My silent sister
Chapter 1
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Celestia's sun rose gently over ponyville, the light shined like polished gold, sharp rays escaped from the curtains that acted like a barrier, they shone into the room of a cyan Pegasus mare, she tossed and turned in her bed as the light hit her face, her body was wrapped up in the blankets making her look like a catapilla waiting to transform, strands of rainbow hair flowed over her pillow, only one side of her face was visible and the light hit it perfectly.
"Ok ok... Iam getting up" she moaned lowering the bed sheet to below her hooves, her eyes remained closed, with a lazy shuffle she fell from her inviting bed and landed upright, "I hate mornings!" Rainbow grunted finally opening her eyes and starting her journey to her kitchen.
Stretching her wings, rainbow made herself a nice glass of milk to start the day, the cold drink ran into her stomach cooling every part of her body, wakening the tired mare fully, "I wish juuuuust once I could sleep all day without distractions."
A familiar sound came from the door as the metal letterbox opened and closes,"that must be derpy!" Derpy always delivered rainbows mail, Rainbow strolled over and grabbed the letter, walking over to her sofa she investergated the letter that invaded her home, it was a light brown envelope with basic lettering that had clearly been written by hoof, it was addressed to rainbow dash, rainbow reconized the smell, a hint of lemon, she knew who it was from, so many questions ran inside her mind screaming, rainbow could only raise one eyebrow and wonder, why was she sending me a letter? And why after all these years?
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Rainbow flew over ponyville in the early air, passing other ponies trying to convince their wings, work was more important, landing outside twilight's library, all 5 of her friends where waited casually, rarity was talking to twilight about something to do with her new designs for the next spring season, rainbow didn't pay much attention, how could she! pinkie bounced around Fluttershy and applejack like normal, upon applejacks back was a large picnic basket full of food and drink rainbow hoped, Fluttershy was carefully strapping the basket to applejacks back using soft leather straps that ran under applejacks belly, Fluttershy was making sure not to pull any fur out or leave scratches to applejack or the woven basket.
"Morning!" Rainbow called out, flapping her wings to hover and finally land firmly on the earth "sorry I am late!" Eventhough rainbow would normally be happy to see them she didn't feel like her normal self and only turned up to prove she wasn't dead.
"Thats fine rainbow" replied twilight with a thankful tone, had rarity board her that much?
"Fluttershy has the picnic, do you want to pick the spot today?" Twilight asked moving away from rarity, her eyes gleamed with positivity and excitement.
"No thanks, pinkie pie can pick!"
Replied rainbow with a forced smile, none on the other ponies noticed her strange behaviour, probably a good thing!
Dragging behind rainbow walked,she dident fly, it was unlike rainbow dash (the best young flyer) not to fly but still no pony noticed, pinkie was bouncing ahead followed by applejack and Fluttershy carrying the picnic basket, the 6 mares always spent their Fridays together in the park, it was a tradition since twilight first came to ponyville, she needed away to get to know the other ponies and it was the perfect plan.
At the start twilight had brought lists and plans for the time out, showing when to talk about what with times and all that egghead stuff, it amused rainbow luckily rarity showed twilight how to relax and talk about anything she felt like.
rainbow always enjoyed the gossip and stories her friend chatted about at the picnic, the gossip always came from rarity, it wasn't surprising as she can be very nosey, rainbow would have loved to joined in today but she had her own gossip to handle.
Rarity floated her hoof made blanket onto the ground with her magic softening and smoothing out all the bumps created by the grass beneath, pinkie had found the perfect spot between two large trees,the air was warm but the shade from the trees help to protect the ponies skin, sitting calmly they arranged into a unnoticed circle and started to talk to each other about anything and everything as Fluttershy passed around the daisy sandwiches, apple pie, cupcakes, sweets and cider.
Finally, between eating and drinking the long conversations where starting to get interesting but rainbow just watched and thought to herself almost blocking about any sounds and stories from her best friends, by now rainbow was laid on her stomach resting her head on her hooves that spread out on Rarity's blanket, rainbow felt a pony sit beside her.
"Rainbow are you ok dear?" Spock a careing posh voice, a voice of rarity, her eyes look at the board Pegasus, how could rainbow not have noticed rarity leave her current chat with applejack?
"Hmmm" replyed rainbow not moving from her pose,her eyes still fixed on a tiny shoot of grass that had escaped from the blanket, the floor wasn't over cozy rainbow just had no will-power to move,all the mares look at her with concern in their eyes, they had finally noticed!
" I got a letter this morning..." Explained rainbow, rainbow knew she would have to tell them sooner or later and now seemed like a good time after all she seemed to be sat in every ponies eye site almost like been on a stage with one single spot light shinning on your face.
"From who? If you don't mind me asking " questioned Fluttershy before hiding behind her long pink mane, silently reminding the others of her shyness.
"My sister!"