"You've been drinking haven't you." Twilight said when she saw Rainbow Dash the next day. When she tried to respond, Twilight held her hoof up to Rainbow's face. "I can smell it on your breath. Don't try to argue."
It was true. The cyan pegasus with the multi-colored mane had spent all night (give or take a few hours while passed out) at the upbeat nightclub downtown. She had tried to drown out her anger and sorrow with a cider or ten. Or twenty. She sat next to a heavily drunk earth pony that had a pink and blue curly mane.
After she too had reached the status of the other mare, she had sung "At The Gala" twelve times. Vinyl Scratch was wubbing away on her system, and Rainbow was dancing like Twilight. Mares and stallions were flirting with each other and other ponies were either passed out or drinking. Rainbow stopped dancing and guzzled down another apple drink. She looked over at a group of stallions who were unlucky enough to be looking at her at the time.
"What 'chu starin' at big-hic-boys?" she asked. They turned away and Dash uttered a quiet 'that's what I thought'. Rainbow's vision was starting to get fuzzy, and she turned to the mare she had befriended named Sparkler who slurred, "What a bunch of stupid boys." Rainbow agreed and just stared at her cup. She was still pretty upset, and was trying to take herself away it alcohol. "Crap! What time is it?" she suddenly exclaimed. Glancing at a clock, she saw the it was around two in the morning. Rainbow was supposed to meet Twilight in four hours. She had to go home and get sleep. She left money on the table and flew home quick as a flash.
Twilight looked at Rainbow with her mouth gaping open.
"You drank twenty-one ciders?" she asked. Rainbow nodded.
When they reached the park, Rainbow looked pissed. "Why am I such a jerk?!" she yelled. Twilight jumped back a step and asked what was wrong. "Before Fluttershy, well, passed, we had a huge fight. The last I saw of her was when she ran off. I guessed we would both take some time to cool down, but, you know, I just don't know why I even ever fought with her." Rainbow crunched a leaf under her hoof and noticed that that there were no more to be seen. It reminded her of how she wouldn't see anymore pink butterflies around. She felt as if she would break into tears.
"Wanna' talk about it?"
"Sure."
Rainbow walked back from her kitchen with two steaming mugs of coffee. Fluttershy, who was the best marefriend anypony could ask for, was throwing what she thought was old junk away.
"Thanks for coming over for spring cleaning Flutters. I figured my house was getting too cluttered anywa-" CRASH The two mugs and the tray they rested on now lay shattered on the floor. A warm brown liquid was oozing out of the cups. Rainbow stood looking at Fluttershy with a dropped jaw and angry eyes. Fluttershy looked worried and asked,
"What's wrong Dashie?"
"Oh nothing, It's just that YOU'RE RUINING MY FIRST EDITION SIGNED ONE-OF-A-KIND, CAN'T-GET-ANYWHERE-ELSE COPY OF DARING DO AND THE GRYPHON'S GOBLET!" she replied, so loud, outside that Celestia perked her ears. "YOU HAVE TO BE CAREFUL FLUTTERSHY! NOT ONLY THAT BUT YOU THREW AWA-" She gasped. Then flew fast over to the trash can on the other side of her cloud home. "Daddy..." A shattered glass figure of Dash's deceased father sat in the garbage. Tears stung Rainbow Dash's eyes. "How could you?" Fluttershy was about to respond, but was cut off. "DON'T YOU KNOW HOW SPECIAL THIS IS? OR ARE YOU TOO STUPID?!" Fluttershy was about to cry herself.
"I'm sorry Dashie I thought you didn't need it. I'm really sorry."
"DON'T YOU 'DASHIE' ME!" Rainbow screamed. She took a deep breath and replied in a quieter tone. "Just please leave Fluttershy. We need some time apart." Fluttershy flew off crying. Inside the cloud house, Rainbow was crying too. Not just for her father, but for Fluttershy.
"I shouldn't have been so harsh on her. I feel terrible." Dash said sadly. As Twilight was about to speak Dash suddenly punched herself in the muzzle. She received a bloody nose and kept swinging at herself in multiple areas. "I hate myself!" was what she kept repeating. Shocked and appalled, Twilight used her magic and help Dash in the air.
"Stop it Rainbow!" But she wouldn't she squirmed and twisted and cried livid tears. Finally, she gave up and hung limp. "I'm taking you home, strapping you in your bed, and your going to sleep off the ciders." Twilight said. And that is what she did.