"So this is how it ends up? This is what happens when I finally fall in love. I was too late. It took me too long to notice that I loved her. What am I supposed to do now? Do I keep acting like I'm happy for her? I never expected this. She would always tease me calling me a homosexual, but then she turns around and falls for another mare. She's so unpredictable. So...what do I do now?"
~~~
The bar was loud, full of yelling and giggling drunk ponies. Neon sat in the seat at the far left side, drinking away his sorrows, trying to at least. He just couldn't believe it. Vinyl was a fillyfooler, there was nothing he could do about it.
"What do I do?" Neon repeated himself for the tenth time.
"More vodka please." He pushed his shot glass towards the bartender.
"I think you've had more than enough,sir. One more shot and I might have to call an ambulance."
"Just one more? I'll pay double for it. Please, just one more?" Neon pleaded.
"Sorry sir, but no means no."
Neon sighed and stood the best he could without falling over and made his way out of the bar.
"That was probably the first time I've been to a bar without Vinyl with me." Neon whispered to himself as he slowly walked down the street, trying to stay at a steady pace where he wont get dizzy.
"We would drink until the Celestia rose the run. We would joke and laugh, every night was a party with her. I'm so stupid for realizing how important she was to me so late. I'm too late. Now she's in love with somepony else, and there's nothing I can do about it."
As soon ad Neon made his way through his front door, he collapsed to the ground and cried. It was like he had lost his meaning to live. He loved Vinyl more than anything in Equestria, and he was too late to realize it.
*~*
One Month Later
"Neon! Neon, c'mon! Answer the door! You've only came out to go to the store to buy more alcohol! Are you okay? Please come talk to me! What happened between you and Vinyl Scratch?" Noteworthy knocked for the thirty-fourth time.
"Neon...did she hurt you?" To Noteworthy's surprise, Neon finally reacted.
"Yes...she did hurt me....but she didn't mean to." He whispered from behind the door, barley audible enough for Noteworthy to understand.
"Let me in, we can talk about it. Maybe I can help." Neon once again ignored.
"Fine, you want to do this the hard way? We'll do this the hard way!" Noteworthy opened the door.
The stench of alcohol filled Noteworthy's nostrils immediately. There were dozens of bottles spread throughout the living room floor, large blotches of whiskey stained the carpet. Neon laid sprawled out on the couch, his mane disheveled, large bags under his eyes, and a horrid stench radiated off his coat.
"Neon! You're an absolute mess! What happened?" Neon just sat there completely unresponsive and gulped down the rest of what was left of the bottle of rum.
"Hey, we're friends. You can talk to-"
"Ring ring ring" Neon ignored his phone's ringing and picked up another bottle. Noteworthy took a look at who was calling. It was Vinyl.
"Neon, Vinyl's trying to call you."
"I know." He sighed.
"She's been calling me every hour, everyday for the passed month, and not once have I gotten the courage to pick up the phone." Noteworthy brought the phone over to the couch where the mess of a unicorn sat and hit the call button.
"Neon! What the hell is going on with you!? I've been calling and calling and you haven't picked up! I've been coming over too, and you wont answer the door? What the hell dude!?" Noteworthy held the phone to Neon's ear, and the disheveled unicorn didn't respond.
"Explain yourself! Why are you avoiding me? Did I do something? Do you not want to be my friend anymore? Please, tell me if I did something, I want to know!" Vinyl's voice began to shake.
"If I did something to hurt you Neon, I'm sorry. I'm so so sorry. I wish I knew what I did. Please Neon...please?" She sobbed.
"Talk to her." Noteworthy mouthed.
"It makes me feel terrible to know that the mare I was once in love with is crying her beautiful eyes out on the other side of this phone, and I didn't even do anything, Please, say something, anything."
"What can I say?
"Fine...be that way. I guess you don't want to be friends anymore, even after all the times we had together. I never wanted our friendship to end. Whatever it is that I did to upset you, I'm sorry. I'm so sorry...goodbye Neon."
Beep
"What the hell!? Why wouldn't you say anything?" Noteworthy yelled in frustration.
"What else was I supposed to do?" Neon grumbled.
"You could have told her what was wrong! That's what you could have done! What the hell is wrong with you!? You just broke her heart! I could hear it in her voice! You made her cry! You took away her best friend! You lost a great friend! So many ponies would probably kill to be in such a great friendship like what you two had, but then you had to go and ruin it! What's your problem!?"
"I had to...I can't be friends with her now. It would hurt to much to see her, especially to see her with the pony she already loves."
"So...this is all because you found out she was in love?"
"Not only that, but because now I know she'd never love somepony like me."
"What do you mean by that?"
"Vinyl's...a fillyfooler."
"...Oh."
"Yeah. Unless I went out and got a sex change, Vinyl and I will never happen."
"Why don't you just get a sex change?" Noteworthy suggested.
"First of all, I could never afford the surgery, second of all, what if Vinyl and her marefriend never break up?"
"True. So what are you gonna do now?"
"Give up."