Silver Flame is a graduating filly from Ponyville’s school for fillies and colts; she grew so fast mostly because that’s the boring part of her life excluding practices with Princess Luna. Silver Flame, a gentle pony now, was moving into her own cottage but with a roommate to afford it. In the new cottage unpacking with her mom and freaking out because Silver Flame is scared of meeting new people.
“Mom I haven’t even met this pony yet, she could be a squirrel killer!” Silver Flame worries putting utensils into the kitchen.
“Silver Flame, please calm down; you do know some things about her. She is from Manehattan and I’m sure you will be fast friends,” said the yellow pony with orange hair while putting up some curtains.
“Mom you said that for every filly in school and none of them liked me. It was just me, books, animals and my powers.”
“You’ll be –“ Geum stops talking as a young pony walks into the cottage looking around.
“Excuse me.” The pony says quietly, “Is one of you,” She looks at the paper on her hoof and slowly says, “Silver Flame?” The bud green pony with dark olive hair and wisteria high lights puts down her bags and brings in a box.
“I made brownies as a new house thing. Did you already choose your room or should I just bring everything in first?” Almost overwhelmed she stops talking as Silver Flame and Geum stopped talking a while ago.
Shaking her head Geum starts to put her hoof up for a hoofshake, “Hello I'm Geum, Silver Flame’s mother and you must be?”
Taking the hoof, she replies “Spring Bud, um I came to Ponyville to study the perennial in this area.”
“It’s good to know you like nature I do to.” Silver Flame says with a smile.
Slowly walking toward the door Geum says, “Well I’ll leave you two fillies on your own. If you need anything, I live 5 doors down to the left.” And with that, Geum leaves.
“You want to go to Sugarcube Corner for a milkshake?” Silver Flame requests as fast as the crackle of fire.
“Sure that sounds fun!” Spring Bud’s shines bright as the sun.
Walking into Sugarcube Corner, Silver Flame says Good Afternoon to everyone she knows.
“Hey, get me a strawberry milkshake and I’ll be getting us a table.”
“You! MOVE!” Spring Bud yells to a group of fillies and colts while sitting down, “go to a park or something!”
“Hey, come on man,” a colt says.
“Spring Bud,” Silver Flame doesn’t want any trouble, “Maybe we shouldn’t, we can go outside it's all right.” Silver Flame averts a disaster.
They sat down outside and started talking about Princess Luna and how she came back after thousands of years.
“Princess Luna is such a nice princess.”
“I think she is super phony.”
“Well, she never has done anything that bad.”
“Yes she has, she almost put Equestria in total darkness.”
“Don’t talk about her like that. You know what if your going to be a bad pony, then you can have the cottage to yourself.”
“No. Please,” she sobs.
Silver Flame gets up and walks away, not looking back. Not knowing that behind her Spring Bud was in the verge of tears.
Back at the cottage, Silver Flame starts to pack her stuff up.
“Yeah I’m taking the all the utensils too. I want to see you eat now.” Silver Flame angrily mumbles to herself. The scarlet and silver haired pony was unhappy and didn’t respect those who speak depraved of the princesses.
They didn’t even see Spring Bud in front of her with something in her wing.
“What are you doing here?” Silver Flame says to her back.
“Walking into my house and looking for a present for my new friend.” The green pony walks to a cabinet.
Silver Flame looks at her than looks away pretending to not be interested.
“You see, being from Manehattan and I only had my dad because when I was young my mom got sick and passed away.”
“My dad passed away at a young age.” Silver Flame says empathetically turning around and sitting on the beanie chair to her left.
“Since then I only had friends that weren’t nice to me and were all fake. They always left me and never came back.” Spring Bud starts to sob and tear sitting down across from Silver Flame in the cyan beanie chair. “My mom always told me to give people a chance and I stopped doing that because I didn’t want to be left behind anymore. I want to lead.”
“You can lead, you can lead with meeee-” Silver Flame starts to cry. Astonishingly the tears were silver and burning hot.
“Oh I'm so sorry in reality I’m a very calm pony trust me. Can we be friends, Silver?” Spring Bud is also crying tears only they smell like wisteria which is odd but oddly familiar when with her.
Silver Flame who was still crying, nods because she unable to speak. They start to calm down and start unpacking their things.
“How bad is the cold over here? Does anypony wear socks here or is it gonna be just me?” Spring Bud asks looking to Silver Flame who was also unpacking winter clothes. Slowly Silver Flame raises a whole bunch of socks in her hoofs with a smile as warm as fire on her lips.
Spring Bud gasps then shrieks with excitement as they jump up and down with happiness stamped on their faces.