We stayed a bit longer than we should have and I had to drag Brenda off the boat around midnight to go back home.
"We can go back next weekend," I suggested as we walked toward the car. The parking lot was very well lit.
"Okay, but you know we have enough now that you can call your boss and quit your job," she stated. "You can call in tomorrow, can't you?"
"I actually like my job, Brenda. At the very least, I owe it to them to come in on a Monday -- that's always the busiest day on my job and they don't have enough people to cover my route," I protested.
Brenda sighed in resignation. "I'm quitting my job tomorrow, so you can sleep in a little bit longer," she stated flatly. "That big chunk of gold is still down there and we can sell the rest of it and that chair, too. That should be enough money for us to retire on! You shouldn't have to keep working, Mike!"
"What did I tell you? I like my job and I want to keep working there," I replied firmly.
"Okay, fine. Just don't turn back into a pony, okay?"
"All right, fine. I kinda liked being Twilight, though," I mused.
"That was just too damned weird for me, Mike," she said flatly as we made it to the car.
We got in and I had the car teleport us back home, saving us a three hour drive. We went into the house and straight to bed. I set the alarm clock for 6:15 AM and climbed into bed, once again noticing the much improved softness. "Remind me to thank Princess Celestia again for giving me a new bed," I thought to myself as I drifted off to sleep.
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I was woken at 6:15 AM by Bob and Tom chuckling at something stupid once again. I tried to get up, but noticed I had a hard time pulling the cover off my body. Instinctively, I lit my horn and used telekinesis to magically lift the cover off my body. I almost screamed, half in shock and surprise, half in jubilation at my freshly transformed self.
I was back in Twilight's body! How in Tartarus did THAT happen?
Then it hit me -- I had to be at work at 8:00 AM! What are they going to think of me? Can I pull this off? I used telekinesis to turn off the alarm clock, then I trotted to the bathroom to take care of my personal hygiene, took a shower and brushed my teeth. I brushed out my coat, mane and tail and trotted back into the bedroom.
"Um, Brenda, you're not going to believe this ..." I stated, my higher-pitched voice startling her.
"Dammit, Mike, why'd you have to go and do THAT again?!" she shouted at me.
"I don't know how it happened, Brenda! Don't blame me for this!" I retorted sharply. I lit my horn in defiant anger and scowled at her.
"What are you doing that for? You gonna use magic against me? How fair is that?" she asked, almost fearfully.
I calmed down and silenced my horn momentarily. "Sorry, Brenda, but it's just that ..."
"Don't ever do that again, Mike! I don't care if you can use magic, you know better than to threaten people!" she said angrily.
'Look, I'm sorry, okay? I lost my temper. I'll try to control it better, but remember that you threatened me, too, and you've done that a great many times in the past. Maybe I might not return home tonight, who knows?" I mused.
"What's THAT supposed to mean? That you're going to leave me? See if I care," she replied flatly.
"And what if I'm gone forever and never come back? What then?" I asked, anger creeping back into my voice.
"You think you're the only man in my life? I have other friends I've been seeing during the weekends you've taken me to my friend's house on Saturdays. I'll bet you probably knew that, but I'm telling it to you now. So what? You wanna leave? Go ahead, it's fine by me. And thanks for the gold, I can pay off the house and get a new place to stay."
"Yeah, yeah, whatever. I'm off to work, seeya later," I said, completely disgusted by my wife's confession of infidelity, and trudged down the stairs. It struck me that I needed my wallet and car keys, so I trudged back up the stairs and fetched the needed items. I needed a pouch of some type to carry the items so I wouldn't waste my magic using telekinesis to constantly carry things. "This is going to be harder than I thought," I silently mused. I figured I could probably create what I needed by taking an existing object and rearranging its molecules to form what I needed, so I took a shirt I no longer wore on a regular basis and changed its color and shape to make a pouch and strap to hang around my neck so I could carry some stuff. I then got into the car, which had trouble recognizing me until I spoke to it.
"Where are we going today, Twilight?" the car asked me.
"To my job," I stated flatly.
"Please state the address of your workplace." I did so, and the car teleported me there. "Magic battery level, 91 per cent," came the flat voice from the speakers. I got out and locked up the car, trotting up to the front door of the station and knocked on the door with my right fore-hoof. One of my co-workers opened the door for me, then promptly slammed it in my face. "Looks like they're not gonna let me in through the employee entrance," I thought. I trotted to the front door, which was unlocked, opened it with my telekinesis and trotted inside. I pushed the customer service button on the wall with my right fore-hoof which sounded a loud buzzer in the warehouse. The station operations manager came to the front desk and gave me a very quizzical look.