Equestria Girls: Life Goes On

by Blackbird2


Epilogue: The Morning After

Equestria Girls: Life Goes On

Epilogue: The Morning After

Aria grumbled as she groggily walked out of Blackbird’s room. She had had a rather rough sleep last night. Not only because of everything she had on her mind thanks to her fight with Adagio but also because of...things she overheard. The sources of which were sitting at the table in the back of the main room casually eating breakfast. Much to her surprise there seemed to be an extra plate and cup of coffee made for her. She stared at it almost dumbfounded for a moment before she slowly walked over to the table to take the offered meal.

“You two make too much noise,” she said causally as she picked up the plate and cup.

Blackbird nearly choked on his orange juice at the comment while Moonie blushed furiously and tried to become one with her own cup of coffee. Aria smirked triumphantly as she went to sit down on the couch to enjoy her own meal.

“But thanks for breakfast at least,” she offered.

“Welcome,” Blackbird coughed out once he was able to talk again. “By the way, I just gotta say you look different with your hair down.”

Indeed, she had yet to tie her hair up into its customary twin pigtails. In fact, she had just managed to slip on her corset and pants so she’d look decent. The rest of her accessories could wait til after she was a little more awake. And now after breakfast. Of course she was awake enough to let out a snarky comment or two.

“Yeah well I haven’t put it up yet since I’m still tired cause somebodies kept me awake most of the night!” she remarked, given them another pointed glance.

While Moonie blushed even more, Blackbird was more prepared for her barb this time.

“Jealous?” he teased with a sly smirk.

“Pffft! You wish!” she shot back.

Anyway,” Moonie broke in, stopping anymore of the back and forth, “Blackbird told me about...your past.”

Aria stopped right as she was about to bring a fork full of eggs to her mouth. She set the utensil down and looked over at the two again, this time with all her bravado gone. She stared at Moonie for a long time before her gazed on Blackbird with a mixture of annoyance and confusion.

“I hope you don’t mind,” he said, uneasily. “I just figured it would come up at some point and it’d be better to get it out of the way now instead of keeping secrets like a bad teen drama show.”

Unfortunately, she couldn’t fight that logic.

“Alright, fine,” she relented a bit bitterly then looked over to Moonie. “So...who did you take it?”

“Still taking it in, honestly,” Moonie confessed. “Just knowing that magic exists and there’s a whole other world out there? It’s just...wow.”

“Right?!” Blackbird exclaimed. “I just wonder what kind of rules they work under! How do they live? What do they eat-OH MY GOD!!!”

His head suddenly snapped back towards Aria with his eyes as back as the plates they were eating off of.

“The sushi!” he screamed. “Now I know why you didn’t want to eat the fish ones! Oh I am so, SO sorry!”

“You didn’t!” Moonie cried out in horror.

“It’s fine! It’s fine!” Aria said, seeming to reassure them both. “You didn’t know.”

“But now that I do am going to make sure I don’t ever do anything like that again!” he vowed.

“Wait. Hold on,” Moonie interjected, looking down at the breakfast before them.

Breakfast that included eggs and bacon.

“Is this...” she started, given an unsure look to Aria.

“Delicious!” Aria exclaimed as she took a big bite of the crispy bacon.

“Well that’s one thing we don’t have to worry about then, I guess. Seriously I really want to know how this other world works sometime,” Blackbird mused then looked down at his phone. “Oop! But later! Right now I gotta get a shower and get to work!”

He got up from his chair and leaned over the table to give Moonie a quick kiss.

“Love you, babe!” he said.
He then moved over to the couch and leaned over to give Aria a kiss.

“Love you too,” he said as moved towards her.

Aria hesitated for a moment and looked over at Moonie, who gave her an approving nod. The former Siren then moved forward to meet Blackbird’s lips. He gave her a quick smile before he darted off into the bathroom. Once the door was closed, Aria let out a slight breath and leaned against the couch.

“Yeah, gonna take a while to get used to that,” she muttered.

“Yeah,” Moonie agreed before she took another sip of her coffee.

“So, like, you’re just cool with that?” Aria asked.

“Well it is a little different to see rather than just know about it but that’ll just take a little getting used to,” she explained then turned to the other girl. “How about you?”

“Pretty much the same,” she agreed. “As well as getting used to having a boyfriend at all!”

She then took another bite of her eggs as she thought over the changes that had occurred in her life over the last few months. Or even the last 24 hours. Which caused another, slightly uncomfortable, thought to pop back into her head. She glanced at the bathroom door and listened to the sound of running water for a second. She then got up and walked over to the table to talk to Moonie in a hushed tone.

“So level with me. All that stuff from last night. That was just for his ego, right?” she asked, jabbing a thumb towards the door.

Again a blush formed over Moonie’s cheeks and she focused intently on the food left on her plate.

“Nope,” she answered with a satisfied smile.

Aria’s eye widened and she looked between the bathroom door and Moonie for a few seconds.

“Naaaaah!” she waved off.

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After she finished her breakfast and got the rest of her outfit together, Aria called for a call to take her home. Well...most of the way home. She had the driver drop her off about a block from the apartment since she was still in no hurry to see Adagio just yet. Though now she was regretting that decision a bit since it was cooler than that should it’d be outside and she had left in such a hurry that she hadn’t taken her hoodie last night.

I need to get more shirts with sleeves, she thought in dismay. Or maybe that jacket if I can save up the money in time.

She slowed her stride as she approached the building when she saw the one person she didn’t want to see right now; Adagio. She was taking the trash out to the garbage can by the curb and as luck would have it, happened to spot Aria when she turned to go back inside. The sisters stood still and stared at each other for a few tense moments. Eventually Aria broke the standoff by moving towards the door.

“I tried to call you, you know?” Adagio remarked, giving her a sideways glance.

Aria stopped right as her hand reached the handle.

“Yeah I know. I was ignoring you,” she told her without looking back.

“Well...I’m glad you’re okay.”

Are you?!” Aria spat, turning around to finally face Adagio.

“YES DAMMIT!!” Adagio screamed back. “Despite what you might think I actually do care about you!”

“Then why can’t you be happy for me?!”

“Because you deserve better than that idiot!”

“No, you think I deserve better than that idiot!” Aria shouted, jabbing an accusing finger at her sister. “And, yeah, he can be an idiot sometimes, but you know what? He wants me to be happy! He cares that I’m happy! Which is more than I can as about my own sister!”

“I do want you to be happy!” Adagio insisted. “But-”

“But only on your terms!” Aria interrupted her. “And like I said last night, that’s the problem! You still want to control everything! But you can’t! You have let us live our lives! It’s all we have now!”

Silence over took them again as Adagio stared at Aria. A few seconds later she finally let out a sigh and shook her head.

“Fine. Do whatever. Be with the idiot, I won’t stop you,” she relented and folded her arms over her chest. “I still don’t like him.

“And I still don’t care,” Aria shot back before she turned and walked into the building.

As she started up the stairs that lead to the apartment, she heard a crashing outside that could only be Adagio taking out her frustrations on the garbage can outside. She ignored it though and continued up the stairs, content in the feeling that now her new life could truly begin.


The End