Fractured Diamonds
The smile that never fades; that's what all the girls said throughout the school. She might not be the happiest person. That title went to everyone's favorite party girl Pinky! She might not be the most athletic. That clearly went to Rainbow Dash. The most kind and the most intelligent clearly went to Fluttershy and Twilight. She definitely had something that no one else in the school had: she had class!
The beautiful high school student glided down the halls of her high school. All the boys stopped to stare at her radiant beauty. Once her gaze met theirs they'd sheepishly look away. Her crystal blue eyes were well hidden behind her long lashed eyes. Her purple eye shadow accented them well. Perfection was jut something that naturally came to Rarity.
Beside her was her adorable boyfriend, Spike. Grace didn't come naturally to him at all. The tall lanky boy dressed in a purple hoodie. His green hair hid his eyes slightly. He firmly took Rarity's hand in his. He knew something the rest of the world didn't know about his beloved girlfriend. Something the rest of the world would never see behind that radiant smile and charisma. He didn't dare share her secret either.
“Rarity! What do you think of these party decorations? The school dance is right around the corner and everything has to be perfected to perfection!” Pinkie exclaimed. She began to jump up and down while holding the different decorations.
“Hold still Darling. I can't seem to get a good look.” She stopped and looked at the decorations. They were all so different. Each one seemed to clash with the others. She gave Pinky a weak smile as she saw bright florescent colors mixing with dull colors. Nothing seemed to add up right. Her friend was definitely into some interesting stuff these days. “Are you going for a 60's theme, dear?” Rarity hoped this would make everything make more sense.
“You mean you can't tell? It's supposed to be a super stupendous kaleidoscope of colors! Surely you got it!”
“Perhaps you should concentrate on the sweets and leave the decorating to me?” She said this almost pleadingly. She could always use a distraction at home to take her mind off of things. Pinky shrugged and handed her the props.
“Fine! I just TRIED to make things EASIER on you this year!” She sighed. Just then Fluttershy was walking up. “FLUTTERSHY! I have to make THE perfect cupcakes this year for the dance! Come with me! You HAVE to try them!”
“The dance isn't for a while,” Fluttershy said sheepishly. She looked anxious to get away from Pinkie and get back to her petting zoo responsibilities.
“That's why we have to start NOW! So many FLAVORS we can try!” She had stars in her eyes as she dragged Fluttershy to the home economics room.
Rarity let out a sigh of relief. She then turned to Spike. “Perhaps I could come over to your house and make some plans Spikey-Wikey.”
Spike smiled. “I don't know how Twilight would feel about that, but I'll try to talk her into it.” She didn't even want Twilight knowing anything. It was really hard for Spike not to tell her. The two gazed into each other's eyes as the school bell rang. Rarity's eyes caught a small glint of sadness before she forced herself to carry her normal sassy charisma. Spike put a hand on Rarity's cheek and smiled warmly to try and make her feel better. He then handed her back her books and whispered in her ear gently, “I promise I'll do what I can.” He pressed his lips against her soft cheek and inhaled her perfume. He walked away with the same dazed look on his face he had since the first day he met her. This made her smile and lifted her spirits a little; that was until she started to walk home.
It felt like a storm was brewing inside of her stomach. What would she be walking into today? As soon as she walked into the house and shut the door her composure dropped. She set her books down on the desk and began to slump onto her bed. She heard the screaming outside of her door. “That girl never does shit around here! All she does is make fucking dresses!”
“That's because you never make her do shit around here! You always leave it up to me! You never have any compassion for me! You always make me do everything! The parenting! The cooking! The cleaning! Maybe I'll go find a better man! Maybe someone who deserves me!” her mother shouted. There was a huge slam. Her mother walked out again.
Rarity looked up at the ceiling. Her long amethyst hair fell down behind her as she tried to escape it all. Poor Sweetie Belle moved out a while back. Her sister was so rebellious. She was taken in by her good friend Apple Bloom and her family. They didn't know the reason why. Sweetie Belle knew better than to say a word to anyone. Rairty's blue eyes filled with tears. She decided to get out of bed and do something to make the situation better.
Her friends taught her that people do things like this because they're in pain too. That's all. They don't have any other ways to release it. She began to pick up the dishes in the sink and scrub them. She loaded the dishwasher. She began to sing out loud to make herself feel less hopeless, “I'm the kind of person every person in the world should know.” As she sang out loud she began to feel better. Soon butterflies welled in her stomach. Cleaning made the adrenaline pump. In a strange way scrubbing the counters down was a release. Soon she had the vacuum in her hands. The whole house was beginning to shine like diamonds! Everything was coming together so well! “This is the art of cleaning!” Rarity sang with a big smile on her face. “Step by step making it look brighter! Piece by piece making everything shine! Removing the dust off all of the pictures! Room by room making sure everything shines!”
Soon the house was beautiful! No one could argue with how amazing the inside looked! It was record time too. She got back to her room to listen to what her parents had to say about her work. “Worthless,” her mother said. “The damn girl doesn't do anything all damn day! All she does is sit around in that room planning on how to make those stupid dresses! Who thinks she could become a fashion designer?!? How could she think that! She needs a real career!”
She heard her father's footsteps and hoped someone would rise to her defense. Her heart sank as she heard him speak. “Wow! You cleaned all this while I was gone! Honey, it looks amazing!”
“It'd be better if Rarity would help! Worthless piece of shit! I wish they'd all get out and leave me alone! All of them should go and find somewhere else to live!”
Rairty wrapped her sheets around her and curled into a ball. It wouldn't have been so bad if she didn't have it ingrained into her day after day. Worthless. Useless. Stupid. Day after day it began to wear at her. Eat at her. There was only one thing left to do: disappear. Yes. That would make all of their problems go away! She looked around her room and began to find something to make it happen. Suddenly she found it: pills.
At first she felt nothing as the pile of pills plopped into her stomach. Then she felt something go horribly wrong. The world began to spin. She felt awkwardly cold and hot all at once. Everything was rushing out. “She's tried to kill herself! She can't even do that right! Even if she does it won't matter! No one will miss her! If they do it'll only be for a day or so.”
In the end nothing could reach her. The girl wanted one thing in her life: to see her parents smile like they did in the pictures she dusted. In the beginning everything was beautiful. Her mother had beautiful amethyst hair. Her father had a deep orchid. Both had amazing blue eyes. Each had class and taste. Over time the crazed look in her mother's eyes grew worse and worse. The torture and wear on her father's face began to show. It was amazing how insanity could claim one family. It was also amazing how it could take the life of someone who was loved so dearly.
Every student at the school was effected in some way or another. Twilight did her best to make the decorations from a book. Pinkie Pie's cupcakes fell more flat. Fluttershy was more reserved than normal. She clung more to her girlfriend Rainbow Dash. Apple Jack did her best to pry answers out of Sweetie Belle. The one who was the most effected was Spike himself.
Spike looked out into a sea of black. His lips were pursed together. A diamond necklace hung around his neck. “Rarity was the best girlfriend anyone could have.” His green eyes narrowed under his freshly cut bangs. “Rarity was someone we all looked up to and loved. She helped us year after year make our lives a more beautiful place.” He looked over at the corpse of his girlfriend. His green eyes filled with tears as he looked outwards towards the audience once more. “Everyone should stick closer together. We should all speak out more.” As he said this his eyes met Sweetie Belle's gaze. She looked downwards in her chair in shame. “More importantly we should all do our best to make the world a more beautiful place and learn to be better people. She was so giving and tried to make the world a better place. Even for those who didn't deserve it.” He looked at her parents with cold eyes. He put his hands in his hoodie pockets and walked off stage.
Twilight looked at Spike and put a hand on his shoulder. “I'm really sorry I couldn't convince Mom and Dad to let Rarity stay over more. Maybe we could've worked something out with Apple Jack and her folks. Maybe we could've tried harder. Maybe...” Her voice trailed off.
Spike smiled. “Rarity knows you did everything you could. Nobody blames anyone Twilight. She did everything she could to hold herself up high so no one had to know what she was going through. To this day she's still the strongest person I've ever known. Sometimes they wouldn't just cuss. Sometimes they'd throw stuff. Sometimes they'd even break dishes. They'd lie. They were cruel. They were cold. Nothing gives Rarity to do what she did to us though. That was cruel. That was colder!” Spike gripped Twilight's shoulders so hard that tears welled up in her eyes. He began to shake her. “SHE LEFT ME! SHE LEFT ME ALL ALONE! NOW WHAT DO I DO?”
Twilight held Spike in silence. This was one of the few times the smartest girl in school didn't have the answer. “I've been there for you before. I'll be there for you now. Little by little we'll pick you up. We're always here for you Spike.” She knew very well he was often over shadowed. Before he dated Rarity he was just the geeky boy that her parents adopted. They mostly used him to carry their books and drive them places. In return he wasn't picked on and was able to get close to Rarity. Things would have to change now.
Across the field Fluttershy sat with Rainbow Dash. The two girls looked up at the field. Rainbow Dash let out a long sigh. She felt like doing anything then sitting here with her girlfriend right now. She could be going for a run, playing soccer, or hitting something. But for right now Fluttershy needed her. She was inspired by the way Rarity remained silent and held up a front. Then again was it so cool? Was it so tough? Rainbow punched the ground. “She should've told us!”
Fluttershy looked up startled. “I...I know. But what could we have done?”
“Listened! Doing something is better than nothing! So she was so tough, huh? She felt so low, huh? She felt so cool keeping all of this to herself! So the cool thing was to leave us behind!” She was kind of sad that the hottest girl in school was dead. When she first laid eyes on Rarity she knew that was her! That was going to be the girl she pursued! The hottest most difficult challenge in school was going to be hers! Instead Rarity ended up dating spike. She sighed and looked down to Fluttershy. Rainbow ran her fingers through her girlfriend's soft pink hair. Her magenta eyes narrowed. “Hey! I'm sorry!” She felt her girlfriend start to tremble. “It's going to be alright, okay?” She held Fluttershy closer to her chest as she felt hot tears running down her cheeks. Rainbow kissed the top of her pink hair. “It's going to be alright. I promise.” She ran her hands down her yellow jacket.
Fluttershy looked up at Rainbow Dash. “Could we...could we have done anything...?”
She shook her head. “This was Rarity's fight. Not ours. We couldn't have...” Her voice trailed off as she remembered something that seemed important in retrospect. She walked past the school steps and saw Rarity's bracelets shift. Beneath them were very thin scratches. She figured they were just from her cat. That was it, right? Her cat? “I'm not sure. But we're going to keep a better eye out on our friends from now on and make a pact to tell eachother everything, okay?”
“O..okay...” Fluttershy looked up at Rainbow. “I...I...I really don't like sports...the losing team always looks so sad. It's very loud...and...and...”
Rainbow chuckled. “That's a great start.” She kissed her girlfriend's lips. The two girls wore matching diamond bracelets. She looked back and saw Twilight's diamond earrings shimmering in the sunlight. Smirking Rainbow Dash held up the bracelet. The prism caught the sunlight. Even now their friend was continuing to make everything beautiful in her own way. Even Rainbow Dash couldn't help stopping to admire it.
The small rainbows caught the attention of Apple Jack. She looked at the couple talking. She assumed that they were talking about Rarity. She looked down at Sweetie Belle. “None of this was your fault, ya hear?” She flashed her a warm smile.
“I should've said something,” Sweetie Belle said with a sigh. “If I said something then none of this would've happened.
“You did what you felt you had to. She did what she felt she had to. I can't say who was right and who was wrong, but I sure do wish she found a better way to go about things.” Apple Jack sighed. “She wasn't the easiest person to get along with, but she sure was a darn good friend!” She hugged Sweetie Belle reassuringly while looking over to her parents' empty seats. “Well, I reckon it's time to put her in the ground and say good-bye for good now.”
Sweetie Belle looked at the empty seats. “Do you think they'll stop now?”
“Not real sure what they'll do. I just hope that they realize something. They must have by not being here. Or maybe they didn't. Either way they can't hurt either of you now.”
Sweetie Belle nodded. In her hand she clutched a shimmering rose with a diamond on it. Apple Jack helped Sweetie Belle tie her diamond around a ribbon. She looked up. “I think my sister will like it.”
Apple Jack smiled. She debated on whether or not to put her diamond in the casket. She decided against it knowing that Rarity would want the five of them to stay together no matter what. She binded them in some way now. “Friendship never ends. We'll meet again someday. Until then let's all do our best for Rarity to make sure nothing like this ever happens again.”
