//------------------------------// // Ch 22 // Story: When a Door Closes a New One Opens // by coolpony01 //------------------------------// My friends and I are right now celebrating my eighteenth birthday. I’m officially an adult and we might as well celebrate. With great luck the school happens to be throwing a graduation party today. There will be a lot of dancing and drinks. It will be very fun. We plan on doing a lot of dancing to the music. It will be very informal, no dresses required and it will be popular music according to our social group rather than the traditional music. The nobles aren’t too happy about this but it was what the students voted for and what we say goes.  We are also planning on showcasing our first song during the event. We wrote it ourselves and have the audio finished so we plan on signing it and have permission by the board to do so. None of the students know we want them to be in for a surprise. One that they will come to appreciate and enjoy throughout the entirety of their lives. “So how does it feel being an adult now Twi.” Vinyl asked. “Honestly it feels pretty great.” I said in genuine joy from the fact that I’m now an adult.  “Well that’s good, gotta live in the moment right.” Vinyl said. “Yes.” I said smiling. I just wish my parents were here to celebrate too. I thought but I can’t let that ruin my mood. I gotta have fun on such a rite of passage. We got there and saw several of our classmates. Several of them look like they’re having very informal fun which is a good thing. “Come on, let's start dancing.” Lyra said. And we did just that we enjoyed our time together as friends while we danced our heart out to songs like fly like the wind and then our favorite song came on Girls just wanna have fun. Everyone went up to do the dancing. It was so much fun. We then went to grab a few ciders. We love cider, not as good as cider from the Apple Family from what I’ve heard but it’s still pretty good. Though this was special cider it was alcoholic. My parents both had alcohol when they turned 18 so I figured I should do the same. Besides I’ve had sips of alcoholic ciders before and find them to be pretty good.  “So you girls having fun.” Octavia asked. Since this was a out of school event she was allowed to attend despite the thoughts of the nobles of non unicorns attending. “Of course this is right on girl.” Vinyl said. “Yes I suppose this is quite fun.” Octavia said. “Well duh we get to have fun and enjoy drinks, what could be better to do with friends.” Lyra said. We then went to grab ourselves some food. We enjoyed hamburgers and hay fries. It is weird that I can eat grass as my parents never let me. They said since they didn’t know my biology enough they thought grass was unsafe for my diet. Oh how wrong they are from what I’ve heard grass is an essential part of a ponies diet due to the calcium and minerals in it. Which is why my parents had me take this pill that contained a drugged version of the calcium and minerals. It never bothered me but I would much rather eat grass than that pill. It just tastes better. We also got some dessert which had a variety of options such as cakes which was very fun. I do have a bit of a sweet tooth after all. Lyra then spotted a photo booth and rushed us over. “Okay okay.” Vinyl said. We then began to take lots of pictures with various fashion objects, some graduation fashionable things like graduation hats or signs saying we graduated along with streamers to throw. We took some decent photos. It was very fun. We then went up to the stage it was time for us to sing our new song that we wrote. “Attention everyone as you all know my accomplice and I have a love for the musical sense and so we wrote a song that we’d like you all to enjoy. We got permission from the board to do so. And we hope you all like it.” I said The music then began to play and everyone began to dance to this new song “Oh You can dance you can jive Having the time of your life Ooh, see that girl, watch that scene Digging the dancing queen We began to sing the song and everyone loved it. And we personally loved getting to sing the song. It was well worth it. We then went back to Lyra’s place where her parents aren’t home because on a trip to Manhattan Lyra couldn’t go due to school. That and she would much rather celebrate my birthday with me instead. We began to do what we usually do, some facials with relaxing music as well as doing our hair. I did a blow out. I won't lie, it looks really good. We took some pictures for the memories. Afterwards we began to watch a funny movie called the Goonies. It finally came out on tape and we’re enjoying it. We especially love the humor in all the jokes. It’s pretty funny and it’s fun getting to enjoy this with my friends. Afterwards we got ready for bed since it was getting late.  “You know girls yawn I’m glad we met.” I said while smiling. “Same here girl.” Vinyl said. “Yeah you girls are the best.” Lyra said. “Yes I suppose it was rather nice getting to meet you.” Octavia said. I just smiled happily at the thought of my friends getting to celebrate this birthday with me and went to bed.