I fell into Ghastly Gorge. That’s what the doctors told me, what Rainbow Dash told me, what everypony told me. But the one thing they didn’t tell me is how I fell. But now I know, all because of Diamond Tiara, crying her eyes out begging for forgiveness after she and Silver Spoon told me everything that happened that day. To say I never expected this would be an understatement. But, here we are. Me, Diamond, and Silver all in one room together and Diamond apologizing to me. Diamond Tiara apologizing and meaning it, the one thing in my whole life I thought I’d never seen.
When Diamond and Silver first came in I didn’t know what to expect. But when they started talking about yesterday, when I fell. What I could remember from that day was me and Diamond getting into a verbal fight during school; then I went to the gorge after school to spend some time alone, spread my wings and feel the updrafts coming up from the gorge, just wishing I could fly like the other pegasi my age. Everything after that is blank, until Diamond and Silver filled in the blanks that is.
Diamond told me that she and Silver went to the same spot at the gorge that I did that day. I was expecting her to tell me that they found me hurt there, that I had somehow managed to do something stupid and fall in by myself. But the truth was far from what I expected. She told me that we fought, that she pushed me... Diamond Tiara pushed me over the edge.
She pushed me over the edge, she could have killed me! But… She didn’t mean to, it was an accident. They both ran down into the gorge to make sure I was alright... They got help, they saved me. But the only reason they had to save me was because of what Diamond did to me in the first place!
I didn’t know what to think. My body was numb from the painkillers, and now so was my mind after listening to what they said. I just stare at them. Silver Spoon is standing next to my bed, trying to force a stoic look and avoiding looking at me but I could see the tears in her eyes. Diamond is sitting on the ground next to Silver, looking down at the floor, openly sobbing and saying “I’m sorry” over and over again in a quiet whisper.
She had hurt me, but she was sorry. She caused me so much pain, but she tried to help me. I feel numb. I want to hate her but… What do I do, what do I say? She pushed me over a cliff! But if it wasn’t for her I’d be dead. But she was the one who hurt me in the first place! But she is crying over what she did. She is crying for me to forgive her. She is sorry for what she did. Diamond Tiara is crying over what she did to me.
I feel tears coming from my own eyes now. I really don’t know what to say, I don’t think there’s anything I can really say now. I reach out my hoof to Diamond slowly, it’s hard because my whole body doesn’t really want to move but I still do it. I lay my good hoof on her shoulder, as I do she looks up at me for the first time since she came into the room. Her eyes are bloodshot and tears continue to stream down her face.
“Diamond…” I start, “I’m… I’m not sure if I can forgive yo-“ I can’t even finish before she removes my hoof from her shoulder and stands back up, staring at the ground.
“I understand… I’m a bad pony and you don’t want anything to do with me…” she says as she starts to turn and walk away… I can hear her choking back sobs as she begins to walk away.
“Wait!” I cry out to her, “let me finish… please.” Diamond stops, and turns her head to face me, “I don’t think I can f-forgive you…” Diamond flinches at my words, “not yet. I still don’t know what to really think about… this… B-but when I get out of here… maybe we can… talk some more?”
“T-talk?”
“Y-yeah… like at school, like… during lunch or on the playground.”
“Like… F-friends?”
Friends? She wanted to be friends? I’d never even given that possibility a thought before… I’ve always seen her as a spoiled rotten brat who bullies everypony she thinks below her… But now, with what she told me during her story about how she and Silver were bullied… and why they bully me and my friends now. Because they wanted to be viewed as the strong ones so that others wouldn’t try to bully them…
Could we be friends? After everything she did to me and my friends...
“I’m not sure we could be friends... at least not yet. But maybe we could be… maybe…”
I’ll remember what happened next forever. Diamond slowly came closer to me… she wrapped her legs around me… Diamond Tiara was hugging me while slowly sobbing into my neck… I wrap my one good front leg around her and return the hug. I don’t think I need to say it anymore, I’m sure my action speaks for itself. That I forgive her for what she did. Though I’m still not sure about being friends but maybe, just maybe, we could be.
We didn’t speak after that; there was nothing left to say. The nurse came in soon after and ushered them out of the room saying that visiting hours were over. We said our good byes and they left.
As I lay in the bed, in my dark room, I started to think about everything that had happened… I was hurt by someone I hated, but then they helped me and now I’ve forgiven them. Maybe all that happened to me is actually good. There was so much I’ve learned, so much that everyone involved learned. Sure, I’ve felt pain and anguish but my pain isn’t important anymore; it’s numbed away and in the past.
Only thing left to do now is heal.
…I close my eyes…