The Return of Night Mare

It was not long after she had attained her cutie mark. She had decided to go to the candy store. The store was run by an earth pony, who was usually pretty friendly. On her way to the candy store, she heard a loud high pitch scream. She ran into the candy store, and found the candy store owner. He was on the floor, staring terrified at a huge spider on the ceiling. Young Night Mare's eyes glimmered, and she saw the ghostly illusions of spiders dancing on the shop owner's head.
Looking back, Night Mare remembered how she had used her magic to grab an empty jar on one of the shelves. How she carefully scooped the spider into the jar. And how she gently coaxed it outside.

"Don't worry sir!" She remembered saying. "That spider isn't going to hurt you anymore!"

And very clearly, she remembered how the shop owner stared at her. And how the spiders that were dancing on his head slowly morphed into young Night Mare's face.

She remembered how she tried to apologize, and how she ran out of the shop.

She remembered looking at all of the other ponies, and how they were haunted by the images of her face. And her yellow eyes.

She remembered hearing some of the foals talking.

"Oh no! There goes that little Demon-Eyes!"

"Ugh I swear those eyes of hers haunt my nightmares!"

She remembered running.

And running.

And running.

Until she felt like she couldn't run anymore.
She remembered the Everfree Forest. There were no faces to look at there. Just trees, and flowers.
And the moon.
She remembered how fun it was at first. And then how lonely it got. How much she wanted to go back. But how scared she was to go back after all this time. How scared she was of being rejected again.

And then she remembered Nightmare Moon.