Fluttershy was sitting on the floor of her apartment in what was vaguely considered the ‘living room’, though you could hardly consider it lived in; the floor was barren, and there was no couch or anything to sit in save for some desolate lawn chairs applejack had found next to some dumpsters outside of fluttershy’s apartment. All of her friends were there save for rarity; rarity refused to step foot in fluttershy’s apartment as it was too depressing for her to even get comfortable in. Pinkie pie was lounging in one of the chairs and twilight was aggressively disinfecting the other. Fluttershy was trying to tell twilight that she had disinfected the chairs before and after they entered into the apartment, but twilight wasn’t having any of it. Rainbow Dash was in the other room trying to figure out what fluttershy could sell to save her hide for rent this month as it was the 31st of March and rent was due on the first, and the rest of the ponies were there to help fluttershy come up with a plan in case she couldn’t come up with the money. “Ooh!Ooh! You could donate plasma!”, Pinkie Pie said. Fluttershy said “uhm, I can’t, um, donate anymore p-plasma. I already d-d-d-donated eight times.” Twilight told her that she can stay with her in her apartment until she got off on her feet, but fluttershy adamantly refused (well as much as she can do anything adamantly), saying she really didn’t want to be a bother. Applejack noticed that flutters really just wanted to be alone right now, so she told everyone “let’s get out of her hair and we’ll come see her in a couple days.
Just when everypony leaves, she hears a clanking in her bedroom and flies into her bedroom to see rainbow dash holding her grandmother’s tea set. “Hey dude! I think I found something for you to sell! This china set must be worth a fortune!” Fluttershy’s face got as red as a manticore’s tail at even the suggestion of selling her precious tea set that was gifted to her by her dead grandmother and shouted “How dare you even suggest that! Don’t you remember that was my grandmother’s and she gave it to me right before she passed away three years ago?”
Rainbow dash brushed her hand behind her head sheepishly, donning a mild blush. “Yeah I kinda forgot. Sorry?” Fluttershy just started crying and told rainbow to just leave her alone and give her some space. After rainbow let herself out, she started crying uncontrollably and just laid there on her bed, not even bothering to get under her blankets and cried herself to sleep. Not like she had food for dinner anyway.
The next morning she woke up at 5am as she usually does for her shift at the animal shelter, but she realized that she called out sick today due to her eviction seeming inevitable. She tried to go back to sleep but the weight of today was too heavy on her mind and she could not go back to sleep so she turned the kettle on for her morning tea and grabbed her grandmother’s tea set and went to her kitchen to try to find something to eat for breakfast. She was supposed to go down to this agency today at 7am to try to apply for rental assistance and Rarity was supposed to go with her due to her last 4 failures at trying to obtain rental assistance. She looks into her fridge and sees a single egg in a half carton and the heel of a loaf of bread that wasn’t moldy and made herself a sunny side up egg with some toast. As she sat on the floor of her apartment eating her breakfast and drinking her morning tea, she pondered as to what got her into this mess to begin with.
Insert poorly worded transition into fluttershy’s mindscape here~
Fluttershy was incredibly excited in her last class for the day for what was supposed to be the single most exciting point in her career. She had an interview with the local animal shelter that was only 2 blocks away from her apartment! She was so excited she couldn’t even focus in her last class of the day. As soon as the bell rang, she packed her bag, ran outside the building and practically flew home to get ready for her interview. She walked into her bedroom to find an incredibly unique, professional, yet classy interview outfit on her bed with a note delicately on top saying.
“Dear Fluttershy,
I hope this outfit finds you well. It’s just a little something I threw together to congratulate you on your interview! I want to know all the juicy details about it on our next spa day~
Sincerely,
Rarity”
Fluttershy squealed in delight at this phenomenal outfit. A beautiful silk white blouse, a pink rose colored pinstripe pencil skirt, lined with white silk, a matching blazer, off white stockings, these sensible, yet cute pink and yellow 4 inch heels with little butterflies on the toes of the heels. Rarity had also been so kind to coordinate the accessories as well, which were a beautiful yellow gold butterfly necklace and matching stud earrings, a side comb that had two little butterflies on it, to put into a bun, and a yellow ribbon to no doubtedly tie around the collar of the blouse.
‘Now that I think about it, she’s supposed to be here at 6 to come take me so I should better hop into the shower and get ready.’ fluttershy thought. So she went into the bathroom, turned on the water, and started to get undressed. Once she was fully bare, she took a moment to look at herself in the mirror. Her chest was rather large, but slightly over ripe, so they kind of just fell there, around her stomach. Her body actually was pleasantly plump, her hips were wide, her stomach was bulbous, her thighs were soft and plush and couldn’t fit into normal sized thigh highs.
She hops into the shower, starts to wash her hair, and starts humming to the girls’ college theme song. She wastes no time in the shower, presumably to save what little hot water she has left, and puts on the outfit to look at herself in the mirror. ‘Not bad’, she thought, ‘but I don’t love this ribbon around my neck, maybe i can wrap it into my bun!’ and once she was done getting ready, she looked at herself in the mirror one last time, and made it out the door to meet applejack at the front door to her apartment complex.
~End of fluttershy flashback~
As she came to the reality of her situation, fluttershy thought, ‘Oh, if only I would’ve stood up for myself instead of just accepting the unpaid position, I wouldn’t be in this mess to begin with.’ She looked at the clock, it was only 5:30 in the morning, so she had an hour and a half before rarity got here and her water was bone chilling cold so she couldn’t take a shower. She decided to just lay on her mattress on the floor and stare at the ceiling until 6 so she could take a sponge bath, put on a little bit of makeup, and get dressed. She found a pastel pink oversized sweater, some yellow leggings, and her pink boots, and put her hair in a messy high ponytail, when rarity knocked on the door. “Just a minute” fluttershy called to rarity and grabbed her purse before opening the door. “Is that what you’re wearing to the rental assistance? No wonder they didn’t take you seriously! There must be something you can fit into in my car since we’re crunched for time.”
Fluttershy and rarity walked briskly to her car, and rarity opened her trunk to find several blouses, slacks, cocktail dresses, shoes, and skirts. Rarity said, “Okay, I don’t know exactly what I can do on such short notice, your chest is not going to fit properly into ANY of this, and you’re several inches shorter than my models, but let me see what i can do.” Rarity started flinging clothes that seemed random to fluttershy, but rarity knows what she’s doing. She gave her a teal pea coat, a silver blouse, a black fit and flare knee length skirt, teal tights, silver mid calf boot heels, a black and silver scarf and matching ear muffs, and black wool gloves. “Now you’re going to have to change in the backseat because we don’t have time and when you’re done, put your hair down and fluff it up so it looks appealing.” After fluttershy was done changing, she started talking to rarity about everything, and when they finally got there, rarity did most of the talking, using her charm and grace to convince the rental assistance lady to give her one month of rental assistance, and three months of utility coverage. Once they got back to fluttershy’s apartment, rarity left to go to work, and fluttershy went down to the landlord’s office to give the landlord the check for next month’s rent.
Discord was sitting at his desk, drowning in work because his last secretary had quit this morning. She was a new hire that literally lasted 30 minutes. ‘That’s a new record’ Discord thought amusingly, when a beautiful woman walked into his office wearing the most fashion forward winter outfit he’d ever seen. “Um, I’m here to deliver my rent for next month” fluttershy said meekly. “Oh? Okay, let me see your check, and your ID so i can document it” Discord looks at fluttershy’s check, sees that it’s from a rental assistance place and has an idea. “I have a question for you. Obviously you’re clearly low on money as this is from All My Saints, and I can’t seem to keep a damn secretary to save my life, so what if you work for me as my secretary, and you can live here for free? I’ll compensate you handsomely.” Fluttershy said, ‘Um, you sure? You don’t have to pay my rent and compensate me.” So discord responded, “Okay, you play a hard bargain. How about this? 50% off rent and I pay you $26 an hour?” Fluttershy agreed to these terms, and said, “When do I start?”
“I’ll see you tomorrow morning at 8am”. Fluttershy walked out of the office, leaving discord alone with his thoughts. Why is it that I always push away the good ones? mused discord. “Is it the late hours? Is it that I put too much work on them?” Then Discord had a thought, a dangerous thought, and his smile widened like the cheshire cat. “Now I have someone who can’t quit because they need me for their rent.”
Fluttershy went back to her apartment, still in shock over what just happened. As soon as she stepped in the door to here apartment, she immediately called Twilight. Fluttershy laid down in her bed while the phone was ringing because her heart won’t stop hammering in her chest, until twilight finally picked up, the sounds of several beakers breaking on the way.
“Uh hello? Fluttershy? What’s going on?”
“I got a job as the secretary for the landlord.They offered to pay half my rent, and pay me 26 dollars an hour.” Fluttershy uttered. “I start tomorrow morning at eight in the morning.”
Twilight exclaimed, “Oh that’s awesome! Let's get the girls out to dinner to celebrate tonight! I’ll call the girls and coordinate a time. Does 6pm work for you?” Fluttershy sighed in relief before saying, “Yes, six pm is fine. I’m going to go get ready now.” Twilight hung up the phone to call everyone else. And then stuff happened.
Twilight walked into the apartment building and took the elevator to the 3rd floor, holding a dozen yellow dandelions in her right hand, and her phone in her left hand. She was talking to everyone in the group call, when she said, “Okay everyone! I’m almost there, so I gotta go!”, before hanging up and putting her phone in her lab coat pocket before knocking on the door.
Fluttershy timidly opened the door to an excited Twilight. She had a yellow oversized sweater on with a pink pencil skirt that stopped just above her knee“, some yellow strappy heels, and her turquoise butterlfy earrings and necklace. Her hair was curled slightly, framing nicely around her face, with a turpuoise butterfly clip to keep her tendrils away from her face. “Um, hello twilight. Are those for me?” she asked, tugging on her sweater sleeves anxiously. “Yes! I remembered that yellow dandelions are your favorite, and they’re supposed to signify a new chapter in your life. Now come on, let’s go! The rest of the group are already on their way to the restaurant.”
