Rainbow soars back to her own family's large house at a moderate speed, considering her situation. Depression, parents; happiness, Fluttershy; pain, home; pleasure, away from home. She sighs. RD's point of view concerning the way her life is currently going can be summed up in the three words she thinks to herself upon spotting her dreary house: This really sucks.
She lands on her porch, looking down at her key necklace. I'm late. This is gonna' suck. she thinks, taking the only key her parents allow her to have in her teeth. She inserts it into the lock protecting the front door of her house, twisting it before letting the key fall back down on her neck. Caution, unfortunately, is essential. Poor Rainbow doesn't want to end the high feeling left over from her date with Fluttershy by getting shouted at or beaten by Canon. Dash stands back up on all fours then puts a hoof to the door, slooooowly pushing it open. Seeing no immediate danger, Dash slowly walks inside, keeping a light step. She spreads her wings to make ready for a silent ingress, softly pushing the door closed behind her while glancing about the house.
Dash starts when she hears a burst of laughter from a group of ponies in the card room then sighs quietly, relieved. Her parents are busy entertaining. The only downside is the possibility that Reign will be drunk afterward. Rainbow takes to the air just a few feet off the floor, then carefully makes her way upstairs, quietly beating her wings. She didn't hear her father's laughter in the card room as all the others laughed, so she figures she'd better be cautious.
She makes it to her room without being hindered by her father or otherwise. Again, she carefully opens the door to prevent alerting anyone else to her presence, even though she's far upstairs. That presents more of a challenge for this far bigger, heavier door, weighed down by the many barriers Canon installed to keep Rainbow in whenever he felt like it. Once inside Rainbow turns and locks the door, not that it would do any good given Canon has the key, but it makes her feel safer nonetheless.
Rainbow turns and sits on her haunches, leaning back with a sigh. She tilts her head toward the ceiling, closing her eyes. She runs through her date with Fluttershy in her memory. A faint smirks starts to grow across her face. Shy wasn't trying too hard, since all she really had to do was be herself, but nonetheless Shy sure showed Dash a good time. Or.. Dash showed her a good time. Rainbow exhales, smirking wider. Whatever, it doesn't matter.
A thought occurs to Dash. Given the way her life is going right now, she wants to remember this day. Thinking that makes her blush slightly, but she doesn't notice, starting to smile now. Her family doesn't own a camera, so that's not an option. Not that there's anything to take a picture of. Dash gets up, starting to look around her room.
Her left ear flicks once when her eyes rest on her school notebook, sitting neatly on top of a pile of notebooks on her nice big workdesk. She could wriiiite about it..
Rainbow quickly turns her head away, closing her eyes with a slight frown. No. That's for eggheads. I'm becoming enough of one.
Dash starts to look around for something else, but her eyes are slooowly attracted back to the notebook. She rolls her eyes at herself, sighing. She can give it a try, at least.
Dash walks over to the notebook, nudging the cover open with her nose. It's her earth science book, so it'll be pretty full. She closes it then pushes it aside, opening the next one. It's the empty one she planned on using for her Advanced Old Language study class since she's already filled the first notebook she brought there. She can always get her mother or father to allocate the funds for another notebook.
Dash removes the empty scrapbook from the top of the pile, putting it square in front of her. She takes a second to prepare a featherless ink quill, then opens up the cover. She stares down at the blank page, thinking of what to write. Despite her initial disinclination, a thousand things come to mind. She starts to write something with the quill in her teeth, then pulls back. Then again. And again. Then she just stares at the blank page for a minute, frowning now. Why can't she formulate her thoughts into words..? She has to do it every day at school..!
...Okay. Start simple.
Rainbow exhales, then starts to write. She decides to write without stopping, mimicking a standard writing exercise. For Rainbow, the first two words are the absolute hardest to physically write on the paper.
Dear Diary are those words. But then she accidentally scribbles off, raising an ear as she turns her head. Someone's coming up the stairs outside her door. Used to having to hide herself or her things very quickly in order to avoid her father's unwarranted rage, Rainbow reacts fast. She closes the notebook and quickly removes a textbook from her backpack, putting it beside her new "diary". She mutters under her breath about how she hates this house while she quickly trots forward, unlocking the door before whomever is there can get there to find it locked.
Rainbow notes that the footsteps are slow and not in sync as she trots toward her bed. Whomever it is, they've been drinking too much. Once on her bed, she gulps, frowning slightly as she watches the door.
