Looking Pink, Feeling Blue

Twilight calmly entered the room.

She scanned her friends, sitting around the Cutie Map. Twilight's marefriend Pinkie was nowhere to be found.

If reading her mind, Applejack said, "We told her that Celestia had a shortage of cake."

A moment of forced laughter passed.

Twilight sat. She knew her friends wanted to know everything that Pinkie's family had told her, but she didn't know how to explain.

Finally, she began. "I do not think that Pinkie should know about this. After speaking with Pinkie's family, I now know that there was a good reason to hide her true feelings.

"I know...I know I should tell you. But I feel as if you already know...everything that I could say."

Everypony hung their heads. After a moment, Rainbow Dash spoke. "Do I have to tell them, then?"

Twilight raised her eyebrow. "What?"

"Twilight, I'd rather not say."

"Say what? I don't understand."

"Twilight, she tried to kill me."

Twilight felt as if the wind had been knocked out of her. She assumed her friends felt the same way. "W-What?"

"It was a long time ago. When she first moved here, she had a lot of...emotions."

"Problems," Rarity chimed in.

"Anyway, I never found out what I did wrong. One day, she invited me over to bake or something. I don't remember exactly. Somehow, she convinced me to go into the basement. I fell asleep. I think she drugged me. When I woke up, I was tied down. Thank Celestia I got out, but I could tell by the other dead bodies and the way I was tied up that I wasn't supposed to wake up."

Twilight looked to her other friends. "Did you...did you know?"

They nodded. "Twi," Rainbow Dash went on, "I had to go to years of therapy. My friends had to help me through it. I'm still pretty sensitive about-"

"You don't have to go on, Dash. I am so sorry. How did she not get arrested or-"

Dash sighed. "No one believed me."

"Except us," AJ said.

That night, Twilight was reading when Pinkie came home. "Twiiiiiiiilight," she called.

Twilight galloped down the stairs. "Did you think I wouldn't find out?"

Pinkie cocked her head. "What do you mean, silly?"

"You almost killed Rainbow Dash. Are you kidding?"

"Twilight, I didn't try to kill her!"

Twilight wanted to explode with rage. She began to cry. "Why do insist on lying?"

Pinkie gently hugged her marefriend. Twilight couldn't help but accept the embrace.