After dinner officer Armor had to go out on his shift, so Cadence and Twilight had a chance to catch up. The house was a 16x70 trailer, next door to a Cape Cod house.
“That’s our landlady’s house” said Cadence “Madame Zecora, as she likes to be called. She is really very nice, and a bit eccentric. Some of the people in town call her a witch. If you ever come home and I am not here, check with her first before calling Shining.”
“Woof, woof”
“Do be a dear and don’t let Spike do his business on her lawn. Take him out into the woods behind the trailer. Beyond the woods is Sweet Apple Acres, where the Apple family live. They have been having a tough time. Granny Smith lost her children and now raises the grandchildren. You may meet them at school tomorrow.”
“Cadence, you are really showing. When is the baby due?’
“In about 9 weeks, unless it is a primi.”
“So I got 9 weeks or less to build myself a social life”
“Shining suggested at dinner that you had made a new friend already”
“Yeah, I guess so, but Sunset seems a bit, oh I don’t know, like a fascist dictator who runs everything at the school bent on world domination or something.”
“All class presidents seem that way. Give her a chance before you send her off to trial in Nuremberg”
“I need to take Spike for his walk, and then I think I’ll turn in, goodnight Cadence”
“Goodnight Twilight”
Out in the woods as the sun was setting, the shadows grew longer every moment. Spike was sniffing all sorts of new scents, too busy to do his business. Twilight was thinking to herself.
“You know Spike; everyone at the school seemed to instantly learn my name as soon as it was mentioned. They must have really good memories to do that, unless they’re physic. Yeah, that would be so awesome to read their minds, but what would it be like if they could read mine? Would they know I was lonely? Would they know that I am scared? I have to do extra well in my studies if I want to get a scholarship to City University. Can I do it in this hick school? I wonder if they are Wi-Fi connected. Cadence and my brother can’t really afford internet now. I think I’ll beg dad in my next letter for an allowance that can cover the cost of internet, just so I can keep in touch. Yep, that’s the plan.”