Twilight sighed as she left her school, feeling down from how Rarity and Starbeam had been treating her over the past few weeks. More and more they had been pulling her away from Flutters and Pinkie, ever since she had gone to the fair with them. Celestia, Luna, and Cadance had flown over to Ponyville to visit her, eager to hear on how she was doing in school and who she had met.
"So, tell me about it." Cadance encouraged, nudging Twilight. Feeling sour, Twilight didn't say much. "Oh. You know, it's fine. I guess." she sighed, voice being drained from how tired she'd been from staying up late and studying, not only that but overthinking what she'd do if Fluttershy and Pinkie were convinced she abandoned them.
"Is everything Alright?" Luna asked. "I know a sleep-deprived pony when I see one. I am the princess of the night, you know. If anypony knows something about sleep it's me. Why haven't you been resting?"
"It's just- I don't know! school's getting stressful again. I haven't even told them I'm your student Celestia and the popular girls are still trying to suck me into their bully groups. Especially this one unicorn named Starbeam, she's mean to everypony. especially my REAL friends. What do I do?"
"A bully is nothing new for highschoolers to deal with." Celestia sighed. "Even I had my fair share of detractors in my youth, hah, they could not believe their eyes when they saw me become an alicorn. But what they do doesn't matter, follow your heart Twilight. Do you think it's best to keep letting them bring you down? or will you stand up to them and show them what's right?"
"That's the thing!" Twilight argued. "I have no idea what to say! it's like I'm trapped with them. I never wanted to be popular, they just like me because im the only other unicorn there, and im SORT OF pretty...to them."
"Don't be so hard on yourself Twilight. You're a great friend, and Fluttershy and Pinkie know deep down you'd never leave them for a bunch of cliches." Cadance reassured her. "Tons of girls tried to get me in their groups, and I knew they were trouble and only craved drama."
"HOW IS THAT SUPPOSED TO MAKE ME FEEL ANY BETTER ABOUT WHAT IM DEALING WITH!?" Twilight groaned. Cadance shrugged, and turned to the sisters. Celestia bent down and looked Twilight in the eyes. "This is apart of your friendship quest, you need to learn how to pick through the right ponies and learn from right and wrong. You're young and inexperienced, but soon you will grow into a wise mind and know what's right."
"You believe I can do that?" Twilight sighed. Celestia grinned. "I know you can. Now get going, you have a lot to learn still."
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"Good morning Twilight," Cheerilee greeted as Twilight sat down in her desk the next day. Celestia and Cadences words buzzed around in her head. Could they be right? things were different 1000 years ago at schools, and Cadence got it easy! she had my brother crushing on her and Lemony Hearts and Diamond rose by her side, she never had to worry about fake friends.
She felt like if she didn't choose who to stay with soon, she'd be like Rainbine, friendless and hated on by the whole building merely for one screw-up. She shuddered at the thought. There was no way she'd lose Pinkie and Fluttershy, they were her closest friends she had, but if she told Rarity and Star she wanted a break from them, she was scared they'd take it the wrong way.
"Hiya Twilight! me and Fluttershy are working on our art project, come and sit down with us!" Pinkie waved, drawing the purple unicorn near their table. "Ahem, actually, she's working with us." Starbeam said, tugging on Twilight's tail. "Come on, Rarity is so much better at designing glittery decorations then these two."
"Starbeam..." Twilight began, trying to block Fluttershy and Pinkie's hurt looks as she trotted away. "Why do you hate Pinkie and Fluttershy so much? their my friends too."
"I never said I hated anybody, so you're wrong there." She stated flatly. "I just think instead of hanging out with some shy-pushover and hyperactive maniac you should be with proper girls. We'll teach you what's good for you. Right, Rarity?"
Rarity had been looking at herself through a small mirror she'd packed in her schoolbag. "What? oh yes, agreed dear." Twilight's eyebrows furrowed. She didn't even care about being cool anymore, these two were a nightmare. All they cared and talked about were themselves! that and fashion, magazines, boys, and shopping. She wished she could tell them her secret, but if she did things would only get worse.
I cant have anybody know i'm celestia's student. Yet. They'll lose it. Twilight thought miserably. She felt guilty, if Celestia got the idea in her head she was ashamed of her being her teacher outside of school she'd get offended. It wouldn't be such a big deal if it wasn't the REAL PRINCESS CELESTIA OF EQUESTRIA guiding her.
"Pst, girls, let's go gossip in the bathroom, I got some new dirt on Rainbine." Starbeam snickered, leading them down the hallways quietly and shoving them all into the cramped and dirty stalls. "Wait, did I not bring my purse? argh! I can't leave it in the classroom, it's made out of pure diamond, someone will steal it." she complained, turning around and running down the halls to retrieve her belonging back.
"Hmph, what a bitch." A voice that didn't come from Twilight coughed. "Wh-WHAT!? Rarity, she's your friend!" how could Rarity say that? she thought they were closer than siblings. Rarity rolled her dark-blue eyes at her shock. "What? me and Starbeam? not at all darling. I feel nothing toward her."
"THEN WHY do you hangout with her? did she force you to be her friend too!?" Twilight reasoned. Rarity shook her head and slipped her red lipstick back into her backpack with ease. "No, i'll always be more popular than she is. She was desperate to befriend me when she first came to school. She's nothing but an insecure snitch. I just found her amusing."
"But you bully ponies with her? why if you hate her then?" Twilight asked.
"Hm?" Rarity looked up, and smirked. "Oh, well, don't tell anypony, but I am a sociopath. I feel nothing but pleasure from causing pain and suffering to others, but I have no connection to anybody except my brother. Starbeam could drown in a lake for all I cared, sorry. The true me is like that darling."
"Well if you don't like her, you should seriously get rid of her. She's not nice to either of us, and she's clearly using us for her own gain." Twilight hoofpalmed. Rarity raised a brow. "And how do you suppose we do that? just walk up to her one day and say it's over?"
"Why not? she doesn't owe us anything, and she doesn't have anything personal on us either." Twilight said. Rarity shrugged. "Hm, okay, but let's make it horrible for her to deal with, maybe break it up infront of the entire classroom." she grinned sadistically.
"Alright." Twilight agreed, and together they left the bathroom without waiting for Starbeam to come back. "HEY! where are you two going, I didn't take that long." The pink unicorn demanded, her piercing purple eyes meeting both of them. "Oh, Rainbine walked in on us, had to leave." Rarity lied. "Come now, the belle will ring soon."
Trying to contain their laughter, both Rarity and Twilight walked from behind the annoyed mare to keep her from seeing their wide faces. "This is gonna be good!" Twilight told her. Rarity agreed. "Yes dear, I know she hates nothing more than being publicly outed infront of everybody. Let's expose her infront of everypony for all the mean things she's done."
As they re-entered the orange classroom, Twilight acted normal and sat back down at their group of three table, waiting for the big moment to happen. Rarity glanced at Starbeam, waiting for her next tangent to begin. After awhile, a half-hour rolled by, and still, nothing.
"Hey everybody, I just wanted to thank all of you for being wonderful to me this year, hopefully i'll be able to go to prom soon, i'd love it if you all voted me prom queen." Starbeam stated when Cheerilee left the room to refill her ink-pen. "I mean, who doesn't think i'm beautiful?"
"I think you're ugly as all shit." Rainbine said aloud, her journal pulled close to her face. Twilight was curious to see what she was writing down, but Starbeam quickly snatched it. "What the hell is this? you have a diary Rainbine?"
"NO! it's a journal, fucking idiot. NOW GIVE IT BACK!" Rainbine screamed, jumping out of her chair and trying to grab it. Starbeam held it up with her magic. "Come and get it, stupid pegasus." Not even caring what was written inside of it, Starbeam threw it at the wall. The book crashed and fell to the floor, tearing some of the pages as they fluttered down to the floors.
"THAT'S IT!" Rainbine yelled, and pulled on her pink pearly necklace. "YOU THINK YOU'RE TOUGH, HUH!? ARE YOUR FRIENDS GONNA STOP ME FROM DOING THIS!?" and with a forceful tug, Rainbine ripped the pearls right off, all of them falling apart and exploding across the floors.
"Oh my!" Fluttershy gasped. "FIGHT!!" Pinkie called out, but was quickly silenced by Fluttershy. "No, don't encourage them Pinkie, this is wrong!"
"RARITY, TWILIGHT, do some good, AND HELP ME!" Starbeam begged, furious her necklace had been destroyed. Rarity and Twilight sat still, smiling. "Why should we, slut? you're nothing but a tryhard bully. Not even good at being that, oh, and personally dear, light pink eyeshadow looks terrible on you. Rid of those fake eyelashes if you want me to care."
"FAKE!?" Starbeam repeated, terrified. "Rarity, you're my biggest inspiration, you know that! what changed!?" the pink unicorn cried out as Rainbine wrestled her.
"Oh, not much," Rarity said, looking down at the struggle and getting super turned on from her anguish. "But, I will say this. Eversince you slept with my brother I have been waiting to get back at you. You see, he told me everything. We always discuss things like that, and to think you could've kept a secret like that from me was very wrong of you."
Ponies all around them gasped in horror. "YOU SLEPT WITH RARITYS BROTHER!?" and they all get scared. Starbeam groaned. "YES I DID! and i'm not sorr-ugh, LET ME GO RAINBINE!" knocking the pegasus into the wall, Rainbine gave her the middle-wing, grabbed her ruined journal and flew out of the room.
"You're nothing but a whore. Say it everypony!" Rarity shouted. "STARBEAM IS A WHORE! STARBEAM IS A WHORE!" everybody but Fluttershy was singing it at the top of their lungs. Starbeam, caught as the center of negative attention broke down, her eyes watering with fresh tears.
"I CAN'T HELP BEING MEAN! I JUST WANTED TO BE LOVED! NONE OF MY OLD FRIENDS AT MY OLD SCHOOL EVER LIKED ME BECAUSE I WASN'T PRETTY ENOUGH!" she cried, covering her eyes and loudly sobbing as she too ran out. Finally for once she had what was coming! Twilight and Rarity hoof-fisted. "Joyous day! Starbitch cried!"
"I RECORDED IT ON MY PHONE TOO! time to post this all over clipclop." Pinkie shrieked in glee and started tapping at her phone furiously. Fluttershy stood up. "That was too far, she didn't deserve that, and that's coming from someone she bullied."
"WHAT! b-but Fluttershy-" Twilight started, but Fluttershy silenced her with a light smack to the face. "No Twilight! didn't you see her run out crying? you didn't need to bring up anything about Rarity's brother just to make everyone laugh at her, a mature thing to do would have been to stand up to her privately, and call it off. You should be ashamed of yourself! now you're as bad as she is."
Realizing Fluttershy had a point, guilt flooded Twi. "Oh...I guess we did take it too far, didn't we? I should apologize-"
"I won't." Rarity sighed. "Her tears brought me great ectasy."
"What on earth happened in here?" Cheerilee demanded. "I just ran into two ponies leaving the building, and they didn't say a word to me. One was angry and the other was balling her eyes out." Slamming her ruler on her table with a loud THRACK she got the entire classes attention.
"Uh oh..." Pinkie shrunk back in her chair. "We're in trouble now."