"Pinkie Darling! You must stop obsessing over that flugel horn!" Rarity protested, stamping her hoof angrily onto the pale lavender tile of the spa.
Pinkie gasped dramatically and mocked Rarity, stomping her amaranth pink hoof to the polished tile. The ponies had been arguing a lot ever since the Crystal Empire incident. It had put so much pressure on the elements, that afterwards they felt a little fuzzy. It seemed like all life turned gray, the happy group of friends now going against one another.
"It's not JUST a flugel horn!" Pinkie wailed, throwing her hooves irritably in the misty air of the sauna.
"Um.. Excuse me.." Fluttershy murmured shyly, slightly adjusting the fluffy purple cuffs on her robe.
"Where's Rainbow Dash?" Apple Jack cut in rudely, wearing a disapproving look.
Apple Jack had her silky blonde hair braided tightly in a filly-like fashion, because her grandmother, Granny Smith, had insisted. Apple Jack didn't like the idea of braided pigtails, but her friends seemed to think it looked cute. Rarity had also added some thick, black mascara to her eye lashes, and a tint of blush to her cheeks. Apple Jack was a bit frustrated here, thinking that her cyan winged friend, Rainbow Dash, should also be getting this "wonderful" treatment. Unfortunately, she hadn't showed up.
"Ugh!" Rarity snorted playfully, "She came up with the lame excuse that she was visiting a friend in Canterlot!"
"Acually-" Fluttershy began meekly as the two spa ponies, Aloe and Lotus, rushed in to drag them to the next event in their afternoon of "relaxation".
"That is ridiculous! She's just trying to get out of the spa time!" Pinkie mocked, sticking her pale pink muzzle into the warm air in a similar way to the posh Canterlot ponies who Rarity hangs out with might do so.
"Pinkie! I do not act like-"
"ENOUGH!" Fluttershy yelled fiercely, her face flushed red from frustration.
"Uh.. yeah sugarcube?" Apple Jack asked guiltily, glancing sympathetically at her fuming butterscotch colored friend.
"That was so not an excuse!" Fluttershy protested meekly, stamping her cream yellow hoof quietly onto the floor, unlike the way Pinkie Pie and Rarity had done earlier.
"Darling, I assure you that you misunderstood Rainbow." Rarity mumbled, so soft enough to only be talking to herself.
"No! Because she had fallen asleep on a cloud yesterday! I took her to my house when the nice stallion came and picked her up!" Fluttershy fumed, glaring at her friends with the eyes as bright as a pool of teal waves.
"Oh.. I didn't know dar-" Rarity began calmly, "-Woah, wait. Did-you-say-a-nice-young-stallion!?"
Rarity had pulled her beautiful indigo curls below her waist, a cheery smile located on her face. She looked like she might explode with happiness. Knowing the arrogant Rainbow Dash, you'd rarely see her with "some stallion".
Throughout the girls sappy gushing and Rarity's inimitable squeals, Fluttershy's quiet voice was only able to whisper:
"Oops."