Minuette
“So Moondancer. What do you do for work?” I asked curiously and stirred my hot cocoa with a spoon Twinkleshine had given me. Moondancer was sitting quietly in the corner next to Lemon Hearts.
“I work as a research assistant. Whenever the colleges across Equestria need a pony to either validate or invalidate their theories, they send me a letter. I get sent around Equestria to different places or out of the country. Been to Yakyakistan once. Interesting place,” Moondancer answered as she pushed up her glasses. “Paid trips and such. All I have to pay for is the hotel.”
“Wow,” Twinkleshine said and tucked her legs underself. “Pretty impressive. So that’s why we hadn’t see much of you before Twilight came to town. Pay well?”
Moondancer named a number and our eyes widened. I hadn’t been expecting that high of a number and I don’t think the others had either. Lyra spit out her hot chocolate and Twinkleshine glared at her.
“You’re cleaning that. I hope you know that.”
“Yeah, yeah I know. I’ll get it,” Lyra grumbled as her horn flashed and the stain in the carpet disappeared. “If you make that much, why does your house look like shit?”
“Lyra!” I exclaimed and shot her a look. I love her but she didn’t really have a filter. She’s like a less crazy, more calm Pinkie Pie.
“It’s okay. I never really cared about how my house looked. All I cared was it have me shelter and kept me safe. I started fixing it up a bit now,” Moondancer admitted nervously. “Can I uh have a cookie? I don’t want to impose.”
“Of course!” Twinkleshine giggled and levitated one to her. “You’re a friend, you don’t have to ask. I’m happy you’re here.”
I was just happy we finally got her out of the library. The amount of times I’ve had to take her to her house after finding her asleep muzzle first in a book is insane. Her fixing the house is icing on the cake.
A loud snoring sound came from the couch and we all looked over at Moondancer curled up in a ball, snoring. I covered my mouth with a hoof as we all laughed.
“About time!” Lyra snickered as she levitated the two books Moondancer had brought. “How to understand my friends and be a good friend? Boring! Ah her diary, excellent.”
Lyra tossed the first book onto a table next to Moondancer as Lemon Hearts covered Moondancer up with a blanket and shoved a pillow under her head.
“Lyra! We are not reading her diary. That’s private!” Lemon Hearts snapped as Lyra started flipping through.
“You’re right. We aren’t. I am, you aren’t,” Lyra said and I groaned. “Boring, boring, boring, boring, boring, ooh this has your guys names written in it.”
“Wait really?” Twinkleshine asked as she peered over Lyra’s shoulder. “Oh wow it does. Twinkleshine, Lemon Hearts and Minuette are very fascinating individuals. I’ll be keeping track of my friendships in this journal, their own individual likes and favorite places. For example, Twinkleshine likes chocolate donuts with pink sprinkles. Lemon Hearts is obsessed with lemon based products. It is important I keep track of these so if quizzed, I know the answers so I don’t lose my friends and be alone again.”
“What the hay?” I muttered as I joined them. “She seriously thinks she needs to keep track of everything and if she doesn’t we will abandon her?”
“Apparently,” Lyra said as she flipped the page. “This is am interesting entry. I sometimes wonder if I should come out to the others. But I’m also worried they might abandon me if I do. Especially Minuette. Her parents were very strict apparently growing up.”
We all burst out laughing at that. That was kinda dumb of her. I was seeing a mare from Ponyville, Lyra had Bon Bon. I don’t know how to talk to her about this without revealing we read her diary.
“I can also never tell them about my secret love of Twilight. That might ruin everything between us,” Twinkleshine read as she giggled. “She thinks that’s a secret? Everypony knew she had a crush on Twilight. She wasn’t exactly subtle about it.”
“I know right?” I laughed quietly to not wake up Moondancer. This would be a very bad look if she woke up right now. Still felt kinda wrong to do.
“How exactly do we talk to her about this then? I think it’s safe to say she should probably get help with her anxiety,” Lyra said with a frown. “We all know she doesn’t really talk about her feelings.”
“So we have to make her,” I said and slammed my forehooves together. “We each take a day and talk to her about ourselves. Without giving away we read her journal.”
“I’m down.”
“Same.”
“Fuck yeah!”
“Why do I have a feeling that word is worse than buck?” I asked and shivered. Lyra gave me a grin.
“It’s how the humans cursed. It means buck but it’s like a really aggressive way. It’s awesome. They have similar curse words like we do. Bitch, shit the like. It’s well documented surprisingly.”
“Celestia help us all,” Lemon Hearts muttered as Lyra closed the diary and placed it quietly next to Moondancer.
“Hey, you girls remember when Lemon Hearts got her head stuck in a beaker that one time?” Lyra asked casually as she gave Lemon Hearts a smirk. We all burst out laughing as Lemon Hearts gave us the same look she did the last time we mentioned it to Twilight at the school.
“One time! One time I get my head stuck in a beaker and you girls have never let me forget it!”
I doubled over and laid back on Twinkleshine as we both continued laughing. Twinkleshine wiped a tear away from her eye as Lyra chuckled.
“Sweet Celestia that was funny. We love ya Lemons. Man, little Twinkleshine, Minuette and Lemon Hearts was adorable. You looked so terrified. How did you even get your head in there?” Lyra giggled as we slowly stopped laughing.
“I don’t know!” Lemon Hearts wailed as she flopped back on the couch with a smile. “I think I saw something in there and I was curious about it. Either that or Amethyst had dared me to try it. Thank Celestia horns are bendy under pressure.”
“Fair enough,” I said and yawned a bit. “Man, I miss being a filly. We were some adorable fillies back then. Remember when I had braces back then?”
“Remember the time Twinkleshine had se- mphfh!” Lyra gagged as Twinkleshine shoved her hoof in Lyra’s mouth with a blush.
“Shush.”
“Oh calm down. We all know you and Star Tracker hooked up a few years later in the dorms of the school. I felt bad for Lyra. She was your bunk mate and heard everything.”
“Minuette!” Twinkleshine gasped as she stared at me. “Wait everypony knew?”
“No,” I said with a grin. “But we do now!”
We all burst out laughing as Twinkleshine slumped over with a tomato face. Celestia, I loved my friends.
“Alright everypony bed time!” Lemon Hearts said and covered herself with a blanket. Twinkleshine curled up in a ball as she passed out pillows and blankets to the rest of us.
“Night,” I said as I looked at Lyra. She flopped on her back and started snoring as her hindlegs started kicking idly.
How she did that in a matter of ten seconds flat blew me away. I will never understand that mare.