Sour had been sitting and watching Pinkie Pie entertain her troupe of preschoolers. It had been about 20 minutes since Sour had sat down. Pinkie had noticed Sour pretty quickly after she had sat down. Pinkie’s little troupe of toddlers time at the park was almost up. Pinkie started herding the kids into a line. As she was leading the troupe to a bus nearby, she signaled to Sour to follow. Sour having gotten calmer and slightly more clear headed, but still a bit frazzled about every thing that had been bothering her, decided to listen to her pink friend's signal.
On the bus Sour sat at the front next to Pinkie Pie. “So where we going? Pinks” Sour asked as the bus started on it’s way.
“The child center at the vocational school” Pinkie replied “But I want to know what’s twitching with you? Sour Sweety” she asked soon after.
“Well just got a little to frazzled at school and decided to play hooky today” Sour confessed.
“I’ve talked enough with Sunshine enough to not tell you to go back Sweety” Pinkie said “So how about you just hang with me, better than risking being grabbed by those meanie officers”
Great now I’m stuck with sugar girl “Okay you have a point, Pinkie” Sour sighed “So what are you doing corralling gremlins? Pinkie” she asked beginning to get annoyed of the noise the kids were making.
“Oh I decided to take childcare classes after having to take care of the Cakes’ twins” Pinkie said in her normal cheery tone “And don’t worry about the teachers I’ll clear you with them”
Well I guess this is better than being dragged back to that ice castle of a school “Thanks Pinkie” The bus was now at the vocational school. Pinkie got the preschoolers into a single file line with a short sound of her voice. Sour and Pinkie lead the kids into the building. Sour amazed how the kids were quiet and behaved the entire walk from the bus to the school’s nursery.
After Pinkie got all the kids situated for a nap, she walked over to Sour at the front of the room. “So Sweets what is actually bothering?” Pinkie asked in a rather serious tone for the girl.
“I don’t know if I need to tell you Pinks. Its not really your business.” Sour defended
“One my friends is hurting and they expect me to do nothing. I’m Pinkamina Diane Pie and I never let a friend stay sad for long” Pinkie said proudly, yet still sounding serious.
“Pinkie I really don’t think you are the best person to be talking to about it” Sour pleaded
“I Pinkie Swear, cross my heart, hope to fly, stick a cupcake” Pinkie did the motions for her legendary Pinkie Swear “that all that is said here will stay between us”
“Okay, I know how important your Pinkie Swears are to you. I’ll tell what’s been on my mind” Sour replied giving in. “I’ve just been unable to see what the others at CPA seem to see. They keep saying things are better. But all I see is the same competitive atmosphere CPA has always had.”
“Well maybe silly you just need to pretend everything is alright and see how things look then” Pinkie said cheerily, yet still oddly serious sounding.
“Pinkie, What?! How am I supposed to do that?” Sour screamed a little loud. The toddlers thankfully barely moved.
“Time for me to head back to CHS. If you want, you can come with me and you can hang in the Rainbooms Music Room” Pinkie announced
“Well it’d be dangerous to not go with you. So I will come with you.” Sour agreed
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Sour decided to take a nap and think on the advice she had been given. So Pinkie says act happy and that Juniper girl says talking to other students might help. GAH how is any of this supposed to help. Okay girl! keep it together. Think… how is any of this supposed to help. Sour tried thinking further on her problems. She still kept drawing blanks, so she decided to just finally actually sleep.
Sour was woken up by the voices of Rainbow Dash and Applejack, arguing about some physical feat challenge they just came from. “No no no, I totally made that half court shot” Rainbow argued
“No witnesses, no proof” Applejack retorted shaking her head
“Hey some people were sleeping here” Sour called out slightly irritated
“Sour Sweet! What are you doing here?!” Both girls screamed
“Well so much for my hearing” Sour said rolling her eyes “Any way long story short, I came with Pinkie”
“Okay, I guess we can understand that” Applejack affirmed. It was at this moment the rest of the Rainbooms came into the room.
“Sour, you stayed!” Pinkie yelled happily to the dismay of everyone’s ears.
“Yeah Pinks I stayed” Sour replied shrugging a little and seeming calmer then she was a moment ago. The nap had seemed to have helped to clear her head a bit more.
“So darling what brought you to our part of town?” Rarity asking the question on everyone’s minds.
“Yeah sorry for intruding on you guys.” Sour apologized “I’m here because I was having a bit of trouble this morning, seeing how Crystal Prep wasn’t still the ice castle it had always been”
“Hey don’t feel bad intruding on us. You’re one of our friends and we are always up for helping our friends.” Sunset assured “So what is it that doesn’t seem different? From what Sunny’s been telling us everything sounded like it was on the up.”
“Is it really different? Still looks to me like everyone is at each others throats for being top student. I know Principle Cadence tried getting everyone to back off from being so competitive. But everyone still look like they’re ready throw people to the dirt for that better grade.”
“Sour your letting yourself dwell on the past again. I told you back during freshmen year that you’re really bad at letting yourself see change and you should make effort to change that” Sugarcoat said with her usual bluntly honest tone.
“Well you’re as harsh as always.” Sunset responded to Sugarcoat’s honesty. Taking a breath She turned back to Sour “Any way Sour, what Sugarcoat is trying to say is don’t let yourself dwell so much on what hasn’t changed and let yourself look for what has changed”
“Okay Sunset, I’ll try taking that advice to heart” Sour answered. Everything seemed to get a little lighter around her. Sour was still struggling to put the advice she had gotten together. But with everything looking a little easier, she decide to just roll on through the rest of the day. “So girls, I’m feeling a bit better. But can I still hang here for a little while?”
“Of course you can Sour. Stay as long as you like” Rainbow assured the more relaxed looking girl. Sour stayed till everyone decided to go home, and went home herself.
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Well it’s been an odd day. But I think I’m starting to get what everyone has been trying to tell me. Sour thought as she got into bed. She was asleep within seconds of her head hitting the pillow.