//------------------------------// // Wasn't Meant For Me // Story: Building Blocks // by BirdyTheEarthPony //------------------------------// Chapter Thirteen Wasn’t Meant For Me The line of ponies dissipated pretty quickly, soon leaving only a few straggling late ponies here and there. No problems had really arisen yet, a group of young fillies had tried to sneak in but their disguise was quite embarrassing. Thinking that dressing like a very tall dragon named ‘Mr.FireDragon’ would be a good idea to get in, was not a very good plan. I could have yelled and embarrassed them, but they were just young and adventurous. I decided to play it cool, telling them that their name wasn’t on the list; all the while faking being afraid of them. They shambled off making silly noises, causing me to grin. The way I had handled the situation made the beautiful young mare in line behind them giggle and look me over once or twice before passing on. After the stragglers had thinned out I decided to wait another ten minutes or so before heading in myself. Every name had been checked off of the list and I was eager to see Rainbow Dash. Suddenly my earpiece rang out with Chestnuts voice, “He he, it will be fine. Don’t worry about it.” He sounded drunk. I heard a second voice, but it was too muffled to hear. Chestnut burped, “C’mon, just take the dress offfffffff! You Prolly look better without it anyway. We are alone and nopony cares what we do. We are adults!” I heard a drunken sounding giggle as a response. “Yea, totally, I mean we could do….” another drunken laugh. “Whaaaatttteeevvveeeerr weeee waaanntteedd!” The two broke out in a laughing fit, slowly subsiding into a giggle. I thought that the second voice sounded familiar but I still couldn’t place my hoof on it. There was silence for some time before I heard the earpiece ring again, this time with a thud that sounded like clothing hitting the floor. I could still hear Chestnut’s muffled voice, “Ha, come over here Dashie let me strip that dress off!” he laughed at his comment. “I don’t think it’s right… I mean I know he likes me and I don’t feel right doing this… I think he was going to ask me out tonight…” the voice answered back. Chestnut scoffed, “Yea well ‘he’ isn’t here is he? He is a puss, you deserve only the best…ME!” he laughed again, this time maniacally. Wait…Dashie? Who was Dashie? It surely couldn’t be Rainbow Dash…could it? I mean, I was supposed to be her date to the Gala! I was going to ask her in only a few minutes! This time Rainbow Dash’s voice came through, “Yea! I guess your right! He could have been here…and you ARE the best!” she giggled, “Come and get it off yourself you silly stallion y-“ That was enough. I threw my earpiece to the ground and smashed it with a hoof. The pieces suddenly started to fall into place, Her working out with only him, her missing at lunch every day, the pony she had just met, strong, better, it all made sense now. I had been played by Chestnut! I was furious, Chestnut had convinced Rainbow Dash that I was weak and didn’t deserve her. When I asked about the special pony I was asking out I must have made it too obvious that it was going to be Dash, so that afternoon he asked…. I had looked up to Chestnut, he was always so happy and he was strong and informative, just like a father should be…. What the hell was I kidding myself; I didn’t deserve that did I? I was just destined to be stepped on by everypony else, no matter what I did. My newfound father figure had called me a puss and stolen the mare that I was interested in; and to rub salt in the wound, my closest friend, the one who I trusted so much that I was minutes away from spilling my guts too, had agreed. I began speculating; I bet Chestnut got her drunk and then convinced her to buck with him. I had never even seen Dash drink… He knew what he was doing too! He had turned the headset on and let me hear it. He wanted me to hear it didn’t he?! Just to prove that he was better than me? The son of a bitch… No wait, that was me again. Not him, not anypony but me. Dash and Chestnut were having a drunken go at it while everypony else enjoyed themselves inside. Just bucking great. I kicked my earpiece, throwing it against the wall with a crack. A stumbling white unicorn walked to the door. “Let me in….you...you sorry sack of shit!” he tripped but quickly regained himself. “Get the hell away from here.” I ground my teeth together. This unicorn was about to get the worst of me. His horn lit a bright green as he grabbed my front hoof, pulling it towards the wall. It threw me off balance, knocking me against the wall for a short time. He kept swinging my hoof around, making me stumble all over. All he was doing was pissing me off. “Haha, yea dance you stupid ass earth pony!” when he said this he tripped and lost his magic hold on my hoof. I took my chance and ran up to him, grabbing him by the horn. “Wha-what the hell man!? Get off of-“before he could finish I had slammed his head on the pavement, knocking him dizzy. He stood up, charging his horn once again. I took this time to kick his head into the nearest brick wall. He hit with a thud and the sound of breaking bone filled the air. He immediately fell to the ground, clutching his horn. A small trickle of blood ran down his forehead onto the pavement in front of him. He tried to use magic but was met with an increase in blood and a sting of pain. He yelled out and before I could say anything else he ran off, stumbling back and forth. He was lucky. I had it in for this bastard; but not just him. I had it in for Chestnut and Rainbow Dash. The people who I had come closest to had betrayed me, knowingly to my back! They thought that they were better than me. That had to be it, nopony wanted to be seen hanging around a bastard pony without a cutie mark. I hated them, I hated me, and I hated them again! I thought about crashing their little ‘Buck fest’ but what was the point. I would just get to witness firsthoof how he and Dash were defiling my trust for them. I was jealous but had every right to be. A pony who had everything took something from me just to prove he could. He was even better than me in every way; I mean, why wouldn’t Dash want the strongest pony in Equestria? But I had still trusted her, she could have told me! Not lead me on with her teasing games! I sat by the door the entire rest of the party until it concluded in the morning hours the next day. My rage and sorrow had spent all night boiling inside of me. I fully intended on making Chestnut and Rainbow Dash hurt for this. Somepony had to share the hurt inside of me; and I had chosen them. I became cynical and looked forward to our next meeting; I wanted to make them pay. I was tired of apologizing and letting myself get stepped on. I wanted to spread my suffering to them more than anything in ALL of Equestria... My flank tingled slightly as I saw a tall white pony exit through the doors and walk up to me, “Hello my little pony! You are Ethan I presume?” I nodded, glaring at the strange pony with the flowing mane. “Ah, well I am Princess Celestia. I just wanted to thank you for your time and effort into keeping the ponies inside safe! It went off without a hitch! Did you enjoy the party?” she looked at me eagerly. “Didn’t go in.” I spoke to her dryly. “Oh…Why not? You could’ve had your partner relieve you, no?” “No. He was too damn…’busy’ with somepony else.” I looked to the ground, seething. “That’s very…rude of him… Since you worked twelve hours straight I will pay you for two six hour shifts. One shift paid 10,000 bits; it is high, but being such a high profile job posed a certain threat. “She looked disappointed at me for my language. “Yea…Whatever I guess just send it to Ponyville for me then” I held back tears. “Is something wrong my loyal subject?” she leaned close, eying me cautiously. “Y-yea it’s nothing…thank you for the job and all.” I said, shifting away from her. She nodded and walked away, leaving me by the door as the V.I.P guests left. Many fabulous looking ponies walked by, most of them looking at me with disgust. Soon enough the ponies had started to thin when a white unicorn walked out fallowed by several skuzzy looking ponies. She had bright blue hair and a cutie mark that looked like a musical note; on her eyes laid a pair of dark purple glass. She turned toward me with a coy smile, “Hey dude! Are you that bouncer that pulled an all nighter, and busted up that unicorn colt?” I nodded. “Yea but he was drunk. Who are you?” She stuck her chin I the air “I am Vinyl Scratch, best DJ pony in all of Equestria! I have been looking for a pony that could pull an all nighter and you did it while bouncing the Grand Gala! Dude that’s hard, you wanna hang with my crew later tonight? I mean we have a little party of our own planned and you look like you could use a boost. “ “Who is coming? I don’t really want hundreds of ponies or anything...” She shook her head, “Nah its exclusive, trust me. The Gala is for all the soft stuff.” She looked around; making sure no pony was close enough to hear. She leaned in to whisper into my ear, “You get the hard shit at this party. You seem like a pretty chill stallion. Hang with us and tonight, it’s all on me. “She ruffled my mane. “See ya there!” I looked where she had stood. A piece of paper had fallen to the ground, with an address and a time posted on it. “The ‘Shop’ Behind the Train Station. 7 P.M” It was time to get some rest before the party tonight. I felt like I was going to need it. I walked from my post at the door, heading towards what looked like a hotel several hundred yards away. _________________________________________________________________________________________ The six friends walked out laughing and talking about the party, “Yall were great fun as always! A’hm just glad that only one of us to lost to tha' drink this year!” Twilight looked at Applejack, “Yes, last year was quite the….disaster.” Pinkie Pie was bouncing around the group in circles, “Wee! Now we can ride the train back to Ponyville and have a giant welcome home after party-party!” Rainbow Dash was holding herself up on one of Chestnuts shoulders, “Shut up Pinkie, I don’t want to even hear party again for the rest of the day…..” she looked like she was close to heaving. Rarity looked to her in disgust, backing away from her slightly “You really should watch yourself dear….You look like a wreck!” Fluttershy looked around behind the group, “Uh…where is Ethan? We can’t go home without him…can we?” Chestnut looked up, “He probably couldn’t handle any more time up. Poor kid probably already headed home.” Twilight looked over her shoulder at him then looked at Applejack, whispering “You think Ethan will take it okay? I mean, it was obvious that he liked Rainbow Dash.” Applejack whispered in response, “Problem is, she liked em too…An I’ll be right honest; this Chestnut fella gives me a bad vibe….” Twilight just nodded, walking on. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ The alarm next to my bed went off, signaling that 6:30 had come and it was time for me to head to the party. I grabbed my saddlebags and left out the door. The sun had begun to set and it was a cloudy night, filled with hollow gusts of wind every now and then. Canterlot seemed empty at this hour, not one pony was on the street. I was alone again, just walking. Pains followed me with every step as my anger grew once more. They knew I had liked her. They both knew, they both willingly tore my heart out. The one crush that I had since waking up failed worse than any relationship I can remember from my past. Where were they even? Had they left me here? Wait that’s a stupid question, of course they had. Whatever. I soon found myself behind the train station, standing in front of a shabby building with a sign hanging overhead that just read ‘Shop’. This was the place. I walked in and looked around; shelves that were under stocked and broken littered the floor. If this was a shop, it was the worst I had ever been in. Soon a door near the back swung open and I was met with one of the posse ponies from earlier, “It’s back here; just follow me.” I followed him down a set of spiral stairs until I was in a dark room with smoke clinging to the ceiling. There were dim lights about that barely illuminated the ponies within. He led me to a door near the back of this room that opened up to reveal Vinyl Scratch sitting behind a desk. She gave me a big smile, “Welcome my friend, I know this place doesn’t look like much but here in a few minutes…It will be amazing!” She passed me a vial full of a foul smelling clear liquid, “Take this, it’ll soften your insides up and make you absorb the stuff better.” Everything in my body, mind, and soul told me to refuse it and walk out of this place. I had never even been to a party or done one single drug, but here I was; about to get high on something I couldn’t even pronounce. But I didn’t care; I wanted the hurt to go away, for the pain to stop. I took the vial from her and downed it in one swig. “Let’s start this; I wanna forget that I’m alive…” Slamming her hoof on the desk in front of her she gave a yelp, “Yea! I already like you dude! Hey Strike, “She motioned to the pony standing by the door, “Bring in the good shit!” He left and quickly returned with a backpack full of vials, needles, tubes, sinister looking spray bottles, and several cups. Vinyl opened a blue vial and downed half of it, tossing the rest to me. “Don’t taste it, just…” she shivered. “Just drink it” I took it and did as she said. It was icy cold going down my throat and I could feel it the entire way. My vision went blue and my head felt weightless. She grabbed another vial and passed it to me, “Hit half of it. Don’t take it all bud.” I couldn’t tell what color it was but it felt good. My body was numb and I felt invincible. If these were drugs, I had been missing out. “This is amazing Vinyl! Like….What do we do now?” She laughed, spinning around and striking a pose “Now?! Now we start doing drugs my friend!” And she wasn’t lying. I felt water rushing past my face and in my nose. I shot up, hitting my head on a bucket, causing me to reel and my stomach to churn. I rolled on my side and threw up a foamy mixture of blue and green slime. “Whoa there, just take it easy. No sudden movements” I opened my eyes, seeing Vinyl standing over me with a bucket. “What…how long was I out? I remember the blue stuff and the crap after that but..What else did we do?” She set the bucket down, “More like what didn’t we do! We hit almost every drug we had. I knew Earth Ponies were resilient but damn! You took em like a champ. Even after all of that dosage, you still had time for me!” I blinked in disbelief, “You remember what happened?” “Well yea, I do this all the time. It’s no fun if nopony knows what went down!” I laughed, feeling the soreness in my joint. I looked down to see several tiny red bumps just above my knee. “What did we do then?” She sighed, “Aright let’s see…. Tranc’s, T-Vials, Lip flower Plant, Parasprite drops, then after all of that we bucked around a bit and passed out.” My eyes widened. Me and her bucked; and after all of that? She was a good looking pony but i had never intended to do...that! I felt like I had betrayed Rainbow Dash. I liked her and wanted to be with her…No, No I deserved to have fun! She didn’t care about my feelings why should I care about hers? I shouldn’t like her anymore! She and Chestnut both can go do whatever they please. I had Vinyl and her posse and I didn’t need anypony else. Just as long as I could forget my anger and stow away my sorrow; I would be fine! She laughed, “Ha, don’t worry kid it happens sometimes. Plus, you weren’t half bad. Anyway you should probably get back to where you live; I have to get ready to DJ at a local club tonight.” I sighed, “I don’t wanna go…” “Well none of us do, but you gotta go. You can’t stay here forever; even I have to get out sometimes. But hey I tell ya what; I’ll give you the info on some ponies I know that will hook you up with the best stuff, wherever you are.” She slid a piece of paper in my bag and walked off. “Oh and when you leave, ask the shop owner for some shades! Your eyes are like…green or something.” I didn’t want to leave, but like she had said; I needed to. If I wanted to get back at Chestnut and Rainbow Dash, I couldn’t do it from here. I trudged up the stairs, passing over knocked out ponies left and right. I felt bad but some of these ponies looked worse than me. I got to the store front when a shady, dark green Pegasus came over to me, giving me a pair of thick, black sunglasses. I slipped them on and almost couldn’t see the room around me. When I walked out into the sunlight, even with the glasses, I was almost blinded by the light. “Ah! Holy shit I hurt!” I said aloud on accident. I checked to make sure no one heard and walked towards the train station to catch the first train to Ponyville. I took my ticket and started a line near the loading gates. The train arrived in five minutes and I was eager to get home and wreak havoc. I had the entire train ride back to plot my revenge. I intended on doing whatever I could to make them aware that they had killed me on the inside. A whistle blew in the distance and I watched as the train rolled up to the station. The conductor stuck his head out and began to scream “All abour- oh, it’s only you. Well...alright let’s go; I’ll try and get you to Ponyville as fast as I can!” I smirked, “Nah…Take your Time. Take your sweet, sweet time.” I entered the train; my rage, sorrow, hurt, and vengeance all filing in close behind me.