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// Showing discipline  
// Story: Dewott Just happened? 
// by Jonny Bench 
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     As I wake up the next morning, I freak out, but only for a second as I remember what happened and where I am. Once I have calmed down from my "crisis" I proceed to untie myself and pop my head above the water to see just how close I am to the town. I almost immediately regret my decision as I am nearly spotted by a trio of fillies that are about silvers size. One is white with a two tone mane that's pink and lavender and a horn on her head, one is yellow with a bright red mane and a large pink bow, and the last one is orange with a magenta colored mane. As I pull my head back underwater all of them look towards the lake I'm in before the white filly says 

"It's probably just a fish, now let's go! If we're late again we might get detention!" As she and the other two fillies run off down the road. 
Once they have left I pop my head up again, but more cautiously than before to look around. This time I take in everything that is around me. My lake is more of a large pond and is surrounded by bushes on almost all sides, which will let me hear if somepony is coming so I can hide before they spot me. I pull myself out of the water and take a peek over the bushes to get a look at the placement of my pond. That's when I realize just how badly I had screwed up.

Down the road a little ways is a building that resembles a shop and down the road in the opposite direction is the actual town. That could be very problematic to me since I might be discovered by the shop owner if he/she likes to swim in my pond or another pony decides to pop by for a nice swim to get out of the heat. Thinking about where I should go, I hear the sound of hoof steps approaching again. I quickly hop into the bush next to the path and look to see who is walking down the path. To my surprise it's silver. I try to make a little noise to grab her attention by rustling the bush, and it works. As she looks over and sees me, I motion for her to move closer to me. She climbs into the bush with me and then asks

"Jonny, what are you doing here? I thought you were going to live in the forest."

"I had a change in plans. I hopped into a stream that I found in the forest and it led to here. Although it may be risky for me to stay here, I'm gonna do it anyway."

"Alright, I'll make sure to stop by after school sometime. It'll be nice to have someone to chat with. Right now I have to get going though. See you then okay?"

"Alright, I'll try to spruce the place up a bit before you get here. See you then!" I reply as she steps out of the bush and starts to run towards the town. I chuckle to myself as I say to myself "kids these days, they always rush to go do something else. Oh well, might as well start setting up more of a permanent home for myself and start training." As I swim back upstream into the forest to start gathering supplies to build with.

I return a couple of hours later with a bag that I had woven out of reeds I found, filled to the top with more of the reeds. I swim to the bottom of the pond and start to weave the reeds together with the weeds on the bottom, to prevent my "hut" from drifting away. After another hour or two of weaving, the hut itself is almost done, it just needs to be water proofed. I swim around the pond and gather mud to fill in the cracks of my house. Once that process is done, I stand back and look at my work with pride. Before me is a hut that looks like a beaver den, with a special entrance to help keep water out. Inside the hut are a few aquatic plants that provide fresh air in the event that I have company over. Other than the plants all that is inside it is a pile of leaves and a nice soft clump of moss to use as a pillow. After looking at my house for a bit, I swim up to the surface to see if silver has arrived yet. What I see and hear though, surpirises me.

I see silver standing with a pink filly that has a lavender and white mane and has a tiara on her head and a picture of one on her flank, talking with they three fillies I had seen that morning. I notice though, that the pink filly is doing most of the talking and that she is making fun of the other fillies that are present. After a few minutes, the fillies walk away to the house I had seen earlier and the pink filly walks back towards the town while silver just sits there waiting for both parties to leave her line of sight. Once nopony else is visible she walks over to where the pond is and sits down next to it and calls out
"Jonny, where are you?"
I reply "right here silver, now would you care to explain why you and that other pony were making fun of those other three fillies?"
"Oh, you saw that." She says is a rather sad tone "That was Diamond Tiara, the only friend I have besides you."
"You understand that the reason you don't have many friends is because you treat other ponies like that right."
"I do Jonny, but It's too late. Now nopony else with give me a chance to show who I am and be their friend, and if I do start to make a friend, Diamond ruins it by being mean to them."
"Why don't you stop hanging out with diamond then?"
"I can't do that, If I do then she'll go out of her way to keep other ponies from being my friend and she could ruin my life by just being mean to me. Also, she would've have a friend anymore, so she would be alone."
"Silver, if you want to have more friends and make Diamond a better pony, then you have to show her some tough love. You have to stand up to her and tell her that what she is doing is wrong. If you don't it'll only get worse from there. Do you get what I'm saying?"
"Yeah, thanks for the advice Jonny, and you're right! If I want things to change, then I need to start the change. Thanks's Jonny, you are the best. I know what I need to do tomorrow."
"I'm glad I could help, now how about a swim? I could show you my home if you want."
"I'm in, let's go!"
Silver replies as I jump into the water. She takes off her glasses and sets them on the ground while untying the braid in her hair, before jumping in after me. I lead her down to where my hut is and show her in. She marvels at the fact that I built it in a day and seems to like it a lot. Afterwards, we swim back into the lake and swim around until the sun starts to disappear over the horizon. Silver hops out of the water and dries off for a little bit before starting her walk home. We say good bye to each other as she exits my pond side oasis, and she starts to walk home. I float on my back for a little bit before but right before I decide to swim back to my underwater home, a scream pierces the night followed by a cry for help
"Jonny, help me!" 
I hop out of my pond, before running off towards the direction of my friends shouts.