//------------------------------// // Chapter 13: The Pony I Wanna Be // Story: Diamond Hard // by Betty_Starlight //------------------------------// The dark tan stallion stood in Diamond’s office in his tan business suit, slicked back and graying black mane, and dark red tie with his graying goatee that now only retained it’s natural black color near the top as he frowned at the pink mare sitting on the other side of the mahogany desk and said, “I don’t understand? Did a stallion somewhere down the line upset you, or?” Diamond frowns at Filthy Rich before her in her office as she says, “Not really? I just love a mare now! Uh, apparently!” Filthy nods, “Well, yeah! But I was hoping for grandchildren one day!” “We can always just adopt?” Filthy is contemplating as he lowers his gaze and says, “So, you’re serious then? You really want to be with Silver Spoon?” he raises his gaze and frowns, “I thought you two had a falling out long ago?” Diamond breaths in and out through her mouth before saying, “Well, she came back! And she wanted to be with me… And I said yes, father…” Filthy widens his eyes while leaning forward, “But what about the family?” Diamond smiles and snickers, “Family? What family? You’ve barely seen mother in the past twenty years, and I have my own section of the empire down south! I only see you at Hearthswarming now! And try to remember who handles Appleloosa, father!” Filthy corrects his mouth as he can tell his daughter is adamant about this and nods, “Well, yes! Of course! I uh, wish you and Silver Spoon the best!” before turning his body and taking two paces towards the dark brown door, opening it with his right forehoof to swing it inward to the left and trotting out while closing the door behind him… Diamond frowns and mutters to herself, “Why do I get the feeling that this isn’t the end of this?” <*****> Diamond is sitting at the table, sipping her blond coffee the next morning, and reading her paper at the wooden kitchen table, when she suddenly hears a knock at the front door across the foyer from her! She raises her gaze and wonders, Who is that? Before getting off the chair on her left and trotting around the table towards the living room… She opens the door to see her tan father standing there to the right of another younger tan stallion, with a brown mop on his head for a mane and a clean-shaven face as he stares at Diamond with his green eyes, smiles, and says, “Hey girl! I’m Feather Bangs!” Diamond quickly shuts the door again with her right forehoof and locks it with a click by turning her hoof to the left on the knob. Silver Spoon walks in from the room on Diamond’s right to trot up behind her and asks, “Who was that?” Diamond frowns while keeping her gaze on the door, “Nopony important…” Both ponies hear a loud knocking on the door as a masculine voice shouts from behind it, “Diamond! We weren’t done talking to you!” Diamond narrows her eyes, “He’ll give up eventually…” Silver says from behind her, “I guess this means we can’t get the morning paper for awhile, then?” Diamond can only grin and chuckle as another loud knocking is heard, “Diamond! Come on! We just wanna chat!” It stops suddenly… Both mares only hear silence for a moment before Silver softly says from behind her love, “You think he’s gone?” Diamond replies, “Doubtful! He didn’t become so successful by just giving up!” “So, what do we do now?” Diamond sighs, “Live our lives! We’re adults, right? He doesn’t control me, and he also knows that if he pulls anything with me at this point, his empire will suffer…” Silver nods and frowns at the back of Diamond's head as she stands there facing the door, “Well, that’s probably also true!” Diamond nods, “Right! Meaning all he can do is just ludicrous stunts…” <*****> The next day at her office, Diamond receives a letter in the mail… The return address is familiar as it’s her old family mansion… She unseals the envelope with her right forehoof and reads it: Dear, Diamond Tiara I don’t know why you won’t give stallions another chance? You already know that I wanted grandchildren and you know lesbians can’t reproduce! Please reconsider! Sincerely, Your loving father, Filthy Rich Diamond sighs before taking the fine black ballpoint pen in her mouth and writing on a piece of paper to the right of the letter, Dear, King Putz Her eyes widen before she shakes her head, and she uses her forehooves to crumple up the paper and throws it into her white plastic waste bin on the left of her desk with her left forehoof and writes on the page that was beneath it: Dear, Beloved father (she cringes as she inks those words) I assure you that my love for Silver Spoon is very real. What you don’t know is that during all the time she spent away from me, she realized that she was missing me. The truth is, I am the missing part of her life and I have every intention of being there for my love. The mare Silver Spoon and NOT a stallion! I don’t care about passing on the family name, nor do I care about legacy. You know as well as I that this family is cursed, and it would be much better to end the line with me. And so, no father! I have no intention of reproducing with a stallion, ever… At this point, it’s about love, pure and simple… I love Silver Spoon… Sincerely, Diamond Tiara <*****> Later that day, Diamond is sitting on the green couch in the communal living room and using her forehooves to sip the blond coffee before her on the wooden table. Suddenly, the front door on her left opens to reveal a silver mare with tan leather saddlebags that appeared to be filled with papers… She stares at Diamond with her violet eyes and says, “Your dad just wrote to you a lot!” Diamond can only sit there staring at the mare on her left wide-eyed as she says, “I’m guessing you checked the mail at my old cottage?” Silver nods, “Yes, and you need to get a change of address form and possibly block future mail from Filthy Rich!” Diamond smiles and giggles as she gets up off the couch to begin trotting leftward towards her love who trots to her. Diamond soon says, “Yeah, about that!” Silver stops and grumbles back while frowning, “Yeah, what about it?” Diamond nods as she begins to use her forehooves to assist the gray mare in taking off her heavy paper-laden saddlebags, “He found out that I love a mare…” “And?” Diamond nods as she unhitches the back of the bags and grabs it with her mouth to remove it from Silver’s back. She says through her teeth, “He doesn’t like it…” Silver turns her head to the left to look at her love as she pulls the harness off her back and says, “Well, it’s your life! You’re an adult now! He can’t tell you who to love!” Diamond turns her body around to walk towards the table by the wall where she trots a few paces and sets the saddlebags down there, before raising her neck and saying, “Well, that’s the assumption!” Silver turns her body towards the other mare and trots over to her left side before nuzzling her left cheek, causing her to grin slightly before softly pecking her on the lips before withdrawing her lips and snout and then, smiling gently at her while staring deep into her azure blue eyes, “It’s gonna be okay, baby… I love you…” Diamond frowns, “I’m not nervous about my dad!” Silver smiles giggles, “Sure thing, Little Miss Ball of Pink Denial!” “I’m not a ball!” “You do kinda form a ball when I’m holding you and you are full of denial, so…” Diamond grimaces, “I’m not full of denial!” “Sure!” Diamond’s scowl hardens, “Look! Let’s just stay in here, where it’s safe and we’ll order pizza and watch girly movies! We don’t need to go anywhere to have a good time!” Silver snickers, “You’re worried about your dad, aren’t you?” “N-no!” Silver grins wider, “So in other words, yes?” Diamond widens her eyes again and moves her face close to Silver Spoon for a passionate kiss! The silver mare’s purple eyes widen with the sudden affection before Diamond removes her lips and stares back at the other mare, before she begins to kiss down her floof and begins to lower her body to crawl underneath her to get to her hind legs… Silver then says bluntly, “And so, we’re gonna have sex now!” Silver hears the other mare underneath her say, “Shut up!” before she begins to stick her tongue out… Silver grins and chuckles, “Of course! Uh…whoa!” <*****> Later that night, Silver is sitting across the table from Diamond and sipping her magenta soda can with her forehooves and she sets it down before staring at the pink mare sitting across from her, “Honestly, we need new movies! These are getting kinda old!” Diamond smiles back, “Yeah, uh, thanks for adding green peppers to our pizza for me! I know you don’t like them, but…” Silver smiles, “I can just pick them off!” she blinks, “So, anything on your mind, baby?” Diamond stares, “Just my dad! Ugh!” she closes her eyes and opens them again, “Look! I know you may have thought we were a family or whatever… And yeah, I did have a lot of toys and things to play with…” she sighs, “But eventually, I realized that all means nothing without somepony to play with…” Silver leans forward, “Was that when I left?” Diamond nods, “Yes! Yes, it was! After that, I was alone!” Silver frowns, “But what about your reformation though? Didn’t you make new friends at the school?” Diamond grins maniacally, “How could I? My mother sent me off to boarding school almost immediately after I stood up to her!” she blinks and sighs, “No, the truth is Silver Spoon, I just never really had a chance!” “Wow!” Diamond nods, “So, now that we’re having this lesbian redo thing…” Silver smiles and corrects her, “Diamond and Silver 2: Electric Boogaloo!” Diamond widens her eyes and points at the gray mare with her right forehoof, “Yeah! That!” she lowers her hoof, “I’m not gonna be bullied!” she sighs, “Still, we weren’t really a family so much as a dysfunction farm!” Silver raises her left eyebrow, “Oh?” Diamond giggles back, “Yeah! I hardly saw anypony who wasn’t the butler, and after I did what I did back there, even he stopped coming around…” she sighs, “I was alone Silver Spoon… You were gone, my parents were never really there, and everything was quiet… I had all the toys and playthings in the world, and yet, nopony to really share that with…” she blinks. Silver frowns back, “What do you mean?” Diamond gulps as it suddenly dawns on her what she’s about to admit, “Silver Spoon…” she smiles, “You complete me…” she breathes out of her nose slowly. “I think you’re what was missing, and I will not stop loving you just because my father doesn’t like it…” Silver smiles back at her love with nothing but affection and admiration in her violet eyes, “Well, I did pick up a new movie we haven’t seen before, and I was saving it for later?” Diamond starts to lean forward, “Oh, good! What did you get, Silver?” Silver lowers her gaze, “Flank Love Between Mares 7…” Diamond blinks, “Silver Spoon, did you buy porn?” Silver giggles, “Come on, baby! It’ll take your mind off things!” <*****> And so, after a night of lesbian sex and debauchery with Silver Spoon, Diamond awakens the next morning to find a note in front of her where Silver Spoon normally sleeps. She moved her non-bedridden right hoof towards it to collect it and proceeds to use her snout and hoof to unfold it and view what was written there with her sparkling blue eyes: Dear, Diamond baby I love you sweetie, but I had an appointment early this morning with an important client. I’ll be back by lunchtime. I made you coffee and already got the paper for you. Love you baby! Sincerely, Silver Spoon “Huh…” Diamond slowly sighs out of her mouth… <*****> Diamond is once again, on the green couch reading her morning paper before she heads out to work when a mysterious envelope suddenly slides through the mail slot of the red front door… She gulps and thinks to herself, I really should start doing this at the kitchen table! Too many interesting things happen when I sit here! As she dismounts the couch and trots between the sofa and the long wooden coffee table to her left towards the door there and looks down at the envelope… It simply has the word “DIAMOND” printed on the front… She picks it up with the cleft of her right forehoof and tears it open with her mouth to collect the paper inside and unfolds it with the same hoof and her snout to peer into the inscription underneath… Dear, Diamond Tiara Well, if you’re that serious about being with Silver Spoon, I have a counterproposal for you… It’s my understanding that she’s a high-powered accountant with many upstanding clients? I would like to meet with her in my main office in Canterlot soon and we’ll talk about what she can do for us. Please call the number on the back, explain that you are Diamond Tiara, and make arrangements. See you soon Diamond Dolly! Sincerely, Filthy Rich Diamond furrows her brow into a light cringe as she read her father use her ancient pet name. She could only whisper one thing under her breath at that point as her mouth formed a slow hard frown, “It’s a trap!” (To be continued…)