Fluttershy's Bad Day

*Please note this story takes place when Flutters is in 7th grade, before she meets Dashie.

Fluttershy watched the clouds go by. It was Monday and she wasn't particularly excited, but there wasn't any postponing it. Finally her and her dad reached the school.

Flutters landed on the soft clouds, and walked into school. She sat down and thought, she enjoyed thinking. Just being free to flutter outside in the bright sunshine and enjoy thinking and dreaming was a great feeling. Best of all in her mind anything could happen. She could imagine having all the toys and games and books and other fun things she wanted. She could imagine being a famous pony who did many amazing things.

Or she could even imagine having a great friend, who could hang out with her and do the things she wanted, and show her some new things too. She'd be kind, and fun and a maybe even a little crazy. Best of all though she'd understand her, she'd understand how sensitive she was, how socially awkward she was. Her friend would forgive her for the mistakes she made, and gently inform her when she made them. She'd be awesome....But that wasn't really something flutters liked to think about.

She knew none of the things she dreamed about would happen, and it never made her sad. But this one was different, to be rich and get everything she wanted wasn't something she needed to be happy. To be famous and have lots of ponies praising her for something she did, she could live without. Besides tons of ponies gushing about her work made her feel nervous, and embarrassed anyway. But a friend....a friend was something she needed and badly too.

She let out a sigh, dreaming about it wasn't gonna make it happen. The room soon started getting noisy as the other fillies and colts came in. They were all so loud and crazy. Some of them were okay to play with, but most were too loud and crazy. None of them understood how sensitive, how quiet, how shy she really was. They all thought she was a snob, a crybaby, and maybe even kinda mean. But she wasn't any of those things.

“Okay my little ponies, it's time to be quiet and listen to worship.” The teacher called out

That day's worship happened to be about watching your tongue and not speaking before thinking.The teacher discussed it a little and reminded her students how important that is, and how mean you can come off as if you don't think before speaking. Fluttershy listened intently , but she knew nobody else would take it to heart. She always tried to think before she spoke , sometimes she'd forget, but she'd be super sorry and try even harder to think before she spoke. But nopony else seemed to try, they still said mean things. She once tried to stand up for a friend of hers, but somehow she made it worse and her friend just glared at her while angrily saying “thanks”. After that Fluttershy just tried to be quiet, she'd probably just mess things up more if she tried to interfere.

After worship they had bible. Nothing was too special about that. Then it was time for reading. Fluttershy quietly did her reading and then math, but she just didn't feel like it today. She couldn't place why she was feeling like this lately, but she was just upset.

“Okay everypony time for P.E. Today we will be playing dodgeball.” The teacher called out

Flutters heart sank. She was terrible at P.E already, but dodgeball. She couldn't throw more then two feet. she couldn't dodge very well. She just was no good, and if she just walked around and dodged only when necessary, the teacher would always yell at her to get play the game and not just stand around. So she tried her best at dodging, but she soon got out. She sat down and tried to look happy, but it hurt. She never got much a chance to play P.E. Why couldn't they play more games like Soccer or Kickball where everypony gt a chance to play, and nobody got out no matter how bad they where. They didn't have to play games like that all the time, and it probably wouldn't be that great if they did. But playing them at least a little more would be nice, they rarely played games like that, and it was not fair.

Soon the doctor, the one who essentially “unfreezes” the ponies who were out, tagged her. She slowly fluttered up, she didn't want to play. She'd only screw up.

“Fluttershy come on and play the game!” The teacher yelled out.

Fluttershy sunk a little, she just wanted to go cry in a corner, but she couldn't. So she picked up a ball with her two hooves and threw it as hard as she could, Speedster caught it. That wasn't surprising, Speedster was one of the fastest best sports players out there, and it wasn't just sports, he was super fast with everything, he was also pretty smart in spite of his craziness, and over hyper-ness.  

Fluttershy fluttered back to the jail as some of the other colts and even a couple of the fillies got mad at how pathetic she was at sports. Again and again and again and again ponies kept getting upset, especially Speedster. He was really mean and really annoying too. Flutters just hated him and just wished he would disappear. Sure he wasn't trying to be mean, but he was and didn't even realize it. She just wanted to stay out and not play the game, but the doctor kept freeing her.

Then when she actually managed to stay in,  Speedster was the only other one in. He threw the ball hard, and accidentally hit Fluttershy in the stomach. Tears rushed down her face not just from the hit, but from how horrible things were going. After several minutes, the teacher called out to her, To get back in the game, and that'd she be fine. She slowly fluttered back into the game, and softly mumbled to herself to keep he composure, even though she already lost it. After a couple more minutes the teacher called them back inside.

Fluttershy fluttered went straight to the bathroom, and sat in one of the stalls letting her tears flow,and complaining to herself about how horrible everything was. She always tried to look on the bright side, but sometimes it just seemed impossible. She knew she couldn't stay there long she silently prayed a short prayer, and then stepped out. After fixing her hair and trying to gain her composure she went back into the room. Because it was near the end of there year, there was no spelling or handwriting that week, so Fluttershy didn't have anything to do.

She silently cried into her hooves for a while, before finally gaining her composure. She picked up a piece of paper and began drawing her happily playing with a friend, not a care in the world. Once she was done, she looked down at her picture, a couple tears ran down her face and fell onto the picture. She picked up her pencil and drew a large X threw the picture before drawing another picture of her all alone crying. She then ,marked them “Reality”, and  “Dream World”.

The teacher then called for lunch. Fluttershy slowly ate her lunch and then listed to story time. After story time it would be time for language and then science. She was not looking forward to that and just wished lunch and story time could last longer. But eventually they ended and the language teacher came in. Fluttershy was gone last week do to a vacation, but everypony else said that they hadn't been asked to take notes at all last week. The thought gave Fluttershy a little hope, at least until The teacher told them to get a piece of paper out. So she listened and took a couple notes, but she just wasn't feeling up to doing the amount she normally did.

Then the teacher picked up a stack of paper , and began handing them out. Fluttershy looked at her paper. Not only did she have to take notes but she had to do an assignment too! That wasn't really normal, and Flutters just wasn't in the mood to do it. The teacher then began explaining the assignment to them.

“Now in section B, you are gonna replace the underlined word with the 3rd pony singular present tense or the 3rd pony plural present tense. Now this sounds hard but it really isn't”

“Oh I know what that means!” Fluttershy happily said.

“Ya but not everypony does” Jade replied coldly

Fluttershy sunk down and softly mumbled sorry. Jade was always so bossy and mean. Obliviously she didn' mean to be, but the fact that she probably tried to be nicer didn't really help. Fluttershy half listened as her thoughts went else where. She knew it was partly her fault, just like Jade, her efforts to be nice didn't really help. If she was mean, then it hurt the pony and her little sorry wouldn't help much. But at the same time she was trying so hard. And everypony, especially Jade kept getting upset at her.  Even if the ones who didn't get upset with her, never came to comfort her. Only one colt  named Sunshine would actually try to cheer her up. He was really nice and positive about everything, just like she tried to be. But today he seemed to preoccupied with his friends to realize how upset she was.

“Shut up you stupid pony! Just be quiet and everything will be fine.” She softly shouted to herself.

After language they went out for a short 10 minute recess. Normally this would be her break, her stress reliever, but for some reason she just couldn't calm down today. She sat down at the bottom of a slide and let her mind wander. It wasn't about happy thoughts though, she was too upset for that. She tried to think of ways to make her life better but she couldn't. All she could think about was how horrible her life was. Sure life was like a jump rope, and it went up and down and up and down. But lately it seemed to be going two feet up then ten feet down, and it just kept going like that. She sat down and prayed, but it didn't feel like God was listening, she knew He was, but she still felt alone. Like she couldn't feel His presence. That really got to her.

After Recess they had choir that day. Normally Fluttershy loved to sing, other then Sunshine she was the only one. But she was to upset to sing today. She started to shake an nervelessly play with her hooves. She tried to stop crying, to calm down but couldn't. The happy songs about God's angels being around her all the time, only made her feel worse. She certainly didn't doubt God was there, but she couldn't feel His presence. It only made her cry more, and nopony even seemed to notice. It was a strange feeling, on one hoof the last thing she wanted was to be noticed,she wouldn't even know how to explain why she was so upset, because truth be told she didn't fully understand herself. But on the other hoof, she needed some comfort, she thought about her teacher, but her teacher would probably just tell her it's life. She didn't have a friend. She finally decided to tell her mother, she would help. But Fluttershy would have to wait till the end of school for that.

After Choir she nervously walked back to the room, trying to calm her heavy breathes. She wondered if she was having a panic attack, she had never had one before. But then again her life had never been this bad before. She managed to get through science luckily, but then the teacher announced that due to lack of time, those who didn't get their science done early, would have to take it home as homework. That was all Flutters needed to upset her again, and cause her to cry again. She walked into the dismissal room and found her seat. Trying to ignore the noise around her. It didn't take too long for her mother to come and pick her up. Fluttershy slowly walked over to grab her bag

“Fluttershy, come on let's go” The teacher shouted softly

Fluttershy hurried over to her bag, feeling like she needed to kick a tree or something. Either that or burst out crying, she went for the latter as usual. She came to her mom crying and explained as best she could her horrible day. Her mom only told her that it was life though, that she had a lot to deal with too. Fluttershy sank down even more, her mom was always there for her. And on those rare times when she wasn't it hurt more then anything.

At the same time she felt bad for her mom, and she knew she wasn't the only one's with problems. She wondered if any of the other kids had problems like she did. There was only one other pony in her class that she could think of that did. But he always made himself miserable, it wasn't anypony else just him, so that was different. Ya maybe she did bring some of her misery upon herself but not all of it, and she really didn't know how to make things better.

Finally she arrived home. Home.... home was her save place where she could play and relax and have fun and just be happy. She sat down with one of her favorite puppies and began to play. It made her feel better, but she would still have to get her homework done, she would still have to go to school tomorrow. Playing with her toys would make her happy for now, but I wouldn't last. She prayed another prayer asking God to help make her life better, and began to think of ways to make it better.

“It won't last” she thought. She knew in time the jumprope called life would go back up again. At least with summer coming, she knew things would get better and that jumprope would go up 2 feet then go down 2 feet, rather then up 2 down 10. Until then though this was her life. Going to school and having a miserable time until she could finally go home and enjoy herself. But it was never long before school started and again and the cycle started again. Yup until summer came, this was her life. Her sad, sad life. The end.