Diamond Tiara is at the dinner table with her dad. Her dad was Filthy Rich, the richest pony in town. He was an earth pony with brown body, neat hair, a bow tie with a dollar sign, a blue and white turtle neck, and three money bags as his cutie mark. He looks at her daughter as she looked down at her plate.
“What’s wrong?” he asked
“Dad, do you believe in ghosts?”
“Why do you ask that. You know that’s just baloney?”
“I think that I sail a ghost.” Filthy looks at her like she was crazy.
“I think you’re tired and stressed. After a good night sleep you will be fine.”
“But it seemed too real,” Diamond claimed
“I think that you’re seeing things. Don’t let your mind mess with you.” Diamond takes a bite of her food. She starts thinking about Derpy.
“Maybe this is all a dream.” She thought. She starts to clear her mind, maybe if she forgot; she wouldn't have anymore problems sleeping.
“You need to go to bed early because the princess has invited everypony in Equestria to come to the Christmas Party tomorrow.”
Filthy handed Diamond the invite. She began to read.
Dear fellow citizens of Equestria
I am glad to invite everypony to a Christmas party on the 25th of December. The party will be held in downtown Cantorlot starting at 10:00 am and ending at midnight. There will be games, music, food, etc. I would really love for you to attend.
Thanks
Sighed Princess Celesta
Diamond thinks for a second. “Maybe I will make an appearance, just for a little while. I hate Christmas so just for a small amount of time.”
Diamond gets up from the table and walks to her room. Ones she was in the room she gets a weird feeling.
“The ghost could get me but hopefully it’s a dream,” she thought. She climbs into bed; she puts her head down on the pillow and closes her eyes.
It was the night before Hearh's Warming and all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
It is now 1:00 in the morning and everypony is asleep. Diamond Tiara opens her eyes softly. She looks at the clock. “It 1:00 in the morning, I guess the ghost thing is not going to happen,” she said.
At that moment a bright light appeared right above her bed. It was like an orb that was bright as the sun. Diamond closes her eyes and puts her head in the pillow. And then everything became quiet. Diamond opens her eyes and looks in front of her. There was a pink pony in front of her face.
“Boo!” she yelled
“Eeeeeeckk!” Diamond freaked.
The pink pony laughed. Diamond looked at her closely and recognized her.
“Pinkie Pie?” she asked quietly
Pinkie Pie was wearing a white cloth on her body with a green leaves surrounding her head.
“I heard that somepony wants some Hearth's Warming spirit,” she said in excitement
“Pinkie Pie what are you doing in my bedroom?” Diamond asked
“I am here to take you on an adventure into the past.”
“The past, you’re not a unicorn, how can you do magic?”
“I can’t tell you that; now come on we can’t sit here all day!”
Pinkie Pie jumps to the window and opens it. Snow came rushing in the room. Diamond felt like she was in a block of ice. She covers herself with the blanket but she was still cold. Then she realizes that she was surrounded by snow. She pops her head out of the snow and realizes that she was not in her room anymore. She was in Cantorlot, just right outside of town. Pinkie Pie walks over to her and helps her out.
“I did not want to go to Cantorlot.”
“Well this is a part of your past so I brought you here.”
“I don’t remember Cantorlot and growing up here.”
Pinkie points her hoof at the window. Diamond Tiara walks up to it and looks at it. There were small fillies everywhere. Everypony was playing with something except the teacher.
“So what is this supposed to tell me?” Diamond asked
“Look over there in the corner.” Pinkie demanded in excitement
Diamond looks at the corner of the room. She finds a filly that looked exactly like her. She did not have a cutie mark yet but she was not happy.
“That’s me when I was 3 years old, why am I sad.”
“You don’t remember don’t you? Your parents were too busy to spend time with you, so they sent you to a boarding school in Cantorlot.”
Diamond looks at the other fillies in the room.
“Ok some of your parents have come to pick some of you fillies up so when I call your name please go to the front and see your parents,” said the teacher
The teacher stated to call names but so far Diamonds named was not called. Everypony in the room was gone except young Diamond Tiara. The teacher walks up to her.
“I’m sorry Diamond your parents are not here.”
The Young Diamond Tiara cries, “Why is that I never spend my time with me.”
The older Diamond starts to cry. Pinkie puts her hoof around her.
“My parents never picked me up. I think that dad hates me.”
“No he doesn't, he loves you very much. Turn that frown upside down.”
“This is why I hate Hearth's Warming so much. My parents don’t care for me at all.”
“That’s not true but I can’t explain that.”
“Why not?”
“My time is up.”
“What do you mean your time is up?”
Pinkie Pie disappears into millions of snowflakes. Diamond calls out her name and the snow becomes harder and harder and then she was covered with snow.