There comes a time in anypony's life where they just feel like the unluckiest pony alive. Where you just feel like Discord is pulling your strings and is letting bad events just happen one after another, usually it only happens once or twice in a pony's life time. Except for Lily Springs, perhaps the most unluckiest mare alive. It seemed to be her special talent, messing things up and dropping everything. She was branded as unreliable and untrainable. It was not her fault, she was just very unlucky. She tried to explain that so many times to her employers but they just never seemed to understand. Each time they pointed their finger to the door and yelled, "You're fired!"

Lily stopped sifting through the soaps and let her gaze fall down as she remembered all of the hurtful words that were thrown at her sometimes. Keeping her gaze to the floor she whispered, "Don't worry Lily, that's all in the past now."

It however did not stop the feelings from hurting every time she saw them in public, that unwelcoming stare of discomfort and hatred that never seemed to falter from their face. She was already up to her neck in debt from all of the stuff she has broken, not even having it all paid off. She needed to find some place where it was alright to screw up.

Lily brightened up as she said out loud, "Like a construction site!...no too much machinery that could end up hurting somepony very badly...what about a desk job? A nice secretary?..."

That thought quickly died as she heard the computer spark in the other room. Not cut out for that either.

She picked up the soaps and decided that the one she first picked up would be good. Besides, it sounded very pleasant. "Red Rose and White Lotus Soap", if that does not sound pleasant then she does not know what does. She put the other bottles back where they belonged and went to step away and as she predicted, an entire row of soap came crashing to the floor. She knew it would happen, she saw it play out in her mind. Did she do anything to stop it? No. Could she do anything to stop it? As much as she wanted to, no she could not. She tried with every fibre of her being to stop, but nothing seemed to work. She tried it all. Classes to talk about her problems, relieve stress, drink some coffee, drink some Niquil, Tai-Chi. Nothing seemed to work. The only time she did not feel like she could mess up anything was when she was flying.

The wind rushing against her, the cold spray of breaking apart clouds, the tingly sensation when she smashed a thunder cloud. Her therapist had suggested getting a job as a weather pony but she did not pass the right classes in flight school to qualify for the position of being on the weather team. To which her therapist responded that perhaps she should compete in races. Lily smiled at the memory and repeated word for word exactly what she said that day, "I entered a competition when I was a filly and let's just say that due to technicalities I won first place. And by technical I mean that I caused the other contestants to trip and fall at the starting line."

Lily considered it a blessing that she grew into her unluckiness, it was worse when she was a filly. Every building she entered seemed to reduce to rubble. She had taken down a library, a mail office, a government building, and a school house. Not counting the dozens of apartment buildings and friend's houses she had burned down, not on purpose. Now she could actually walk into a supermarket and get what she needs with minimal property damage. Bruising an apple here, tearing down an entire display there. It was all covered in the expenses. She thanked Celestia that they never pressed charges.

Lily picked up the mess she had caused and continued on her way out to deliver the soap to the awaiting mares in the sauna. Lily was a born and raised mare of Ponyville so she knew the inside of the spa from the many times that her mother took her along. It was much smaller and more rustic back then. No pristine coat of pain on the walls, fancy wallpapers, no fancy patterns along the walls. Although she had to admit both the old building and the new building had style and elegance, but they held two very separate identities. Her shoes clicking on the granite floor as she traversed the hallway to the back sauna.

She slid the door open and entered in. A fairly good amount of steam accumulated in the room and she became the center of attention as the two mares looked towards her. The yellow one looked in slight fear, hiding behind her pink hair as a wall and the other beaming with happiness, a gentle smile on her pristine and beautiful white face. Her indigo hair curled and expertly combed, perhaps taking a good half hour if not a full hour to get it that shape. She smirked as Lily crossed the room and said, "Here is your soap!"

The one that was known as Rarity smiled but the other one named...oh what was it...butterfly?...answered behind her slight curtain of hair, "Thank you Lily, that will be all for now."

"If you need anything just holler!" Lily said back as she stepped out of the sauna. Closing the door behind her and pressing her back against the door, releasing a large sigh.

Lily closed her eyes and said to herself, "I am so fired..."

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Lily initially did not have any concern with the most recent customers, most of the day was empty considering that Aloe and Lotus were away. But now the moaning and yells that are coming from down the hallway made Lily have room for concern. They did not sound in trouble, at least their tone of voice made it sound like they were fine. But the volume of each sound seemed to increase as time went on. It had been a full five minutes and the sounds worried Lily.

Initial curiosity told her to sneak a peak inside to see what was the matter. But something deep inside her told her that she should just leave the mares alone. They sounded like they were enjoying themselves, perhaps overly so.

Her head shot down as she repaired the light fixture on the ceiling and heard the familiar jingle of the bell above the door. She silently prayed to the goddesses that it was not another customer. From the noises from down the hall and the mess she had to clean up she did not want to tend to another customer, though she would do it if she had to. But, however, she blew out a sigh of relief as she saw the familiar spa pony mares come inside. They seemed to have their arms full of supplies and they stopped as they saw Lily on a step ladder repairing a light fixture. Aloe asked, "Sweet Celestia, what happened?"

Lily cracked her jaw and responded to her Prench accented boss, "I apologize for all that you might see, I will pay for all of this and hopefully you won't fire me..."

They both walked past the step ladder and Lotus went to walk behind the front desk, as she walked Lotus chuckled and said, "It will have to take a lot more than-woah! Was the computer on fire!"

Lily rested her face in her hand and replied, "Yes."

"What happened to the plumbing in the men's bathroom!?" Aloe cried out from the nearby room that held the "Men" sign with a silhouette of a stallion standing. The door ajar and Lily just now noticing that water was now leaking into the lobby.

Lily pressed two fingers to the bridge of her nose and raised her hand nonchalantly, "Me."

She felt her foot slip and she came toppling down to the ground and slammed hard into the floor. She rubbed her head as she groaned at the pain. She sat up and Lotus came by to offer her a lift up and Lily took the offer kindly. Standing up and still rubbing her head she explained, "I'm sorry about this, I will-"

"What is that noise?"

"Which one? The sound of water coming out from copper pipes? The sparks occasionally going off of the computer?-"

"I meant the moaning?"

Lily listened back to the moaning and responded waving a hand dismissively, "Oh those are just some customers-"

"What? Those are-*sigh*- never mind...just...what exactly were their names?"

Lily scratched her head and replied, "Well...I think one of them was named Rarity and the other one was...oh...Butterfly? Something like that."

"Fluttershy." Lotus corrected.

Lily saw as she had suppressed anger deep beneath her, trying to keep it buried. She breathed out heavily and said, "What kind of soap did you give them?"

"What?"

"What. Kind. Of. Soap. Did you. Give them?"

Lily thought back and remembered the label and said the name, "The Red Rose and White Lotus Soap?"

Lotus let out a long irritated breath before she rubbed the bridge of her nose and said out loud, "You mean to tell me, that you gave two of our most famous regulars a shampoo that changes the hormones of ponies to make it so that they have sex with each other? Have you lost your Celestia forsaken mind?"

Lily shrunk, "I didn't know they were regulars..."

"Their names were in the computer?!"

Lily twiddled her fingers and replied, "The computer broke before I had enough time to remember the names of the regulars-"

"And why would you just randomly grab some soap off the shelves?!?" Lotus yelled, "If you actually took time to read the labels then you would have figured out that there are certain soaps for certain situations!"

Lily went to say something in return but it died down in her throat and she slumped her shoulders, realizing her defeat and she said closing her eyes taking off her apron, "I'll go get my things and see myself out..."

Lily walked by the desk one last time and as if out of pure dumb luck she heard the computer burst into flames once more. Soon all sounds were drowned out of her head and she could only listen again to the many hurtful comments that were thrown her way.

Author's Note

Hope you guys liked this final BONUS CHAPTER!!!!

A little back story behind Lily Springs so that I can get you guys excited for other clopfics that might have her make an appearance. I can't say which ones because I want it to be a surprise....sssssshhhhhhh.