“What?!” Thorax’s shocked yell echoed through the halls, “But why? Flurry, I thought our relationship was going well. Why are you breaking up with me?” He asked, tears leaking through his magenta eyes.
The said princess, Flurry Heart, turned around to face her about-to-be-former coltfriend. Her facial expression was a combination of furious and upset, “You really think I want to break up with you?! I don’t! This isn’t my choice to make, Thorax-! My parents would never allow me to date another species. Let alone a changeling!”
The changeling king finally stopped holding back his tears and let them out. Hearing those words hurt more than the time Chrysalis had tried to drain out all the love from him. It stabbed his heart to hear them from the only mare he has ever loved.
He took in a shaky breath, “Are you sure it’s your parents who won’t allow it? Or is it just you who doesn’t want me?” He asked coldly, looking away.
Now, it was Flurry’s turn to be shocked, “Wha-? Thorax! How could you say that?! I love you more than anyone or anything in the world, but even you know that my parents won’t let their daughter date a changeling,” She cried.
“I don’t get why you care so much about what your parents think of our relationship. I thought you loved me!” He shouted, coming up to her face so that their muzzles were touching.
Flurry put one of her hooves on Thorax’s chest and pushed him away from her, “I DO! I really do love you, Thorax. Why can’t you see that?! Is my love for you not clear enough all this time we were dating? You’ve known me ever since I was a baby! You were practically my childhood partner,” She took a moment to catch her breath, trying to sniff away her tears.
“Again, if you love me then how come you’d be willing to break up with me as soon as your parents see what we truly think of each other?”
“Be- Because I... B-Because... Um, I, uh, I-I...” She was speechless, stuttering over her words, trying to find a good excuse. But she found none.
Thorax sighed, his angered face suddenly only holding sorrow and betrayal. He shook his head and turned around to head for the exit, “That’s what I thought...” He took slow steps away from her, “You don’t truly love me like I love you.”
Flurry’s ears fell down to the sides of her head, “But I-I didn’t mean to,” She whispered, quietly enough so that all Thorax heard was some mumbled words.
His hoofsteps slowly descended into nothing as the Princess of Light was left with nothing but the darkness of the crystal halls. Some Princess of Light she was. She couldn’t even stay in the light, let alone keep it with her.
Her knees buckled and she lost all her balance as she crumpled to the crystal-clean floor. She dug her face into her polished hooves and cried her eyes out until they were dry and no more tears were left to shed.
The pain in her chest hurt so bad, but there wasn’t anything she could do about it. She had pushed Thorax away and it was all her fault. Not his, not her parents’, but hers. It was all hers.
She felt her heart break into a trillion pieces. As soon as she had mentioned the breakup to Thorax, her heart already shattered into a million pieces, but now, they were even smaller than they were before.
For the first time in her twenty-one years of existence, she was more heartbroken than ever. Sure, she’s dated some other colts in the past and broke up with them, but she had never loved them like she had loved Thorax.
She’s dated at least 10 colts and all of them were ponies. Her parents kept courting her with a guy she didn’t know, but she listened to them anyway since she was their obedient little girl. She remembered dating Pound Cake. In all honesty, he was the most decent out of all the guys, but they didn’t like each other like that.
Pound had a crush on another pony pegasus at the time. She loved to tease him about the pegasus on their ‘dates’ and even though she wasn’t the best pony in the entirety of Equestria, Cozy Glow was cute and pretty and nice after she had reformed.
But that wasn’t the point. The point was that she had never felt more loved by anyone before Thorax. He gave her love. He gave her comfort. He gave her light. He was her light in the clouds of darkness.
She never even got to find out if he felt the same love, comfort, and light from her like she did from him.
“Tho- Thorax... I’m so so sorry. P-Please, forgive me,” She sobbed lightly.
The sky was starting to fade from the light of the sun to the fading one of the moon. It was practically the evening now and she had broken up with Thorax in the afternoon. She’d been crying for way longer than she thought she had. Heck, there weren’t even tears coming out of her eyes anymore, they were too dry to let out anymore.
Flurry would never forgive herself for putting that much sorrow and betrayal on Thorax’s feelings. When she first dated him, she never thought she’d be the one to hurt him, to break him. But she did. She really was the monster here, and she wasn’t about to lie about that.
The Princess of Light never left her spot. Only doing so when she woke up the next morning, light sobs still escaping her dehydrated and hungry self.
She forced herself to get up and walk to her room. She couldn’t be seen like this, such an ugly mess. It wasn’t princessy and she was supposed to be presentable.
Once she reached her room, she changed her necklace to the one that Thorax gave to her and brushed her hair, styling it to her formal princess hair. The entire time she was having breakfast with her parents, she kept fidgeting with her special necklace.
“Flurry, is something wrong?” Her mother, Cadence, asked in concern.
She just shook her head with a mumble of, “No.”
Shining Armor, her dad, quirked a brow and said, “You don’t look okay. Are you sure nothing’s wrong, sweetie?”
“Mm-m. Nothing’s wrong, dad. Just tired and hungry,” She sighed, her head resting beside her plate.
Cadence’s concern seemed to get worse as she pointed out, “But you aren’t eating your food. And you just told us that you had the best night’s rest last night.”
Flurry didn’t answer, just mumbled weird noises that sounded tired, sad, mad, and annoyed.
Shining sighed, feeling rather impatient with his daughter’s denial, “Come on, Flurry Heart. We’re your parents, you can tell us anything,” He assured her, but Flurry just shook her head.
“No, no. It has nothing to do with you two,” But it does. Her head argued with her.
She pushed her plate away and stood up, “I need to excuse myself,” She quickly trotted out of the room, leaving her parents worried and confused.
Turns out, Flurry was headed to her favorite place - The Crystal Gardens. The beautiful crystal flowers that Mistmane had grown in there were comforting to her. But they could never comfort her as much as Thorax did.
Again, she toyed around with the crystal necklace on her neck and sighed over and over again, thinking about the same guilt she felt yesterday. The weight on her shoulders not ever going away. Still just as heavy as yesterday, if not worse.
The whole day was gone before she knew it and she had spent the whole time at the gardens alone, sad and alone. Even though Flurry had wanted to stay and cry to herself until she passed out, she knew that her mom and dad would find her eventually. That, and the fact that she still had her responsibilities as a princess.
She started following the trail back to the Crystal Palace, but the last words she said before leaving the gardens was a small, sad whisper to Thorax.
Her tears started coming out of her eyes uncontrollably. She whimpered from the cold and grief, “I’m sorry, Thorax. I’m so so sorry... I’m just sorry,” She sobbed.
“I’m sorry, but I can’t...”
