Tiaras are Forever

The knowledge of what she was feeling didn't help at all. Each day she went to school as she
always did and lashed out at others as she always did, the only change was that after school
Silver Spoon was not able to hang out as often as she used to. She'd always helped a bit in
the family silversmithing business, but now that her cutie mark showed that it was her talent
she was no longer just an occasional helper but now an apprentice, which demanded much
more of her time.

This left Diamond Tiara alone for the most part after school, she'd go home and more often
than not, find her father was gone till late in the evening. Alone in the house except for the
earth mare her father had hired as a cook and the pegasus maid. Tiara liked Feather Lite,
she was nice and always took time to look up from her work and greet Tiara when she came
home. The yellow pegasus with a blue mane had been their maid for as long as Tiara could
remember and had early on become a friend too. Even though she had a family she was eager
to get back to, she always volunteered to stay late if Mister Rich was out and needed someone
to watch Tiara. But this was happening more often and neither the mare or filly were too happy,

Tiara kept getting more and more depressed as she never seemed to get time with her father
or friend, at school she never let it show though, especially to Silver Spoon. She didn't want
her friend to feel guilty and knew that her apprenticeship was more important than having time
to spend together but it still felt as if everyone was abandoning her.

Weeks passed into months till one day she was heading home, she felt a little better today
cause it was a special one that she knew her father and her would spend together, they always
spent this day together. Entering the house her jaw dropped and she stared in shock at the
orange pony standing and talking to her father in the living room.
"Oh Tiara! good your home, listen I need to go out something big has come up at work that I
have to see to, but Applejack was kind enough to agree to watch you tonight"Filthy told his
daughter as Applejack fell quiet and looked over at Tiara.
"What about Feather Lite?"she exclaimed, then her eyes opened wider, "What about today!
How could you leave me alone today!?"
"Tiara settle down, Feather Lite is sick with the feather flu and you know I wouldn't go anywhere
today if it wasn't important"answered Rich, his voice pleading with her to understand,"but don't
worry Applejack will take good care of you and she brought her sister too so you'll have someone
to play with"
Tiara's shock couldn't get any worse, she pried her eyes off the two of them and noticed Apple
Bloom for the first time, she appeared to be sulking in a corner, obviously not wanting to be there
as much as Tiara didn't want her to be there too."What's she doing here!?"Tiara cried out,"I don't
want to hang out with her!"
"Tiara! behave! she was nice enough to come and you will be civil!"Rich said sternly.
"I hate you all!"she shouted and ran up stairs to her room slamming the door.
"I'm sorry about that, it's just a hard day for her, she should be better later"Rich assured Applejack
"It's awright, I know how it can be sometimes, I'm sure I can handle her and no pony can stay angry
at us apples for long, ah'm sure she'll warm up to us by the time you return"AJ said with a reassuring
smile.

Filthy Rich left and Applejack headed over to the couch, pulling out a book she had in her
saddlebags and settled down to a good read, telling Apple Bloom to be good and not touch anything
that looked expensive before she fully tuned out.
Apple Bloom looked around in annoyance,"everything looks expensieve" she muttered under her
breath as she started to explore. She was annoyed, she'd told AJ that Tiara and her didn't get along
but her older sister just laughed and said you needed to give every pony a chance. The little yellow
filly was bored, she'd already checked out all the rooms down stairs and there was nothing to do, she
didn't want to go upstairs in case she ran into Tiara. She didn't know what Tiara had against her, she
just knew that the pink filly seemed to go out of her way to be nasty to her. But time passed and
desperate for something to do Apple Bloom headed upstairs and quietly started to snoop around
checking out rooms. When she came to the one she was pretty sure was Tiara's, she tiphoofed past
and was almost completely by it when she thought she heard a noise inside. She shook her head and
told herself she had imagined it, after all why would she hear that noise come from Tiara? Having
convinced herself it was her imagination she put another hoof forward and froze as she heard it again.

Carefully she opened the door and peeked in. It was a nice room with a single bed along the far wall
with blankets with Tiara designs all over them. A dresser with pink lamp was beside it with a stack of
books. The wall to her left had a book case filled with books much to Apple Bloom's surprise and a
set of shelves on the opposite wall held various figurines and objects crafted out of silver.

Apple Bloom caught all this in a glance but her attention was drawn to the center of the room, where
a pink filly lay with her legs spread out behind her and her head buried in her front Hooves, a book
opened up in front of her on the floor. Tiara gave little shudders as she cried silently, a sob or two
escaping now and then. Apple Bloom stared not sure what to do, then slowly crept over, looking over
at the book she saw that it was a scrap book and the pages were covered with pictures of Tiara, Rich
and a pure white unicorn mare with a flowing pink mane.
"She's beautiful"Apple Bloom whispered, not even realizing she had spoken.
Tiara's head whipped up at the sudden noise and glared at the interloper,"Go away"she muttered but
with little real force behind the words as if she didn't really care if they were obeyed or not.
Apple Bloom ignored the comment,"who is she?"she asked in a quiet voice.

"My mom"Tiara sniffled.
Gently so as not to startle the other filly and so Tiara would have a chance to let her know to back off
if that's what she wanted, Apple Bloom laid down next to her and hesitantly put her right leg over Tiara's
shoulder in a comforting embrace as her own sister had done for her several times before.
"I don't remember ever seeing her before"Apple Bloom said gently.
"That's cause every time she visited your farm after you were born, you were too young to remember
her"Tiara answered absently

"It's okay if you don't wanna talk about it, but what happened?"
"She got sick, daddy brought in all the best doctors, spared no expense on finding a cure but she just
kept getting weaker. She managed to hold on for months always letting me stay by her side, always
letting me know how much she loved me and I would be fine, that father loved me too and would take
care of me. Finally she almost seemed to be better, then about a month before I started school she
passed on."Tiara stared ahead, tears slowly making trails down her cheeks as she thought back.
Apple Bloom remained silent, letting the filly next to her say what she wanted, when she felt like it.

"I loved her so much, she was always there to show me new things and teach me about life, I remember
I used to hang out with her in her work room down the hall where she would show me the latest bits
of jewelry she had put together. Before she met dad she'd had a jewelry shop, but after she met him
she'd shut it down. In his store they set up a small jewelry section that she could run whenever she felt
like it. I was fascinated by what she showed me and was always asking her about every little thing about
the pieces she showed me which she was delighted to do. She was always nice to every pony and as far
as I know every pony loved her, then she was gone."
Tiara buried her head in her hoofs again and cried, Apple Bloom just stayed and held her not daring to
make a noise.

"She would hate how I treat you"Tiara whispered as she lifted her head again.
Apple Bloom was caught so off guard by the comment that she just looked over in quiet surprise.
"I hate that I do it, but every time I see you I'm just consumed by jealousy, at first I couldn't figure out why
but I think I figured it out, I know you lost your parents, so like me you have no mother. So that should
make us kindred spirits, right? but when I lost my mom, I lost every pony I ever felt cared about me, my
dad started focusing more on work to distract him from his loss. The hired help although sympathetic are
not family and I have no brothers or sisters, I was left alone. Then I'd see you, you may have lost your
parents but you stilled had Granny and your older sister and brother. Seeing you and them together, all
taking care of each other, I wanted that so bad, it ate me up inside and I'd just feel so angry. I'd lash out
at you and say horrible things. I'm sorry Apple Bloom, what I've done is wrong, I know that but I just can't
help myself"

Apple Bloom listened quietly listening and as Tiara began to cry again and buried her head in Apple
Bloom's shoulder, she thought about all she'd heard while the pink unicorn gently cried beside her.
"It's okay, I understand and I forgive you"the yellow filly said quietly.
Tiara lifted up her head and stared up at Apple Bloom in surprise."you do?'she asked in surprise.
"Yeah I do, from now on if you need someone to cry to or listen to you just know that my sister and I will
always be there for you if you need us"she said as a smile spread across her face looking down at her
past tormentor, "I didn't know you knew about my parents" she said in a more subdued voice.
"I heard about what happened from my father, did you know he considered them his best friends?"
"I didn't know that"Apple Bloom said in amazement.
"He always told me how, besides my mother, they always kept his moral compass straight letting him
always remember what is most important in life, he paid for the funeral and head stones, that's why they're
custom made, he insisted on the very best for his friends, even in the after life, I wish he was still like that."
Tiara sighed sadly.

"Wait a minute your dad always seems nice to me."
"Nice yes, but he doesn't seem to care anymore, like today he's gone off to work even though he promised
me that we'd always go and see mom on the day she died"she said bitterly.
"Wait this is the day your mom died! c'mon we gotta go!"Apple Bloom said jumping up.
"Go? Where?"Tiara asked confused as she followed Apple Bloom outta her room and downstairs.
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hers the next chapter which I believe is an improvement over the previous one, please lmk if you agree, thanks