Tiaras are Forever

Diamond Tiara stared ahead of her at the black board as Cheerilee talked about cutie marks,"Boring!"she
muttered hoping to get a few laughs but failed. Trying her best not to, but unable to help herself she
glanced to her right at Apple Bloom, like usual whenever she saw Apple Bloom she felt an unpleasant
feeling in the pit of her stomach and an anger that she couldn't explain. She didn't hate the yellow
filly or at least she was pretty sure she didn't and Apple Bloom had never done anything to her. So she
was always confused by her sudden anger every time she caught sight of her, to hide her confusion she
usually just went with her angry thoughts and lashed out at the innocent filly which then made her feel bad
and that angered her even more. Today was no exception as she watched Apple Bloom writing notes on
a piece of paper, she scowled for a moment then catching sight of her friend Silver Spoon sitting looking
bored she got an idea.
"Pssssst!' Apple Bloom paused as she heard Diamond Tiara, then continued what she had been doing,
"Pssssst!' Apple Bloom paused again then scowling continued to ignore Diamond Tiara.
"PSSSST!" Diamond Tiara hissed right in Apple Bloom's face.
"What!" Apple Bloom exclaimed in annoyance, Diamond waved a note in Apple Bloom's face and made
meaningful jesters towards her friend. Annoyed and wanting to be left alone the yellow filly took the note.
"Apple Bloom!" as Diamond had planned Ceerilee caught sight of Apple Bloom with the note."Are you
passing a note?!?"
"uuuh....uummm?" the filly was at a loss for words.
"What could be so important it couldn't wait till after class?"Cheerilee demanded as she headed down the
aisle and looked down at the dropped note,"It's Blank!"she said in surprise.
Diamond Tiara laughed and as Cheerilee turned she knew now was the moment to give her punch line
"Remind you of anypony?"success she thought to herself as all the other class mates laughed as Apple
Bloom looked down sadly at her blank flank. a sudden feeling of guilt went through her and she suppressed
it with thoughts of how Apple Bloom deserved it for being such a goody goody all the time.
Still congratulating herself on how clever she had been she looked down at her own flank and smiled at the
cutie mark there and thought happily how she had gotten it recently.
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She'd gone on a trip with her father to Manehattan, He'd needed something flashy to impress a potential
new client he was going to a dinner with, he explained to her and so they were going to a jewelers to get
a new diamond.
"After this are we going back to Ponyville?"she asked as they entered the shop, neither noticed as the
brown stallion (behind the counter) eye's lit up at the word Ponyville and a slight smile came to his mouth.
"How can I help you?" the shop keep asked in a businesslike voice.
"I need one of your best diamond tie clips"Filthy Rich answered as he glanced around.
While the stallion went to get a selection from the back Diamond Tiara wandered around the store looking
at all the stuff in the display cases curiously.
"Here you go, just let me know what catches your eye"the clerk said, putting down a tray in front of Filthy
Rich holding 10 different tie clips.
Wandering back over to her father, Diamond Tiara got up placing her front hooves on the counter and took
a look at the tray and frowned
"These aren't diamonds!"
"What?"her father turned to her confused while the shop keep scowled.
"These are glass, although made very well to look like diamonds, they're nothing more than fakes"
"How can you be sure" the clerk demanded of her.
"Well first off....."she animatedly pointed to the tie clips as she explained all the details that betrayed them
as unreal.
"How dare you try to trick me, now please show me some real diamonds!"Filthy Rich demanded angrily.
As he went back with the tray of fakes. the clerk glared at the filly when Rich wasn't looking.
"Here you go, real diamonds"a new tray was placed down.
"ewww!"
The two stallions looked at Diamond Tiara again.
"What is it?"the clerk asked angrily,"These are real diamonds!"
"Yeah, but barely, these are horrible, look at all these imperfections"pointing one after the other she pointed
out little blemishes and other flaws in each one.
By now Filthy Rich was furious,"Sir I want some quality diamonds and if you try to cheat me one more time
I'll be sure no pony ever wants to come to your establishment again, this I promise or my name isn't Filthy
Rich!"
The clerks ears laid back in fear and his eyes widened as he recognized the name,"So sorry mister Rich,
I'll be right back!'he fled to the back and brought out a third tray and put it down for them both to see.
"Ooh daddy you should get this one"Diamond Tiara told her father excitedly.
That was all the confirmation Filthy Rich needed that this time the brown stallion was being legit,"Ok I'll
take it, what do I owe you?"
The clerk began to say a price when he stopped and looked at the little pink filly and decided he shouldn't
test her knowledge of values too. He named a price and then informed mister Rich he'd then knock off an
additional amount as an apology for his earlier actions.
The shop keeper watched them leave with a look of relief and promised himself he'd be more careful in the
future not to accidentally label the wrong pony a rube again.

"That was amazing Diamond, how do you know so much about this"Filthy Rich asked his daughter pride in
his voice.
"All those books you get for me dad and some of the books she left behind"Diamond Tiara replied happily.
"Well that was a good investment, I mean just look at the great things we came out of there with"He said
with a big grin.
"Things?"Diamond asked confused,"I thought we only got the one tie clip?"
"No we also got something else much more valuable."He said looking down at her his grin splitting his face.
Following his gaze she squealed with glee as her eyes caught sight of the cutie mark now adorning her flank.
"I'm proud of you Tiara and if she was here now, she would be too"Filthy Rich said as he smiled down at his
little girl.
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It had seemed like forever before the next day had come and she could go to school and show her new cutie
mark to Silver Spoon who had gotten hers the week before. Now she sat there looking at her cutie mark and
slowly looked back up coming out of her memories of yesterday. The rest of class was uneventful and as it
ended she went around with Silver Spoon by her side and invited everyone to the party her father was throwing
her to celebrate her new cutie mark. Catching up with Apple Bloom and Twist she once again started teasing
Apple Bloom cruelly with Silver Spoon supporting her. From previous glimpses of expressions that had flitted
across Silver Spoon's face Diamond knew that Silver neither liked or understood why they picked on Apple
Bloom. But she was Tiara's friend and would back her up whatever she did. Knowing she was causing her best
friend to do something she didn't like only caused her more guilt that she responded to the usual way, with
more anger.
Tiara feeling kinda bad from her teasing again, invited the two to her party, to satisfy the part of her balking at
being even a little nice to Apple Bloom, she told herself it was only so she could tease her at the party. Then
she went off with Silver Spoon to hang out with her friend for the day.
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That night Diamond Tiara lay in bed having trouble going to sleep. She seethed in anger as she thought about
how wrong her party had gone wrong. First her father had informed her he couldn't come cause he had been
called away to deal with something at work and then everything had turned against her at the party. That feeling
of hers had never felt as strong as it did when that orange pegasus and Rarity's little sister had walked off with
Apple Bloom and when later she saw Applejack go and keep her sister company too, it was so prevalent that she
finally thought she knew what it was and it confused her more. Why with everything she could ever want and a
wonderful cutie mark did she feel jealous of Apple Bloom?
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Thanks for the positive feedback, I will get up the next chapter when I can and clean up this one with the tips I've
been given.