When Your Best isn't Good Enough

Sunrise awoke one morning, her window was open, birds were singing and the sounds of bustling Ponyville was below her second floor window. She happily rolled out of bed (quiet literally rolled). She brushed her mane and tail and brushed her teeth and washed her face; she then trotted downstairs to breakfast. When she got there she froze in terror as she recognized the facial expressions of her parents and older sibljngs. The younger siblings were looking away knowing what was about to ensue.

"What's going on? Why are my school records laid out like evidence for a jury?"

Her father's booming voice could've rattled the very rafters of the house, "You have been getting nothing but C's, you're about to flunk science, and you're not even cutting it close with music! What the hell are doing? Are you even fucking trying? damn it!"

Sunrise cringed and opened to reply when Sandstone slapped her across the face with a book, "You're wortheless! I should've let my friends have you........then you'll be worth something!"

She knew what her brother meant by "let my friends have you", they were pervs and she shuddered. Daffodil laid it on thick, "why can't you have been born with something to contribute? Mom and dad should've have aborted you when we saw how small you were gonna be!" Her mother nodded in agreement.

When agreeing with Daffodil, she added, "You bring more disgrace than you know. You're the product of an affair I had........every day I wish I had ended the pregnancy, you're just a reminder of what I had done "

By this point Sunrise felt her eyes water, and her heart break like a fine crystal glass after it hits the floor.