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// A very typical move between homes. 
// Story: A loving Family 
// by Lethrael 
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A very typical move between homes.

Shinning Star hummed a gentle melody, as he walked into the kitchen. His aquamarine hooves were guiding him through a bunch of  boxes and he sighed heavily as he finally arrived at the fridge. It was empty, he already knew it, even without opening it. They had emptied it in the morning. His own empty bowl of oatmeal were levitating in front of him, stayed in the air with his orange coloured magic. He put it into the sink finally. His smile went more gentle, as his gamboge eyes spotted Slights favourite bowl on the colander. Shining sighed and levitated it very carefully in the cupboard beside the sink. This was Slight's own cupboard at least. He sighed heavily again and monologized a little bit.
"I hope the other foals aren't like the ones in Canterlot."
He shook away the thoughts and for a short amount of time the smile faded away and his faces even frowned. He had to wipe away the frown with one hoof and stroke over his plaited mane gently. The little skeins were braided into each other and followed his fickle coloured mane from bright over sated to dark green. His tail swung around nervously and the orange ribbon on the head of it held it just smoothly in shape.  Contrary to his mane the tail wasn't braided at all, but showed his changeable colours without any intermissions or rough changes. The stallion sighed once and returned to the chaotic place full of toys, pictures and other apparently misplaced belongings for a living room. But it was indeed their living room, just noticeable from the half way free bordeaux couch, the small table in front of it and the five big shelves around the  walls. He frowned in a very bugged expression and another sigh escaped him. Shining looked down on the checklist on the table, where even the topmost note wasn't checked up. He was usually so organized, but nothing matched the plan right now.

“Where's my teddy?”
This innocent question started it all. Slight lay in his bed already and Shinning tried to tuck him in, as the colt asked with a trembling voice and big even  a little bit scared eyes. He drew circles on the sheet under him with one hoof. The little colt avoided his puzzled look and looked on his own hooves instead. He was trembling and snuggled then deeper into the pillow. Shining put on a gentle smile stopped the blanket midway and was looking around in the almost dark room. The bed was the only thing, which stayed right there, where it supposed to be and the dark blue curtains were the only thing, which he had found in one box, who was actual in the right place. The pegasus removalists hadn't placed another one box right, or did they? He was looking over twenty  other boxes on the wall and sighed, as he managed to read the inscriptions on them in the light of his magic. Kitchen, living room, parent's bedroom. But not one had the inscription of the place it stayed currently in, the colt's bedroom.
“Do you want to sleep in our bed instead?”
Shining's question seemed to have nothing in common with Slight's, but the stallion assumed, that he hadn't ask only for his stuffed animal just to get it. In fact he thought, that Slight maybe felt a little bit scared in the new place and needed something familiar to feel safe again. Slight answered with a quick shake of his head and an unclear:
“Uh hum.”
This sound wasn't quite so obscure for Shining, he knew it means usually no, when Slight wasn't able to muster himself to speak. So he smiled gently an encouraging. Slight nuzzled deeper into his pillow and tried to calm himself down with the soft feeling of it on his face. He rubbed it with his cheek a little bit Shining raised a hoof and wiped gently over the mane and the back of the kid.
“It would be an exceptional case, you know?
Nothing had worked out today, like we planned and
Daddy Gentle didn't mean to be, uhm...”
The colt sobbed once, shut his eyes close and trembled more.
“..to be so angry with me.
I just wanted to help.”
Shining Star fondled gently over Slight and sighed.
“He doesn't mean it, I know this for certain. 
I'm really sure he will apologise tomorrow, or even immediately, if you want to sleep in our bed.”
The little pegasus shook his head and rubbed his nose on the greater one of his Daddy.
“No, I'm a big colt and big colts don't...”
Shining blew a comforting warm flaw out of his nose.  The little colt snickered and rubbed his cheek, where the warm air had hit him.  He leaned back then and smiled.
“Alright I will see, where's your teddy. Do you want to come along?”
Before Slight was even able to answer, Shining put him on his back and sneaked out of his room. Gentle stood still in  the living room and stared at the pieces of Slight's favourite drinking glass. He sighed silently, as he swept it away with a shimmering dustpan and a swab. Then he turned his side to Shining, as he had finally cleaned everything up. He levitated it in the kitchen and sighed again.
“I think we have enough trouble and he shouldn't...”
Shining interrupted him with a very worried expression and a hist. Gentle looked at him and spotted easily the small figure of the foal on his back. Slight huddled up to the stallion's mane and his wings trembled slightly. Gentle breathed in heavily and put down the dusk pan somewhere in the kitchen. He sneaked closer to the other stallion and sighed again. His voice whispered directly in the unicorn's ears and tried to sound not so harsh. But he failed and the anger were still audible in his statement.
“I thought he should go to bed!
Why did you bring him with you?”
Shining smiled apologetic and tried to nuzzle his coltfriend's face, but he flinched away and stared rather angry at him.
“Slight only wanted...”
“My teddy.”
The trembling voice sounded silently over both stallions and Gentle's ears quivered. He took a deep breath and focussed the foal. He opened his mouth to answer, but Shining raised a hoof and laid it on Gentle's chest. He shook his head silently and faced the moving boxes in the room. Gentle sighed silently and started to move closer the boxes with the right inscription and opened it.

It took them an hour to find the teddy. By that time Slight had already fallen asleep on Shining's back.  They brought the sleeping little foal back to his bed and decided to go to bed on their own. But that decision caused to let the chaos stayed in the living room and the next morning was getting  very hectic. Shining had to bring Slight to school, so he could talk to Miss Cheerilee about his grades and his unusual family.  So he simply couldn't clean up early. Gentle had to buy everything and so refill their stocks. So he couldn't clean up either. As recently as Shining had returned and had eaten his breakfast, he started to clean up and sort the boxes. But without any order was it a very difficult task at hoof.

The stallion sighed bugged, as he levitated the tenth box in front of himself and saw the inscription colt's bedroom, again.
“Why, by Celestia, have we given five bits tip for this again?”
A sharp tone sounded over him and snapped  him out of his soliloquy. He jumped back on the hooves and looked around. What was that? It ringed again and now he realised what it was. The door bell. He added another point on his mental checklist with a loud sigh. To buy a new door bell. He galloped through the more chaotic living room and arrived at the front door. He opened it with his magic and stared out, without any greeting word on his lips.  Shining faced a mare with purple coat and an very distinguished manestyle. Two very different stripes on a blue ground. A very long horn parted the mane on her forehead and her dark eyes were wandering over his own horn.  He sighed quietly, but the mare didn't catch it and smiled friendly.
“Well good morning.
I'm sorry to interrupt.
My name is...”
Shining's eyes went wide, as he spotted something on the mare's back. She pranced on the spot and two wings folded themselves tighter on her back in the process. He lowered his head, laid both front hooves on the ground and bowed deeply.
“Princess Twilight Sparkle.
It's an honour to meet you, your highness.”
The mare blushed and pulled him back on his hooves. She cleared her throat and smiled very awkward.
“Just Twilight, please.
You don't need to bow.
I'm not into this right now and wanted to come along.
I just wanted to see, if I know you or your marefriend from Canterlot.” 
Shining sighed quietly and wiped his mane. Like always, everpony assumed that. He smiled so gently as he could muster.
“My coltfriend.”
Twilight looked at him very puzzled and cocked her head. She stared at him for a long time and couldn't find any kind of reply. Shining smiled wider and stepped out of the way.
“If you like, come in. I will explain it.
If you want to, I can give you...”
He paused, as he remembered, that their stocks were cut off and nothing had stayed left in the fridge, or somewhere else. He took a deep breath and cleared his throat then.
“ I have only a glass of water. I'm so sorry.
We didn't have anything left.”
The mare nodded and followed the stallion into the chaos. Shining led his guest into the living room and started to levitate the toys, the pictures and a few hasty folded Wonderbolts poster out off the couch and back into the boxes. He tried to clean up a little bit, cleared his throat and smiled apologetic.
“We had a small problem with our foal yesterday.
He had missed his teddy and we had tried to find it.
Hence it is a little bit messy here right now.”
Twilight looked around very interested and shook her head.  She even started to help with her own magic and levitated a few things back in the boxes. So together they cleaned up very fast. Shining tried to say something, but the smile on Twilight's face was so friendly, that he simply couldn't. Finally they finished and Twilight sat down on the couch. Meanwhile Shining was going into the kitchen to gather the glasses of water for them. The mare looked to the empty shelves around her and waited for the stallion's return. She looked finally down at the table and a smile grew on her face, as she founded the checklists.
“You know, I could bring a few friends with me and we're helping you out.”
Shining levitated the two glasses of water and stepped into the living room.  He heard what Twilight suggested and his own smile faded away a little bit. He faced the mare and started to draw lines on the floor.
“Please don't.
I don't like it, when too many ponies are around me.”
He shied away from her look and put the glass in front of her. The stallion took a sip from his own glass and cleared his throat. Twilight lifted her own glass and gazed for a long time at the stallion over the edge of the glass. She nodded finally and smiled gently.
“So, you are in love with a stallion?”
The question sounded as half confused as Shining had assumed and he smiled surprised. His hooves wiped over his mane and he nodded finally. Twilight cocked her head again and opened her mouth. But Shining spoke first.
“Yes, I know it sounds rather strange,
but I really love Gentle and I think...”
Twilight raised a hoof, but the stallion didn't stop and spoke faster and faster.
“...whatever other unicorns are thinking or saying,
that for example it isn't love at all, when we are just two stallions and nopony...nopony...”
The unicorn sounded so offended, that he stopped right now. He even wiped over his face with one hoof. Twilight laid down a hoof on his flank and tried to speak. But the stallion found his voice in the meantime and the mare couldn't speak again.

“Nopony has the right to say, that we can't take care of a foal.
We are just a family and we wanted just to...”
A fast sob flew out of his mouth and he put a hoof on it. He awkwardly felt silence and looked down on his hooves. Twilight cleared her throat and spoke.
“I won't say anything like that, uhm...
I know for fact, that love isn't happening only between stallions and mares.
Mares can love mares and stallions can love stallions too.
Cadence always said: love doesn't care for any boundaries or limitations.
As long as nopony gets hurt.”
She tried to smile encouraging and her eyes wandered over the stallion. He tried to fight his feelings and fought them for a long while.

Shining raised his eyes finally, stared to the Alicorn and breathed out in relief. He drank another sip and drew circles on the floor.
“And you two have already a foal?
You're lucky.
This kind of responsibility is, for your young age, really unorthodox, but also really impressive.”
Shining sighed silently and smiled wistful. He stared at the checklist on the table and nodded finally.  His hoof trembled shortly and he stroke over his mane again .
“I love our foal, really I do.
He is the nicest little colt I've ever seen.”
He couldn't find any other sentences and smiled very gently. He even blushed a little bit. Twilight smiled gently too and nodded again.
“You know,
What's your name?”
This question put a grin back on Shining's face.
“I'm Shining Star.”
Twilight nodded again and took a sip of water.
“You know, Shining.”
She stopped and cocked her head. Her smile turned into a smaller grin and she sighed.
“A foal is something wonderful.
And I can only imagine, that...”
She paused again, as she realised something. She blushed, as she emphasised it.
“You've adopted a foal, haven't you?”
Shining sighed and nodded finally.
His smile faded for a short amount of time, but he put it back very fast.
“Yes a small pegasus.”
Twilight stared at him really confused right now and tried to put the information in any logical sense or context.  She cocked her head more and more and gave up with a bugged sigh.
“A pegasus?
Why a pegasus?”