“Wallflower went that way.”
Cloudkicker pointed down a hallway as the two of us sat in a dark classroom. The hallway was thankfully empty except for her and I inhaled, walking out into the hall.
“I got this. Go to class Cloud,” I said as she raised an eyebrow. “Don’t be late.”
“Okay just be careful,” Cloudkicker said and looked around quickly before kissing my cheek and I turned red. “See you at lunch.”
Cloudkicker waved as she disappeared around a corner and I shook my head. I don’t mind the attention just not in ya know, public where my enemies could see.
I watched as Wallflower opened her locker and started picking up books. She had various plants pictures decorating her locker and a few plant seeds in bags.
“You’re a hard girl to find,” I said casually as she jumped and spun around with a nervous expression. “Relax, I’m not going to hurt you. I’m just here to talk.”
“You actually want to talk to me? No one has ever really wanted to talk to me before. Except well, Diamond Tiara.”
“Well, I do,” I admitted as I sat down against the lockers and patted the spot next to me. “Sit.”
Wallflower eyed me cautiously before she sat down slowly next to me.
“Why do you want to talk to me? I said I didn’t like you, doesn’t that make you hate me?” Wallflower asked as I laughed softly.
“No. Plenty of people here didn’t like me and I never hated any of them because them not liking me was justified. While I don’t necessarily know what I did to you, I know what it’s like to be lonely and well, I wouldn’t wish that on anyone.”
“Hm,” Wallflower groaned and stared at me. “How did you even find me? Nobody ever finds me, I find them.”
“It was difficult,” I admitted as I dusted off my skirt. “But we figured you’d stay in hallways people don’t really go to. Once we knew what to look for, it was pretty easy. You’re the only girl here to wear a striped sweater and have messy green hair.”
“Well shoot. So you’re not going to hurt and you want to talk. About what exactly?” Wallflower asked as she looked around hesitantly.
“Well, for starters that rock. I’ve never seen anything like it,” I said as Wallflower held her backpack tighter. “Do you care if I see it?”
“Will you give it back?” Wallflower asked as she watched me warily and tensed up.
“Yes, I’m not a thief,” I answered with an eye roll as she opened her bag and handed me the stone. I took it and ran Mt fingers over it gently. “This is Equestrian. Where did you even find this rock?”
“The garden in the back of the school. It was buried and wrapped in a piece of paper,” Wallflower answered as I handed her the rock back. “If it’s worth anything, I never take memories away from people who don’t ask for me to.”
“Except for hate mobs,” I noted with a smirk.
“Except for hate mobs. I didn’t really think you deserved this all. Especially not getting hurt over something so stupid. At first I only took memories away from my dad.”
“Uh why?”
“Because he’s an abusive bitch,” Wallflower grumbled bitterly. “Plus Fuchsia has to have surgery but he won’t pay for it. If he isn’t gonna care about his two daughters, then he doesn’t deserve know us. I’m slowly but surely making up the money to afford it. People pay me decently to erase traumatic experiences.”
I didn’t really see how much she could earn by doing that but well, if I had siblings I’d do anything for them. And there is a lot of people in this world with some pretty traumatic pasts I imagine.
“I leave it so they always remember asking me for help and coming to me including me erasing certain events but they never talk to me again. I can guarantee you will too after this.”
“Nah,” I said and shook my head. “You seem like a pretty decent girl. Just lonely.”
“I’m not lonely, I have Fuchsia. And plants!” Wallflower snapped and groaned into a hand. “That sounded a lot less lonely in my head.”
I gave a laugh as Wallflower smiled faintly and zipped her backpack up.
“Can you show me this garden?” I asked Wallflower gave me a doubtful look as her smile faded slightly.
“No offense but you don’t seem like the plant loving type. I guess I can show you it after school.”
“I’m okay with plants. I don’t know much about them but well I can always learn. You just leave them outside, water them if they’re inside and boom, you have a plant,” I waved a hand nonchalantly as Wallflower raised a finger.
“That’s technically not true. Different plants require different types of assistance. Some grow better in arid climates and some grow in snow,” Wallflower answered as she paused and looked at me as I gave a smug grin. “You did that to get me to open up, didn’t you?”
“Yeah, I did,” I admitted. “It worked. I don’t do it often but well, you looked like you needed it. What plant even grows in snow?”
“Snowdrops.”
I mentally made a note to look at that. I will admit, I don’t know much about plants. I never really cared about them before. They were always just things around me, nothing to truly care about. I do think some are nice at least. Sunflowers are my favorite out of them all.
“Do you want to eat lunch with me and my friends?” I asked suddenly as Wallflower stared at me.
“Why?”
“Why not? You yourself said you were lonely. My friends are pretty open to anyone, I’m sure they wouldn’t mind. And besides, I want to make up for not seeing you before. You’re a fairly nice individual once you open up.”
“I usually eat in the garden. It’s nice and quiet and well, only me and Fuchsia are usually there. I’d be careful though, she and Trixie aren’t on speaking terms right now still. I’ve tried to convince her to talk to her but well, Fuchsia can be stubborn at times.”
That sounded pretty damn familiar. Rainbow used to be the most stubborn person I ever knew.
“We will be there. If you don’t mind of course,” I said as Wallflower paused before smiling again.
“I’m fine with it. Just go out the doors and past the soccer field. You can’t miss it.”
Sounds simple enough. It is a bit cold outside but well, it’s worth it if I make a new friend. Being lonely is probably something I can relate to the most.
I just hope the others are truly okay with it.
Well, that went surprisingly well. Hopefully Sunset's other friends are as understanding about Wallflower's situation.
Hopefully Wallflower will get better at giving others chances. And she is certainly using the stone more responsibly than the show.
Well, thank goodness that my fears on Wallflower abusing of the rock like she did in Forgotten Friendship have turned out to be unfounded, My guess would be that meeting Diamond Tiara was actually the turning point that deviate her from the vindication path, Exelent job.
Now that I think the Rainbooms are safe from deeper mind manipulation as had happened in That episode, I guess I have to see how the reveal will turn out this time.
But make no mistake, there's definetly going to be many very serious legal consecuences to the Canterlot Movie Club and their families as they in their attempt to blur the waters, going from posting the secrets of the Rainbooms to pretty much all the school in both the High School and Middle School wings, I guess Scootaloo's aunts will have to call her parents to droop everything and get there ASAP.
Althought I expect that many lawsuits will be droped as some parties would have shared to the profile other's secret deliverately as they either thought it would be fun to see their firend's reactions of everyone finding those secrets out, was becoming a "Sheeple's trend" or just for kicks to see what could happen.
Some will hold like Sweet Leaves, who at this point in time should have been S.W.A.T.ted by every Alphabet Soup Law Enforcement Agency in the nation, even international ones and now many vans of "Flowers By Irene", "Arrangements and Tulips Flowershop", "Cable Inter-Action", "Nova Security and Alarms", "Home Systems Adaptations" and *INTERnational POLymers" seems to be everywhere and/or happen to be nearby her location!
But also there will be also some Counter-Lawsuits made by the girls and their families like the Breach of Contract Bon-Bon's family did to Sweet Apple Acres and the Apple Family and so on.
Is going to be a mess that lawyers and Atronneys are going go fill their pockets rather nicely, even more if we add into this what's going on between Flithy Rich and Spoiled Milk (All what we need now is Spoiled Confessing to Flithy when they are signing the divorce papers that Diamond was not his and just got knocked up for her to be a parent trap as a final fuck you to him... That won't sit well with Diamond though, I just hope that Flifty still recognize her as his daugher and even fights for Diamond's custody anyway as she's "The only good thing she have ever done").
(If you think divorce legal battles can be fierce with who gets to keep what and who has to pay who how much in what period of time for alimony, then you have seen nothing on how they turn when the legal custody and alimony of a minor gets involed, it become pretty much a no-holds barred fight to death and no tactic is too dirty to not use! At this point have Filthy name Sunset Diamond's legal guardian and tutor with a expenses stipend until things settles down.)
Amazing job, bonus points for beginning to advert the Whole forgotten Friendship chapter, althought it also made me wonder: Would it have been kind of ironic if the Rainbooms did actually befriend Sonata for realsies?
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Technically it was stated the Apples breached the contract first soooo
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Good point, but add the apple family stubborness when they think they are right and the time the trials can go examinating statements, documents and evidence, they're going to be there for a while until the judge gives a veredict on which party is at fault by breaching the contract first.
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Then they need better contracts. It is my understanding that a certain amount of spoiled produce is to be expected when buying directly from a farm, which is why usually, documentaries on businesses working with said produce start along the lines of "this machine sorts the apples/pears/whatevers and removes any bad ones...". AFAIK, that is.
Alternatively, the Apples are idiots for accepting such a contract without having the necessary machinery to fulfill the conditions. However, that wouldn't explain why the Bon-Bon's apparently accepted the same produce before.
Except for the Rainbooms. And Trixie, as the next chapter established. That's less of a slippery slope and more of a fast-flowing river of grease. I wonder how many more "exceptions" are going to pop up.