Most of the ride from Sweet Apple Acres to Celestia's house was a ride in silence. I didn't know what to say to this woman. She reminded me of Princess Celestia, and I had been nothing but a disappointment for the Princess. I thought I was a disappointment for the Principal as well. After driving in silence for nearly thirty minutes, Celestia finally spoke up.
"Sunset, Luna and I are opening our house to you," Celestia said breaking the silence, "but there are some ground rules."
"Okay," I said meekly. Honestly, I was afraid of Celestia. I didn't know where I stood with her, after my behavior up to the Fall Formal, it wouldn't have surprised me if she had reform school waiting for me.
"First off, you are welcome to eat anything in the refrigerator or in the pantry. You are also welcome to watch the television and use the DVD player. Luna and I ask that you don't enter our bedrooms without our permission."
I simply nodded.
"You will have a curfew of 9:00PM, you don't have to be in bed by nine, but I do expect you to be home by then." Celestia continued. 9PM was late for me, I was rarely out after dark. I had read too many police beat sections of the newspaper.
"Do you have a problem with any of these rules?" Celestia asked me.
"No ma'am," I squeaked out. I didn't know it at the time, but I was more afraid than Fluttershy normally was. I was absolutely terrified.
As we pulled in to the driveway, the first thing I noticed was how nice the house looked. Then I noticed the blue Camaro and the white sport bike parked next to it. Celestia led me in through the garage. I stopped and looked at the pair mountain bikes that were parked near the door.
"Do you ride," Celestia asked me, "it's a great hobby."
"I never learned," I replied as she led into the kitchen. The kitchen was a little bit larger than I expected, it even had a wet bar built in to it. Sitting at the dining room table, Luna was fastidiously typing away on her laptop, while Ms. Raven Inkwell, Celestia and Luna's secretary looked over her shoulder. They both stopped what they were doing and watched me when I walked in.
"Good evening Ms. Shimmer." Luna said as she closed her computer.
"Hello Sunset." Raven said.
I simply blushed and waved. I was a little in awe my surroundings. I also didn't know what to say to these women. For a little more than two years I had made the lives of these women Hell, and yet they were still willing to help me.
"Well, it looks like you are going to have a busy night," Raven said to Luna, "I'll get going. See you tomorrow at School."
I was shocked to see Ms. Raven bend down and kiss Ms. Luna, I was even more shocked to see Luna passionately return the kiss. I watched as Raven grabbed a white motorcycle helmet and stepped past me and headed out the door. I turned and looked at Luna. Her eyes were like daggers.
"Yes, Ms. Inkwell and I are in a relationship," Luna said, "and I would appreciate it if you didn't pass that around the school."
"Yes ma'am," I said.
"You don't need to be so formal when we are home," Celestia said, "but when we are at school, I'm still your principal and Luna is still your Vice-Principal."
"Okay," I answered, at the time, I didn't know if I could separate the two of them from the personas that they projected at school.
"I guess someone should show you around." Luna said as she closed her laptop.
"Could you," Celestia said, "I need to eat something, is there any pizza left from last night, or did you and Raven finish it?"
"It's in the fridge." Luna said. I was surprised to see Celestia open the refrigerator and pull out a pizza box, she opened it and grabbed a slice and started to eat it with out bothering to warm it up.
"Well, as you can see this is the kitchen," Luna said to me as she waved her arm about, "and this is the dining room,"
She then stood up and gestured for me to follow her. She led me through an archway into the living room. I was amazed by the size of the television. I had only seen the ones at school and the one at Applejack's family farm, and they were noticably smaller than the one I was looking at now! I also noticed that there were several small black plastic boxes on the shelf underneath television. Luna must have noticed what I was looking at.
"Do you play videogames," she asked me. I had heard other students at school talking about videogames before, but I had never played them myself.
"No," I replied quietly, "we don't have videogames where I'm from."
"Don't tell Celestia," Luna said with a laugh, "that would break her heart."
"Don't tell me what," Celestia said as she walked into the room and took a seat on the couch.
"Sunset has never played a videogame before," Luna chuckled. Celestia looked at me with wide eyes.
"Well we'll just have to correct that, won't we." Celestia said with a grin as she grabbed a game controller.
"Allow me to finish the tour before we start corrupting her." Luna said, as she playfully slapped Celestia on the head.
These two women were so much different from how they acted at school. Gone was the professionalism that I had grown accustomed to.
The tour concluded with what was now my bedroom. I could tell from looking at the walls that I wasn't the rooms first occupant. There were several posters for boy bands plastered on the walls.
"This room was used by our niece, Cadence," Luna explained, "she moved out while she was in college and just got a job at Crystal Prep."
Luna left me to myself after she completed the tour. I just sat on the edge of the bed and cried.