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// Diary Entry #4 
// Story: Cozy Glow’s Diary Entries of Love 
// by HAKDurbin 
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Dear Diary, 

There has been a concerning development with obtaining my Button. For the rest of the fall semester, I've been spending as much time with him as I can when I'm not at school, helping Headmare Twilight, or making more friends. Every moment I'm by his side feels like a  dream. Sometimes I'll play that arcade game and try to improve my skills, hoping that I will impress him by showing how I'm a better partner for him than Sweetie Belle, but that unicorn seems to be getting closer to the knight of my heart too.

The latest example was while I was back home for Hearth's Warming. Button and I exchanged gifts before I left with me giving him a toy sword from one of his games and my sweetheart giving me a plastic tiara. He said he thought it looked cute on me. To think that he doesn't know that I will soon become empress. I've been wearing it wherever no pony is around, imagining myself on my throne and history telling of how amusing fate was when my stallion gave me my crown. 

But when I returned to Ponyville, I went to visit Button at home only to find Sweetie Belle playing a video game with him. It turns out that she became so interested in games that she got her own handheld console and started playing together with Button. On Hearth's Warming, Button gave Sweetie Belle a couple of show tune records, which is her favorite kind of music, while she got a new game for him. But instead of a game involving adventure and destruction, this was a kart racing game. What's worse was that he had been playing it with Sweetie Belle ever since. 

I can't believe that this happened while I was gone. Button was bonding with another girl, and he is playing a game that diverts from his desire to fight. Sure, he was joyous to see me again, and he let me play with them, but that only brought so little comfort. Clearly, Sweetie Belle planned it so that she had so much experience with this stupid game that I couldn't catch up with her and Button. Between this and when she blushed the day they first met, it's clear that she wants his heart too.

Well, if it's a competition for who gets Button she wants, I accept the challenge. Mark my words, though, Diary, when I become empress, Sweetie Belle will rue the day she thought she could have my knight. To think she was one of the first friends I've had, and now she is my mortal enemy. Oh well. I guess there's bound to be other ponies to get rid of besides Headmare Twilight and her friends. That's just the way it goes when you rule a kingdom. But as long as my Button is with me, I'll be satisfied.

Until next time,

Cozy Glow