Every Dark Night Turns Into Day

Roseluck

I dodged a classmate as I kept jogging down the hall. I surprisingly managed to ignore the dirty looks I was getting by the Shadowbolts. I wasn’t too happy they were here along with my sisters and half the school. At least I wasn’t as outspoken as Lily, Daisy or some of the other classmates we have about the dislike we share.

“Derpy!” I called out as I skidded to a stop at her locker. Derpy was fumbling with a pill bottle with shaky hands as she tossed two of the pills in her mouth. “What did you just take?”

“Anxiety meds. Helps with my panic attacks. Sunset takes them also,” she explained coolly as she sighed in relief.

“Are you okay?” I asked as we slumped down the lockers.

“No.”

“Because of Sunset?” I asked cautiously. Sunset was still a pretty sore subject to bring up for the school. Especially with the rumor going around that Lightning and Aria jumped Rainbow Dash that one time.

“Not really her fault. I shouldn’t have yelled at her,” Derpy sighed and twirled one of her drum sticks around her fingers. “She’s going to replace me one day for someone better.”

“What on earth does that mean?” I demanded and raised an eyebrow. “You’re perfect.”

“Probably someone with better skin. Normal eyes, a bigger chest. A bigger butt. Someone who isn’t afraid of the dark,” Derpy answered quietly as she dropped her bed into her legs. “Someone like Pinkie Pie.”

“First off, you have amazing skin. Like seriously. It’s super smooth and there’s nothing wrong with it. And secondly, your eyes are adorable! Sunset defended you recently against some of cpa for bringing them up. Mainly with her fist but that’s a different conversation. And you realize half the girls in this school are jealous of your chest and butt size? Heck, I’m a decent size in both areas and I’m jealous! Sunset would never replace you with Pinkie. She loves you,” I said sternly and wrapped an arm around her, waiting for her to stop crying. “And last of all, we all have phobias. I’m afraid of well everything. Mainly heights and spiders and drowning and being eaten by a wolf and yeah, everything really.”

“R-really?” Derpy sniffed and looked at me. “People are jealous of me?”

“Yeah girl!” I exclaimed. “Mainly Flitter and Cloudchaser. I mean those girls have no chest, no butt and are toothpicks. I overhear them complaining about it all the time when I’m changing in the locker room.”

“We have the same gym class,” Derpy pointed out in confusion. “I never hear them talking about me in the locker room.”

“They’re afraid of Sunset,” I admitted. “Apparently she threatened them if they ever talked bad about you to your face like they used to. Cloudkicker, Blossomforth and Raindrops also went off on them a few times about it.”

“She did?” Derpy whispered with a startled look.

“Yeah she did. I watched as it happened,” I answered as we sat in silence. The bell rang but who cares? I already knew I was going to be late. My phone was already vibrating. Most likely Lily and Daisy texting me. “Can we be friends again? I know you’re mad about me believing Sunset was guilty.”

“I never ended our friendship?” Derpy said in confusion. “I wasn’t mad either, I was disappointed in you.”

“In a way, that makes me feel worse. I think I’d rather have you mad than disappointed in me,” I shuddered as I removed my arm. “And I swore you quit being friends with me.”

“No never,” Derpy shook her head adamantly. “I didn’t want to associate with you or anyone who sided against me.”

“Yeah that was a mistake,” I coughed with a blush as I rubbed the back of my head and looked away. “Made me feel awful.”

“We can hang out again as long as you don’t believe my girlfriend is guilty of framejobs!” Derpy laughed as she hugged me and I eagerly returned it.

“You don’t know how much you’ve missed something until it’s gone,” I sighed contently. Derpy always gave the best hugs.

“We gotta get to class!” Derpy exclaimed suddenly. “And I gotta find Sunset!”

I whistled happily as I walked into my living room and started watering some of the plants there. Lily glanced over from her spot on the couch and raised an eyebrow.

“What has you in such a good mood?” Lily questioned as the Nature Channel continued playing on the TV.

“Derpy is our friend again!” I said happily and almost dropped the watering can. Lily spun around once again as Daisy turned around in her chair.

“Wait what?” Daisy asked. “When did that happen?”

“Earlier today at school. I caught her mid panic attack and we started talking. Apparently she never stopped being our friend, just didn’t want to be around us during anon a miss,” I explained as the two sighed in relief.

“Thank god,” Lily mumbled. “I thought she would never come back to us, justifiably so of course. We were worse than Sunset was back when she was evil. Ostracizing someone is just another form of bullying.”

“I didn’t know Derpy had panic attacks,” Daisy commented idly.

“Me neither,” I admitted. “Apparently they started after Sunset cut herself during anon a miss. Sunset got her on the same meds that she takes.”

“I knew Sunset had them but I didn’t know she took medication,” Lily mused as she tossed the remote to her other hand. We had walked in on Sunset having a panic attack one day in the bathroom. That was probably the only time we ever helped her unfortunately.

“Learn something new everyday I guess,” Daisy shrugged.

“She also gave me three tickets to their concert,” I held them up and they stared at me. “Saturday night, nine to about three am.”

“Their band is doing live shows?” Lily asked.

“Yeah apparently. The Rainbooms are opening for them I think the term is?”

“They mostly do rock and rock rap songs,” Daisy scoffed. “I’ll stay home. Not a huge rap fan.”

“You’re going,” I said sternly. Typically I wouldn’t talk to my older sister this way. “We need to show our support to Derpy. I like their soft rock songs, we are going. Derpy also wants to see us tomorrow night at Sunset’s. She already ran it by Sunset apparently.”

“Yes!” Lily pumped her fist in the air. “Sorry, got excited about the nature channel plus us hanging out with Derpy.”

Daisy and I made eye contact and burst out laughing. Lily was obsessed with that channel.