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// Chapter 1- Regrets 
// Story: Broken relationships and dreams 
// by Anonymous15 
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Thanks to God for helping me make this.

It was dark outside, it was about 9:00pm, most ponies in Equestia are asleep, escaping reality and entering the dream world. Most ponies in Equestia were happy and enjoying the nightlife, except for a certain turquoise mare with an orange mane.

She was sitting at the table of a small, local, cheap cider restaurant in Equestia that was in Townhall. After the day she was booted off from the Academy, the news of what she has done spread everywhere. She lost her part time job as a weather control pony, her boyfriend, Soarin dumped her, her own friends deserted her, and everytime she gets out of her house everypony will ignore her presence or give her angry glares. The ponies weren't happy with what she done.



she wasn't happy at all, she finished three mugs of cider. tears were in her eyes, her eyes even started blossoming red from all the crying. One thing was nagging her all evening, a memory she rather forget and delete from her brain.  She remembered how she was trying to show off and released a tornado and almost killed Rainbow Dash's friends and the other Wonderbolt cadets, then Rainbow Dash told Spitfire what happend and then Lighting Dust's lead pony position was stripped away from her, in a blink of an eye and she was expelled from the academy. 



Burdens and grief crossed her heart as she tears up by remembering what she has done, she looks out of the window and sees the huge, white moon, shining bright in the sky, she smiles as she remembers as when she was a little filly, her and her family stargazed during the night. She then chugged down her fourth cider of the evening down, she finished it in less than 3 minutes.

She burped, and mumbled, "Excuse me."

She then sighs and muttered angrily, "I bet that rainbow punk could drink this fast."

She frowns, her head hanged low. The waiter pony walks up to her, a purple mare with a light purple mane. She looks like as if she was in a rush. Her eyebrow raised high like a flag. He asked, "Ma'am, do you want more cider? I suggest you stop drinking cider, you already had four and... too much cider is not really good for you.. I heard from a rumor that if you drink... to much cider.. you'll explode."

Lighting Dust rolled her eyes and said, "Can I have a sparkling water then?"

The waiter nodded and walked away. Lighting Dust sighed, she placed one of her hooves on the table and used that hooves to carry her head. A memory popped into her head like a pop-up ad. She remembers when RD called her out for being reckless,and nearly killing Rainbow Dash's best friends and the other cadets at the boot camp. The waiter pony gives her sparkling water and walks away to take an order from a pony couple next to her.

She sighs and mumbles to herself, "Maybe, Rainbow Dash is right... I was being too reckless... all because I want to prove I am the best flyer in Equestia..." tears started leaking from her eyes. "But that idiot punk tattled on me and made me lose my dream of becoming a wonderbolt.. I always wanted to be a wonderbolt since flight camp."


She then climbs on top of the table and yelled, "Wonderbolts aren't reckless or ponies who almost kill other ponies, they are responsible, talented, and elegant fliers... three things I am not..."

One of the waiter ponies, Scootaloo replied, "That's great ma'am but can you get down from the table and stop yelling..."

Lighting Dust blushed red in embarrassment and stepped down from the table, she finished drinking her sparkling water and left 5 bits for her cider and sparkling water.

She thought to herself, "Maybe.. I... I should apologize to Rainbow Dash and the other wonderbolts.. for the 'bad' thing I did..."

she smiled at that idea and walked out of the restaurant.