Song Prompt: "Kristy, Are You Doing Okay?" The Offspring
Rainbow Dash sat on the end of her bed. Celestia’s setting sun lit up the sky in a breath-taking display of yellows, reds, violets, and oranges. Normally, Rainbow would be in the sky at this time, high above Ponyville basking in the beauty of such a sight.
Not today, however. Today, Rainbow sat deep in thought, paying little attention to the world around her. She barely remembered to feed Tank his supper before heading to the top floor of her cloud house and sealing herself in her room.
In her hooves, she held a picture. This wasn’t just any old picture made to sit on somepony’s mantelpiece. No, this was her most important picture. It was a picture of her and Twilight. It was taken by Scootaloo back when she was trying to get her cutie mark in journalism and happened upon Twilight and Rainbow reading together down by the lake. She took the picture but Twilight made her give it back to Rainbow.
Twilight thought that Rainbow would have the picture destroyed so nopony could question or challenge her awesomeness. She was, after all, still coming to terms with actually enjoying reading.
Little did she know Rainbow kept the picture and had it framed. Rainbow wasn’t only coming to terms with liking books, but also coming to terms with liking a certain librarian. She didn’t know where these feelings came from, and she couldn’t make them go away. Yet no matter what she thought of, no matter what she did, Rainbow could not bring herself to confess these feelings to Twilight.
Twilight, I love you.
Four words. Four simple words was all it would take. But she could not ever manage to make herself say them. And she hated it. She hated herself. Now it was too late, Twilight was gone, and she could never tell her. Where are you Twi? Are you okay?
A few weeks ago Twilight locked herself in her library. She would go days at a time without anypony having seen her. And with Spike off in Canterlot, nopony was there to make sure she was okay.
Whenever her friends would come visit, or as if anything was wrong, Twilight would turn them away, find some way to change the subject, or insist that everything was fine. Not even Rainbow tried to pry any further in fear of causing the unicorn to snap.
We were so stupid. Why didn’t any of us demand to know what was bugging her? Why didn’t I do that? Some kind of Element of Loyalty I am.
Then, just a few days ago, her friends finally decided it was time to storm the library, drag Twilight out if need be, and figure out what was wrong. When they reached the library, they found a single note nailed to the front door.
My Friends,
I’m truly sorry about this, but I have to leave Ponyville. Things have gotten out of hoof, and while I thought that I could handle things and deal with the situation, I was sorely mistaken. Now I have no choice but to leave. I doubt that I’ll ever come back.
I love you all. Your former friend,
Twilight Sparkle
Needless to say her friends were devastated. Fluttershy hid behind her mane and started to silently cry, Rarity fainted on the spot, Pinkie deflated, and even Applejack started to tear up. Rainbow took to the sky, needing to escape from what she had just read.
The next day Rainbow returned to the library, more determined to find out what had happened to make Twilight up and leave without so much as a goodbye. She found Twilight’s journal in her bedside table, and in it, she read that Twilight had been suffering lately.
Something bad had happened with the High Council of Unicorns in Canterlot. After her use of dark magic to find the Crystal Heart and help save the Crystal Empire, the Council began to harass Twilight in fear of her potential for destruction. It had gotten to the point that they were able to prevent Twilight from ever becoming a part of the academic community and were sending investigators in.
“Stupid, stupid, stupid! Why didn’t she tell us?!” Rainbow yelled to nopony, tears freely flowing down her cheeks. When she threw the journal against the wall, a smaller note fell out of it.
Rainbow Dash,
I left this note here because I knew you would come back to figure out why I left. I’m sorry Rainbow, sorry for everything. I just wanted to let you know that…I can’t even bring myself to write it. You mean so much to me, I can’t express it in words.
Remember, I’ll always be yours,
Twilight
Rainbow felt her heart break then and there. She could barely muster the will to fly back to her home, where she mechanically walked to her bed and opted to stare at her favourite picture.
Wiping her face, Rainbow picked up her saddlebag. She wasn’t going to leave Twilight like this. She loved her, and Twilight loved her back. The thought actually brought a small smile to her face.
I'm sorry Twi, I should have spoken up sooner. It doesn’t matter, though. I’m coming Twi’.