It's not that simple

Chapter Sixteen

AUTHOR'S NOTE!

WOOO! GAY MARRIAGE! WOOT WOOT!
I'm sososo happy and I'm not even gay! Or American for that matter...
I was thinking I should give you an extra long chapter to celebrate, and this one won't be as depressing as the last few chapters. Hopefully. Let's go!

--Silver Spoon's POV--

I woke up in the forest with mud, grass and leaves all over me. It had been raining and I was extremely cold. I decided that it would be a good idea to go home and take a bath or something, but as I stood up I realized I didn't know how to get home.
I was lost.
I was too tired to freak out, so instead I found a stream and washed the worst of it off.
I then tried to think. Which direction did I enter the forest from?
I had no idea.
I tried to remember what Cheeralie had told os to do if we ever got lost, but all I could remember was me and Diamond Tiara making stupid jokes.
That was when I realized I needed to change the way I acted. I needed to stop bullying the cutiemark crusaders, start paying attention in school and be nicer to other ponies.
There was only one problem. I was still lost in the freaking everfree forest.
I decided to walk in the direction that felt right and every now and then I stopped, ripped a small piece out of my bow and hung it in a bush so that I could be found easily if someone decided to look for me.
I walked for about an hour without finding anything that could help me get out. Just trees, bushes and more trees. I was getting really scared and tired and decided to rest for a bit. I laid down under a large tree, and as I looked up I got an idea.
If I managed to climb up the tree, I could look around and see which direction I was supposed to go in. I started climbing.

Let me tell you something. Climbing a tree with just hooves is very hard.
It took me a long time 'cause I kept falling out of the tree, but after what felt like hours I reached the top. The tree wasn't the tallest tree in the forest, so there were other trees blocking my sight, but I could see enough. I remembered which direction I needed to go in and started climbing down again.

After at least an hour, I was finally out of the forest. I could find my way home from here! I took my what was left of my bow off, used it to wipe of my glasses and then fixed my mane as good as I could without a mirror or a hairbrush. Then I walked in to the village. I was just walking along the road when I saw that ponies were looking at me strangely. Had I messed up my hair really badly? Did I have a bunch of mud and stick stuck to my tail? I decided to ignore them, it was probably just some dirt.
At least that was what I thought until I got to the school. I walked by and since I had decided to become a nicer pony, I waved to some of my classmates.
At first they waved back, but suddenly they stopped and stared at me. I could see how their mouths opened in surprise.
That was when I realized.

Before I get on with telling you what happened next, I feel like I need to explain something. You know in the beginning of this story, when I complained about not being able to do my makeup properly?
Well, that wasn't just makeup. I was actually drawing my fake cutiemark on.
I, Silver Spoon, am a blank flank. Now, let's get on with the story.

My fake cutiemark had washed off when I was taking the mud away.
They knew I was a blank flank.

It felt like everything was going in slow motion as Diamond Tiara opened her mouth, pointed at me and shouted "SILVER SPOON IS A BLANK FLANK!"
I wanted to run, but I couldn't move my hooves. I just stood there as they came closer and closer, chanting "BLANK FLANK! BLANK FLANK! BLANK FLANK!"
I tried to run, but they had already formed a circle around me. My heart was beating faster than ever and my entire body felt cold, but I was also sweating. I could feel the tears in my eyes as they ripped my glasses from my face.
Diamond Tiara was responsible for this. I couldn't believe I had ever been her friend.
"AND YOU KNOW WHAT? SILVER SPOON ISN'T JUST A BLANK FLANK, SHE IS ALSO A LESBIAN! SHE LIKES GIRLS!" Diamond shouted.
The fillies gasped in shock. "Is it true?" They asked.
"Yeah, she had a CRUSH on me!" Diamond replied.
"EWWWWWWW!" The fillies shouted. The filly holding my glasses threw them on the ground and stepped on them. I was now crying. Tears were streaming down my face and my entire body was shaking. The group of fillies kept on screaming and pushing me and I gave up and laid down on the ground. My entire world was spinning around and I couldn't see.
"STOP IT!" Someone shouted. I looked up, but since I didn't have my glasses I couldn't see who it was.
"Oh look, it's the rest of the blank flank club defending the lesbian trash" Diamond Tiara exclaimed.
The ponies who had shouted came closer, and as Diamond Tiara just had said, it was Scootaloo, Sweetiebelle and Applebloom.
Why were they defending me? I had bullied them for years!
Scootaloo got of her scooter, pushed two fillies to the side and pulled me up from the ground. She pulled me onto her scooter and drove off. I wanted to ask her why she was doing this for me, but the high speed made it hard to talk.

We stopped at the cutiemark crusader clubhouse and Scootaloo parked her scooter.
Sweetiebelle and Applebloom arrived at the clubhouse, breathing heavily and sweating. It was obvious that they had been running.
"Could you possibly go any faster?" Applebloom said.
"Sorry, but I wanted to get away from those bullies as fast as possible" Scootaloo replied.
"Let's go in to the clubhouse and then we can talk about this. Come on Silver Spoon, you're coming in with us" Sweetiebelle said.
We entered the clubhouse.
"Okay, so what happened over there?" Applebloom asked.
I told them the entire story, from yesterday morning to right before they came to rescue me.
"Okay, let me get this straight. You don't actually have a cutiemark and you're a lesbian?" Scootaloo said.
"Not exactly. I'm not a lesbian, I'm pansexual" I replied.
"Doesn't matter to us. I'm genderfluid and pansexual myself and these two might be straight but they couldn't care less who I'm in love with. Anyone who judges you for your gender or sexuality isn't worth your time" Scootaloo said.
"Genderfluid? So you're both a boy and a girl?" I asked.
"Yes. I'm feeling like a girl today though if you're curious" she replied.
"Can I be friends with you guys?" I asked.
"Yeah, you can even be a crusader if you want!" Sweetiebelle said excitedly.
"You should join us! We'd love to be your friend" Scootaloo said.
"Then I'm a crusader" I replied.
The other crusaders all hugged me. I was happier than ever, and I had never felt so comfortable around anypony before.
I finally had real friends.