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// Going home 
// Story: Stargaze with Twinky 
// by MidnightTwinkle 
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When I woke up, I slowly stretched and opened my eyes. Looking around, I noticed that I was alone in the room, and I also remembered that I was now visiting a friend of my older sister, Lyra. After getting out of bed, I went to the kitchen, as I felt that I was hungry.

When I entered the kitchen, I noticed two ponies sitting at the table. One of them is Twinkleshine and the other is Lyra. They sat and chatted about something, but as soon as I entered the kitchen, they noticed me too, and then at the same time said, "Good morning."

After this little incident, they looked at each other and giggled and again together said, “Do not repeat after me!”, After which their laughter continued.

Twinkleshine continued, “So we were waiting for you to wake up, have breakfast and then we'll go."

After a delicious breakfast, which this time was prepared by Lyra. My older sister and I went outside, but I noticed that Lyra also went with us.

I took a questioning glance at Twinkleshine, and she seemed to immediately understand my question and said, “Lyra offered to walk with us. I hoped it was okay? " Twinkleshine asked me.

"It’s okay." I answered, after which we went down the street, towards the Carousel boutique.

I was bored the whole way, I couldn't keep myself busy, Twinkleshine and Lyra talked all the time, laughed, and generally had a good time.

We walked into a boutique owned by Rarity, after which we met her. Rarity asked me to go with her. I followed her and went up to the stage while Lyra and my older sister went outside so as not to interfere with the continued work for Rarity.

Rarity brought out a mock-up dress from a room that looked like her workshop. It was a dark purple dress with a similar cloak, and there were also small star-like patterns around the edges. The dress was also decorated with a light blue turtleneck and side pieces of fabric that looked like small airplane wings, but there were 3 on each side. A small moon-shaped medallion was attached under the collar. The dress was also decorated with many small details, different colors, but all in the theme of the night sky, stars and space.

From the outside, it looked great, but before I could blink, the dress immediately appeared on me.

I turned a little and looked in the mirror that Rarity had given me with her magic.

In the mirror, I saw a little pony that looked great in her outfit and seemed to glow with how much she liked it. I admired a little, but as soon as my brain remembered that this pony was me, my blush immediately covered my entire face.

It seemed that there was nowhere else to be embarrassed, but at that moment Sweetie Belle entered the boutique, when she saw me, she seemed surprised, but immediately said, “Wow! You look very beautiful, this dress suits you."

At that moment, I became even redder, but replied, "Thank you."

“Don't be embarrassed, dear, you are truly gorgeous! Just admire yourself." Rarity, who was watching me all this time, said.

When I shook off my blush and the dress was taken off, My older sister and her friend walked into the boutique, and Rarity called them.

While the older ponies were talking, Sweetie Belle came up to me and said, “I guess I forgot to say hello.”

“Hello Twinky, oh… I mean Midnight Twinkle. I accidentally called you that." Sweetie Belle said.

"It's okay, no need to apologize, that's what my older sister calls me." I answered, with a small smile on my face

“You can call me that,” I immediately added, after which a smile appeared on her face.

"Would you like to go for a walk and play with me?" Sweetie Belle asked me.

"Twinky, it's time for us to go!" said Twinkleshine. She had already finished the conversation and was heading towards me.

I turned towards Sweetie again, and told her, “Wait a second,” and then ran to meet my older sister.

Running up to her, I almost crashed into her legs, but managed to stop, and then quickly said, “Can I go play with Sweetie Belle?” I was bored in the morning, and now I really wanted to play.

Twinkleshine hesitated for a second, then glanced at Lyra, who nodded faintly.

‘It seems they had some plans related to me,’ I thought.

At that moment, Rarity intervened in the conversation, who seems to have heard what we were talking about. “I think it's a good idea if the girls spend time together. Moreover, the dress is not ready yet, I need to make some changes. While I am working, the girls could have fun together and you and your friend could also have more communication with each other.”

After that, Rarity's arguments persuaded Twinkleshine, after which she looked at me and said, “Sure, you can go play with your friend.”

A little bit of joy, I turned around to deliver the news to Sweetie, but she had already heard everything, and enthusiastically said, “Follow me!”

I ran after her, and in the trail I heard the voice of Twinkleshine, "Come back here when you're done!"

When Sweetie Belle and I ran out of the boutique, she suggested to give me a little city tour since this is my first time here.

We passed various buildings and structures and Sweetie named each one. I already knew some of them from my older sister's story yesterday. Firstly we came to Townhall, then a statue of somepony names, Chancellor Puddinghead, then we passed the Spa. They even had a Jokes and Party Supply Store. Further along we came across a bookstore and a Hay Burgers restaurant.

More distance passed before we came across a retirement home, but in the distance was the most unusual building in this town, it was a tree with a door, balcony and windows.

Sweetie told me various stories related to what we passed and when she stopped talking, I pointed with my hoof at the odd looking tree, "What’s that?."

“That’s the Golden Oak Library! Let’s take a look!" Sweetie Belle said, but without waiting for me to answer, she ran at full speed towards that building. I had to run to keep up with her, but in the end I overtook her.

Approaching the library, we went to the door and pushed it, but the door did not open. We tried again, but harder, whereupon Sweetie said, “It seems to be closed here, let's look in the window.”

Sweetie went to the window and asked, "Can you pick me up?"

I went up to her to help her, but suddenly I had an idea. “Can't you just move away from the window for a better view?”

Sweetie Belle thought about my proposal, then agreed and said, "Let's try."

We moved a little away from the window and saw that there was no one in the library, after which I said, "The library is definitely closed."

“I agree,” added Sweetie Belle.

“There are some cool books inside that I really like, I would like to show them to you, but I will definitely show you next time!” Sweetie said.

We continued our excursion and going a little further, I saw the path along which we came to the city, this path led to the train station.

Next, we passed Flowers and Snacks, and then Sugarcube Corner, where according to Sweetie Belle, the most delicious pastries in all of Equestria.

Then, we noticed Southern Windmill,  and as we walked and admired the surroundings of such a simple town as Ponyville, compared to Canterlot, my thoughts were interrupted by Sweetie Belle.

“Look, this is my school! I study here, and the best teacher in the world, miss Cheerilee, is also teaching here!” Sweetie said enthusiastically, pointing to a small red building with various patterns on the façade, a beautiful triangular roof and a small turret on top where a small bell hung.

“There is a playground behind the school, let's go there,” Sweetie Belle suggested to me.

I nodded slightly and we headed towards school.

The backyard had a swing, a sandpit, and forgotten toys.

“It's so weird when no one is here,” Sweetie said.

"They're probably all in the park!" I suggested.

We swung on the swing, but we quickly got bored and so we decided to go to the park.

Crossing the bridge again, I walked towards the boutique, as I knew that the park was behind this building, but Sweetie Belle called me and said, “Stop! I know a shortcut, follow me." Then she turned off the path and ran through the trees.

I had no choice, so I followed her. I didn’t like the idea of ​​turning off the path, but soon we reached the park, where we saw many other foals playing ball, catching up, hide and seek, jumping rope and so on.





We played every possible game with other foals, we had a great time and were playing hide and seek now.

We have designated a certain area where you can hide. They found me very quickly, as my fur color stood out very much against the background of green bushes, leaves and other colored objects in the park. Regardless, we continued to play and we all had fun.

After finishing the game of hide and seek, we met up with Sweetie Belle and decided it was time to go to Rarity's boutique because our bellies were signaling to us that it was time for lunch.

Since the boutique was not far away, we got there very quickly.

Approaching the boutique, we saw Lyra, Twinkleshine and Rarity standing at the entrance and talking about something. They also noticed us, but continued their conversation.

Approaching them, Twinkleshine told me that everything was done and we could go.

I opened my mouth to say that I really want to eat, but my hungry stomach said everything for me.

“I think someone is hungry,” my older sister said with a cheerful smile.

At that moment, I remembered about the city tour with Sweetie Belle, “Can we go to Sugarcube Corner? Sweetie Belle told me that the cakes were delicious.”

Twinkleshine thought for a moment and said, "Of course."

I was delighted and already began to imagine what could be so delicious there, but suddenly I heard, “But only if you promise to eat everything that I’ll cook for you at dinner.”

Without hesitation, I immediately say “Yes, I promise!"

Twinkleshine, pleased with my answer, said, "It’s a deal."

I had already turned to follow my older sister when I remembered something and asked her to wait. I ran over to Sweetie Belle and said goodbye to her and Rarity. After Twinkleshine had done the same, she took some kind of box into her aura and we hit the road.

Lyra also walked with us, but when we had passed half the way, we stopped and said goodbye to her, as Lyra had to go about her business.

“Well, tell me, how was your time with Sweetie Belle,” Twinkleshine asked me.

I told her about today's excursion and about our games in the park.

"By the way, I never saw you in your outfit, will you show it to me when we get home?" Twinkleshine asked and slightly shook the box I had already forgotten about.

“Yes, I'll show you,” I said and dreamed as I thought about what was inside and what I looked like in this dress. And since it was not completed, I tried to imagine what else could be completed there.

"You’re daydreaming, I'm happy you really like your outfit." Giggling and looking at me with a smile, Twinkleshine said.

We went to Sugarcube Corner and went inside. Inside there were many different display cases, with all kinds of delicacies.

My sister chose a piece of chocolate cake with pink icing and two cherries on top. I also needed to make a choice, but I could not decide, so I decided to take the same as Twinkleshine.

Twinkleshine took this order with her and said, "We're in a hurry for the train, so we'll eat inside the train."

We went to the station. We were already getting there, when my stomach rumbled again and I looked at Twinkleshine, who understood me without words. "Wait a few more minutes, we'll get on the train and then we'll eat."





We got off the train at Canterlot station and headed towards the house. When we got out of the station I thought, ‘I’ll have to buy this again since it tasted great.’

We came home and Twinkleshine asked me to show her what the purchased outfit looks like on me. We went into the living room, unpacked the box and Twinkleshine helped me put on the dress.

"Wow! How cool and adorable my little sister looks like a princess!” Twinkleshine spoke with delight.

Her praise made me very pleased and at the same time embarrassed me. “Stop it, you're embarrassing me,” I said as Twinkleshine talked about how great I look.

Twinkleshine laughed and said, "I won't stop, this is my job." Then she smiled broadly again and giggled.

After a small fashion show for my sister, I went to my room and while I had free time, I decided to devote it to the magic of levitation.

During my little break, Twinkleshine came into my room with some kind of bag, then sat down next to me on the bed and said. "I will distract you from your work, I have a couple of small lessons for you."

Twinkleshine emptied a bunch of coins from the bag and said, "Wrap this coin with your aura, feel it."

I did as she said, and then I told her, "I don't know how to describe it, but this coin is nice to the touch or something."

“Remember this feeling, this is how real beats feel. Some ponies can use fake ones, so this skill might help you. Unfortunately I don't have a fake coin to show you, but just remember how the real one feels.”

"Okay, I'll try to remember." I said and nodded in agreement.

“Now for the fun part of our little exercise,” Twinkleshine said.

“Take a coin and levitate it in a circle,” my older sister said.

I did what she asked and heard, "Now, without stopping to rotate, take the second one and rotate it the same way."

It was more difficult, but I still got it right.

"Now rotate one coin clockwise and one counterclockwise."

I tried it and almost lost my concentration, but I still did it.

“Well, if you as can handle 2 coins at the same time, then you can take the third coin, as I promised you last time,” said Twinkleshine.

“Now take the third coin and do first one turn clockwise, then one turn counterclockwise, and so on.”

With this task I did not cope, my concentration was disrupted and the magic dissipated.

“Very good for the first time, you are great. I will leave you these 3 coins so that you can continue to train like this, as soon as you can handle it, I will complicate the task.”

I took a short break and wanted to read a book about local constellations, but the desire to study magic took over me and I began to practice the exercise that Twinkleshine gave me.

After a while, Twinkleshine came into my room.

“I’m visiting Moondancer, Lemon Hearts and Minuette. You can come with me? Or do you want to stay at home and practice?"

"No! I will not be left alone!” I said suddenly, sharply and loudly. For some reason, now I really didn't want to be alone.

My plush, in the magical aura of my older sister, suddenly appeared in front of me and I instinctively hugged him. "Can I take it with me?" I quietly asked Twinkleshine.

"Of course, now let's have some fun."