A Life of Depression

A Life of Depression

Chapter 2: Life is Terrible

By: Pinky102368

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Starlight was too afraid to meet another pony. They could become friends...and then another Cutie Mark would send them away.

    Of course, this didn't shield Starlight from the torment of losing another friend to a stupid thing like a Cutie Mark.

    Every morning, Starlight finds tears on her pillow from last night. Every single day, she is yelled at by her teacher because instead of doing her work, she gets her paper soggy from her sobbing. At every meal, she doesn't eat much except for maybe one apple. Any good food reminds her of Sugar Belle.

    And any cool spells remind her of Sunburst.

    Everything reminds her of the friends that left her behind because of differences in Cutie Marks.

    It was a normal day of school. Starlight got to her third grade class, put her things in her desk; lay her head down on it; and started crying.

    Why did she cry every morning?

    It was because every time she walks to school, she passes many fillies walking to school and chatting with their own friends--it reminds her of the friends that left her behind.

     Starlight zoned out into her sobbing and eventually fell asleep.

    Her dream was the same dream that she always had--her best friends getting their Cutie Marks, and starting to beat her with words.

    It wasn't exactly a memory of what had happened before--but it still felt very real.

    Starlight was awoken by some tapping on her shoulder.

    "Starlight Shimmer Glimmer! Wake up you lazy brat!"

    Starlight blinked her eyes open and looked up to see her tall teacher.

     Starlight immediately started panicking. This is the fifth time she has fallen asleep in class! She knew she was going to get into big trouble.

     "Starlight Shimmer Glimmer, you are missing very important information again! If you keep this up, I will just laugh at you when you get an 'E' on the test tomorrow!"

     Starlight tried to hold back a gasp. "T-test? W-what test?"

    Her teacher looked taken back by this. Starlight flinched at her face. Then her teacher held up her hoof, and then Starlight felt a sharp pain at her wrist.

    "Ow!" Starlight looked down at her wrist, then at the teacher. Was Starlight blind, or did her teacher just...hit her?

    "YOU WILL LISTEN TO ME NEXT TIME, YOU BRAT!" her teacher shouted at the top of her lungs.

    Silence filled the room. Starlight just now realized that everypony had been staring at the whole situation.

    Starlight just looked down at the floor, and sunk down into her chair. Her wrist still stung, but she just ignored it. Right now her emotional pain felt worse than her physical pain.

    The teacher bent down to Starlight’s ear. “Listen here, Starlight Shimmer Glimmer,” she said with clenched teeth. “You will listen to me you little brat...and always will. Otherwise, you will be a pony with nothing. Now, listen, Starlight Glimmer.” then her teacher looked up at everyone and smiled.

      Then she walked to the board and began the lesson.

       It was on the Elements of Harmony, or otherwise known as the Elements of Friendship.

       Starlight concluded that they were learning mythology, since the Elements of Harmony and the Mare in the Moon is just an old mare’s tale.

       But it still hurt to listen to it.

       Apparently, the Elements of Harmony are ‘honesty, laughter, kindness, generosity, and loyalty. The sixth element had been forgotten.

      Her friends were all like this. Without thinking, Starlight just burst into tears and let her head fall to her desk.

      “Starlight Glimmer! I already told you, shut up, stop pretending to cry, stop being a brat, and listen!” her teacher scolded.

     Starlight ignored her and kept sobbing.

     “Starlight. Glimmer. To the principal’s office. Right. NOW!” the teacher yelled.

Starlight looked up at her teacher with red eyes and gasped.

   The teacher’s face was clear. She needed to go to the principal’s office that second.

    Starlight quietly got up out of her seat, and went out the door to the office.

     Starlight nervously sat in her seat in front of the principal’s desk.

     The principal kept her smile as she walked around, occasionally looking at a book. Was she trying to make Starlight tense?

     Finally, the principal sat down in her desk chair and put her hooves on her desk and smiled.

     “Starlight Glimmer, I understand that you have been sent here for multiple reasons.” she calmly said.

     Starlight nodded.

     The principal turned to her slip of paper on the left side of her desk and read it out loud,

      “Starlight Shimmer Glimmer is being sent to your office because:

      Falling asleep in class

      Not doing work

      Not listening

      Not obeying the teacher

      Refusing to communicate with others."

      The principal put the paper back down and smiled. “I understand that your teacher is Mrs. Chocolate Sugar?”

      Starlight nodded.

      “I see...now please describe these situations in your own words.”

      Describe it? Starlight sat there, motionless and trying to think. After two minutes, she couldn’t even think of a way to describe it! Describing sadness is...painful.

      Starlight just shook her head as a response. “I am sorry, Principal Sky. But this is something I cannot explain.”

      “I see...” Principal Sky replied.

      Principal Sky pulled out an orange slip of paper using her horn and levitation. Then she levitated a pen over, and started filling it out.

      Starlight sat in silence until the principal was done scribbling.

      Principal Sky slid the orange slip of paper towards Starlight, and politely told her to go back to class.

      Starlight walked out of the office levitating the orange slip and reading it.

      She gasped.

      Now she had two days of detention.

      Just great.

      This just made her feel even more alone.

                 -TO BE CONTINUED-