“When you’re a diamond, that means you never break!” - Diamond Tiara
Diamond Tiara laid on her belly on the blue sofa in her cottage, on the North Side of Ponyville. She read her romance adventure book, currently propped on the right shoulder rest. She sighs and turns another page with her right forehoof, while contemplating her life, after that fateful incident with the Cutie Mark Crusaders all those years ago… She thinks about how she managed to revitalize her life and reputation by not only working on the Barnyard Bargains empire but by doing philanthropy and charity work… Such things made the earth pony feel good about herself, but there was something still missing from her life and existence, that she just couldn’t put her hoof on it… Suddenly, there’s a knock on the door on the other side of the room! She lifts her head and thinks to herself, Who the hay could that be?
Diamond dismounts the couch and trots to the door, her fit agile young adult earth pony body bounding slightly with each pace, as her white and gray tail swished with curiousity. She looks at the knob, when suddenly, she hears another rapping on the front and this only startles the pink pony and causes her to cringe back. She looks at the door sternly, “Hang on! I’m right here!” before reaching her neck down to the knob on the left side and turning it by clenching it with her teeth and rotating her head to the right. She pulls her head back to open the door and looks at the gray pony on the other side…
This pony has on blue fashion glasses with no temples, and they form points on the two upper portions of the sides. She has a white and gray wavy mane that fell around her right shoulder in a braided ponytail with a matching tail behind her with a distinctive silver spoon cutie mark on her flanks. She smiles and says, “Hiya Diamond! Gosh, it sure has been awhile!”
Diamond immediately uses her right forehoof to slam the door in the other pony’s face! She turns around and sighs to herself as she begins trotting back to the couch and says, “Well, that was easy!”
Silver Spoon can be heard from the outside of the door, “Diamond! I’m sorry! We need to talk!”
Diamond rolls her eyes as she continues pacing towards the couch, “There’s nothing left to talk about, Silver Spoon! I helped you mend the fence in the playground, and we made our amends already! I still don’t want to talk to you anymore!”
“But don’t you think we could be friends again?”
Diamond stops in front of the couch and frowns, “Why? You went your way, and I went mine! We both have our lives now, and that’s the end of it!”
“Diamond!” The feminine voice frantically shouts, “We can do better than that!”
Diamond smiles insanely, “Seriously Silver? After all this time?”
“Yes, after all this time, Diamond! It’s cold now!” She can be heard sighing, “I’m not so mad at you anymore and uh, I like to think that you’re not mad at me either?”
Diamond giggles slightly as her eyes widen at the couch, “Oh really?” her eyes and mouth narrow, “Well, you thought wrong!”
The voice outside is silent for another moment, before finally stammering out, “Uh, well, don’t you think we should talk about it, Diamond?”
Diamond sighs, “Fine! Let me get some coffee from the other room!”
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Diamond Tiara balances the white coffee cup on her snout as she trots back into her living room from the door on the back left of her blue couch and she heads around the couch to her round reddish dark wood table on the other side and sets the cup down by lowering her head. She then trots back to the couch to sit down before turning her head to the right and using her right forehoof and clefts to grasp the cup by the handle and bring it to her mouth for a cautious sip… She smacks her lips as she thinks that it’s still hot and sets the coffee back on the table and she then looks at her front door and shouts, “Still out there, Silver Spoon?”
The door is silent before a voice says from behind it, “Uh, yeah! Diamond, can I please just come in?”
“No!” Diamond emphatically yells from her seat on the couch. She turns her head back to her coffee before thinking she shouldn’t take another sip and then, back to the front door, “I’m much happier with you on that side of the door, Silver Spoon!”
The voice is silent as Diamond takes another sip of her coffee with her right forehoof. Silver finally says, “Uh, wouldn’t it be easier to reconcile with you if I was on the other side, though?”
Diamond widens her eyes to the door as she sets her coffee mug back down, “I don’t know? Probably?”
Silver is silent again before saying, “Well, can I come in to make true and lasting amends with my best friend please?”
“No!” Diamond loudly replies.
Silver is silent again, before eventually stuttering, “W-what? D-don’t you want to talk to me, Diamond Tiara?”
Diamond frowns, “Um, no not really?” She widens her eyes, “I’m good!”
Silver Spoon can be heard sighing again, “Diamond, you were always so stubborn!”
Diamond blinks and narrows her mouth, “So I’m told?”
“I’ll be back later on Diamond Tiara, and I’ll be looking for you on the outside! You can’t hide forever!” Her hoofsteps can then be heard fading as she trots back away from the front door…
Diamond sighs again and mutters to herself, “Great! Now I gotta stay in here for three days!” she darts her blue eyes back to the door, “That should help her get the hint that I don’t wanna talk to her!” and nods her head before moving her body back to her stomach to read her book on the right side of the couch…
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(Three days later…)
Diamond steps out of her cottage that morning and begins to trot outside, past the two rolled up newspapers that were left on her doorstep. She glances at them before quickly tossing them back into her cottage and shutting the door with her right forehoof. She hears the snap of the lock, acquiring the latch so that she knows her cottage is now locked up. She trots a few paces outside onto the cobblestone streets of Ponyville, before turning her body left to trot south that direction…
She thinks to herself about how she has been away for three days now, and there’s likely to be a lot of books that she needs to balance for her business. She frowns as she thinks of that insufferable Silver Spoon! After about 10 years, she just up and decides to show up at my cottage! The impudent gall of some ponies!
No sooner than she begins to think about Silver Spoon does she hear a familiar voice calling to her from the left side of the alleyway she was trotting through, “Hello again, Diamond Tiara!”
“Ugh!” Diamond loudly exclaims while grimacing and turning her head to face the gray pony on her left. “Don’t you know how to take a hint?”
Silver Spoon smiles and begins to trot next to Diamond on her left side as she looks in her direction, “I don’t know? My teacher always said that I was a slow learner?”
Diamond frowns even deeper, “Obviously!”
“I assumed you’d probably wait inside your cottage for me to just go away… I was there in the morning when your paper was delivered, but you never came out!”
Diamond rolls her eyes, “Yeah, I thought that was an obvious ambush time, so I decided to skip it until I thought you went away!”
Silver looks at Diamond trotting at her right and says, “Diamond, I uh…” she blinks.
Diamond flinches and immediately retorts angrily, “You WHAT, Silver Spoon?”
Silver sighs, “I uh, never knew how much you meant to me until that fateful day… Then, we fixed that fence together, your mother sent you off to boarding school, and I, “ she blinks, “I never saw you again!”
Diamond frowns and glares at the gray pony, “You could’ve come to visit me, you know?”
Silver gives a more exasperated sigh this time, “Well, I wanted to! And I almost did, but…”
“But WHAT, Silver Spoon?” Diamond loudly cuts her off as the two ponies trot through town and suddenly, the earth ponies and unicorns on the street give them a wider birth.
“But I was scared, okay?” Silver blinks again, “I uh, felt that since you were trying to be better and that I was just a reminder of your former life, that you wouldn’t want to talk to me anymore…”
Diamond abruptly stops trotting and the gray pony reciprocates as the pink pony then faces her body to Silver Spoon as the gray pony does the same and frowns at her, “So, you just gave up?”
Silver blinks and sighs, “Well um, yeah… Yeah, I guess I did and I’m sorry!”
Diamond widens her eyes and curves her mouth in secret frustration, “So, let me see if I got this straight… My best friend just abandons me after I decide to start being a better pony! And now! Now, here she is, wanting to make amends again? Even though she was the one who left? Does that sound about right to you, Silver Spoon?”
Silver frowns, “Well um, kinda, yeah?” she blinks her violet eyes, “It’s been so long, Diamond! We can just start over now!”
Diamond narrows her eyes and mouth, “Why?”
Silver widens her purple eyes behind her spectacles, “Because this is a new time now, Diamond! We can just begin again, now!”
Diamond winces again, “FORGET IT!”
Silver narrows her mouth, “Well, why not?”
Diamond blinks, “After everything, you really think you can just trot back into my life like that? Really?”
Silver Spoon blinks, “Well um, kinda, yeah?”
Diamond smiles insanely and begins to laugh hysterically in the other pony’s face!
Silver widens her eyes and frowns, “Diamond! I know you’re a good pony and I know you want to give me a chance, here!”
“You don’t know me at all, Silver Spoon! Why do you think I never wrote to you when I went away?”
Silver Spoon can only shut her eyes and give out a final exasperated sigh, before looking back at the hysterical pink pony, “Diamond! I’m going to make this really simple!”
“Oh, I’ll one-up you, Silver!” Diamond says before abruptly and forcefully turning to her right and begins to trot that direction.
She’s stopped by Silver Spoon’s right forehoof, “It’s Monday, today! I will be at the Ponyville Pizzeria at seven o’clock, on Thursday! If you wish to talk, you’ll meet me there… I hope to see you again soon, Diamond Tiara!”
Diamond turns her head right to look into the purple eyes of her former companion.
Silver frowns sternly and continues, “I want you to know that even though we were apart, I never forgot you and I thought about you almost every day!”
Diamond frowns, “Okay, fine! Go to the pizzeria on Thursday and meet nopony there! I don’t care anymore!”
Silver blinks, “I think you care more than you think, Diamond!”
Diamond smirks on the right side of her mouth and says, “We’ll see!” before brushing past the gray forehoof blocking her path and continuing her trek to the South Side of Ponyville…
“I hope to see you there!” She can hear Silver Spoon saying from behind her as she trots away…
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Diamond Tiara read her book that night after she was done maintaining her empire finally, but her thoughts were distracted as she read the same passage about the brave pegasus knight twice, Who does that Silver Spoon think she is? Just up and showing up in my life again like that, after all this time!
Diamond read the passage again before she started reading about the dragon’s haughty response to the knight’s demands, I really shouldn’t go to that thing she wanted to do on Thursday…
She read the knight’s clever reply before her eyes narrowed, I’m still not sure if this is such a great idea? I mean, what could we possibly have in common anymore, after all this time?
She read the dragon’s concession, regarding the princess he had captured in the story and frowned, Well, why shouldn’t I meet her there, though? What have I really got to lose?
She reads the knight graciously accepting the dragon’s new terms before he trots up to collect his beautiful prize, before she shuts her eyes in yet another cringe of her pink face, Bah! This is ridiculous! After all this time? Really?
She opens her eyes again, I keep thinking though, why not? She shakes her head so her white and gray mane sways on her shoulders and stares back at the book to read the passage about the knight collecting his bride again, Well… I guess I’ll meet her there. Um, if I still feel up to it, anyway…
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(3 more days after that, at 6:40 at night…)
Diamond steps out the front of her cottage again. She looks up at the sky to see the sun slowly descending before her and sighs, Well, I guess I need to trot to the pizzeria, now?
She begins to trot out her door and moves her body and forehoof on the right to shut it before continuing her trek to the west and the pizzeria located there…
So, I’m actually going through with this? She thinks to herself as she picks up her pace to walk down the cobblestone streets while various shops and businesses begin putting out closed signs in their front doors. I’ll be less likely to back out if I get there quickly! Her mind exclaims to herself as she trots quickly down the streets…
She sighs again as she walks through the desolate streets. I always thought Ponyville was livelier this time in the evening? Then again, it is a Thursday! I’m still pretty early though. I doubt Silver is around yet…
She sees the neon blue sign of the pizzeria coming up on her left as she hurriedly trots down the empty street and she sighs one final time before turning her body left and operating the doorknob there on the glass door with her left forehoof and pushing it inside to the right so she can trot inside the restaurant.
She sees a white and gray maned gray earth pony sitting on the far table on the other side of the room. Silver smiles at her and says loudly, “Hey Diamond! I’m over here! I ordered a baked potato pizza with extra cheese and sour cream, just like you like!”
Diamond trots across the restaurant, around the tables to slowly make her way to the other side of the room, featuring a table there, with a delicious baked potato pizza sitting on it and a smiling gray earth pony, sitting and waiting on her just beyond it…
(To be continued…)