//------------------------------// // 12. // Story: Fifteen Friendships // by AShadowOfCygnus //------------------------------// It was not love, no matter the rumours Berry Punch was always spreading around the local watering hole. They lived together, they ate together, they played together, and on a wild night they might spoon together on the couch for drunken warmth, but what of it? Lyra and Bon-Bon were the real sickeningly cute couple in Ponyville. And besides, there were too many things they absolutely hated about the other to make it work -- the noise, the lack of noise; the hot-blooded frenzy, the maddening calm; the snark, the snark. Seriously. They just lived together. B-baka.