The Program

I’ll admit, I’m feeling meaner than usual, today!

Mother yelled at me, again, over some silly formality, that wasn’t even my fault!

I sigh as Silver Spoon, oblivious as ever, fails to notice me, and we both trot through the street…

Suddenly, I see a pink unicorn foal, just ahead of me, walking alone some distance behind changelings, and crossing the road, left to right!

I smirk when I think about how I could torment that particular unicorn…

Her mother’s dead! I know she’ll fall apart!

I begin trotting faster, and I hear Silver Spoon say, “Hey, where are you going Diamond?” before I hear her little hooves beginning to pick up their pace on the cobblestone streets of Ponyville…

My smile enlarges when I’m suddenly glad I read the news in The Ponyville Express!

<*****>

I stood there, in the classroom, while my blue marefriend was staring back at me, with her purple eyes underneath her enormous purple hat, “So uh, you’re sick, or?”

I sigh, “Well Trixie, I didn’t feel well, and I overslept anyway! I hope it didn’t get too bad without me here?” before frowning…

Her eyes widen, “Oh, no! Sunburst stepped in and took over like a pro! Your lesson plans are very detailed!”

I smile, “Well I’m sure I’ll be better by Monday, anyway!”

“Are we still on for Saturday, Starlight?”

My own gaze enlarges, “Oh, sure! I’m sure that whatever this is should be long gone, by then!”

She smiles and takes two steps towards me, and embraces me in her forehooves, “Okay, baby! Go home, and get some rest!”

I return the embrace with my own forehooves, and say, “Will do, Trixie!”

And Trixie moves away from me, to nuzzle, and almost do something else, before I shout, “NO KISSING!”

She frowns and moves her head back, “Whoa! What?”

I sigh, “Look, baby, if I’m sick, I wouldn’t want you to catch it, right?” and smile modestly at her.

Her violet gaze increases, “Um, okay! That’s a good point!”

I smile and nod, “Let me recover first, okay? And on Saturday, I’ll give you all kinds of love!”

She breathes out, and eyes me carefully, “I’m holding you to it!”

I giggle slightly, “Count on it, baby! But I need to trot home now, okay?”

She nods, and I see the point of her hat go up and down, before she says, “Alright, darling! Be careful!”

“Always!” I say, before turning to exit the room…

<*****>

I can’t believe that little pink pony beat me up! I think as I gallop through the streets, with fluid coming out of my eyes…

I swear, I will get revenge! I need to make her pay!

My jaw really hurts…

“Hey, whoa!” I hear a pony I don’t see, as I pass by an intersection…

I widen my eyes, when I realize that I’m not really paying attention to where I’m going!

I hear my clopping down the streets, in silence, before…

“Hey, slow down, little filly! What’s wrong?” I hear the same voice shout…

I hear trotting behind me, before I begin to slow my pace…

CLIP… CLOP…

I stop in the road, and hear the voice again, “What’s wrong, filly?”

I hear her clopping stop…

And I finally turn around, and 10 feet away, I notice a frowning magenta unicorn, with a two-toned purple cowlick style mane, and concerned blue eyes…

“What do you want?” I say, before wiping my eyes with my hoof and frowning at her…

Her eyes enlarge, “I just wanted to make sure you’re okay! I mean, you were running through the street, and crying!”

I sniffle, and wipe my face again, “I WASN’T crying!”

She clears her throat, “Alright, have it your way! So tell me, why were you not crying?”

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I sip the cocoa, as I sit on the red chair, and the pink foal sits on my burgundy couch, while staring at the cocoa dejectedly…

“Okay, lets start from the beginning! What’s your name?”

She seemed to be startled, and stares over at me, “Oh, I’m Diamond Tiara, and soon, my name will be known all over Equestria!” she boldly states, while raising her forehoof before her!

“Right!” I nod, “But first you need to cry and run through the streets!”

Her hoof lands on the couch, with a SLAP, as she stares at me fiercely, “I WASN’T crying!”

I sigh, “I’m Starlight Glimmer, and I work as a counselor at the School of Friendship!”

Her eyes enlarge as a scowl forms on her face, “Oh, great! You’re trying to shrink my head!”

“What?”

She sighs, and gets off the couch, “Look, it’s been fun Starlight, or whatever, but I really need to go back home to the lavish mansion I live in!”

“So what then? You’re just gonna completely ignore whatever it is that made you cry, so it can get worse?”

She stares at me while scowling! “I WASN’T crying!”

I giggle, “Come on, Diamond! We both know the truth!”

I see her finally relax her shoulders in defeat, before a look washes over her face, andshe timidly begins to trot back towards the couch, “Well, if you MUST KNOW, it’s um, it’s my mother… “

“Wait! If your mother’s a problem, why in Equestria would you be in such a hurry to go back home?”

She dejectedly sits back on the couch, and picks up her empathy cocoa, from the round wooden coffee table in front of her, before staring up at me with enormous blue eyes, “Well, the house isn’t so bad, because it’s big and she only sticks to one area… As long as I stay away from there, and get Jeeves to bring me my meals, I’m fine!” and takes another sip of cocoa…

I frown, “That hardly sounds healthy?”

She returns my frown, “It’s not?”

“Absolutely not, Diamond! You need to be around other ponies, and not by yourself all the time!”

Her eyes widen, “Oh, wow! So uh, I guess it’s good that I’m getting shipped off to a boarding school, then?”

“Boarding school?” I ask the pink foal, before taking another sip of my cocoa…

She smiles, “Yeah, it’s right next to The School of Friendship, too!”

I widen my eyes, “Oh, THAT place! I see it outside the window of my office!”

“Well, yeah! So I’ll be there and away from mother!” She happily states, before taking another sip…

“What about your father?”

She scoffs! “What about him? He’s ALWAYS away! He’s either in Fillydelphia, or Canterlot, or Manehatten, or something! Never home!”

I eye this filly closely… “It must be really lonely to be you?”

She frowns HARD, as if some great revelation just hit her! “Well, uh, NO!”

“It’s okay Diamond! We all have problems!”

She breathes deep, in and out, while I take another sip…

“How would you like to help me, after school, at The School of Friendship?”

She finally smiles at me, “I uh, I think I’d like that a lot, Starlight?”

Suddenly, the door swings open, and a blue pony, with a big pointy purple hat trots in, with a gray earth filly behind her, as she widens her purple eyes at me, “Starlight! You’ll never guess what happened to Chrysalis!”

I widen my own view at my crazy girlfriend, “How would I know? And who’s the filly?”

“SILVER SPOON!” I hear Diamond yell!

“Oh, good! You two know each other!” And stare at the silver foal, “Silver Spoon, was it?” and take another sip of my cocoa…

“Why did you run away?”

The gray filly hugs the pink one tightly, “I’m so sorry, Diamond Tiara! That unicorn was fierce, and I got scared!”

I begin to think this gray pony isn’t so tough, when she finally releases Diamond, and says, “But I was running STRAIGHT to your house, after the fact, and I wanted to make sure you were okay!” while eyeing her carefully, from behind blue temple-less fashion glasses…

The pink filly sniffles, and I finally notice the bruise on her chin, “Well, I’m fine! No thanks to you!”

I stare at these fillies, “Okay, slow down, everypony! We can talk this out!” before my eyes widen, and smile! “Would anypony like empathy cocoa?”

(To be continued… )