"I'll get right on that Mrs. Hard Work."
>You are Anon Sparkle, the middle child of the Sparkle family.
>And you are have been assigned a new task from your boss.
>You have the glorious task of sorting through invoices for a boss that makes way more money than you would ever make.
>It's easy to tell.
>You are looking through her finances, after all.
>However, you don't give up.
>Not that you had much of a choice.
>Your older brother, Shinning, is the prince of the Crystal Empire.
>Your younger sister, Twilight, is a newly crowned princess of Equestria, in charge of friendship.
>You... you are a private of paperwork in a power company.
>Low level
>Expendable
>Pencil pusher.
>Just what momma Sparkle always wanted for her little colt.
>Filing though the first stack, you can just imagine what is going through your family's head
>Mom and Dad say that you just haven't discovered what you are good at yet.
>That's total bull shit.
>Your cutie mark clearly states that you should be working with machines.
>Unfortunately, you can't even fix your mom's typewriter.
>It is literally the simplest machine in your house.
>And don't even get started on your brother and sister.
>Shinning, you are pretty sure, looks down on you for still living at home with a dead end job while he is off ruling a country and banging his smoking hot wife.
>Twilight is a bit more sympathetic, but not the kind anyone would want.
>It's more like your parent's level of sympathy.
>~"You could do amazing things if you really tried."~
>Try as you might, you still end up failing.
>Every time you have gone to any kind of machinery school, you fail out the first semester.
>You had to keep applying to different schools in order to keep trying.
>After six different failed attempts, you had enough.
>The only thing you had the energy to do now is going through paperwork for a company that could cut you loss any time they wanted.
>"ANON! WHY AREN'T YOU DONE YET?!"
 
"I'm sorry Mrs. Hard Work. I will be done in a few minutes."
>It is obviously a lie, since you are just getting halfway through the first stack.
>Wouldn't be a dead end job without the shitty boss.
>Eventually, you get off work and head home for the weekend.
>And by home, you mean your parent's house.
>But at least it's labor day weekend, so you have the Monday off.
>Only because your boss won't be there to open up shop, and she doesn't trust you alone in the office.
>On the way home, you notice a lot of ponies heading towards the train station.
>Somepony important must be coming to Canterlot.
>You don't remember getting a letter about either one of your siblings, so you are pretty sure it isn't one of them.
>Once home, you head directly to your room.
>Your parents are already out having a fun time to celebrate the weekend.
>And since you have made great effort to shut everypony out of your life, it doesn't surprise you that they didn't leave a note or invite you along.
>"perks" for being the black sheep.
>In your room, you find a spot for you bag and then lay down on your bed.
>Pulling up a book, you pick up where you left off.
>When you were younger, you and Twilight used to have read-off's.
>It was when you and Twilight would race to finish a book or book series and be able to recite a lot of the major points.
>Over time, Twilight did better and better, to the point where you didn't even bother to compete.
>She grew up.
>You struggled to stay afloat.
>Tartarus, you are still struggling to stay afloat.
>Instead of freaking yourself out again, you choose to distract yourself with the book.
>That is, until there is a knock at the door.