*SHORT CHAPTER, MY APOLOGIES!
"Cupcake?"
No response.
"Um... s-sorry to bother you...."
Nothing.
"I-I... guess I'll just go....."
"Wait!" Cupcake yelled, waking from her trance. She turned to meet gaze with one of her newly found friends. It was Angel.
She just stood there, her crimson and naturally violent looking eyes stared back at her with concern as usual. She was, after all, a siren, who left her home years ago, and yearned to live like a pony. She'd cast a spell to keep her in her pony form-- a white pegasus with red eyes and long blond hair. Her wings were a light faded pink, as well as her hooves.
Angel tilted her head.
"Oh, I'm... I'm sorry, y-your father let me in on his way home... I can go if you wa-" a pink hoof grabbed her necklace, that matched her glowing, red eyes. She flinched, having her necklace touched, and gently pushed the earthpony's hoof off of it.
"Sorry..." Cupcake said, shuffling her hooves. Angel nodded understandingly and sat down in front of her.
"It's okay... but.... are you okay?" Angel asked, more as a statement than a question, as she pointed a hoof to the pony in front of her.
"Yeah, of course. Why wouldn't I be...? I'm just watching the rain..." She paused, seeing Angel's hurt expression.
"W-why are you lying to me, Cupcake?"
Oh, no...
"Was it something I did?"
How could she forget?
"Cupcake?" Angel asked, as a red trail of magic began to leave Cupcake's body, and was engulfed by Angel's necklace. How could she be so foolish? I'm such an Idiot! Cupcake thought. Sirens fed off of negativity, and she could practically smell Cupcake lying to her!
"I'm so sorry, Angel... I.... It's not you! It's just something I don't want to talk about..." Cupcake looked in another direction, ears flattened. More of the magic, in larger amounts trailed into her pegasus friend who quietly gasped.
"Cupcake, please don't do this.... you're only hurting yourself. I know you want, and need to talk to somepony... just... I'm here. Here to listen." she straightened her place on the floor, and sat up, looking expectantly at the earthpony. The trail quickly faded, and Angel breathed a sigh of relief.
"You know... my sister Misty, r-right?" Cupcake began. Angel nodded, her mane brushing the floor as she did so. 'Well, she called me this morning... and the thing is..." Angel rolled her eyes, knowing this was the start of another fib. Cupcake noticed this, and sighed. "I mean, she felt guilty for not keeping contact with me for.... for so long, and now, I feel kinda-- r-really guilty...
I mean, she's my older sister, and... I wasn't, let's say, I never won the "World's Best Sister" award," she cracked a bit of a grin. "But, she actually appologized! T-to me! And... it was never..." Cupcake shut her eyes tight. "It was never even h-her fault! She was just lonely and sad... and misunderstood!" Cupcake's eyes glistened with fresh tears, as her friend wiped them away.
"Oh, Cupcake, I'm so sorry!" Angel pulled the other mare in for a tight hug. The two embraced for a few seconds, and soon, let each other go. Cupcake rubbed her eyes.
"No, it's okay.... I really needed to talk to somepony, you were right." Cupcake was silent for a second. She looked away and took a few deep breaths.
"Hey... Angel?"
"Yeah?"
"How do you do it?" Cupcake asked. The white pegasus tilted her head like a lost puppy. "Do what?" she questioned. Her friend took another gaze towards the window. The rainstorm began to turn to white, fluffy pellets floating in the grey skies. Snow.
"You live on your own, no family or anypony to keep you company. How do you do it?" She repeated. Angel noticed the stubborness in her voice; no getting out of this one.
"I have my friends. Six friends who are like family to me." Angel added with a smile. Cupcake quickly caught on and grinned slyly.
"And who are those six friends?" she asked, her smile growing wider. Angel scooted closer to her friend.
"A purple unicorn, a black earthpony, a pink zebra, a peach pegasus, a grey hyrbid alicorn-"
"Angeeeeel...." Cupcake wined. The siren-in-disguise giggled.
"Lilac, Neon, Kora, Luna, Dart.... and Cupcake. Satisfied?" she playfully asked. Cupcaked beamed, ear to ear.
"How come we haven't seen them lately- I mean most of them?" Cupcake asked. Angel looked at the quickly piling snow outside.
"Luna and Neon got a part-time job at the club, remember?" Cupcake nodded slowly.
"And.... That leaves you, me, Lilac, Kora, and Dart. They're just preparing for the Holidays.... with their families..." Angel trailed off. Her soft face now stone serious.
"But, I'll be fine... I can... spend the Holidays with myself and....my pets....?" She began to think over spending Christmas with a tiny bird and three wolf siblings. She gulped.
"You can spend Christmas with the Saddle Club, you know? We're having a party on Christmas Eve, and you're welcome to join!" Cupcake offered. Angel grinned brightly.
"Great! Let's begin now, by... letting me stay here until the storm calms?" she said, half joking. Cupcake smiled.