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// 6. Best friends again? 
// Story: Letters Between Friends 
// by JumpingShinyFrogs 
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Dear Rainbow Dash,

I want to start out this letter by apologising to you. I know we already sort of made up in Griffonstone, but I never truly apologised for the way I treated you and your friends back in Ponyville. So, for that...I'm truly, truly sorry. I blamed you for what was my fault to begin with. If I hadn't been so aggressive and hostile, then I would've seen just how great your friends really were. Especially Pinkie Pie. I thought it was your fault, for making friends with people that I thought were 'uncool'.

While I was in Ponyville, I did some nasty things. I stole from somepony, and I played a prank on an elderly mare and nearly gave her a heart attack. And to top it all off...I made one of your friends cry. It wasn't even her fault. I saw her coming, I should've been the one to move, not her. She was walking backwards for Grover's sake! How did I expect her to see me?

And then, at that party...I wrongly assumed that Pinkie Pie had set it all up to get back at me, or to separate me from you. But even after she told me that she had just wanted to lift my spirits and feel welcome, I still refused to believe her. I even had the gall to try and use it as an excuse to get you away from her. And then you told me you had set the pranks. In that one moment, my whole world was nothing but anger. I hated you then and there for what you had done to me.

I started forming all kinds of revenge fantasies and plots. I would have done anything to make you feel as betrayed as I had in that moment. But after a while...the anger left. I was just empty. I was back to being a lonely griffon with no friends, because I had just thrown away the only true friend I ever had. I became the bitter griffon you met in Griffonstone. When you showed up, I was actually really happy to see you. But I didn't want to show you that. I just felt like I had to hide it, pretend I still wanted to enact my revenge, but I didn't actually know what I wanted.

I think I mostly just wanted my friend back.

And then I saved you, and Pinkie Pie taught me how to make friends. Everything had gone so well! But I still felt guilty about the whole thing. And that's why I'm writing you this letter. 

Rainbow Dash, from the very bottom of my heart...can you forgive me? Can we go back to being best friends like we used to be?

Sincerely, Gilda.





Dear Gilda,

Gilda, of course I forgive you. I've been feeling guilty about that whole deal for a long time now. I thought it was my fault you were so angry. And to be honest, part of it was. If I hadn't neglected you so much to begin with, then you wouldn't have seen my new friends as competition. I should have visited you more often, and invited you to visit too. 

I shouldn't have set all of those pranks at the party. I was riding a prank high from the day before...and I guess I got carried away. And then, when you got angry at Pinkie Pie, I just couldn't deal with you anymore. I said some things I shouldn't have, and I guess we went our separate ways. But I felt horrible. I knew that I had betrayed you, and that feeling was just eating me from the inside out. I'm the bucking Element of Loyalty! I should have been able to stick with my friend when she needed me.

So Gilda, now it's my turn to ask: will you forgive me?

Sincerely, Rainbow Dash.