//------------------------------// // Mess-up Minty // Story: Memiors of a Mane Stylist: The Daffidazey diaries // by Paradise Oasis //------------------------------// Mess-up Minty Okay, okay... look, I know I shouldn't be writing here- I mean, this is Daffey's private Diary, and I really shouldn't have even been in here looking around for the thing. Well, I wasn't here exactly to look for the diary, I was actually looking for Daffey to apologize, but she wasn't here, soooo.... Wait, I haven't introduced myself yet, huh? That's really important, 'cause you should always know who you are talking to, heh. My name's Minty, and I'm a pony that loves everything green! I have a whole lotta friends in Ponyville, Mister Diary, but- wait, are you a mister or a missus? I don't even really know! Anyway, my friends here in Ponyville really care an awful lot about me. But I have a way of messing stuff up for them, no matter how hard I try to do stuff right. Take that little filly, Scootaloo. Nobody knew where she had come from when she first came to Ponyville (we later learned she was Cheerilee's sister who ran away from unicornia, but she never told us that), but we felt sorry for the little orphaned filly, and gave her a house to live in in town, but she still kinda kept to herself. Then one day rainbow Dash gave her a pretty dress. "Here you go Darling." She said "You'd look lovely in this!" So she gave her the pretty blue dress, with all the pretty bows and satin and ribbons and stuff , and Scootaloo was all like; "T-thank you, no one's ever given me a gift before! Thank you!" So Scoots started follow Dashie around, and dressed up like her, and even started going 'darling' like Rainbow Dash does. The two honestly seemed like sisters, it was soooo cute seeing Scoots helping her and Sew and So (you know her diary, the orange pony with the button cutie mark that makes all the clothes Dash sells, right?) make all those pretty gowns and dresses for the princess promenade together, and Scoots was always copying Dashie's hairstyle and outfit. "When I's get big, I'm gonna be just like Rainbow Dash!" She'd say. "I'm sure you'll be the best fashionesta ever, Scoots!" Sew would tell her. "Just be sure to give it your all!" Scoots was always looking to get a fashion cutie mark, and kept trying to make better and better dresses. But her flak always stayed blank, no matter how much she stitched, sewed, and cut fabric. "I just don't get it!" The little filly would always say. "Why can't I get my dressmaker mark?" "Don't worry about it, Scootaloo." Sew would reassure her. "You're mark will come when it's time." "And when you do finally get that mark darling," Dashie would tell her. "It'll be simply Dashing!" Well diary, I screwed that up, big time. Just like I screw up everything in Ponyville. Dash and Sew had just finished their fall fashions line of dresses, and had left the shop to Scoots to close up for the night. She let me in to take an early look at the dresses- I wanted to buy a green one as soon as they went on sale, of course- And I was admiring all of the hard work the three ponies had put into this seasons fashion lineup. And I just had to stick my two bits into things. "You know what would make these dresses really pretty?" I told her. "If they all had green highlights!" "Minty, wait!" She yelled, as I went to get the bottle of green dye. "That's really not a good idea!" But being Minty, I just couldn't listen. Walking forward with the open bottle of dye, I tripped over my own hooves, and sent the green gunk flying with a loud SPLAT! "Oh no!" Scoots cried. "All the clothes are ruined!" Just as she had said, the pretty dresses were all covered in a lot of yucky green gunk. I tried to explain to Dashie and Sew what had happened, but they were too furious to even listen to me! "Don't try covering for her, Mints!" Sew yelled at us, making my ears hurt. "She knew how important those dresses were to us!" "I'm so terribly disappointed in you, Darling!" I can still hear Dashie saying calmly but angrily. "You should have known better than to let Minty near the fall lineup!" And that's when scoots tore up everything even resembling her idol, and stared to run away, really really fast. She found a motor scooter could help her run even faster than she could on her own, and that's how she discovered her special talent. But she and Dashie are still too proud to apologize to each other, and I messed up their friendship and it's all my fault... Why do I always screw up everything, diary? Why do I mess up and break and smash and destroy anything my friends care about? I know they all hate me for all the damage I cause all the time, and they just put up with me to be nice. Sure, Pinkie Pie is still my best friend and all, but if it weren't for her the others would probably just wanna leave me out somewhere for the timber wolves to eat. I don't blame them. Ponyville would be better off without me, and so would all of my friends. I'm sorry, Daffey. I'm sorry I messed up your beauty salon again and again. I'm sorry I hurt you and Kimono and Toola and everybody else. I'll put myself far far away where I can't mess anybody's lives up anymore. Pinkie told me you had gone to do some kind of job in Unicornia. Well, by the time you get back, there won't be a Minty to mess stuff up around here anymore. Goodbye, Daffedazey, tell everybody I'll miss them. Make sure Pinkie Pie gets my sock collection, and tell Dash and Scoots that they need to make friends again, before it's too late. Please, miss Diary... please tell Daffey all that. Oh, and tell her I'm sorry I broke her spare pair of granny glasses while taking you out of the drawer. I'm so sorry...