//------------------------------// // 3 Flashback // Story: Not Everything Is What It Looks Like // by Twilight Star //------------------------------// When Twilight and her foster parents came into the house, a white stallion with dark blue mane with light blue came to her parents. But he stopped seeing Twilight. He raised an eyebrow before looking at Twilight Velvet, “Mom, who is she?”  “Shining Armor, this is your new sister, Twilight Sparkle”, replied Twilight Velvet with a smile.  Shining Armor looked back at Twilight Sparkle and smiled. Twilight smiled back not to arouse suspicion. She began to jump with false joy around Shining Armor. The parents were smiling at this beautiful scene.    In the hive, Chrysalis began to wonder if Twilight was pretending to be happy or if Twilight was really happy. She planned to send a letter to her daughter later.    When night came, Twilight knew it was time for dinner shortly. She was nervous that they would suspected her to end up spitting out the food. Well, she would have to be strong and hope that Faust was by her side at this difficult time. She went to the balcony and looked out over the city. She decided to watch the night sky and was surprised to see a silhouette of a mare on the moon. Twilight found it strange, but decided not to question herself. Twilight stepped off the balcony and decided to go back to the bedroom. Twilight saw a bookcase and approached curiously. She saw something on the shelves. Twilight took it with its magic and opened it to see. She was surprised that she had words written. Twilight sat on the bed to read. It caught her attention. She lay on the bed to read. As she read, she began to smile. She didn’t know the name of it, but she loved reading.  “Twilight! Shining! Dinner!”  Twilight Sparkle has stopped reading. She left the book open to read on. She intended to ask what was on the bookcase and what was called what was read and had a hard cover. As she descended the stairs, Twilight saw her ‘mother’, her ‘father’ serving theyself and Shining Armor was already eating. And the Twilight Sparkle dish already had food. Twilight realized that the chair next to Shining Armor was empty. Twilight was grumpy, but as she walked down the stairs, she pretended to smile. Twilight Velvet heard footsteps and smiled as she saw her new daughter.  Twilight Sparkle sat down and looked at the food. She might be smiling on the outside, but inside, she was very nervous. Could her cover be discovered? Did they find Twilight suspicious for spitting the food? Well, now just pray that they didn’t think she would start spitting out food. Twilight nervously grabbed the fork, grabbed some of the pasta with tomato sauce, approached the pasta fork to her mouth, proved and…  Twilight Made a grimace. But she managed to swallow. Lucky that her ‘brother’ and her ‘parents’ were busy eating. Twilight didn’t know if she was lucky or if her foster family was always busy eating to notice. But she hoped it was the second option.    After dinner, Twilight went to her room, but she remembered something. Twilight went to her mom, “mom”  Twilight Velvet, who was washing the dishes, stopped, “yes, daughter?”  Twilight felt annoyed that her foster mother called her that. She didn’t consider Velvet her mother. Who she considered her mother was Chrysalis. But she didn’t demonstrate, “What is the name of the object we read that has a hard cover?”  “It’s called books, dear”, answered Twilight Velvet.  Twilight Sparkle gave an “Oh” before returning to the bedroom. So what she was reading was books? She couldn’t help denying that she loved. But she knew she shouldn’t be distracted. She came to this family to steal their love for Twilight Sparkle and also to spy on Celestia. But how would she spy on Celestia? Twilight’s plan was to pretend to be a foal for Celestia to adopt her, but it seemed that plan went downhill. Now she had to find another way to spy on Celestia without pretending to be a parentless foal.  Twilight Sparkle entered the room and decided to go to the balcony to reflect. Suddenly a rolled scroll appeared out of nowhere. Twilight Sparkle raised an eyebrow. She usually didn’t receive letters. Twilight took the rolled parchment and opened it to read.  “Twilight, I’ve been watching you and I started to worry. Are you ok in this family? Did any of them hurt you? Were you really happy to be in another family or did you just pretend? I hope for your answer. Signed Chrysalis”  Twilight was worried. She looked around the room for quill, ink and parchment. And lucky for her, there was the quill, the ink and the parchment were on a desk. In fact, there was more than one scroll, which was good. Twilight approached the table and jumped in her chair to sit down, took a scroll, dipped her quill in ink, and began writing an answer to her mother.  “I’m fine, mom. No worries, they didn’t do me any harm to me. I’m fine in this family. I wasn’t really happy to be adopted by another family, I just pretended not to look suspicious. Although I have to change the plans dramatically, I still plan to peek at Celestia somehow. I just have to find out how now. Well, when I find a way to spy on Celestia, I’ll send you a letter. Signed Twilight Sparkle”   Twilight Sparkle rolled the letter, went to the balcony and set fire to her magic to send to her mother, now just wait for Chrysalis to receive the letter. To distract herself, Twilight received a little reading to distract herself. Twilight lay in bed and went back to reading the book she was reading before dinner. Chrysalis was in the same room, watching Twilight read until she heard a sound. Chrysalis turned to the side and saw that on the floor was a rolled parchment. Chrysalis rose from the pink couch and picked up the scroll with her magic to read. As Chrysalis read, she smiled relief. She was relieved that her daughter was fine. She swore that if this new family that adopted Twilight had hurt her daughter before Twilight sent the letter, she would go to where this family lived and maybe even bring Twilight back to the hive Twilight looked at the same place the scroll came from and saw that another rolled scroll had arrived. Twilight rushed over to the rolled scroll and opened it to read.   “I’m glad to hear that, daughter. I thought this family that adopted you would hurt you. I hope you can find a way to spy on Celestia. Signed Chrysalis”   Twilight closed the scroll as she closed her eyes and smiled. Twilight intended to read a little before bedtime.