Chapter 2 – Friends of my friend
Twilight nuzzles her face to the happy filly as she places her back into the high chair with a sigh, “Ok, lets begin.”
You wave your hoof at Twilight as you talk, "Wait, you said closest friends?"
Twilight blinks at you for a moment before she nods her head.
You look back to the two mares and small dragon that stand in front of you, "I only have like three friends?" You squint at them in disbelief.
“Hey...” Spike looks a little disappointed as he crosses arms.
Rarity fluffs at her mane as she talks, "Hmpf, I see you have no respect for good taste."
Rainbow stretches her wings as her tomboyish voice pokes fun at you, “HA, told ya you needed more friends.”
You chuckle as you talk back, "How long have I been here again ?" You look to Twilight as you wait for an answer.
She searches the room for an answer for a moment before she talks, "About nine months." She sheepishly lows her ears to her own words.
Nine months? You think hard about her words for a moment before you speak up, "Nine months and we have a foal?"
Everypony in the room shifts a little uneasy at the statement. Rarity pretends to fluff her mane, Rainbow kicks at the ground with her hooves not waiting to look up and Spike tries to study his claws instead of listen.
Twilight holds her mouth open speechless, "um...well...we uh...we moved a little fast." She brings her head down as she finishes her statement.
You sit in the chair not really able to think, "fast? I don't even see how it is possible."
Twilight tries to answer as she talks from staring at the ground, "Well, we met a little while before that whe-.."
You can't stop yourself from talking over Twilight as your mind tries to make sense of what you were just told. Only two days ago were you told that you had any kind of life like this; and then the day after that you were pounded by questions by a god-ruler who apparently can raise the sun.
"Did I really not leave the house or something?" You laugh again as you point your hoof around the room, "I mean, I have a kid, only three friends and a...are we married?"
Twilight's voice stutters a little as she answers lowly, "um...no."
You blink at her for a second, your comment seems to have stuck a chord with her as her face takes on a saddened look. Her ears flop down a little and she has her gaze set on the floor.
“Um, Twilight...would you like us to come back?" Rarity holds her hoof out lightly to her friend as she waits for a response.
Twilight quickly brings her head up as she talks, "No, i'm fine." She looks to you as she lowers her voice to be more serious, "Do you want to try?”
You stare at her soft purple eyes for a moment as the uneasy feeling of not knowing anything start to creep back into you like it has the last few days, you have no other option but to nod your head.
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"..No...."
"....No...."
"....No."
You rub your head as you listen to the hundredth question of the day directed to you from the cyan pegasus...."Do I remember walking around a forest for a whole day?"
Rainbow nods her head as she talks, "Yes."
You give a chuckle to her comment as you look to Twilight, "Did I ever leave the house for...for anything?"
Twilight looks back as she hold the bottle for Violet, "I don't think you liked leaving."
You cross your front legs as you lean back in your chair, "my life sucked...."
"Oh come on darling, I mean really. You have done countless things." Rarity stumbles over her words as she tries to still sound enthusiastic, "...just not really with anypony but Twilight."
You and Twilight both give each other a look as Rarity’s words hit you both. But as your eyes meet the lavender mare's eyes you have to look away...the truth is that you believe everything that you have heard over the last few days, but you have not really had a moment to just really think over everything.
You quite the uneasy stomach tingling that you get from all of the stuff you hear start to come over you like the last few days.
Rainbow stands from the chair from her chair as she talks, "Why don't you two just go on a vacation or something?"
You squint to her comment, go on a vacation to an unfamiliar place with a mare you don't know and a baby you don't remember having...ya, we would have a great story to tell anypony. Right as this comment comes to your mind you start to feel your depressed spirit fall even more.
Twilight giggles as she talks, "We wouldn't have anywhere to go any..-"
Before she can finish her sentence you stop listening to her as you catch a glimpse of Spikes face, he looks like he’s about to throw up. Before you can even raise your hoof the room echoes with the sound of a loud belch followed by a green flame.
As the flame settles you look back to the little dragon in confusion, "What the hell?"
Spike holds up a piece of paper as he reads it over, "Uh, Twilight?"
He hands the paper over to Twilight but you don't follow the pass as you look over the little dragon, did he just throw up fire and a piece of paper?
Twilight looks over the paper in her hooves before she gives a loud laugh, "Is Celestia trying to be funny?"
Rainbow and Rarity crowded around Twilight as they try to read the paper.
"fantaisie gras?" Rainbow squints at the paper, "What the hay is that?"
Rarity snatches the paper from Twilight's hooves as she lets out a girlish squeal, "fantaisie gras? What kind of mare are you!" Rarity holds the paper up in the air as she wiggles it around.
Rainbow points her hoof at Rarity as she looks at Twilight, "You know what shes talking about?"
Violet follows Rarity's wiggle with her own happy wiggling legs. You smile as you notice the little filly.
Rarity puts the paper closer to her face as she tries to read it through a giddy girly whimper. After a moment she looks back up, "Twilight! Please!"
Twilight shakes her head as she tries to take the paper from Rarity.
But The white mare holds the paper from her as she talks in a whiny voice, "What do you mean no?"
Twilight again reaches for the paper.
As Rarity leans back more Spike grabs the paper and reads it out loud, "Dear my most faithful student Twilight, I ask you to take these two royal invites to fantaisie gras." He squints at the paper for a few more seconds, "Um...Twilight here."
Rarity pulls at her curly mane as the letter is passed back to Twilight, the curls on Rarity mane start to straighten as Twilight looks over the letter silently.
You stare between Rarity's actions and Twilight's own sarcastic laughing voice as she talks, "Celestia wants us to go on a vacation to help?"
Twilight hoofs the letter back to Spike, "Spike, please send this back."
Rarity lunges at the paper, "No! You can't!" She flails her legs to the letter as Spike tries to keep it from the mare that now is pressed up against himself.
Rainbow squints at Twilight as she gives a little tomboyish snicker, "Why would you turn down a free trip."
Rarity cuts Twilight off before she could speak, "Because she just wants to make me jealous."
"Rarity?" Twilight stares at her friend as she talks.
"What, why else would you not go?"
Your confusion faintly peeks as you talk, "What is that?"
Rarity's eyes widen as her voice softens and she brings herself to rest on Spike, who struggles to support the mare's dramatic pose, "fantaisie gras is the most elegant, romantic, lovely, expensive, and exclusive hotel and spa in all of equest-"
Twilight takes the letter from Spike as he falls over with Rarity on top of him bringing the day dreaming mare's rant to a halt, "Exactly, and we don't' need the Princess to send us there."
Rainbow laughs as she stares at Twilight, "Why? Its not like he would remember it anyways."
"Hey?" You hold your hoof to the cyan mare.
Rainbow shrugs at you, "Well I don't know how a mule brain works." She hold her smirk to you as she waits for your reaction.
You roll your eyes at her comment, what's with ponies and mules?
Twilight holds the letter in her hoof as she stands next to Violet, "We can't go, we need to continue working on getting your memory back.." she points her hoof to you. "...We need to find a better book on hoof language, and beside that we don't even have anypony to watch Violet." She hoofs the letter again to Spike as he makes his way out from under Rarity.
Rarity cups her hooves together in a pleading pray as she talks, "me or Rainbow can watch Violet. Just don't pass up this! I could not bear to live in this town knowing one of my friends was offered this trip!"
Rainbow eyes widen to the comment, “Whoa whoa whoa, I am not changing any diapers.”
Rarity pokes her with her hoof a little annoyed as she stares at the cyan pegasus.
Rainbow quickly changes her comment as her tomboyish voice picks up, “But you two should, how hard can watching a foul be?”
The bottle Violet was drinking early is thrown across the room as the wiggling filly shows her input to Rainbow with an over enthusiastic baby smile.
"Violet?" Twilight walks over to the bottle as she picks it up.
"Twilight please?" Rarity blinks her starry eyes to her friend as she gets closer.
.
Twilight shakes her head as she walks over to the table you sit at and places the bottle down.
You no longer listen to their conversation as you take the letter from her hoof and start to read it, Most of the stuff you don't really care about but a few days away from this library where time seems to not follow any rules sounds good.
You look back up to the three mares that now try are trying helplessly to convince each other, "Why not?"
Twilight stops as she looks back to you almost shocked, "Y-you want to go?"
You shrug as you hold the letter up, "Well the way I see it I never leave this house...and if I do it seems like something bad always happens. So why not do something different?"
Twilight thinks it over for a moment but quickly shakes her head, "We don't have any pony to watch Vio...-"
Rainbow and Rarity scramble to talk as Twilight's words exit her mouth.
"Well...”
Rarity silences Rainbow as she waits with a growing smile to Twilight pause.
The cyan mare moves back from the white mares hoof that rest at her mouth, “UGh, do you wash the soap off Rarity?”
“Shh.” Rarity again holds her hoof to Rainbow as Twilight taps her hoof to her mouth in thought.
“...if we go to Canterlot we need to do something, and I know where Violet can stay."
Twilight walks over to Violet as she continue, "Are you sure you want to go?"
Not have forced memories for a few days? And maybe be able to relax for a few minutes, "Yes."
Twilight gives a low exhale, "Ok, then lets pack."
You squint at her comment, "Pack?"
Twilight holds the paper up to Spike, "Yes, the letter says the train leaves at twelve."
Spike takes the letter as he scratches his head, "Uh, that's in like one hour?"
Twilight picks Violet up from her chair, "Yes, so get packing."
I guess when a god-ruler tells you to do something...you do it. You stand from your seat as you hold this thought.
End of chapter 2