Chapter 1

Diamond Tiara had her head cocked up as usual to prove that she thought of herself as the better pony. She sat on her high stool with a pillow on it to make it more comfortable. She looked back into her own eyes in the mirror in front of her beautiful blue eyes. Yes, she was pretty. Her coat was a gentle pink and her mane was a mixture of Whites and powdery colors. She coughed a bit as she picked up her perfumes and toyed with her jewelry. The diamonds and crystals in her necklaces and bracelets were all real. Her room was big and colored and decorated with girly colors and figures. Yes, she was spoiled.

She wasn't too old either, only a few years. She had a blank flank but didn't think much of it. She applied her eye makeup and stepped out of her room. She heard her parents arguing and discussing their work. She walked over to her mom and jumped up and down, "Mom mom! Can you ma-", "Not now Diamond, mommy's busy" her mom interrupted. Her mom was a unicorn and her father was an earth pony. She would have loved to be a unicorn instead of a half useless earth pony. Her mom handed her some money, "here go buy yourself some breakfast" said her mom as she jumped from phone to phone talking to other people.

Diamond Tiara lowered her head and took the money in her mouth. Picking up her purse and shoving the money in her fashionable purse, she stepped out of the door. She looked up into the sky and saw the amazing pastel sky. It was way after sun rise, since she spent a lot of time in the morning applying her make up. She kept her head stuck up as she walked with a bit of a strut. The ground was slightly wet from the rainstorm that happened the night before.

Then all of a sudden, SPLASH. Diamond Tiara was soaking wet, her mane flat out over her face and her eye liner running down. Her eyes were wide open as she looked over to see a strange looking orange pony with a snail for a cutie mark. He had a goofy laugh as he jumped around in other puddles. Diamond Tiara scoffed, "Uh! Excuse me?!" the strange and lanky pony turned his head and walked over, "yeah?" "What do you think you are doing?! I'm all wet!", "Aw jeez! I'm sorry!" the lanky pony started to run his hands around on Diamonds coat to try to dry it but only rubbed the dirt of his hoof's on it.

"Hey! Stop that, you!" she stepped back and growled. "Who are you anyway!?" snapped Diamond Tiara as she pulled a tissue out of her purse that was thankfully dry from the leather bag protecting it. She examined the new pony. She hadn't seen a pony like this or heard a pony talk like he does, with a slow slur and a bit of a stutter. His eyes were a beady black and his shape was all wrong. She noticed he had a horn so he was a unicorn. The unicorn replied with a bit of a bow, "I am Snails!", "Snails?", "Snails!", "I never heard of a pony names Snails, before.", "Well yeah you did," "Um….Excuse me?", "You just did!"

Diamond Tiaras glare stayed, not at all impressed. But at the back of her mind she wondered why this pony acted and looked the way he did. He didn't seem too effected by her mean replied of glares. She scoffed, cocked her head up and walked away, Snails followed. "So whats your name?" Snails asked, following close behind. Diamond muttered out, "Diamond Tiara" Snails smiled, "That's a pretty name! But why aren't you wearing one?", "Wearing a what?", "A diamond tiara'

She let out another annoyed growl and ignored him and thought to herself, "whats this jerks deal?" Snails simply walked behind her and smiled enjoying the company of a filly his age. He kept asking questions, "where are ya goin, Diamond?" Diamond Tiara looked behind him, "to the nearest café to get some breakfast," Snails jumped up and down as she followed her, "Café? Wow I never been to a café before!" Diamond stopped and sighed, letting her head down and turned all the way around to face him, "Look kid-", "Snails!", "…..Look Snails, why've you been following me around?" Snails perked up his large ears and shook around a bit in excitement, "Because I was hoping we could splash around in the puddles together,", "Oh yeah?", "Yep! And then maybe we could hang out again and do other things!"

Diamond Tiara rolled her eyes, "Pff…almost sound like being friends." Snails smiled and nodded multiple times really fast, "that's right! Friends! I'll be friends with you, and you with me!" Diamond Tiaras glare turned to confusions, "Don't you have other friends?" Snails smile turned to a frown and his ears bent back and he lowered his head dramatically, "I don't really have any friends…" Diamond Tiara didn't feel any sympathy. Probably because no one ever feels sympathy for her since she was so mean half the time.

The pink earth pony looked around and saw a few fillys their age walking around, "why not try to be friends with any of these ponies?" Snails looked around, "all these…well…they don't treat me like a real pony…" Diamond Tiara tilted her head and started walking again when she felt her stomach grumble. Snails followed. "What do you mean they don't treat you like a pony?" Snails trotted up to walk next to her. "They all treat me like a foal- but I understand why because I AM a foal but…They're all sympathetic and full of pity. You talk to me like I'm actually a normal pony." Diamond Tiara scrunched her eyes together in confusion again, "Why do they treat you like that?", "Probably because I talk and act this way but I can't help it."

Diamond Tiara just let out a little "hm" since she didn't really know how to reply to that. She knew deep down he had some type of disability but she wasn't sure. She never met a pony with downs or Asperger's syndrome or anything like that. She decided to nonchalantly ignore it. Finally she got to the café and walked in with Snails close behind. A powdery purple colored unicorn with a grey mane stood a the counter, "Hello again Diamond Tiara!" said the calm but happy unicorn.

"And whos your friend?" she asked, her tone suddenly becoming more friendly when she saw Snails. Snails smiled back, "My names Snails!" the earth pony announced happily. The powdered unicorn smiled, "and what a lovely name that is!" Diamond noticed what Snails meant a moment ago about ponies treating him differently. She cashier was treating Snails with too much fake smiles and giggles. Diamond cleared her throat to get the attention back to her. The cashier looked back, "oh sorry, and what can I get for you?"

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After a loud and long breakfast at the café with Snails, Diamond tiara decided to walk back home. Of course, Snails followed close behind. Snails kept asking her questions in his slurred and always shouting voice. He followed her all the way to her house. Diamond Tiara was almost about to snap when she got to her door when Snails was constantly talking. She turned around and snapped, "Goodbye Snails! GO HOME!" Snails looked around, "uh…can we play again tomorrow," Diamond Tiara lied, "I'm busy", "Ok I'll help you with whatever you're doing then?" he asked, bouncing up and down again. Diamond Tiara growled again in annoyance before she sighed and gave up, "fine…" then before Snails could reply she turned and ran into her house.

Snails stayed on her doorstep for a long time in case she came back out. After about 10 minutes he walked home with multiple overwhelming thoughts in his mind. Good ones, bad ones, joys and woes and what he was going to do with his new friend tomorrow