I stifled a yawn as I dragged my self into the spa and slapped down some bits on the counter. Aloe or Lotus took them and I pointed to a sign behind them. I could never really tell them apart. Rarity and Fluttershy always said their names together so it was easy to get confused. Or maybe it’s a weird clone thing.
“Thank you,” I said and nodded respectfully at Aloe. Or Lotus, one of the two. “Oh and Rarity said she would be back this week. Wanted me to tell you.”
“Thank you miss,” the blue pony said. I’ve been here so much due to Rarity dragging me along, I’ve gotten used to their accents.
I sat in the chair and relaxed as they put some weird green gunk on my face. I faintly remembered a pony on the seat behind me and smiled faintly.
“Thank you Aloe,” I said as she paused before laughing.
“I am Lotus. It is okay though. My sister and I easily get confused together,” Lotus chuckled as she dropped some cucumbers over my eyes. I idly wondered when that got started. I’ve always eaten cucumbers and that’s it. Well, maybe once as a teen for a more explicit dirty reason but we won’t talk about that.
“Hello there,” I said and hoped the pony behind me was friendly.
“Hey.”
“How are you?” I asked curiously as Lotus rubbed my thigh.
“I am decent. Yourself?” The mare asked as she stretched a bit.
“Stressed out so I came here. Twilight wants me to make friends with some of the town folks but well, I haven’t really clicked with them ya know?” I said and nervously tapped my forelegs together. “I have a well just let’s just say complicated past and not many ponies are similar around here.”
“I can relate. I have a bit of a complicated history myself,” the blue unicorn commented as she let out a moan. “Thanks, my foreleg was bothering me for a bit.”
“Quite welcome.”
“What did you do?” I asked curiously as the mare laughed quietly.
“You first.”
“I asked first.”
“Came to town to do a magic show, two idiots brought an Ursa Minor to town, got me ran out and lost all my publicity, forced to work on a rock farm. Came back months later for revenge with the Alicorn whatsitcalled, enslaved the town and eventually got defeated again. Your turn,” the mare said as she sighed.
“Oh you know, forcibly took cutie marks from Twilight and the others in an attempt to make all of Equestria give up their cutie marks so I could be the sole ruler and they defeated me. Months later, I confronted Twilight in her castle and a few other ponies and tried to alter the timeline so Twilight never met her friends,” I explained as I watched Lotus smile at me.
“We don’t judge here for the record,” Lotus said and I sighed in relief. “We are open to anypony and everypony.”
“Thank you,” I said and she nodded.
“Hey, what are you doing after this?” The mare asked suddenly.
“Probably going back to the castle. You?”
“Not sure. Wanna hang out?”
“Sure. I’m Starlight Glimmer by the way. What’s your name?”
“Trixie.”
I galloped down the hallway, hoping Trixie was hot on my hooves. She was a very attractive blue unicorn to say the least. Her purple eyes and silvery hair was adorable but I’d never say that out loud.
“Twilight!” I called out as I searched for her. “Twilight! Where are you?”
“I’m in the library!” Twilight called out as I skidded to a stop and Trixie ran into my flank as I turned red.
“Trixie is sorry.”
“Well Starlight forgives you,” I said with a wink as we turned around and started heading to the library. We had spent all night together, ice cream and just talking. We did get some pretty angry looks, mainly Trixie to my annoyance. “Twilight, I made a friend!”
“Excellent!” Twilight said and closed her book, giving me a large grin.
“She’s great!”
“Great!”
“She’s powerful!”
“She’s powerful?” Twilight asked in confusion and gasped as Trixie stepped in.
“Hello, princess,” Trixie said with a large grin.
“Trixie? That’s your friend?” Twilight shouted as I jumped. Out of all the reactions, that isn’t what I expected. I expected happiness. I did what she wanted and made a friend. Right?
“Yeah,” I said and smiled as Trixie wandered over to the table and levitated a fork to her face. “She’s super cool!”
“Can we talk? Alone?” Twilight said and jerked her head to the left. I gave a nod as we trotted over there. “Are you out of your mind? Trixie of all ponies? She enslaved the town!”
“And I enslaved a village,” I shot back and raised an eyebrow. “What’s your point? Don’t you trust me?”
“I do trust you Starlight but well are you sure she’s going to be a good influence on you?” Twilight asked and placed a hoof on my shoulder.
“Yeah I’m sure,” I said and gave her a glare. “Trixie is a nice pony and a good friend. She’s the only one in town who didn’t judge me for my past actions.”
“I didn't judge you, Starlight. Are you sure you don’t want to be friends with anypony else? The mailmare is nice and so is Octavia. Maybe you could be their friends,” Twilight suggested and I gently removed her hoof.
“I’m sure. Just please trust me. I got this,” I said as Twilight tossed Trixie a look as she levitated more forks to her face.
“Alright. I do trust you Starlight. Don’t ever doubt that,” Twilight said as we walked back over to Trixie. “I hope you’re a good influence on her Trixie.”
“Oh don’t you worry princess. I’ll be a good influence on our dear Starlight,” Trixie gave Twilight a mischievous smirk. “I have nothing but good intentions for my friend.”
Trixie levitated the forks down onto the table as she wrapped a foreleg around my neck.
Kinda felt nice to have a friend that wasn’t one of Twilight’s friends. I liked them but still, nice to make friends on my own.