I take a sip of the delicious blond elixir in it’s blue magical glow before the white cup floats back down to the table and I stare at the three smiling fillies, also at the dinette set with me… You know, until today, only me and Twilight ever sat here! “So uh, my mom is dead, and that’s bad!”
“Definitely!” The yellow filly across the table says before nodding her head and I see her big pink bow go up and down…
“Totally!” The russet brown pegasus on the left says before nodding herself so I get a better look at her purple Mohawk mane.
I continue, “And despite what I may have believed before, I actually do deserve love and friendship!”
The white unicorn on the right smiles and says, “Yup!” before I see her wisteria and pink two-toned mane vibrate in what I’m guessing is excitement…
It then occurs to me that these fillies actually want me as a friend as Apple Bloom says in her drawl, “So you see Cozy, you’re just a Crusader now and you got three new friends!” and beams at me brightly with her teeth…
Since my mom already reassured me, I decide not to ask the question on my mind and instead say, “So, what do we do now?”
“We get you better again!” The white filly says to me while continuing to beam her smile as the other two fillies grin onward.
I widen my eyes intrigued, “How you gonna do that?”
The yellow filly across from me makes her orange eyes enormous, “We have no idea!”
The orange pegasus filly on the left turns her head to the apple filly, “Did we even talk about that?”
The white unicorn foal on the right turns to the pegasus, “I brought it up, but you brushed it off, saying we needed to talk about what we’re gonna do with Cozy first!”
The apple filly turns her head right to the russet pegasus, “This always happens, Scootaloo! You always have to take over our meetins’ and nuthin’ gits done!”
I smile when I see this is my opportunity! “Okay uh, that’s just swell! I mean, it’s kinda better this way anyway, because you know, I REALLY should be included, right?”
Apple Bloom stares at me blankly, “Include Cozy when we’re talkin’ about what we’re gonna do with her?”
Scootaloo stares at the yellow filly from the left, “I uh, never really thought about it like that!”
Sweetie stares at her two friends, “I DID try to bring this up too, you know?”
At this point, I decide I’m tired of the banter! “YES! SO! Getting me better or whatever! How are we gonna do that?”
Apple Bloom stares at me while the other two fillies gaze onward, “Well, right! I was just thinkin’ that since Cozy lost her ma, it would be good that she find a replacement or somethin’ ta fill that void, ya know?”
Sweetie looks at the yellow filly and says, “Well, that’s what Twilight can do for her!”
Apple Bloom looks left at the white unicorn and nods, “Well, right! I still can’t help but think we’re missin’ somethin’ though?”
Scootaloo finally interjects, “Friends?”
I stare at this scene, “You know, you three were kinda already being my friends, right?”
Sweetie turns to me and then back to her friends, “Well, right! She has a parent and friends! What else does Cozy need?”
All four of us fillies just put our forehooves to our chins and pondered for a moment… What more do I really need?
Scootaloo excitedly shouts, “I know!” before looking at me with wide eyes, “Cozy! What about your dad? You never said you had much of a father figure, right?”
I stare at the deranged looking brown pegasus, “Oh, golly! Um, no! Not really!”
Apple Bloom looks right at Scootaloo, “Hey, yeah! She’s got a mom with Twilight! We just need a dad now!”
I stare at the yellow filly with wide eyes, “No, no we don’t! I’m fine!”
Sweetie turns her head right to the apple filly, “Well, that would suggest that we find Twilight a mate! So Cozy won’t be lonely all the time!”
“I’m not even that lonely, really!”
Apple Bloom turns left to Sweetie, “Yeah, but is Twilight straight or gay?”
“Are you ponies listening to me?”
Sweetie replies, “How would I know? Maybe we should ask her?”
Scootaloo turns her head right towards Sweetie, “Okay, but we don’t wanna be too obvious! I mean, lets keep this as a surprise!”
“I’m empress of nothing!” I resignedly say before throwing my forehooves up in defeat.
Apple Bloom looks at me from across the table right as I’m taking a sip of my coffee and asks, “Cozy! Do you know Twilight’s sexuality?”
I widen my eyes as I taste the warm creamy brew in my mouth and swallow before adjusting my gaze to look at her and say, “Oh, golly! You know, that somehow never came up.”
The yellow filly sighs, “Great! We need a mate for Twilight, so Cozy won’t be alone and we don’t even know if we need a stallion or a mare!”
“You know, nopony at any point said we needed to do this, right? You three fillies just decided to!”
Scootaloo turns back left to Apple Bloom, “Well, we could just nonchalantly ask her if there’s anypony in town that she likes? Best-case-scenario, she’s already picked somepony and then we don’t need to figure anything out?”
The red maned filly looks at the orange pegasus, “That sounds like a great idea Scoots!”
“This is going to be a golly disaster!”
Sweetie stares at her two cohorts, “That sounds good! I’ll stay here with Cozy and you two go and ask her!”
“Why does somepony need to stay with me?”
Sweetie continues, “Then, you just arrange for a date at lunchtime while we continue hanging out! It can be, Cozy and Sweetie’s Day of Fun!” before turning her head left towards me and smiling. “After all, we wouldn’t want you to be lonely!”
I narrow my eyes at her, “And this has NOTHING to do with the fact that you three are making plans behind my back, right?”
The yellow filly widens her orange eyes and says in her country drawl, “What? No! Of course not, Cozy!”
The white filly on the right stares at me with a shocked expression before saying with her musical voice, “Not at all!”
The brown filly on the left stares at me and says in her raspy tone, “You’re safe, Cozy! We promise!”
I narrow my eyes at the three smiling fillies as I can’t shake this feeling that there’s something else they’re not telling me…
<*****>
I take a sip of my coffee as I sit at the purple table, staring at the white unicorn filly on her side, while the rest of the quiet dining room stands still… I set it down with my magick and decide to break the ice! “So, you’re Sweetie Belle! How’s that working out for you?” And suddenly I wonder why I asked that?
She smiles at me, “Oh, not too bad! I mean, living with my sister Rarity gets kinda boring, but it’s not awful when I have my Crusader friends to turn to!”
“Yeah, friendship is pretty swell, huh? Listen, we know Twilight Sparkle said she had a thing for his Flash Sentry guy and we know Scoots and AB somehow managed to arrange a date! Now, they’re not going to dope them with a love potion or anything like that, right?”
Sweetie’s eyes grow enormous, “Oh, gosh no! We definitely won’t do that again!”
I remind myself to ask her about that later! “How’d you set up a lunch date on such short notice, anyway?”
“Well, most ponies eat lunch at around noon, right?”
I nod, “That’s true!”
Sweetie nods too, “Right!” and blinks. “You see, since Flash and Twilight are both at the Castle of Friendship, we just needed to tell Flash to meet Twilight in her chambers for lunch in the morning, instead of going o the cafeteria, like normal! We just needed to check the boards to see where he was today and find him when he’s on his shift!” before grinning brightly. “We just had to find where pillar thirty-four was!”
“And how did you convince my mom to confess her crush to him?”
Sweetie smiles, “Well, we kinda told a little fib there and said he had a crush on her after we talked to him!”
“Right! So uh, you wanna play chess again?”
She sighs, “No Cozy! You always beat me!”
I frown, “Um, right! Well, checkers also exists? You wanna play checkers?”
Sweetie smiles, “Sure Cozy!”
And then, I frowned in concentration as I began to wonder where I put the checkers pieces, when suddenly, the door opens and I turn my head left to see my mother there with a large frown on her face, “Uh, Cozy! I’m gay!”
I widen my eyes, “What? Oh, golly! Uh, how can you tell?”
She turns her head right towards me and says, “I kissed him!”
I enlarge my own pupils all the way as I didn’t think my mom would kiss and tell! “Uh, and?”
She cringes and sticks her tongue out, “And it’s icky! I don’t like it! I want to kiss mares!”
“Okay uh, fine! Break it off with him! I mean, you being gay seems like a pretty clear reason to cancel this whole thing, right?”
“Uh, I kinda already agreed to another date!”
“Then cancel it! You’re a homo and don’t like stallions! What else do you really need to say?”
“I also told him I loved him!”
I gaze at this insane alicorn for a moment before finally belting out, “Why the golly did you do that?”
My mom blinks and sighs, “I-I got scared, okay? It was going great and I just well, I didn’t want to upset him and uh… “
“Well, you’re gay! It doesn’t work like that!”
She cringes deeply again, “I-I know that!” she widens her eyes towards me, “It’s just that uh well… I kinda need your help now!”
“Oh, golly gee! Good thing Sweetie is here to lend a hoof then, huh?”
Sweetie Belle looks at me and leans slightly closer in shock, “Huh? What?”
I turn to her and rope her in, “Of course! I mean, we’re friends after all, right?” and smile at her brightly.
She frowns and makes her green eyes big as the ramifications of this whole harebrained scheme begins to dawn on her…
I continue grinning at my new white unicorn best friend, “Yup! We’re friends and we’re gonna help you break up with Flash Sentry!”
“And Cozy! Since we’re working on my love life now, there was one mare in town I kinda wanted you to talk to!” she blinks. “Well, if it’s not too much trouble?”
“You mean, you want us to talk to her!” I say as Sweetie continues staring at me in he blank cerulean glare and I hold my toothy grin.
She frowns too, “Um, right!”
I sigh and stop smiling, “Okay, but for the record, I didn’t sign up for any of this!”
Sweetie says, “Well, we thought it would be nice to help you, Cozy!”
I lower my gaze to the unicorn, “Yeah! And you see happens when ponies do things? Stuff happens! And now we got this!”
(To be continued… )