Light began to leak into the room from the eastern window. Fleur laughed as Twilight tried to explain herself. "No, no hear me out," She chuckled, "What if, instead of automatically living happily ever after, their wedding was crashed by...bug-ponies."
"Zat's absolutely absurde!" Fleur laughed. "Zis is a realistic piece of fiction; bug ponies don't exist in real life!"
"But it's fiction! It can be anything you want it to be. Just imagine it," The pegasus waved her forehooves as if she were casting the visualization spell herself. "It's pony-shaped, but they all look absolutely identical, except for the queen. They're all black with those weird, round, doubled wings that buzz. Okay? And their wings and backs are green and their backs are made of chiton, like beetles have. Oh! OH! And they have holes in them everywhere! That way their legs look thinner, like a bug's."
"And what? Are zey going to have antennae to?"
"No, but they have horns too!"
"Horns and wings!? Next you're going to say that they can change their shape to look like other ponies."
"Nah," Twilight laughed, "Those would be chameleon ponies!"
"Chameleons?" Came a tired voice "What?" Dawn's ears twitched as she began to open her eyelids. "Oh licorice, did I fall asleep? Again?"
"I'm afraid so, mon chou." Fleur answered.
"Aaaarrrgggghhh!" Dawn rolled over on to her back, waving her hooves in the air in a frustrated manner. Once she expended her brief bout of outrage, she let her hooves flop to the ground like deflated balloons...balloons made of that Christmas fruitcake your aunt made you last year that you accidentally left out all year. "I have never pulled an all-nighter in my entire life! I'm such a failure!"
Twilight and Fleur exchanged confused glances as their friend started crying. Twilight repositioned herself so that she was directly beside Dawn. She fanned her friend with her unimpaired wing until Dawn finally rolled over back onto her belly. The pegasus then simply draped her wing over the unicorn's back comfortingly. "Dawn," she spoke softly, "You're not a failure."
Dawn rolled her eyes. "I can't even throw a decent slumber party. How am I supposed to live up to my cutiemark if I can't throw the simplest of parties?"
Twilight giggled in an attempt to lift her friend's mood. "What do you mean you can't throw a decent slumber party? This was the best slumber party I've ever been to!"
Fleur added her agreement.
"Really?" Dawn asked, a smidge of hope in her voice. "But... but you guys were fighting all night." She looked at Twilight, a few stray tears still in her eyes. "And, and you were, you couldn't even bring yourself to have a makeover with us."
Twilight looked away for a moment, pain in her eyes. "That....is a long story." She said before looking back at Dawn. "But it had nothing to do with you." She hugged the pink mare. "Thank you for being so understanding about that. You don't know how much that means to me."
"We didn't mean to fight," Fleur added, looking a bit sad herself. "I'm sorry we did that to you."
"I'm sorry too."
Dawn stretched out her forelegs and hugged her two friends close. "I think this may just be the best party I've ever thrown."