This story is a sequel to Beautiful Rain

A day without Button Mash is a day not acceptable to live through at all. She was rightfully deemed the most likeliest foal to succeed in the world, and by Celestia's mane she lived up to it. Plaques, awards, trophies, they showered her, her music, and her charity with so much love and attention. Through all of this, it seemed nearly impossible to accomplish without her favorite stallion back at home, in Ponyville.

They were once lovers, but now they were no longer friends. How can you be friends with the dead that you couldn't save? The days get harder, the nights get longer, and the drive to keep inspiring whittles away as time wears her down.

Sweetie couldn't save him, despite her secretly yearning for their relationship once more; and had encountered the tragedy before her eyes, on the day she was going to visit him in a pleasant surprise.

Now, even the Rain seems Hideous.

Inspired by this masterpiece.

It just seems like everyday gets a little bit more difficult to consider living for Button Mash. He was once considered one of the most likeliest kids to succeed in the world, until his mental health rapidly declined and he could no longer stay motivated for the simplest of things. No matter what his loved ones did, it never worked.

Button Mash learnt a lot during these times, and the weight of them affected him no less than before. So, just like every rainy day when successful ponies like Sweetie Belle with her singing, Applebloom with her taking up the mantle of owning an expansion on the other end of Ponyville, or Scootaloo who became an all-star athlete representing the Ponyville Guardians for their national hoofball league, would be out working and being happy; Button just revels in the Beautiful Rain.

There's a sequel to this story, now.