I woke up in my bed, even though I thought I fell asleep on the couch, where Velvet brushed my mane.
The bed was warm and cosy, so as I snuggled under my sheets, the door opened and Velvet walked in, she locked her eyes on mine, smiled and said ‘’Good morning sweetie, did you sleep well?‘’
‘’Uh huh.‘’ I took Flurry’s ear out ‘’I slept great.‘’
‘’That’s lovely to hear.‘’ Velvet said as she smiled ‘’Since Twilight and Spike will be here in a few hours, around lunch time, your dad and I have decided that we’ll go out for brunch once you’re ready.‘’
‘’Oh, okay, I’ll get ready.‘’
‘’Just call if you want some help to brush.‘’
‘’I will.‘’ I answered as Velvet went out of the door.
I got up and tucked Flurry under my sheets and gave her a kiss.
Inside the bathroom, I took a hairbrush and brushed my mane, but the hooves were still not easy to use and I dropped the hairbrush a few times to many until I threw it across the room ‘Stupid brush,’ I looked back at the mirror and saw that my mane was still half a mess, my tail was a complete mess and my fur looked odd, the hairs overlapped each other or went the wrong direction.
A few knocks came on the door as Night Light asked ‘’Sweetie, are you having any problems?‘’
‘Did he hear as I threw the brush?’ I thought as I didn’t know what to say so I answered ‘’Umm… It’s difficult.‘’
‘’If you’ll come downstairs, with your brush, then I help you.‘’
‘’I will, thanks.‘’ I heard Night Light as he walked away again, I found the brush and walked downstairs and saw as he rested on the couch. He gestured for me to come onto the couch, I did and he brushed my mane, then my tail and finally my fur, but as Night Light brushed me I relaxed, close to sleeping.
Night Light woke me up, as he said ‘’There we go, all done.‘’
‘’Thanks.‘’ I yawned and after I looked at my fur I said ‘’I love it.‘’ As I instinctively hugged him, only to come back to my senses and felt Night Light hugged me back, but I continued to hug him.
That was until Velvet saw us as she said ‘’Aww… I see your fur, mane and tail is all pretty again. Are you two ready to go?‘’
I nodded and as I pulled myself a bit away I said ‘’I think I’m ready.‘’
‘’So am I.‘’ Night Light answered.
Velvet nodded in approval, but she quickly stopped as she asked ‘’What about Flurry? Do you what her with you?‘’
‘’Oh, I’ll go get her.‘’ I said as I jumped down from the couch and landed a bit clumsy, but quickly regained my balance and ran to the stairs.
‘’No running indoors!‘’ Velvet called.
‘’Sorry!‘’ I called back and walked the rest of the way to my room, got Flurry and walked back downstairs with Flurry on my back so that she wouldn’t fall off and we walked to the centre of Canterlot.
On our way to the restaurant Velvet asked ‘’Sweetie, what do you remember from last night, just before bedtime?‘’
‘’Before bedtime…? Hmm, that you brushed my mane, tail and fur. Why do you ask?‘’ I asked.
‘’After both of us had kissed you goodnight,‘’ Night Light said ‘’and you lay in your bed, you took Flurry’s ear out and said ‘Night mom, night dad’. Do you not remember that?‘’
‘’I- I don’t.‘’ I felt my head as it became warm.
As I looked up at them, they both smiled warmly at me and Velvet continued ‘’But don’t worry sweetie, you don’t have to call us mom and dad, you know that, right?‘’
‘’I know and even though I'm technically your daughter, it’s still weird to say.‘’ I said as I remembered back on my conversation with Princess Celestia, that I should try and obey my instincts ‘’But yesterday Princess Celestia said, that I may have to compile with my instincts and it’s obviously that it’s telling me to call you mom and dad.‘’
Velvet and Night Light smiled warmly at me before Velvet said ‘’Only do what you feels is best.‘’ I nodded and we continued our walk to the restaurant.
When we arrived at the restaurant, we were seated by a waiter and Velvet asked for three brunches for us, the waiter nodded and left.
I thought, as I didn’t see any pictures of Shining Armor yesterday or had heard of him from Velvet or Night Light, I asked ‘’So, where’s Shining Armor?‘’
‘’Huh what.‘’ Velvet said a bit confused ‘’Oh Shining, I guess he’s at work, why do you ask sweetie?‘’
‘’I just didn’t see him in the pictures yesterday, so I got curious.‘’
‘’Well, we and Shining tried to find a open window in his work schedule, but he’s were busy at the moment.‘’
‘’Oh, what’s his job?‘’
‘’Haven’t Twilight told you, he’s the captain of the royal guards.‘’
‘’Captain of the royal guards?‘’ I asked, but as I looked around, ponies of all three types walked around in golden armor and asked ‘’Like the ones that are walking around Canterlot in golden armor?‘’
‘’Exactly.‘’
‘’Where is he now?‘’
‘’He’s outta town for a few days unfortunately, but as his letters make it out to be, he looks forward to meet his new little sister.‘’ Velvet said, I smiled and we got our brunch which consisted of toast with butter and cheese, fruit, pancakes and juice.
After a delicious brunch we went back home.
On the way home I thought ‘Maybe it would help if I called them mom and dad, obviously that’s what my instincts are telling me to do, besides, Velvet and Night Light sounds to be okay with it.’
We arrived home and as I was about to go up the stairs, I said ‘’Thanks for brunch… Mom and dad.‘’
As I looked at them, Velvet and Night Light looked at me with shock in their eyes.
Velvet broke the silence as she asked ‘’Sweetie, are you tired?‘’
‘’No I’m fine, will you keep an eye on me as I try to draw again?‘’
‘’Of- of course sweetie.‘’ Velvet replied and we walked into the living room and I got the pink crayon and a paper got on the floor and a few papers in spare floated midair, in Night Lights golden aura.
The crayon laid on the paper and I closed my eyes and felt the round crayon, I felt the tip of it and lifted it into the air and moved the tip towards the paper, as I felt it go down Velvet said ‘’You got it sweetie.‘’ As she gently hugged me.
I drew the first line until Night Light said ‘’Remember to stay on the paper sweetie.‘’ I stopped and continued the next line.
Shortly after I stopped when Night Light said ‘’There you go.‘’ The last few lines were done in the same way and I dropped the crayon on the paper and opened my eyes.
I looked down at the paper and the star looked horrible, at least only on one piece of paper. As I looked at the paper, Night Light and Velvet cheered as they congratulate me on my drawing, I felt my blood go to my head and become warm, but Velvet nuzzled me as she said ‘’No need to be embarrassed sweetie.‘’
‘’I know I know, thanks for helping me.‘’ I smiled but ended in a sigh
‘’What wrong sweetie?‘’ Night Light asked.
‘’I still can’t use my magic without getting hypnotized.‘’
‘’How many times have it happened so far?‘’
‘’I don’t know, over ten times, why?‘’ I asked.
Night Light looked at Velvet, then at me and said ‘’Then you should soon be done.‘’
‘’Really?‘’ I asked excited and took the crayon up with my magic and looked at the beautiful pink aura.
I lost my magic, saw as the pink crayon fell and fell forward, I was caught by Velvet’s legs and breathed heavily.
As I began to come back to my senses I lay in Velvet’s legs as she hummed a melody and as I got more back to myself, I yawned and Velvet stopped her humming and asked ‘’Are you okay? What happened?‘’
‘’I’m not sure… But I think I’m close to being done with the hypnosis.‘’
‘’That great sweetie, but what happened?‘’
‘’I don’t know, normally someone else covers my eyes.‘’
‘’Oh sweetie.‘’ Velvet hugged me more tight ‘’My little foal is growing up.‘’
‘’It’s okay. I’m fine, mom.‘’ She released me a little bit ‘’What was that melody you hummed?‘’
‘’Oh, that? That’s a melody I’ve always hummed to Shining and Twilight when they were foals or if they were sad. Do you like it?‘’
I couldn’t help but nod, as I remembered Twilight hummed it to me in Canterlot, when I first saw her or any of the other times she had hummed it ‘’I do, it would also explain how Twilight knows it.‘’
Velvet smiled at me, looked at the drawing and said ‘’Let’s hang this up on the wall.‘’
‘’What, really?‘’ I said a bit confused ‘’It’s not even a nice drawing.‘’
‘’I think it’s pretty, what do you think honey?‘’
‘’It definitely belongs on the wall.‘’ Night Light said and left me speechless. As I felt my mouth was open, he chuckled to himself before he said ‘’Look around sweetie.‘’ I did and noticed that the pictures on the walls were not of those you could buy, as all those I could see had signatures of either Shining Armor, Twilight Sparkle or Spike.
As Night Light looked for a frame, I took the crayon and tried to write my name with my hooves, but it turned out like a mess and I turned to Velvet but as she didn’t looked at me, I got both my hooves on her side and shook her, while I said ‘’Mom, will you write my name?‘’
‘’Of course sweetie.‘’ She took the crayon with her magic and wrote ‘Star Sparkle’ in another corner. Shortly after Night Light came back with a frame and placed the drawing inside before he hung it up on the wall.
As it wouldn’t be long until Twilight and Spike would be here, Night Light got the monopoly from my first evening out and we continued to play, which was a bad thing for me as Night Light got really lucky and all the bad luck hit me and sometimes Velvet, I had to sell everything I had and in the end, Night Light won.
As I still sulked in my defeat Velvet whispered ‘’What do you say, that the winner deserves a tickle treat.‘’ I smiled and we both turned our heads to Night Light who was packing the game up, as he looked at us he looked confused before Velvet got to him first and I came next, she got him down on his back, as I went to his stomach and we both tickled him, Night Light bursted out laughing as Velvet joined me.
It lasted for a few seconds before Velvet stopped and I did as well, but as Night Light came up he said under his laugh ‘’He he, it’s on.‘’ He went for me and I fell into Velvet hooves and they both tickled me to a point where I felt I needed the bathroom and fast, but I couldn’t say anything and as quickly as the feeling came, it went away and I proceeded to laugh.
They stopped as I felt something odd, I couldn’t explain it at first, then I realized, as the liquid fell down my fur and my mind raced ‘No, no no no no no no no, it’s impossible,’ all because of their tickling, but I quickly stopped myself.
This was so embarrassing and I limitedly covered my face with my hooves, before Velvet softly said ‘’Hey it’s okay sweetie, it was just an accident.‘’
I felt tears as they fell down my face, I tried to keep my sobs down, I began to lose all control when Velvet hugged me and took me up, I looked her in the eyes and fought as hard as I could, but I couldn’t take it anymore and I broke into tears.
Velvet hugged me and she said ‘’It’s okay sweetie, nothing to be ashamed of, sh sh sh… I got you sweetie.‘’ As she rocked from side to side as she gently bounced me on her hooves.
I felt a towel as I was dried off and more tears came ‘Why me, what did I do wrong?’ I was unable to stop the crying that sounded like a baby, but as Velvet rocked me back and forth in her hooves, it helped so much I couldn’t even explain it and slowly my tears stopped enough for me to open my eyes again.
As I opened my eyes, I saw that I cuddled into Velvet as she hummed the melody that Twilight had hummed to me, it was so calm, her fur so warm and so soft, I felt like I could fall asleep right here, right now. But the fear of what if I needed to go again took over and I nuzzled Velvet a bit before she nuzzled me a little bit, she didn’t place me back on the ground, but instead levitated Flurry over to me, I hugged her and I surrendered as I placed Flurry right ear in my mouth.
Velvet levitated tissues over to us and dried my eyes as I said though the bunny ear ‘’T’ank ‘ou mom.‘’
She smiled and cuddled me and Flurry into her as she said ‘’It’s what mommies are for.‘’
Night Light came into view, sat down in front of me and said ‘’You doing okay there sweetie?‘’
I nodded as I said ‘’Sowwie dad.‘’
He nuzzled me as he said ‘’It’s okay sweetie, it wasn’t your fault and now you’re all clean again.‘’
I sniffed before I looked up to Velvet and said ‘’I wan bath.‘’
‘’You wanna take a bath sweetie?‘’ Velvet asked, I nodded and Velvet kissed on my nose before she carried me to the bathroom, opened the water and once filled Velvet took Flurry and placed her on the bathroom table, before she placed me in the tub and began to clean me.
After my bath Velvet loosely dried me as she asked ‘’Do you need to go to the little filly’s room?‘’
I nodded and Velvet gave me a little privacy until I was done, she helped me wash my hooves, but as I pointed at Flurry, Velvet refused as she said ‘’Once you’re a bit more dry, sweetie, then you can have her.‘’ I frowned and sat on my flank as Velvet dried my mane, tail and coat.
Finally, after I’ve been dried Velvet levitated Flurry over to me and said ‘’Here you go sweetie.‘’ I hugged Flurry as Velvet took me out and downstairs where she brushed my mane and Night Light brushed my tail.
I felt so spoiled, as the only thing I had to do was nuzzle Flurry and I was really good at that and everything was so relaxing that I fell deeper and deeper into slumber.