Now that Scootaloo and Rumble made up and shared their first kiss together, everypony went back downstairs into the living room. Naturally since there was only a two pony couch and two chairs the group of 7 weren’t all able to sit on all the seats. Out of an executive decision Rumble and Scootaloo both took the couch, Sweetie Belle took one of the chairs because this is her house, and Dinky took the other couch because Button Mash, Pipsqueak, and Silver Spoon both told her to.
“So now that we’re done with Scootaloo and Rumble’s situation,” Silver Spoon started.
“You know, we’re right here,” Scootaloo interrupted. “You don’t need to talk about us like we’re not here.”
Silver Spoon ignored Scootaloo and continued as if she wasn’t interrupted. “What exactly has been going on between you three?”
Silver Spoon glanced at Pipsqueak, Dinky, and Sweetie Belle respectively.
“Well it’s sort of ridiculous,” Button Mash explained. “A while back Pip and Sweetie Belle started dating. They were dating for a while but eventually Pip broke up with Sweetie Belle and instead started dating Dinky. And that lasted a while before Pip once again dated Sweetie Belle. But since Pip still had feelings for Dinky and even nearly cheated on Sweetie Belle with her, he stopped dating them altogether until he makes a decision about who he really likes.”
“Didn’t she ask us?” Sweetie Belle asked.
“Yeah, but I figured I’d give the unbiased explanation of what’s going on here,” Button Mash said.
“Well…why do you want to help anyways?” Sweetie Belle asked.
“I want to help because I want to make up for how I was before,” Silver Spoon said. “I used to be horrible to you guys and made you guys miserable, so now I want to help you instead.”
“…Well you don’t need to because I already made my decision,” Pipsqueak said. He looked to his right where Dinky was and to his left where Sweetie Belle was before looking straight and to the floor.
Everybody turned their attention to Pipsqueak. He sighed knowing that what he decided would be the harder decision and the one that would probably get him the most hated, but it was his decision nevertheless. So after a pregnant pause of a long minute, Pipsqueak turned his head to look over at Sweetie Belle.
“Sweetie Belle, you look like a real beauty,” Pipsqueak said. “Every time I look at you I can’t help but be entranced by your looks. And when we first went out I really like you. You were sweet, innocent, and really cute. But…as time went on…I’m sorry Sweetie Belle but you’ve lost a lot of that sweetness that first made me interested in you. You’ve become so possessive and more short-tempered with everypony. And while I do like you the times you aren’t annoyed, those don’t happen often enough. Now all that’s really keeping me attracted to you is looks and well…that’s not enough. So I’m sorry Sweetie Belle, but I chose Dinky.”
Sweetie Belle’s expression fell to one of complete surprise which was all Pipsqueak got before he moved his head towards Dinky. “Dinky, you helped me help Rumble, even though you are probably just as mad as Sweetie Belle is at me. You were actually able to put your feelings aside to help me. If we were out to sea, I know that whatever happens I’ll be able to come to you. I know you probably still hate me right now, but I’m willing to wait until you can trust me again.”
“Pip…thanks,” Dinky said. “I still want to wait before we start dating again, just to be sure, but thanks.”
“…So that’s it then?” Sweetie Belle asked in a quiet, but still audible, voice. She had her head down, looking towards her lap. “Well fine.” Sweetie Belle looked up directly at Pipsqueak. “I hope you’re happy with her.”
~
Now that everything was said and done, and it was now later in the afternoon, Silver Spoon walked back around town, this time alone. She still had a few things left that she wanted to do before the day came to its end, one of which was find Diamond Tiara and have one last talk with her, but of course first she had to find those things she wanted to do first. And it wasn’t Diamond Tiara she happened to run into first.
While turning left on a corner in the streets of Ponyville Silver Spoon noticed a somewhat bulky gray unicorn colt with a pair of scissors for a cutie mark. The colt seemed to be looking around for something, and Silver Spoon had a good guess of exactly who he was looking for. She smiled a pleasant smile as she walked up to then colt.
“Hello Snips!” Silver Spoon said to get his attention.
“Ahh!” Snails said out of surprise as he looked directly at Silver Spoon. And of course as soon as he saw her his mouth dropped and his eyes widened. “I…I…” Snails gulped. “You wanted…to see me?”
“Don’t worry Snips, I’m not here to pick on you,” Silver Spoon said. “Actually I’m sort of here for the opposite. First off, I want to say I’m sorry for what I did to you. I know what it feels like to be picked on now, so I know how bad it must have felt.”
“It’s…alright,” Snips said, his words still stuttering over each other.
“And also…I wanted to thank you,” Silver Spoon continued.
“T-thank me?” Snips asked. “F-for what?”
“For having such an awesome family,” Silver Spoon said. “You probably already know, but I met your cousin in Manehatton, and it’s thanks to her that I am who I am today. She was so great to me even though everypony else wasn’t, and I’m sure she knew that I used to pick on you. You know, when I first met you I didn’t think you would have such a great family, but I guess you shouldn’t judge anypony by their looks.”
“W-well you’re welcome.”
“Well I’ve got a few more things to do,” Silver Spoon said, “but I’m still going to be around Ponyville for the next week. So I’ll definitely see you later!”
“Y-yeah see ya,” Snips said.
Silver Spoon turned around and walked away, though she did turn her head back to smile at Snips while she was leaving. And Snips gave an awkward smile back before waving her goodbye. Silver Spoon kept walking, her eyes still watching as Snips grow smaller because she went farther away. Of course, the problem with her facing away was she wasn’t watching where she was going, and ended up running into another pony.
“Ow!” Silver Spoon said as she rubbed her head after the impact. “Oh, sorry about that. I wasn’t really watching where I was going.”
“So…” a familiar voice responded. “You have changed haven’t you?”
“Diamond?” Silver Spoon asked as she looked forward to get a better look at the pink earth pony. Diamond Tiara was trying to give as neutral of an expression as she could possibly give, but Silver Spoon could tell that there was some sadness in her eyes.
Diamond Tiara nodded her head to the left. “You dropped your hat when you ran into me,” she said.
“Thanks,” Silver Spoon said as she walked a few feet to pick up her hat and put it back on her head. “And yes, I have changed. I know what it feels like to be picked on, so I don’t want anypony to feel how I felt.”
“How did it feel?” Diamond Tiara asked.
“It felt horrible Diamond,” Silver Spoon said. “To know that each day I would go back to school, only to be picked on, degraded, tormented, and sometime even worse. Hoping each day that maybe the bullies would leave me alone that day, hoping that each day passes by quickly so the weekend comes and I won’t have to go there for a whole two days so I can stay at my only sanctuary. It was even worse for me then Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, or Scootaloo because I didn’t have any friends to help me through it at first. I was alone and nopony cared about me.”
Diamond Tiara was silent as she looked upon her friend. Her expression stayed to one of somber making Silver Spoon feel like saying something to her friend, but she wasn’t exactly sure what to say. The dark gray earth pony didn’t even know exactly what Diamond Tiara was thinking right now.
“So then…I guess you’re probably not going to be friends with me anymore,” Diamond Tiara said as she turned around to leave.
“Who ever said that?” Silver Spoon asked. “Diamond…I’m not going to help you anymore. If you have any schemes that could hurt somepony I’m not going to join you. If you continue being a bully then…I will stop. But…I don’t want to stop being friends with you. Diamond, have you gotten any other friends since I left? And I mean actual friends, like what we were.”
“…Why would you want to be friends with a bully like me?” Diamond Tiara asked after turning back to look at Silver Spoon. “You seem to be making plenty of friends already. It’s not like you need me.”
“It was thanks to my friends that I made it through the bullying I had to go through,” Silver Spoon said, “and it’s probably thanks to the Cutie Mark Crusaders being such good friends that they made it through our bullying. So I want to be here to help you go through whatever happens to you. We’ve been friends since preschool, and we both got our Cutie Marks close to each other. I don’t want to have to end that if I don’t have to.”
“Just think about it Diamond,” Silver Spoon finished. “If you were nicer I’m sure you’d be able to make more friends. You remember Apple Bloom’s cousin, Babs Seed? I’m friends with her again too, even though we’re on opposite sides of the city. If you just be nicer you can get some more friends, and you might even find a coltfriend for yourself so you can stop being jealous of Scootaloo.”
“Jealous?!” Diamond Tiara asked. “I…I’m not jealous of anypony.”
Silver Spoon rolled her eyes. “Diamond, I’ve known you for too long. I know you’re jealous of Scootaloo. You wanted to break her and Rumble up because you can’t stand seeing her with a coltfriend, reminding you that you’re alone, though that didn’t work since their back together again, and closer than ever. And that’s also why you were so interested in getting one from Discus Toss or Relay Race…by the way whatever happened to Discus Toss.”
“After you ran off and he figured he wouldn’t see you again the jerk decided to just ignore me and leave with the bits I gave him,” Diamond Tiara said. “I was shocked by what you said and instead of helping me the jerk went away. Why is it Scootaloo, the filly that doesn’t have any good looks, or any money, or anything can get a perfectly good colt and I’m stuck with nopony?”
“I don’t know Diamond, but I’m sure you’ll find somepony someday,” Silver Spoon said. “Remember I don’t have anypony either.”
“Yeah but you could get somepony easily,” Diamond Tiara pointed out. “You could have a coltfriend at any point in time if you wanted to. Discus Toss and Relay Race both seemed to be interested, and you even managed to get Rumble to gawk at you.”
“Actually…to be honest I almost have it worse than you,” Silver Spoon pointed out. “Yeah I could probably get any colt I want, but which of those colts actually like me and not my looks? It’s probably going to take me a while to find somebody because I would never know if they really like me, or just like my looks. And trust me; I already made that mistake once. But if you’re willing to change and be nicer, just like I did, then I’ll help you find somebody if you’ll help me find somebody.”
Diamond Tiara turned away. “I…still need to think,” she said.
“I’m here all week,” Silver Spoon told her. “If you need somepony to talk to, I’ll be here.”
Diamond Tiara didn’t answer her. She instead gave Silver Spoon one last look before slowly walking off towards her manor. Silver Spoon watched her walk away, hoping that Diamond Tiara would see the error of her ways, and that they both could make a much better friendship out of it.
~
Afternoon turned into evening as Silver Spoon finished apologizing to everypony that was in their class. It took her a while to find everypony, but she managed to eventually, save for one. Some took it better than others, and some didn’t believe her at all, but she expected that. Though Silver Spoon still wasn’t sure how Shady Daze and Featherweight took it since they seemed they were still traumatized from an earlier encounter with a particularly angry Sweetie Belle.
Now all that was left was for Silver Spoon to apologize to one pony. And that pony happened to be on the forefront of her mind for a while now. Silver Spoon hadn’t seen that pony all day, even though she expected to. She had mentioned that pony to several others before, sometimes even intentionally, but had not been given a response. And everypony else seemed to avoid mentioning that pony for some reason.
But now Silver Spoon would be able to figure out just what was up with that pony. She noticed in front of her as she was walking Rumble, Scootaloo, and Sweetie Belle all walking right in her vision to the movie theater. Before they reached the movie theater however, Silver Spoon quickly ran up to them.
“Hey you guys!” Silver Spoon called out as she ran towards them, causing them all to look at her.
“Silver Spoon, you seem like you’re suddenly in a hurry,” Rumble noted. “Something wrong?”
Silver Spoon came to a halt (after skidding a few feet) right before the three. “No, I just wanted to catch you guys before you saw the movie,” she said through pants.
“Before they see the movie,” Sweetie Belle corrected. She was obviously still mad about what happened with Pipsqueak by her tone of voice and expression she looked at Silver Spoon with. “I’ll be leaving as soon as those two get in.”
“Why are you here then?” Silver Spoon asked.
“Nothing really,” Sweetie Belle admitted. “I…guess I’m just here to blow some steam off.”
“Anyways…” Scootaloo said, showing her amazing amount of patience, “why did you need to catch us?”
“I want to know,” Silver Spoon said. She looked mostly at Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo, not really focusing on Rumble. “Where is Apple Bloom?”
Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle’s eyes widened and they both looked at each other. Rumble looked on those two with a knowing glance, but decided to let them explain to Silver Spoon instead of him. After having an internal conversation between each other Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo both looked back at Silver Spoon.
“Well…you see,” they both said at the same time.