//------------------------------// // The Argument // Story: A Tad Screwy: Screwball in Canterlot High // by Discorded SheepcityUSA //------------------------------// Screwball’s feelings regarding this new development were a little wishy-washy, not much different than her thoughts on a regular basis, but these ones were…weird…pretty bad weird. The satisfaction and laughs that she had gotten out of sabotaging the entire boy’s dodgeball team had completely vanished. From the looks of things, Sunset saw what happened in the gym, and well…angry didn’t even seem to even begin describe her face right now. Screwball started to imagine that, in retrospect, perhaps pulling a massive scale prank such as this when you’re trying to keep a friendship, probably may not have been the best idea. “Umm…Would you believe me if I told you it wasn’t what it looked like?” Screwball asked with a slightly nervous and sheepish smile. Sunset wasn’t having any of it though. The mad look on her face wasn’t appearing to be going anywhere anytime soon. “Oh it isn’t?! Because it sure looked like you nearly killed every boy in that gym! Am I wrong?!” Sunset exclaimed. She wasn’t exactly yelling, but her voice was raised enough to still make Screwball a little uncomfortable. “…Okaaay, so it is what it looks like, but nobody really got hurt. What the heck are you so mad about?” Screwball asked. Sunset was practically grinding her teeth at this point. “Screwball, I thought you were done with this! You weren’t supposed to be annoying everybody with your pranks anymore!” Screwball rolled her purple, swirled eyes, starting to look legitimately annoyed and not feigning it like she usually did in situations like this. “Sunset, you told me to have fun in gym class and that’s just how I like to have fun. If nobody else likes it, then that’s their problem. I was only doing what you said, so maybe it’s YOUR fault.” Sunset could seriously not believe what she was hearing. All she told Screwball was to not be scared to death playing the stupid game, and she misinterprets her and pulls something like this. “How on Earth can you blame ME for something YOU did?! You took my advice the completely wrong way because you can’t get your one-track mind off of making everybody miserable!” “All you said was that I should have fun, and that’s exactly what I did. Obviously you weren’t clear enough in your advice.” Screwball grumbled with a sort of pouty expression as she glared at Sunset with her arms folded. For about the millionth time since she had been put with Screwball, Sunset facepalmed. Of course Screwball was just diverting the blame of herself cause she didn’t want to admit she…ugh Sunset was going to kick herself for this… “Screwed up.” Screwball had seemed to be doing so well too. She hadn’t done anything to anybody at all since she and Sunset had become friends. Although from the looks of it, the second Sunset was out of sight, Screwball was back at it. That wasn’t trying to be a better person, that was just sneaking her pranks in when she thought Sunset wouldn’t notice. “…You really haven’t learned anything have you?” Sunset practically growled. Screwball could sense that something was very wrong here. The tone in Sunset’s voice didn’t seem to be very angry like before, but was sounding more like a mix of disappointment and really bad irritation. It made Screwball’s stomach hurt. “Umm…I uh…am I supposed to answer that cause…well…for once, I kinda don’t have a smart remark.” Screwball muttered. “Of course you’re suppo-….No. You know what? Forget it. I am DONE talking to you.” Sunset said. As soon as she said that, Sunset turned her back to Screwball and started to walk away. As imagined, Screwball’s confusion over the matter took hold and she started to follow her. “Whoa whoa whoa, waitasecond! What do you mean you’re done talking to me?!” She asked Sunset while at the same time walking backwards, facing her. “Exactly what you’d think it means.” Sunset grumbled. “Well then explain it to me because I don’t-“ “-It means get out of my way and don’t talk to me ever again.” Sunset interrupted in a rather aggressive-sounding tone. Screwball flinched at just how careless and angry Sunset’s words sounded. A look of slight hurt and emotional discomfort started to grow on her face, and the pain in her stomach started to escalate. “W-What…?” Screwball muttered nervously. “You heard me. If you think you can just go behind my back and pull a stunt like that, then you obviously don’t value my friendship at all. So if you don’t care, then why should I?” Sunset growled, starting to walk faster and past Screwball, carelessly bumping into her shoulder as she walked past. Screwball didn’t stop following her though, and tried to keep up as much as she could, starting to grow a little more hurt and panicky. “B-But Sunset, it was just a prank! I-I didn’t think you’d get this mad at me!” Screwball stuttered over her words again, her voice starting to crack slightly at just how nervous she was getting. “Well, you thought wrong. You can’t keep doing this and expect people to actually deal with it. The point is, I’m not putting up with it anymore. We are DONE!” Sunset at this point made her resolve as blunt and clear as it could possibly be. Not wanting to weaken said resolve by seeing what it would cause, Sunset simply turned away from Screwball and walked down the hall, out of sight. Screwball didn’t bother following her this time. What Sunset just told her had completely shocked and hurt her beyond words. She just stood with her mouth agape in the empty hallway with nothing but the sound of her slight whimpering flowing through it. Her swirled, hypnotic eyes started to tear up and her bottom lip started to quiver. “B-But I-I…I thought that…you were my f-friend.” Screwball stuttered, a few of the tears forming in her eyes starting to roll down her cheeks. She was starting to take in what just happened. She went behind her friend’s back and pulled a massive-scale prank, Sunset saw everything and… Sunset renounced their friendship. Screwball hung her head, looking the saddest she had ever been since she had transferred to Canterlot High. A lot more tears were coming down her face now and she was starting to make small hiccup and whimpering sounds as she sobbed. She walked further down the hall to the part of the school that for whatever reason the lights never worked. Although, that might’ve been Discord’s fault, considering the school’s power went out completely when he first tried to fix them, and they seemed to refuse to be fixed. Not wanting to be seen by anybody in this condition, she walked into that part of the hall, leaned up against a wall of lockers, and sat down against them, folding her arms and burying her face in them, sobbing heavily. “I-I…I don’t w-want to be alone again. I h-hate being alone so much.” She muttered through her crying. She knew that nobody could hear her, but at this point, she didn’t care.