Everyone stared in at Mom as she sat on my couch next to Twilight as I set down cups of tea in front of everyone.
“Hold on for just one moment,” Blossomforth said and held up a hand. “You’re related to Principal Celestia?”
“Princess,” I corrected out of habit. “Princess Celestia. And yeah, she’s my mom.”
“Oh God I’ve been sleeping in the same bed with the Princess’ daughter,” Trixie whispered under her breath. “I’m so dead.”
“This is worse than falling for the farmers daughter,” Cloudkicker whispered back as the two nodded nervously. “You’re dead, I’ve been making out with her!”
“So have I!” Trixie hissed back as I smirked slightly and rolled my eyes.
“Care to introduce us to your friends?” Mom asked with a smirk as she levitated her tea and everyone minus Twilight and I stared in shock as she drank. “Mint tea with lemon, you remembered our favorite.”
“Old habits die hard,” I commented and pointed at my potential partners first. “Cloudkicker and Trixie, Raindrops, Blossomforth, Carrot Top, Redheart, Diamond Tiara, Lavender Lace and Wallflower Blush.”
“So hold on a second and let’s back up. Let’s back way the heck up,” Raindrops waved her hands in the air. “So you’re related to this Princess Celestia? Why the heck are you at a high-school? Shouldn’t you like, be running the country or something?”
“It’s complicated,” I chuckled and gave Mom a confused look. “Not that I’m not happy you’re here but well, why are you here?”
“I’m here for you obviously.”
“And who’s exactly running Equestria?” I asked pointedly as Mom rolled her hand nonchalantly.
“I left Discord and Luna in charge. As of now, they most likely are arguing with each other,” Mom admitted with a small smile. “Discord hid her crown last time I checked in the Crystal Empire and she had to fly there to get it.”
“Why not teleport?” I asked as Twilight let out a giggle.
“Because Discord removed her horn temporarily. I can only imagine how Cadence could have reacted to that,” Twilight snorted as I tried to picture what Vice Principal Luna looked like as a pony. “It was pretty funny.”
“Yes it was pretty funny as you say,” Mom nodded after a moment as she looked around my apartment critically. “So this is the stable you reside in.”
“Apartment,” Twilight said quickly. “They call them apartments here, Princess. Houses are where this world’s versions of stables are called. You get weird looks if you call them that, trust me I know.”
“Ah.”
“Yeah this is where I live. Have been since I got here,” I answered and looked down. “I’ve missed you.”
“Likewise,” Mom said as she tilted her head to the side to look at Diamond sitting with my arm around her. Moms hair oddly wasn’t flowing like it was in Equestria, it matched her human counterpart. “I hope to Tartarus that isn’t your daughter, I’ll have missed a lot if so.”
“Why does everyone assume Diamond is my daughter?” I grumbled as everyone else in the room laughed. “I’m just watching her for a bit. We’re going to her house tomorrow to see how it’s going.”
“So how you holding up?” Twilight asked as she picked up a pizza and bit into it. “The last time you talked to me, you were saying how you cried yourself to sleep.”
“So that’s what that noise was,” Redheart mused as she straightened her nurses cap slightly. “I thought you were just getting laid.”
“Redheart!” I snapped as I turned red. “Don’t even joke like that, mom would kill me in a heart beat.”
“Hm. Would I?” Mom asked as she stared at me.
“Yes, yes you would. Because I spent a good portion of my formulative years with you and I know you.”
Mom hummed in response as Cloudkicker gave me a look, jerking her head to Mom.
“Later Cloudkicker,” I said and rolled my eyes. “We can tell them later after this is over and we go to Equestria. I’m quite interested in seeing how different Princess Luna is from her human counterpart.”
“And Cadence wishes to see you at some point as well. She’s in charge of the Crystal Empire with Shining Armor now,” Twilight chimed in. “I never knew you two knew each other, this is so exciting.”
“Mhm it was a very uh unique experience,” I said and looked away. That was an understatement. I had hated the mare for a while there.
“If memory serves me well, you two had a very intense rivalry that started when you said love was pointless,” Mom said casually as she levitated her tea cup again. “And she then proceeded to paint your room in pink with hearts every Hearts and Hooves day just to make you mad.”
I paused and winced slightly. At that point in time, I had been utterly enraged the first time Cadence had done that to my room. Naturally, I had to retaliate so I stole the door off it’s hinges and placed rocks under her mattress.
“Yeah that happened,” I admitted as Carrot Top nudged me with a smirk.
“You’re so telling us everything later on because I wanna hear this. Cadence sounds familiar though,” Carrot Top mused as Raindrops shrugged.
“Isn’t she the dean at CPA?” Raindrops pointed out and Carrot Top snapped her finger.
“That’s it, she is! Nice woman.”
“That she is,” Blossomforth agreed readily. “Surprised she works there at all.”
Redheart tapped me on the shoulder as she handed me her phone and I read the text from her boss as I inhaled sharply.
“What’s up?” Twilight asked as I looked up finally. “Sunset?”
“Come with me Diamond,” I said as I released her and started tugging my boots on. “We’re going to your parents house now.”
“Why?” Trixie asked warily as Diamond watched in confusion as I handed her boots she wore fairly often.
“I’ll tell her on the way, you girls stay here. Mom and Twilight, make yourself at home. Twilight has been here before and knows where everything is,” I said hastily as I stood up.
“I’ll come with,” Wallflower said and stood up as Mom nodded. I didn’t really want to leave her here after she just got here but you know, shit happens.
“Why exactly are we going now? Randolph pass out again?” Diamond asked as I felt the eyes of everyone else watching me.
“Not necessarily.”