Uh, sure," Apple Bloom said.
She and the others were ready for the "Why don't you have a cutie mark?" thing.
But instead, the filly questioned, "Can I hang out with you?"
"Huh?" Sweetie Belle inquired. She wasn't sure if she heard correctly.
"Can I hang out with you?" she repeated.
The Crusaders asked why, and Silver told them about her and Diamond Tiara.
The fillies brightened up. "Sure!" they all said in unison.
Then, Sweetie Belle remembered something and frowned. "But you already have your cutie mark. The Cutie Mark Crusaders is for blank-flanks."
Silver frowned too. "Well... I can help you earn your marks instead," They all brightened up again.
"Yeah!"
From then on, the fillies were friends.
Diamond Tiara sat in the lunchroom all alone as she watched Silver Spoon chat with Apple Bloom, Scootaloo, and Sweetie Belle.
She growled. "I can't believe she ditched me to hang out with those blank-flanks! Well, I'll get my revenge. And it'll be sweet, all right..."
The filly cackled out loud, and everypony in the room looked at her, wondering if she was okay.
"What made you think I'm not okay?!" she said creepily to anypony who asked, and her eye started to twitch.
A lunchroom monitor approached her. "Please be quiet in the cafeteria, and I'll send you to the nurse if you need to go,"
"Oh, I'm perfectly sane. No need for me to leave." Diamond said innocently.
"Okay..." the monitor cautiously trotted away.
When the monitor left, Diamond chuckled darkly. "Heh, heh, heh..."
