//------------------------------// // Chapter 5 // Story: With Love From Fluttershy // by Ryan A Fluttershy //------------------------------// The sweet smell of amazingly cooked food drifted from the kitchen. Fluttershy stood at the stove, cooking away as Rainbow dash was dusting for Fluttershy. The cottage was lively with the sounds of Fluttershy's soft, heart melting humming as she hummed to the tune that was being produced from the dusty radio. Lights have been replaced in all the rooms, lighting up the cottage. Dash was just unpacking Fluttershy's things. They had spent the day cleaning the cottage, fixing the walls and doing basic house maintenance. The two now sat at the table, giggling and eating. Fluttershy being a much, much more skinny mare ate very little as Dash devoured her food seeing as she was so active. “So..how did you meet Jack?” Dash said, suddenly growing serious. Fluttershy frowned down at her plate. “we met after my other coltfriend left me... He came to my rescue. He said he loved me. It wasn't until after Christmas when he started to get mean...i got him that lighter...” Fluttershy said peeking up at the lighter that sat on the table and glistened in the light. The engraving on it read “with love from Fluttershy.” Dash stared at it wide-eyed. “I'm sorry, I didn't mean to take it. I just didn't...” Dash said before she was interrupted. “No, I WANT you to have it” Fluttershy said, unusually bold . Her big eyes never leaving Dash's. “You are the best thing that has ever happened to me. Before I knew you, my life was awful. She rose from her seat, taking the dirty dishes to the sink. “there's something in want to show you...” Fluttershy said timidly, she walked over to one of the boxes and pulled out a diary. It's cover was covered in butterflies and flowers. She flipped it to the last page and Dash leaned in, Fluttershy's writing was just an almost flawless cursive and began reading... “Dear diary, or to whoever cares. What you see in front of you is, or, rather Was me, ever since I was a little filly, my life was full of darkness and pain. Constantly being bullied and tormented, I've been called ugly, stupid, awkward, scrawny, weak, earth pony want to be. I have been told that if I killed myself, i'd be doing every pony a favor. If I just killed myself. The world would be a better place, and what you see in front of you was me, now hanging from a rope, if you are reading this, yes, I killed myself. I ended all my misery, ,my life was just so full of darkness and evil. I'm hated, am I ugly? Yes, I am, I am all of those things that ponies said I was. I am just nothing, I am just a waste of a pony. Who even cares? I have been spit on, hit, insulted, and just, everything. And when I fell from cloudsdale, I thought it would all go away, start fresh, just start a new life, maybe one that is full of happiness, but I was wrong, down on the ground I was still bieng bullied and tormented, but the worst part, was the colts, they things they did to me, I never even liked any of them, they all forced me into a “relationship” but all they really wanted me for was my body and the fact that I was shy and sensitive and an easy target. They all have abused me, hit me, spat on me, “touched” me, the things they have just treated me like trash. But, that's all I am right? Just worthless trash? Ugliness streams through my now now dead veins. Yes I have committed suicide. And I have left this note to tell you why. I hated myself and I had no point in living on, nothing to live for, I've been treated like trash my whole life because I am trash, I'm worthless...for me? My life was awful, every minute was an hour, every hour a day, every day a week , every week was a month and every month was a year. I sunk into a new dimension, one that is dark, one that is ignored, one that can't be heard, one that ponies don't believe, one that ponies fear without realizing it...i call it...the dimension of reality, a place where nothing seems real, but, it's as real as real can get, A dark, twisted, evil dimension, and the worst part is , I lived in it, but now its over, I ended my trashy life, do I have any regrets? Well actually yes, but just one...just one pony I used to know, and she was the world to me, her name? Was Rainbow Dash, she was the only one who actually understood me, my one and only friend, I..loved her, I wanted her as my mare friend, I haven't seen her in years...but, why would she ever want me? I'm trash, ugly, worthless, stupid, awkward, just everything bad you can think of...that's me. So rainbow dash...if you ever read this, I want you to know...i love you... Sincerely, Fluttershy. Dash stared wide-eyed at the diary for a moment and then looked up at Fluttershy. “this...note is dated yesterday:” she whispered, wiping tears from her eyes “i wrote that at the kitchen table before Jack came home to go to your concert.” Fluttershy said, sitting next to Dash. “I was going to hang myself and leave that note when we came home. But, you saved my life Dashie, thank you.” Fluttershy said passionately as Dash wept. “Don't cry Dashie...” Fluttershy whispered softly as she now wiped Rainbow's tears. “I was going to do it” Dash said as she got up and walked over to a cubbort and returned with a note that had a poem on it. “i was ganna do it, I didn't want to preform, but my manager found me before I could.” She sat next to Fluttershy and showed her the note. Rainbow Dash's writing was messy, yet unique. The poem read “The sky is crying,that's my que to run, through the pain and the falling stars and i'll be gone, far away from here, this endless road to eternal sleep -Dash” she set the note on the table with shaking hooves. “we saved each other” Dash said, starting to smile. “you are my hero” Fluttershy said, smiling. They stared into each other's eyes. As if they could see each other's soals. Suddenly Rainbow looked away akwardly. “I...uh...got you something...” She said as she got up and returned with a small box and set it in front of Fluttershy. “well...open it” Rainbow said as Fluttershy ripped off the silver wrapping paper that surrounded the small white box, Fluttershy looked up at Dash, almost as if she needed approval to open it. Dash just smiled and nodded, Fluttershy pulled the top off and inside, two tiny, diamond earrings glittered back at Fluttershy. Tears began pooling in her eyes. “T-They're beautiful” she whispered, Dash took Fluttershy's hooves in her own. “You trust me, right?” Dash said, causing a nod from Fluttershy, knowing what Dash was going to do. Dash got up and returned with a needle and a bottle of peroxide. “This will only hurt for a moment, I promise” Dash said as she took the needle and one of the earrings and poked the needle through Fluttershy's ear. Fluttershy flinched but the thrill of Dash's touch was soothing enough to help the pain and Rainbow kissed Fluttershy's newly pierced ear as she did the same to the opposite ear. After both earrings were in, Dash brought a little mirror over to Fluttershy and she looked at her reflection, She smiled and Dash appeared from behind her in mirror and kissed both of Fluttershy's ears and then her cheeks and then Dash lightly grabbed Fluttershy's head and turned it so it was facing her as she pressed her lips onto the little lips of which belonged to the one she loved and for the first time, Fluttershy took it up a notch, and kissed back with pure passion. The sun sank over the horizon and the moon showed through the window, casting an angelic light on the two ponies as they curled up together on the couch, leading them into the night.