Seventeen year old Nightfall got her body out of bed to brush her black mane. She picked up her brush with a dark blue hoof. Stroke after stroke, her mane just fell to the side. Putting on her favorite deep red lipstick and a dark blue dress. She raced down the staircase to the hallway. She trotted to the dining room and sat at a chair underneath the gleaming chandelier. she picked up her fork and stabbed her salad. Her mother, Silver Light (Mrs. Light, if you please), broke the silence with, "Did you sleep well?"
Nightfall nodded and finished her salad. "Yea, I guess so... I gotta go in a few minutes here..." she replied, looking at the clock. "Don't wanna be late..."
"Another day, sweetie. Excited?" Mrs. Light asked, in a black business outfit. Mrs. Light worked for a business called: Equestrian Co., that had about twenty locations in each state. Since they lived in Canterlot, Mrs. Light worked in the Canterlot Company. She was a receptionist, while her husband, Dr. Chase was, well, a doctor! Together, they made a lot of money, and therefore, they were a rich family.
"As excited as I can be. I mean, school is school."
"Ah, ok then."
As Nightfall crawled upstairs, she put on her cream saddlebag and trotted to the bus stop. A yellow bus appeared in front of her as she climbed aboard, sitting herself in the back. She plugged in her iPon3 and listened to it through her lavender earbuds. As the bus stopped and a gray unicorn mare with a cocoa colored mane propped herself aboared, she sat next to Nightfall, passing her a yellow sticky-note and trotted herself to another group of 'populars' to sit down there instead. Perhaps senior year would be different after all.
Nightfall opened the note and stared blankly at it. She was really good at hiding her feelings and emotions from other ponies. She'd often fake it and write her feelings in her journal that nopony dared to open. Nightfall read the note to herself in her head.
Dear Nightfall,
We can no longer be friends, since everypony loves me. You still have Sky Star and Peppermint, right? Thanks for understanding.
-Your ex BFF, Diamond Heart
Nightfall just put it in her backpack and continued to listen to some songs she herself had written and sung when nopony was home. She downloaded it to her laptop to transfer it to her gray iPon3. Her headset cutie mark glistened in the shining sun as she covered it with her dress.
The bus haulted again as a silver pegasus like Nightfall came to sit next to her in the back of the bus. Her blue mane always twinkled at night, but she couldn't muster up the words she had on her mind. "Nighfall...." she mumbled.
Nightfall took her earbuds out and looked at Sky Star. "Yea?"
Sky crinkled up her face and looked at Nightfall, now as if she were to kill Sky on the spot. "Well, you see.... We can't exactly be... friends anymore... You see, I'm leaving to Cloudsdale soon to get a new job," she whispered. "It's top secret, and I don't want to experiment colors on you. Look, if you follow me, you'll be dead and the new blue of the rainbow!"
"Whoopee..." she mumbled as she looked out the window. She was wishing that she would follow her to the factory to be a rainbow.
"No, you don't understand! Please, just trust me..."
"NO, I WON'T, SKY! PLEASE LEAVE ME ALONE!" she yelled at Sky Star. Everypony on the bus stared at her. She could hear whispers. 'Freak' 'Goth' 'Bitch' 'Weirdo.' She really wanted to be up in the sky right now to fly. She put her earbuds back in and waited for the bus to stop at the school. As it did, she flew out after everypony else and began to her locker. Just then, a sudden tap on her shoulder made her turn around to her friend, Peppermint, a small, vulnerable earth pony who was very sensetive.
"G-good morning, Nightfall..." she chocked.
"Hi, Peppermint," she said, plainly.
Suddenly, a tall, buffed up pegasus approached Nightfall. His smooth dark mane collapsed over one blue eye. He opened his locker to grab his biology book. He cast a white, toothy grin on Nightfall, passing her a note as well. Peppermint watched Nightfall open the note from her coltfriend. "What does it say?" she asked. Peppermint was always curious about Nightfall's coltfriend, because she looked out for Nightfall.
Nightfall read the note aloud, "Dear Nightfall, I'm sorry I can't tell you this face to face, but I have biology. I'd like to have a date tonight at my house. Is that ok? See you at lunch. Love you, Lightning Shot," she read.
"Ooh, a date! Guess you have plans then, don't you?"
"I guess. Well, I have math. See you at english!" she said as she flew to a large wooden door that read: Math 101 Mrs. Carrot Room 29. Nightfall opened the door to reveal three students already inside, scribbling down their homework as quickly as they could, fourty-two desks, Mrs. Carrot sitting at her desk, fourty-one chairs, and a blackboard with chalk pieces there, and a large whit board with a math problem written on it. Nightfall sat on her chair as she sat a large math book on her desk. She set her saddlebag on the back of her chair. The clock ticked away when Mrs. Carrot looked up from her desk at exactly 9:01 am, right after about thirty-nine students came rushing in. Mrs. Carrot gave her morning announcment to class stating their plan for an hour until 10:00 am.
"Ok, class. We'll be working on some more algebra today after you set your notebooks on your desk stating your homework. Ready? Ok," she said, cheerfully. She scrolled down three aisles, peering over notebooks with a red pen in her magical grasp to mark errors and grades. As she scrolled down to Nightfall's notebook, she marked an A+ grade and smiled. She walked passed some more and finished at Cookie Crumble's notebook to give him a B- on his homework. She walked over to the blackboard, setting her red pen on her desk. She adjusted her glasses and scarf to mark down students with A+'s and A's. As Mrs. Carrot gridded the board, she put the A's first. only three ponies were listed:
Fox Field
Lilac
Blossom Sprout
Then, she marked down the A+'s. Only two mares were listed:
Nightfall
Sky Star
Nightfall turned her head to her notebook before she saw Sky Star's name on the board. When they were still friends, they'd always do their homework together. Last night they did homework together. Nightfall flipped a page in her notebook and began writing down song lyrics for her new song: Castle Walls. She sighed as the lesson continued. Why was life so difficult? Why couldn't her friends stay with her? She opened up a turquoise binder to reveal several photographs of the quad group.
"Nightfall! Put your binder away. It is for History, and History is clearly not math! So, I understand you did get on the A+ list, but you must still participate in class! Now, when you look on this white board," she stood now next to a whiteboard with dry erase markers next to it. "You will notice that I have a math problem on it."
Mrs. Carrot rambled on and on through math class while all Nightfall really did was scribble down her homework in her notebook at the end of class.
At the end of the lesson, Nightfall left to biology class. She decided to make a quick stop at her locker. She opened it at the many taped on photographs of her friends and she smiled at her. A pool party picture made Nightfall give a small smirk. She put away her math book and homework and traded it for her biology book. As she trotted over there, she bumped into Sky Star, who picked up her art supplies and scrambled away as quickly as possible. Nightfall shrugged it off and headed to a large brass door which was labled: Biology Advanced Mr. Cloud Room 103. She opened the door and peered inside. It appeared empty except for Mr. Cloud who was writing the lesson on the chalkboard. Nightfall sat down and resumed writing in her notebook.
My castle may break. My castle may fall. My castle will always be brought back up.