>While hanging out and enjoying lunch together, Cherry Berry is invited to read to sick foals at Ponyville Hospital by Nurse Redheart
>She begrudgingly accepts, because who rejects helping out sick kids?
>She would, but since Redheart asked while they were having lunch outside with many ponies in earshot, it wasn’t in her best interest to decline
>They travel to the hospital, entering the room where the sick foals eagerly anticipate a story
>Redheart provides a story for Cherry to read, a children’s book about a unicorn battling a goat, or something
>She proceeds to read the book, but peppers it with comments about her disbelief at its contents, and notices the children aren’t engaged in the story either
>Eventually, she grows frustrated with reading it and tosses the book aside
>Instead, she proceeds to tell her small audience about her day instead
>It’s a surprisingly poignant story, detailing the daily minute frustrations a pony like her has to endure
>She explains her frustration with always getting her lunch interrupted, her hot-air balloon often being messed with, and being forced to participate in spontaneous impromptu musicals
>She also explains how these minor frustrations gradually escalate into forming the perpetual grumpy mood she’s famous for
>Just as she’s about to boil from being known for being a grump without anypony understanding why, she pauses and realizes the effects she may be having on the foals
>They had been paying very close attention, engrossed in the tale Cherry was telling them, as she told it with such passion and vigor
>Instead, she relates the frustrations the foals are probably having with being stuck in the hospital with her own
>The struggle of not being able to control how you want your life to go, the little things that get you down, and being with ponies who don’t understand what a pony can go through
>She concludes with telling them how even though she might get frustrated often, she finds the strength to keep going by holding on to hope for a better tomorrow, and that it’s okay to let your feelings out and share them with others
>Her story finally concluded, she’s rewarded with a resounding applause from the foals and Redheart
>Cherry looks away and blushes, not expecting the positive reception
>After the children thank her, the two mares leave the room while the foals are given their daily check-up
>Redheart thanks Cherry for stopping by, and asks if she would be willing to come back next week to tell the foals another story
>Cherry sighs, then gives a warm smile, wondering what story she could tell to amuse them next time