I woke up the next morning muzzle to muzzle with Twilight. This freaked me out a little, I made one small movement and she woke up. She saw me and smiled.
“Good morning.” She said in a tired, but joyful, tone.
“G-good morning.” I was still in a little shock that I had woken up like that.
“So what’s first on our agenda?” she gazed deep into my eyes, I gazed back.
“Whatever you want to do.” She looked like she really cared.
“Well right now I'm hungry. You want to see what spike made this morning?” she also looked sorry, even with her happy tone, I could tell she was full of pity.
“Spike cooks?” I didn’t know her little brother/son/employee/servant cooked.
“Yeah, and he isn’t that bad either. So whadaya say?” she sat up.
“Let’s go eat.” I got up after her and followed her to the kitchen.
As soon as we opened the bedroom door our snouts were bombarded with all sorts of smells. I tried to pick some out and came up with a short list: eggs, pancakes, waffles, pastries, and assorted fruits. All of these smells were mixed together to make all sorts of combinations and when we got to the kitchen we saw that’s exactly what spike had done, he had taken a little bit of everything and put it with everything else.
“Spike, this is amazing. How did you make this all so fast, you normally sleep in till noon?”
“I did, its 2 in the afternoon.” He said as he moved the eggs he had in a skillet.
“how did I sleep that late, I should have been up at 8, I'm probably behind on my work now and I’ll have to cram everything together to get it all done and-" she was starting to panic, obviously she was a very organized pony and when she ran into a problem she had no control over, she kinda freaked.
“Twilight.” I put a hoof over her shoulder “it’ll all be fine.” She looked into my eyes for a minute.
“Yeah, thanks, silver, I needed that.” She gave me a small hug then sat down.
“Is everything ok, Twilight?” Fixinit walked into the room, I watched him carefully.
“Yeah, I'm alright, Silver helped me not go crazy.” She patted my hoof, I never stopped watching Fixinit.
“So, spike, what’s for lunch?” he took a seat across from me.
“Take your pick, whatever’s there.” Spike waved his spatula around, gesturing to the table.
“Great.” Fixinit dug in, I watched him eat for a minute, I then slowly started to eat myself.
The food really was delicious. I had a little of everything with a side of whatever I hadn’t already had. We ate for the next few minutes, then Fixinit got up.
“Well, it’s time for me to go.”
“You’re leaving?” I don’t think I sounded like I would miss him, but I guess that’s how he took it.
“Don’t worry; I’ll be back in time for dinner.” And with that he walked out the door yelling back “adios, amigos.”
“What was that?” I didn’t speak Prench.
“He said ‘goodbye, friends’ why?”
“Oh, I just don’t speak Prench, that’s all.” She chuckled a little “what? Just because you’re a super smart pony doesn’t mean that everypony else knows everything.”
“Oh, no that’s not it.” she calmed down.
“Then what is it?” I asked.
“He wasn’t speaking Prench.”
“What was he speaking? Maredarin? Haytian? Filla?”
“No, just forget it.” she chuckled some more.
“Ok, well, what’s planned for today?” I knew I had nothing planned.
“I have some books to sort, a few papers to fill out, and maybe a little reading.”
“Well I have nothing to do so I might as well help.”
“sure.” We got to work sorting books and putting them back in the right place.
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After about three hours we had the entire library neat and sorted. It was actually a much harder job than one would think. I hadn’t seen anypony in the library other than the four of us. I wonder how the books get so out of order. I decided to voice my thoughts to Twilight.
“Twilight, how did the books get mixed up? Besides me you Spike and Fixinit I haven’t seen any other ponies in here.” She turned and looked to me.
“They were in order, just the wrong order. Every once in a while I reorder all of the books. Today we ordered them by author, they were ordered by title.” She turned away and walked over to her desk to start her studies.
For the rest of the day I just bummed around, finding anything to entertain myself. I decided to go exploring, the tree house was much bigger than what I had previously been in. I walked around the first floor, there was a bathroom I hadn’t previously known of and a small room that looked to be a record room; I took a look at one of the papers, it read check out and return dates for different books. It seemed that business had declined over the past few months. I wonder why.
I then left that room how I found it, with papers scattered everywhere. I checked the second level. The only room up there I had really been in was twilights so I had a lot to do. I found another bathroom, a small room full of art, and a door on the ceiling. I thought it weird that a door would be up where nopony would be able to reach it, I used my wings to fly up to the small door and pulled it open, a ladder slid down from the opening, quite abruptly I might add. It hit the floor with a small thud.
I waited for twilight to come rushing out and yell at me but she never did. I then went up the ladder and into a large room; it looked like it was as big as the tree itself. ‘This must be the attic’ I thought.
I took a look around and saw many items of interest, there were some boxes with labels “up” and an arrow pointing up. There were old tables’ galore, and there was a piano. A grand piano, just sitting up here to rot. I was shocked that this fine instrument had been neglected for so long. I went up to it and hit a key, it rung as if it were brand new.
I loved the sound of a freshly tuned piano, it reminded me of spring, when all the different living things that rested under the blanket of the dreary, cold, winter came out to enjoy the warm of the first spring day. I started to play one of my favorite classical tunes, Piano Pony by Filly Joel. I always though it weird that a stallion would be named Filly, but he was quite popular. Piano Pony had always been my favorite classical song. When I finished the song I sat next to the piano and just thought. Then the unthinkable happened.