Fluttershys secret

chapter 2

No one could be trusted but herself.

Each day, though she revealed herself to those she passed with no other emotion save a soft smile, away from prying eyes in the privacy of the meager room she had to make do with as her humble abode, the ban that checked her tears faded and they were rain bitterly down her cheeks in a flood.

She cried for the dead father she would never see again and wept for the cold cruel world that showed her no kindness despite her best attempt at being as kind hearted as she knew how. And fell asleep still shaking uncontrollably and fluid still seeping from her already sore and reddened eyes.

It wasn't easy for Fluttershy to live on, having to stomach the tragic past. She knew she could never bring herself to deal with it any more than she could bring herself to come to terms with it. The pain would forever feel as sore to her as the day it instilled itself deep within her aching heart and soul.

To poor Fluttershy the past was never dead, it wasn't even even past.

Fluttershy had a lot of painful secrets she acknowledged she might never reveal even with her dying breath, but one secret brought her already miserable existence from intolerable to abysmal.

It was a terrible secret she alone would know or acknowledge. A secret so sinister that it seemed like nothing more than a tale to scare children into behaving.

A secret she hid in her heart knowing that even if she announced it to the world she would only be branded a liar and executed without mercy.

That daunting and awful, awful secret which Fluttershy kept deep within her already shattered heart, was one that she and she alone would realize was the sad truth.

And that secret involved a deep and evil betrayal. It involved a liar, a deceiver and a duplicitous and devilish demon who had long since sacrificed any chance of redemption.

And it was with a heavy heart that Fluttershy happened to know this deceitful villain as one of her closest friends before having to come to terms with just how close he had come to tricking her like he did the rest of her friends who were sadly not as smart as she was, and were too trusting to see the faults of those they placed their trust upon.

She had come so close to finally being able to trust someone but was both glad she never got that far, and deeply frustrated at the depth of the betrayal which only cemented her paranoia further.

That evil scheming monster and vain, two faced vampire who she had come so close to placing her complete trust upon had a name that it hurt her to even think about.