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Thursday 3:45 PM
Octavia was standing by her door, waiting for her friend Vinyl. A cello case lay by her side as she anticipated her friends arrival. Suddenly, the sound of ringing filled the room. The Cellist pulled a phone from her coat pocket and held it to her ear.
"Hello?"
"Octavia, where are you?" The strict voice of her manager sounded in her ear, "You have a audition in less than twenty minutes. You'll be disqualified if you're late."
"I'll be there in a bit Mr. Overseer, I'll meet you there in ten minutes."
"You better be." The man hung up and Octavia returned the phone to her pocket. She sighed, it seems like she would have to leave before she could say goodbye to Spoony. Turning around she opened the door. She was in her car and about to leave the driveway, when she saw Vinyl's electric-blue Camaro pull around the curb.
Octavia watched as her blue haired friend pulled to the curb. She exited the car and walked up as Vinyl opened the back door for the backseat's passenger. Silver Spoon hopped out of the cars backseat, backpack in hand. The two people walked up the driveway and stopped at Octavia's car. Vinyl knocked her hand on the window,
"Tavi, Spoony and I need to talk to you." her voice was serious and grim, very different from her usual upbeat tone. The dark-haired woman looked at her daughter, only just noticing that her tan face was wet with tears. Octavia opened her door and stepped out of the car,
"What happened?" She knelt down and put her hands on Silver Spoon's shoulders, "Are you hurt?" She questioned, the child wouldn't look her mother in the eye. Octavia looked at Vinyl and nodded, "Let's go inside, both of you can tell me what happened."
The three young women had just stepped inside when the sound of ringing made them jump, Octavia looked at the screen of her phone,
"it's my manager, Mr. Overseer." Vinyl put her hand on her friend's shoulder,
"Com'on Tavi, I know you're busy and that you've got an audition soon. But please, don't go now, just cancel this one time. Silver Spoon needs her Mom right now." Ocatvia looked the pale woman the eye. She pressed the green button and held the phone to her ear,
"Hello?"
"OCTAVIA! WHERE THE HECK ARE YOU! YOU'RE AUDITION IS IN FIVE MINUTES AND YOU'RE NOT EVEN HERE! WHERE ARE YOU!"
Octavia almost jumped back at her managers angry voice. She took a deep breath,
"Mr. Overseer, I won't be able to make it to the audition today."
"What did you say?"
"I'm canceling, something more important has come up that I need to handle right now."
You can't cancel! Octavia you better have your sorry flank here in three minutes or I'm gonna-" Octavia had hung up before he could finish the sentence. She put the phone in her pocket and looked at Silver Spoon. The small girl was standing with her hands behind he back, she still hadn't looked up from her feet.
The small family sat down in the kitchen, Octavia and Vinyl sat side by side on one end of the table, Silver Spoon sat at the other end.
"Okay, now would anyone like to explain to me what happened?"
Vinyl sighed and put two fingers against her temple, "When I came to pick Spoony up from school, and I was called into Cheerily's office to talk about some issues about her bad behavior." Silver Spoon shrank back in her chair as her godmother continued, "Miss Cheerily told me that, she and Diamond Tiara were verbally abusing Berry Pinch and Dinky during recess today. Once they had the poor kids in tears, they called over some boys and had them..." Vinyl ran her hands through her hair, she looked at the small girl on the other end of the table, "They had them beat the poor girls bruised."
Octavia gasped and looked at Silver Spoon in horror, "Silver Spoon! I thought we had taken care of the bullying. How could you do this? What if it was you being hit and teased?"
Suddenly, Silver Spoon fell into a fit of uncontrollable tears. Her breath was ragged and her voice sounded terrified, "I'm s-sorry, I-I'm so sorry." She put her head in her hands and continued, "I-I didn't have a choice,"
"What do you mean? Everyone has a choice on what path they choose." Octavia looked quizzically at her daughter, she was hoping that this wasn't another desperate attempt to get out of trouble. Silver Spoon lied her head on the table and gripped her hair in her hands, undoing the french braid that her mother had styled for her earlier that morning..
"No, I don't have a choice. She won't let me stop, she said that she'd tell everyone if I didn't help her-" Silver Spoon paused to make several, tearful gasps. This allowed Vinyl to intervene in the conversation,
"Wait a second, you didn't mention any of this in Cheerily's office. Who's she?"
Silver Spoon mumbled, "I can't tell you. She made me promise not to because we're friends, she said you can't betray your friends."
Octavia leaned forward and grabbed Silver Spoon's hand, "Spoony, if this girl was really your friend, would she blackmail you with a secret?" the small girl took off her glasses and wiped her wet eyes,
"Okay," she whispered quietly. For the first time that evening, Silver Spoon looked into her mother's and godmother's eyes, "It's Diamond Tiara, she says that if I don't back her up and take some blame when she's mean to people so she doesn't get in a lot of trouble... she threatened to tell everyone in our class that I have Dyslexia."
Vinyl gasped and Octavia put her hand to her mouth in shock.
"Oh, Silver Spoon, how long has this been going on? Why didn't you tell us?" Octavia was horrified; how long had her daughter been keeping this secret?
Vinyl looked at her goddaughter in confusion, "How does Diamond know about your Dyslexia?"
Silver Spoon took in a deep breath and composed herself, she pushed her glasses up the bridge of her nose, "At the beginning of the school year, I was late on a reading assignment and I couldn't keep up with the book that I had to read about. Diamond found out that I was having a problem with my homework and asked if she could help. This was before we started messing with other students, so I told her everything and we became study buddies at study hall. When she started being mean to other kids, I tried to stay away from her. It didn't work out and she told me that if I didn't help get her out of trouble, she said that she'd stop helping me study and tell everyone about my Dyslexia. So I had to make fun of other students with her, so she wouldn't tell the other kids about what was wrong with me."
"Oh Spoony, there's nothing wrong with you. You're perfect just the way you are." Octavia put her hand on Silver Spoons cheek and lifted the child's downcast eyes to look into her own, "Silver Spoon, I want you to listen to me, and I want you to understand this. Diamond Tiara does NOT own you, she never has and she never will. You don't have to be around her if you don't want to. And if she is threatening you, I want you to immediately tell Ms. Cherrily, Vinyl, and me. Okay?"
"I-I don't want to be around her anymore. Sh-she scares m-me." Silver Spoon whimpered, her tears had left red lines along her cheeks and neck. Vinyl and Octavia stood up and crossed to the other side of the table, they both kneeled down and wrapped the girl in a hug. Silver Spoon gripped both of their arms in return and she fell into a fit of sobs once again. "I'm s-sorry. I-I'm so sorry."
Vinyl rubbed her hand against her goddaughter's unraveled hair, tucking the loose strands that had fallen across her face behind her ear.
"You have nothing to be sorry about Spoony, you didn't do anything wrong. You were just scared, being scared into doing something bad doesn't make you a bad person."
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Thursday 9:25 PM
Vinyl walked down the short staircase into the living room as Octavia closed her laptop, she sat down on the couch beside her and asked,
" Spoony's asleep. Did you get this thing cleared up with Cheerily and Diamond's parents?"
Octavia sighed and leaned her head against the back of the couch,
"Not quite, e-mailed Ms. Cheerily and told her that there has been a problem with the bullying that Spoony's been going through and that we need to speak with her and Diamond Tiara's parents personally. I have a meeting set up at three O-clock tomorrow for when we go to pick Silver Spoon up from school. I've cleared out my meetings for tomorrow so we can take Spoony out for a restaurant dinner and ice- cream later tomorrow evening. Considering all that she's been through, she deserves a treat."
Vinyl stood up and headed for the door,
"Whelp, I'd better get going. My place is on the other side of town and its a long drive from here to there."
"Remember, you have to be by the school house by three O-clock."
"Hey, I'm the one who picks Spoony up from school everyday," Octavia chuckled at her friend's statement as she closed the door behind her. She turned around and opened the window behind the couch, she waved as Vinyl's car left the curb and left the neighborhood. She then lifted herself from the couch and quietly made her way upstairs.
Octavia silently opened the door to Silver Spoon's bedroom. The small girl lay on her bed, her small body covered in a plush, blue comforter. A large, stuffed gray pony doll was hugged up against her chest. Octavia walked over to her daughter's bedside. Bending down, she kissed her small forehead. She then looked around the room, drawings and photos lined the light-blueish gray walls. Octavia ran her fingers through her hair. How could her little Spoony have been forced into doing such awful things? And by her best friend? Who would want to take advantage of and betray and blackmail her little girl?
The dark haired woman walked out of the room, across the short hallway, and into her own bedroom. She undressed and lied down on her bed. Staring at the ceiling, she slowly drifted off into sleep.