Diamond tiara made her way over to Sweetie Belle’s and on the way she thought about what her father told her ‘don’t turn into a nerd’ her father’s words rang in her head.
‘I don’t want to end up a nerd like that Sweetie Belle.’ She thought before quickly dismissing the idea. As much as she hated to admit it Sweetie Belle was starting to become her friend, but she certainly didn’t want to lose her friendship with Silver.
Ultimately she decided to stop worrying about for the moment. ‘Besides it’s not like I had to blow off Silver spoon today anyway, she was busy.’ She thought to herself.
After walking through town Diamond Tiara made her way over to the Carousel Boutique. She knocked on the door and was let in by an obviously excited Sweetie Belle.
“Hi Diamond are you ready to play some Minecraft!” Sweetie Belle nearly spat out of excitement.
“Sure am, wanna show me to your computer?”
“Ok follow me.”
The two made their way through the colorful showroom of her sister’s shop. When Diamond Tiara noticed something sitting on a table next to the mannequins and went over to take a closer look.
“I thought you said you didn’t have a laptop?”
“Well I don’t, that’s my sister’s, and she just got it a couple weeks ago…”
“Oh my, is that an Alienhoof laptop, that’s a serious machine. Why in Equestria would your sister need that much horsepower?” Diamond asked looking over the truly expensive and super powerful rig.
“She uses it for a bunch of stuff. When she got it she said she ‘needed an upgrade from her weak ass setup’ ”. Sweetie remembered. “But most importantly she told me not to touch it, and said if I did she would banish me and throw me in a dungeon in the place that she banishes me to.”
“Uhh, huh” Diamond responded while practically drooling over the machine.
“Well do you wanna play, or do you wanna fantasize over my sister’s computer?” Sweetie joked.
“Wait where is your sister anyway?”
“She’ll be back later, she said she was running low on gems and had to go out hunting for some more. But before she left she told me not to touch her computer.”
“Ok, let’s go.” Diamond finally took her eyes off the laptop. “Show me your battlestation before your sister comes back and catches you looking at her computer.” Diamond joked. Sweetie Belle wondered just what would happen if Rarity did catch her looking at her computer and decided not to think about.
Sweetie Belle led the way to her room, and her ‘battlestation’ well it was certainly a computer, no one could argue that, but Diamond couldn’t decide from what decade it was from. At least the screen saver looked real enough.
“Isn’t it sweet, Rarity gave me her old ‘weak ass’ machine since she wasn’t going to use it anymore.”
“Uhm, this thing makes more noise than a lawnmower.” Diamond admitted, wondering if that thing could even play Minecraft.
“Uh Diamond that’s my fish tank.” Sweetie Belle said flatly. “This is my computer” she said pointing out her setup.
“Wow” was Diamond Tiara’s only response the powerful setup Sweetie Belle was given including a 32- inch monitor, i7 quad-core processor and 16GB of memory. “This was Rarity’s ‘weak ass’ setup?” she asked.
“Well she said it wasn’t good for clients since the screen was so big.”
‘Right that makes no sense.’ Diamond Tiara sarcastically thought to herself.
After firing up the game and starting a new multiplayer session, the two began their fun in Diamond Tiara’s world, appropriately named Diamond Tiara’s World.
They began construction on a volcano fortress, every little girl’s dream, and started by grabbing the lava they needed. First they dug their way to the bottom of the earth, then they searched for the lava they needed, and after falling in the lava only 7 times, they had enough for the volcano. They worked on it until Diamond Tiara declared the volcano fortress ‘good enough!’
They continued their fun for the next several hours both building their next great work and defending their masterpieces from those ‘goddamn’ creepers, and Diamond Tiara actually began enjoying herself and having a blast with Sweetie Belle.
The two we’re so mesmerized by the game that they hardly noticed when Rarity came home. They continued playing for awhile until Rarity called up to her sister, “Oh Sweetie Belle dinner is ready.”
Sweetie Belle paused the game, much to the dismay of Diamond Tiara. “Well you wanna eat, don’t you?”
Before Diamond could respond her stomach answered for her with a loud grumble as her face turned red from embarrassment. “I guess I could eat.” She said remembering that she forgot to eat all day.
The two made their way downstairs to find Rarity making dinner in the kitchen as she turned to see her sister. She noticed Sweetie Belle had her friend standing next to her, but Rarity had to ask her favorite question first. “You didn’t touch my laptop, did you?”
“Of coarse not sis.” She was probably asked that everyday.
“Ok, I see you have a friend over. Isn’t that Diamond Tiara?” She wondered before she leaned over to her sister and whispered in her ear. “I thought you two didn’t get along?”
“It’s ok sis. We’ve become friends now.” She openly admitted to her sister. “Right Diamond Tiara?”
“Yea, I’d say we’ve become friends now.” As much as she hated to admit it, she realized that she could call Sweetie Belle a friend now.
“Well as long as you two are friends now, why don’t you take a seat and I’ll finish up dinner.” Rarity advised the two as she made her way back over to the stove to finish dinner.
Diamond Tiara and Sweetie Belle took their seats and waited for Rarity to finish up. “So Sweetie Belle told me you went out hunting gems, how did that go?” Diamond asked.
“Rather splendid in fact, I ended up with three dozen sparkling baby blue sapphires, sixteen fire red rubies, six dozen diamonds, though it’s too bad diamonds are practically worthless in our economy, and hundreds more of different assorted gemstones. In addition to that Spike only ate five dozen gems and only tried to hump my leg twice. So yeah I’d say it went well.” Although she still wished those Diamond Dogs would take a bath every once in a while, but that was a problem for another day.
Rarity made her way over to the table laid out their dinner which consisted of carrots, peas, mashed potatoes and celery, obviously she stopped buying meat ever since the whole ‘horse meat’ story blew up.
“So how’d you two like to hear a story about what happened to me at the carrot stand today?”
Sweetie Belle simply nodded.
“Sure what’s that?” Diamond said.
“Well it’s a stand where a pony sells carrots, but never mind that now how’d you like the hear the story.” Rarity clarified.
Diamond Tiara rolled her eyes before she flatly said “Sure.”
“Well there I was at the carrot stall buying these delicious carrots, when all of sudden I spot Applejack, you know Applebloom’s sister, buying some celery. I made my way over to say hi to her and when I met up with her I asked ‘why are you buying celery, don’t you have all the apples you can eat?’ I asked and then she looked at me and with tears in her eyes she said ‘I eat so many goddamned apples.’ True story.” Rarity finished.
“Hey I’ve got a question.” Diamond said.
“Sure sweetie, what is it?”
“Why do you have such a powerful laptop?” Diamond was openly curious as to why she needed such a machine.
“Oh well I use it for games.”
“Really what kind of games?” Diamond asked enthusiastically.
“I only play the best, most challenging games I can find.”
“Yea I think she takes her little games more seriously than we do.” Sweetie Belle said.
“Little games?! Is Hoofcraft 2 just a little game?! Is Skyrim a little game?! Is Fallout: Equestria just a little game?!”
“Actually isn’t that last one a book?” Diamond asked.
“Yes and it’s also an epic experience, so I’d thank you Sweetie Belle for not calling them ‘little games’” she clarified. “No If you wanna play a little game you should try that Minecraft. That thing is hardly a game. All you do is run around and build stuff, it’s like playing with Lego’s, you know except Lego’s are impossible to use, what with the hooves and all.”
“Besides every time I play that game I get killed by those dumb zom-ponies.” She grumbled into her mashed potatoes.
“I keep telling you, that I’ll help you sis, but you’re always so busy.” Sweetie Belle revealed.
“Well fine, next time I get a chance you can show me ok?” Rarity said before receiving a nod from Sweetie Belle in return.
After eating more of their dinner and some polite conversation, Diamond Tiara had the urge to ask Rarity for help with Silver Spoon. “Say Rarity can I ask you another question?”
“Sure, whatever you’d like dear.”
“Well actually it’s just a little private. Do you think I could talk to you alone in the other room?” Diamond admitted.
“Sure, I suppose.” The two got up and made their way over to the other room. “What’s bothering you dear?”
“Well it’s about my friend Silver Spoon.” Diamond Tiara knew that Rarity knew a lot about friendship and she figured she’d have some good advice. “You see I’ve been playing that game a lot recently and I’m afraid if Silver Spoon finds out she might not wanna be my friend, or worse she might think I’m a nerd.”
“Well I know you two are good friends, because I see you together all the time. I’d say the best thing for you to do is just to tell her. It isn’t a big deal anyway, but if you feel like you’re trying to keep a secret from her than maybe you should just tell her. I promise you she won’t care about what games you play, especially if she’s a true friend. Does that help?”
“But what if she does care and then she hates me?”
“She won’t.” Rarity promised.
“But what if she does?”
“Let’s just, for a second, say she does than you have to realize that she’s not a true true friend.” She leaned over and put a hoof around Diamond Tiara. “But I’m telling you she is.”
“Well thank you for your advice ” Diamond said as if it wasn’t the answer she was looking for.
“So are you going to tell her?” Rarity asked.
Diamond Tiara sighed. “I guess I have to. I’ll tell her tomorrow.”
“Good, now let’s go finish up dinner.” They made her way back into the kitchen. “Don’t worry dear it’ll all work out” She reassured her as they sat down.
“What was that all about?” Sweetie Belle asked.
“It was private Sweetie Belle, now eat your carrots.” Rarity scowled.
“Come on, just give me a hint.”
“Honestly Sweetie Belle, now eat your peas.” Rarity scowled again.
“Please please…”
“Fine, we we’re talking about dresses.” Rarity lied.
“Ugh, you always talk about dresses.”
The three finished up dinner and Rarity went to clean up the table.
“Hey Sweetie Belle I think I’m gonna get going now, I think my dad expected me home earlier and I’ve got some homework to do.” Diamond lied, she wanted to go home and think about what to do with Silver Spoon.
“Sure, but promise you’ll come over again soon, today was a lot of fun.”
“Don’t worry today was way too much fun to just do once.” Diamond admitted.
Diamond went to leave but before she left she made sure to thank Rarity for not only dinner but the advice as well.
She made her way into the kitchen where Rarity was cleaning the dishes and clearing the table. “Uh Rarity, I just wanted to thank you for the great dinner you made.”
“Oh well thank you sweetie, it was a pleasure to see you and do come back some time.” She leaned over to Diamond “You’re much quieter than Sweetie Belle’s other friends and not a thing is broken.”
She made Diamond Tiara laugh. “Ok well thanks again.” Diamond got out before Rarity interrupted.
“And remember what I told you” She called out.
Diamond Tiara made her way back to her house as Rarity continued cleaning, when Sweetie Belle came running down the stairs from her room.
“Did Diamond leave already, shoot she forgot her laptop.” She told her sister. “ I guess I’ll just give it to her tomorrow at school.”
“Actually Sweetie Belle, I’m coming to pick you from school tomorrow anyway, don’t worry I’ll make sure to give it to her.”