Wallflowers Secret

Watermelody sat a table outside a coffee shop with Spitfire and the other three elements as they watched the sun set.

“How can you drink coffee at this time of night?” High Winds asked incredulously as Watermelody shrugged before sipping her coffee again. “You’re insane.”

“Maybe a little. But all the most insane ponies are genius and vice versa. But no, I’m hitting up a club tonight. Need all the energy I can gather,” Watermelody grinned widely and winked. “Aiming to get laid in fact.”

“I could have gone my entire life without knowing about that,” Twilight mumbled and turned a bright red.

“I’m joking. I mean, if the right pony comes up to me. I deserve some love, after all,” Watermelody grumbled and stared up at the sky. “Especially after Soarin chose Fleetfoot. I’m happy for him but still.”

The others shared sad looks as Watermelody inhaled sharpy and shook her head, forcing a smile on her face.

“Anyway!” Watermelody announced and stood up. “I’ll be fine. There’s nothing wrong whatsoever. I’m just gonna hit a club, dance, get drunk and have fun.”

Watermelody tossed her coffee cup in a nearby trash can and waved goodbye as she bounced down the street, feeling their eyes on her.

“I’m worried about her,” High Winds said and idly pushed a tea around. “Ever since Soarin and Fleetfoot came out to us all two weeks ago, Watermelody has been hitting up every club. The amount of times Cloudkicker and I have had to escort her home is too many. I’m worried.”

“Me too,” Spitfire muttered and rested her head against the table. “Even Surprise has picked up on it.”

They all sat silently for a moment as Twilight chewed anxiously on her lip.

“What do we do now?” Twilight asked slowly and High Winds sighed.

“We watch her. When I was in high school, there was this kid. Really smart, really happy. Was dating a girl in my class. Apparently they broke up and he was exactly like Watermelody. He was staying alone, drinking alcohol and stuff.”

“Where are you going with this?” Sunset asked and High Winds shrugged hesitantly. “Oh Celestia.”

“Yeah. Suicide and all. It was uh a difficult time afterwards,” High Winds shook her head. “I’m not saying Watermelody is ever gonna do something like that. But I vote it’s best to be safe, not sorry.”

Twilight nodded as they all shared a glance.

“And I’ve lost enough friends as a Wonderbolt,” High Winds continued and stared at her hooves. Spitfire agreed wirh that personally.

“We will keep an eye on her,” Spitfire decided and stood up. “I’ll have Wonderbolts round the clock watching her. Not Soarin or Fleetfoot. They’re too close to this.”

“Agreed,” Sunset said and yawned. “Where’s Wallflower at? She loves these meet ups we do.”

“Apparently some ponies named Roseluck, Daisy and Lily are coming from Ponyville so she’s getting her house set up for guests. They’re gonna be staying with her. Not sure how much we will see her these next few weeks,” Spitfire shrugged. “Now we gotta decide who’s watching her. I’ve never lost a pony to suicide and I don’t want Watermelody to be the first.”

Watermelody leaned against the bar as she slammed back another shot of whiskey, savoring the burning sensation as the bartender filled her glass.

“Haven’t you had enough?” Fizzy Pop asked with a raised eyebrow as he set the bottle of alcohol back. “We haven’t even started playing music yet.”

“I’m fine. Just drinking my feelings,” Watermelody stared miserably into her glass. “You know how it goes and all.”

Fizzy made a hmph sound as he sat down across from her and Watermelody took another shot as she let out a sniff.

“I’ve seen a lot of ponies come in and out of these doors. Most young ponies like you,” Fizzy leaned his hoof on the bar. “I’ll tell you what I tell them.”

“Oh yeah?” Watermelody challenged with a drunken smirk. “What ya got for this newcomer?”

“Whatever pain you’re trying to hide with alcohol won’t make it go away. It just makes it worse and gives you an awful hangover in the morning. You’re only what, twenty five?”

“Close, twenty six.”

“Exactly. Go get out there and do something different. Catch a movie or whatever it is kids these days do,” Fizzy pushed himself off the bar and patted her on the shoulder.

“Hmph.”

“Or you can come to me every night here for advice I suppose. We should music playing soon. Got some new mare. Quiet mare, nice though. Royal Serenity I think her name was?” Fizzy shrugged and started walking away. “Hope you remember that tomorrow morning at least.”

Watermelody nodded with a bored expression as he set the bottle in front of her.

“Thanks.”

Wallflower peered out around a red curtain and stared at the crowd of ponies. She was more than grateful over half of them were drunk as her eyes locked onto Watermelody slamming back shots at the bar.

“Watermelody, what in Equestria have you gotten yourself into?” Wallflower whispered to herself as her ears flattened against her head. Wallflower turned around and jumped at the white unicorn with sunglasses watching. “Oh uhm hi.”

The unicorn tilted her head before levitating up a white board as Wallflower started reading and the unicorn pushed her sunglasses up into her messy electric blue mane to reveal her red eyes.

Yo. I’m Vinyl, the dj. Told that you and I are gonna fuck this place up. Pleasure to meet ya.

Wallflowers jaw dropped slightly as she examined Vinyl Scratch closer. She heard all about the legendary dj. Half of Equestria knew about her. And Wallflower was meeting her? Don’t even get her started about performance with her.

“Mhm,” Wallflower conceded and Vinyl gave her a look as she started trotting around the mare before pointing at her cutie mark with a questioning expression. Wallflower instantly got worried that her painted cutie mark got scuffed. She glanced back and internally sighed in relief that everything was still perfect as Vinyl nudged her flank against and cutie mark again with a bit more force. “You want to know how I got my cutie mark?”

Vinyl nodded enthusiastically and Wallflower internally cursed herself out for not coming up with a cover story for that. Looks like she’d have to make one up on the fly.

“I was singing to this crying filly I knew and suddenly boom, microphone on my flank. Apparently singing to make ponies feel better is my special talent,” Wallflower explained and Vinyl thankfully accepted that as she pushed her glasses back down and grinned. “What?”

Vinyl wiped off her white board and started writing again with a marker she held in her hot pink aura.

"Show time!" it read.

Wallflower gulped and jumped as Vinyl nuzzled her reassuringly and Wallflower felt herself turning pink as Vinyl laughed before she started nudging her forward out onto the stage.

Wallflower took a deep breath before trotting on her. No real turning back now, she guessed.Not like anypony would recognize her after all. Damn near everypony was drunk or half way there.

And Wallflower found extreme comfort in that right now.