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// Fun Times Together 
// Story: Amazing Grace 
// by nightwolf 
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"Hurry up Grace, we'll be late!" Star shouted over her shoulder. It was always the same for Star. Get up, eat, get Grace from her house, then go to school. And like always, Grace lagged behind, embarrased that she still didn't have her cutie mark. Star already had hers, three turquoise stars on her flank. Typical, yet Grace always thought there was a hidden meaning in them.
"Please Star, it'll be the same as always. No point in rushing, the teacher is always late" Grace replied. Even so, she sped up, not wanting to feel the wrath of her teacher if she wasn't late for once. School passed like high school always does. Slowly. Especially for Grace. She loved school, and was top of every class except for Phys.Ed. Thats where Star came top. Some ponies even spectulated that she could join the Wonder Bolts. Grace loved watching her zoom across the sky, something that she felt she could never achieve. But back to the main story. When school was finally over, the two best friends flew slowly to the park down in ponyville. They loved spending their time there because the fillies and colts that spent their lives teasing Grace never came down there.
"C'mon Grace! Let's get the ball out and muck around with it!" Star said. Grace sighed. she would have preferred to read, but she knew that Star meant well. Star was actually trying to get Grace to find a talent in something, something aerial, so of course it meant to throw the ball in the sky and do triple backflips between each throw or something like that. But as they threw the ball back and forth (Star was bucking it in mid air aswell), Grace noticed that Star didn't seem to be in the game much. She even missed some shots of Grace, the ones which weren't even that wild.
"What's wrong, Star?" Grace asked.
"Nothing. Just thinking" When Star gave an answer like that, Grace knew that something was definetly on her mind.
"Is it about my cutie mark?" Star did a double take. Grace had this uncanny ability to know what Star was thinking about. Sometimes it was annoying, but sometimes it was quite funny.
"Yeah. I just wish those stupid ponies at school wouldn't tease you" Star mused
"Don't be stupid. That's my worries, not yours!" Grace replied. "Let's just forget about them. Remember, it's finally summer holidays!"
"Yeah that's right!" Star said, excited again. They continued to play with the ball for another few hours, each time thrown higher and higher. Eventually, they had to go home.
"Cya Grace! Come around to Sugar Cube Corner tomorrow, I have a surprise!" Star shouted out the window. Grace flew off shaking her head but smiling. Star's "surprise" was probably a party thrown together by Pinkie Pie to "cheer her up". Well, she didn't need cheering up. She just wanted to have fun together, like they always did.

The next day, Star zoomed down to Sugar Cube Corner. A lot of ponies were there, including Fluttershy, which Star thought was odd since Fluttershy tended to stay at her house whenever there was a party. But never mind. Grace should be arriving soon. Suddenly, the doors flew open. On the threshold stood Grace's parents. Storm Chaser, Grace's father, was crying and Lightning Strike, her mother, was white and trembling.
"Everypony, stop the party please" Pinkie Pie shut off the music, with a shocked look on her face. Storm Chaser just looked at Star with a very sad look. Star's heart sunk.
"Star, p...please come with us" Lighting Strike said. Star just followed them numbly out the door. A milion questions flew around in her head, but she sensed that this was not the time to ask.
"S...star, this w...will be quite a...a shock..." stuttered Lightning Strike. It seemed that whatever was making her tremble was beyond tears. Or she was cried out, unlike Storm Chaser who was positively bawling.
"S...star...Grace...Grace was on...h...her way d...down when a...a storm cloud...fl...flew from nowhere...a...and it...it...hit her...and...she...she...got very...b...badly shocked...in...into...car...cardiac arrest...she...she...didn't....m...make...it!" Lightning Strike wailed the last word and collapsed on the street, sobbing next to her husband. Star stood there registering what she was told. Then it hit her, hardly. Grace was dead. Her friend was gone, forever. There would be no more fun times together.