//------------------------------// // Entry 13: Too much crying // Story: Journal of the Princess of the Night // by Basmati //------------------------------// This morning, I woke up completely refreshed from last night. Of course, I still had the memories - quite vivid ones of Tia - so I didn't really feel like seeing Tia. Unfortunately, the quickest way to the dining room is to go past her room, and I was starving and I did not want to take the longer way. So I decided to take my chance and go for it. I was walking past Tia's room when all of a sudden, I heard this loud cry. I froze, not sure what was going on. That was definitely my sister, but after last night, I had very much learnt my lesson about walking into a room unannounced when Celestia is in there. I knocked on Tia's door. "Tia?" Tia sat on her bed, completely surround by tissues, bawling. "What happened?" I said, running towards her. She stopped crying for a moment, taking in deep breaths, and levitated a letter for me to read. I looked at the parchment in front of me. It was completely soaked and the ink had run so much all I could make out was 'fun', 'not working', 'tied down', 'Equestria', 'over', and finally 'Lucky'. "Tia...I can't read this. What happened?" "He...he...HE DUMPED ME!" She burst into even louder tears, and turned to sob into her pillow. Her horn started glowing and all of a sudden, the pastle curtains around her four poster shut dramatically. "Tia..." I said, walking up closer to her bed. "Don't do this. Where's the Tia that we all love? The one that will make inapproprate comments about Gem and I? The one that will go to a party and come back completely drunk? The one who gets on my nerves all the time, but is still my only sister and will always be there for me?" Tia stopped crying, and started sniffing, but still made no sound. "Tia?" I said, pulling the curtain back. Tia turned towards me, sighed then wiped her eyes. "Here." "Good." I smiled. I'm getting better at this comforting thing. "Come on. Let's go and get some breakfast." I started walking towards the door. "You go. I'll follow in a minute." "Ok. See you soon. I'll try not eat all the pancakes." I spent some time in the dining room - I quite like food, and who's going to tell a princess to stop eating? Yeah, that's right - nopony. It's the same with Tia. It's not really well-known, but Tia loves cake. And I mean loves it. She would marry that stuff if she could. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if she had already tried. As I was leaving, a guard came running up to me, slightly out of breath. "Your Highness!" he said. "Mr Gemini has come to see you." Of course he would. I love Gem so much, but I was sure that he of all ponies did not want to see Tia. Especially after what happened last night. I didn't even want to see Tia after what happened last night. "Thank you for informing me," I said, remembering my manners. "Can you escort me there please?" "Of course, Your Highness," he said, bowing low. I rolled my eyes. No matter how many times I tell them how much I hate the formalities they still cannot stop. Anyway, I digress... He turned around and escorted me to Main Library, where I saw Gem standing next to one of the bookcase, hovering a book in front of him. I sighed as I saw him - he had his reading glasses on and I've always had a certain...like for them. Then I remembered that the guard was still standing beside me, which then lead to my cheeks going bright red. I cleared my throat and turned to him. "Thank you," I said. I started walking into the library, and Gem caught sight of me. "Good morning Luna," he said, smiling, gently lowering the book down and taking his glasses off. Part of me almost shouted for him to keep them on, but I was able to show some self-restrain. He walked over to me and kissed me on the cheek. "I came by to check on how you were doing after last night," he explained after I asked him why he had come. "I'm fine - don't worry about me. How are you?" "I'm fine - why wouldn't I be?" I didn't want to mention it, but I was certainly sure that seeing, even if only for a few seconds, your girlfriend's sister having sex would mess you up a little bit. Not to mention that Celestia is also one of the rulers of his country. That would certainly mess some ponies up. "No reason." He suddenly looked serious. "I also wanted to talk to you about what you said yesterday. About how you were...ready." "Gem, I-" He raised his hoof up, silencing me, and lowered his voice. "I do not want you to do anything you're not completely ready for just for me. I honestly want you to be one hundred percent sure before we do anything." "Gemini," I said, stroking his mane. "I love you - you know that. I am ready - not right here, right now of course. Don't worry about me. If I have the slightest hestitation, I will tell you. Believe me." He smiled at me - that brilliant smile of his - and he wrapped his arms around me embracing me tightly. The best thing about Gem is that I can spend as much time with him as I possibly can and still never get tired of him. We sat down together in the drawing room, just enjoying each others' company. There are days when you can have an entire's day worth of events planned, but sometimes it is just best to relax and take a break with those you love. "Wait a minute." I had just remembered something. Or I should say somepony. "Where's Tia?" "Celestia?" Gem said. "Why do you ask?" I told him about what happened this morning and he stood silent, just listening. "How long has she been there?" "Must be an hour or two now." "We should probably go and see if she's ok." We ran down the hallways, towards the something wing, towards our rooms. I hadn't seen her for about an hour now, and I was getting worried. I had never seen her like this before - she was in a state. And in this state, she could anything, to herself or anypony else. It scared me. Quite a bit. "Tia?!" I shouted, bursting into her room. "Oh my stars," Gem said, in reply to the sight she saw in the room. Tia was sprawled across the floor, completely out of it. Around her must have been close to a hundred empty bottles of cider, just lying around everywhere. There were even a few that were broken. "Tia? What the hell...?" I said, as I stepped through the maze of bottles. "Hmmm..." was the only reply. I sighed. "Great." I walked over to my pain-in-the-arse of a sister and started poking her face, hoping that she would respond in some way or even wake up. I turned to Gem. "There's nothing else for it. We're going to have to lift her on to the bed." I walked up to her, and crouched down, taking Tia's front hooves, hoping that Gem would come and help me. But no, he didn't. He just stood there, staring at me in disbelief. "Err...Luna..." he said, looking quite confused. He raised his hoof up to the top of his head and tapped his horn. "Oh yeah," I said, blushing once again. I stood back and Gem and I both levitated her onto her bed, where she instantly started snoring. "I'm related to that," I said, staring at her, shaking my head. Gem laughed. "I'll leave you two to your bonding time." He kissed my cheek and left. I wanted to be so furious at Tia, but it wasn't her fault. It was that stupid Lucky Penny. I had half a mind to send a squadron of guards to his big fancy house and ram the door down. But of course, I couldn't. It would be against some limitation on our powers, and might even, in a worst case scenario, start some kind of civil war, ending in the eventual overthrowing of Tia and I and maybe even our executions. That was a tall price to pay just for some revenge. So I decided to write a letter. Because it's the only thing I'm actually good at. I haven't actually sent it yet. I just keep thinking it's not my place. But then I'll hear Celestia's drunken mumbling, and start rolling up the scroll again. The letter itself isn't a masterpiece. I tried extremely hard not to compare him to things, and not to insult his mother, and I think I managed it. I'm quite proud of myself. I don't care who he thinks he is - Tia is my sister, and the only person who can upset her is me. That came out wrong. I mean, I stick up for her - no one messes with my sister. Or they have to answer to me. Or one of my strongly worded letters. Okay, that's it. I'm sending it. Wish me luck.