The Kids

"Darling, you'll have a splendid time at this school, I just know it. The fashion activity club there, I started you know." Emerald Eyes's mother Rarity started to speak.

"Mom, I've told you time and time again. I'm not like you. I never will be. You listen to classical music, I listen to hardcore rap. You absolutely love fashion, I don't give a shit what I wear or what people think of me. I don't care! I'm not you, I never will be you." Emerald started to scream.

Even though Emerald Eyes looked just like her mother, with purple hair, only a bit shorter, and pail skin, Emerald Eyes was nothing like her mother. Emerald wanted to be herself, and Rarity couldn't see that.

"Darling, your nails are starting to grow... along with your teeth." Rarity started to back up. "Spike, darling!"

Spike, Emerald's father, came rushing in the room. "What's going on? What happened?"

Rarity hid behind Spike. "I was telling her about all the wonderful programs at Canterlot High and she got upset... I don't know what I said!"

"You know exactly what you said! It's the same thing you've been saying my whole life!" Emerald Eyes was steaming.

"I'm sorry, darling. I just want the best for you." Rarity tried explaining herself.

"Don't want the best for me, okay?" Emerald Eyes started calming down. There was so much that she hadn't told her mother, because she knew that there was no point. Emerald already told Rarity that she didn't want to be like her, but if she told her mother that she was gay? Hah! Emerald Eyes would probably be disowned. Emerald didn't hate her mother, and despised the fact that she looked like her.

"What is wrong, darling? You used to tell me everything, and it seems like this past year, you've.... drifted." Rarity sat on Emerald's bed, and Spike left.

"Nothing is the matter. You wouldn't care, and you'd probably disown me. Look, I'm getting ready for high school." Emerald Eyes looked at her mother.

"Try me." Rarity simply said.

Emerald Eyes sighed and closed her eyes. "I like females. I always have."

Rarity stood up, and put a hand on Emerald's shoulder. "Darling," she smiled, "you're to young to know what you like, you're not even 16 yet. Wait until next year, yes?"

"I don't want you as a mother anymore." Emerald Eyes grabbed her luggage and left.

As Emerald, Spike and her brother Dragon Heart got to the school, Spike turned to Emerald Eyes. "You need to forgive your mother."

Emerald laughed. "She told me I wasn't old enough to know what I liked, I beg to differ. She rejected my sexuality."

Spike looked down. "I will talk to her, okay? I know you and mom have never seen eye to eye, but, something has got to give. You do love your mom, right?"

Emerald Eyes scoffed.

"Em."

"Yes, I love my mom."

"Good, then I'll talk to her. She wants nothing but the best for you. I know that, because she's been saying it ever since you were born. She wouldn't even let me hold you until you were five months old."

"Yeah, and she's been telling me to get a boyfriend. I'm gonna laugh when I find a girlfriend here."

Spike nodded and hugged his daughter. "Whoever you find, make sure you don't get hurt, okay?"

Emerald Eyes hugged her father back. "Of course, daddy. I love you. But, I gotta go get my key, and see where the hell I'm going."

"Go, have fun and we'll see you at Christmas."

"Bye" Emerald placed a kiss on Spike's cheek and just like that she was gone.