//------------------------------// // Chapter 1: The spot // Story: The Magic of Laughter // by Don Pony //------------------------------// It was a pretty, warm, typical spring day in Ponyville. Everypony was on the streets doing their daily activities, Rose had just placed her cart full of flowers with astonishing colors, Octavia playing her chello outside which let everypony hear her music, and Lyra just sitting on a bench, thinking if some hands would help the mailmare to do a better job. Mixed with the flowers there was an aroma of sweetness and fresh cupcakes coming from a place where nopony would deny to eat from. Inside the Sugarcube Corner, the Cakes were crazy handling all the orders that almost everypony in the town wanted to place at almost the same time, making the bakers work even harder than any other day; there were so many ponies that even the mayor had to be in the line in order to buy something. But everypony was working hard and helping each other, Mr. Cake was in charge of the mixtures, Mrs. Cake of the frosting and decoration of everthing that got out of the oven, and Pinkie Pie of the sweets and the baking process. Suddenly Pinkie Pie noticed the clock standing on the wall indicating the time: 12:00 P.M. "Oh shoot! I'm late!" she said while taking the apron she was wearing. "Pinkie, were are you going? Don't you see we all have our hooves full?" Mrs. Cake had been frosting cupcake after cupcake in a line that didn't seemed to end. "I'm so sorry Mrs. Cake. But is Thursday and I'm already late" A flash of pink left the building holding a basket on her mouth, leaving the poor bakers with the desperate costumers. Pinkie Pie was jumping happily towards Town Square for her weekly appointment with her very special friend: Twilight Sparkle. It's been almost a year since every Thursday at 12:00 P.M. they saw each other on the same bench near the fountain. A year ago Pinkie Pie saw Twilight Sparkle heading the bench with a book and she wanted to give her company so she wouldn't feel alone being the new pony in town. Since then they arranged to see each other the same day at the same place. Although most of the reunions go the same way: Twilight reading a book while hearing Pinkie saying lots of random things. But some days they just talked for hours and hours until Luna's stars shined on the dark sky. "Oh hi Pinkie Pie, I was waiting for you" Twilight greeted her friend who had just arrived on the usual spot. "Twilight, I had a great idea while working on the Sugarcube Corner" she responded giving Twilight a purple cupcake from the basket. "I can't wait to hear it" Said Twilight while opening the book and giving a bite to the cupcake. "Remember the spell that can make us walk on clouds? What if we find a spell that makes us BOUNCE on them? And then we use the party cannon to reach the clouds and go *pump pump pump pump* from cloud to cloud until we get to Canterlot... But what if we RAN OUT of clouds?! Then we need Rainbow Dash to..." Pinkie Pie went on and on with her cloud idea, and jumped into other ideas without finishing one. She spoke for almost an hour while the unicorn only nodded and say "aha" every once in a while. "... And then a giant cupcake can be in the town. But what if it turns to be a cupcake monster?! How would you even fight back to that? or would you just eat it?" Finally, Pinkie Pie noticed she was pretty much talking alone the whole time. She stood up and took the book away so her friend could snap out of her trance. "Twilight, can I ask you a question? Why do you come here when you can read in your library? If it is because of me, don't worry, you don't have to come if it bothers you" The purple one had just finally realized she was ignoring her friend the whole time "I'm sorry Pinkie. It's just that some times I get too into my books that i forget I'm with ponies around. You have my full attention now" Pinkie Pie smiled, jumped and sat right next to her friend "That's great because I got a great game we could play: Truth or truth" "Don't you mean truth or dare?" "Nope, truth or truth is a totally different game. We ask each other questions and if you are lying or you don't answer the question you drink this whole bottle of hot sauce" "So, we just ask each other questions... Okay, Pinkie, ask away" "That's sooo great... okay, what should I ask?... Uh, what's your favorite kind of cupcake? No, I already know that... Is it true that Spike has a crush on Rarity? No, you promised not say... Aha! Do you have a very special somepony?" The earth pony's eyes were devilishly looking into the unicorn eyes. Twilight startled with the question and started to blush. "Pinkie! That's not something you ask somepony just like that!" "Are you refusing to answer?" Pinkie took the bottle of hot sauce. "Okay, okay. No, I don't have a very special somepony" Pinkie Pie started to laugh, not to Twilight's answer but to her reaction "It's your turn" It was the unicorns payb It was the unicorns payback time "Same question. Do you have a very special somepony?" "No" Pinkie Pie didn't even thought for a second, there was not a single reaction to it. "Okay, it's me again. Do you like somepony?" Pinkie hit bull's eyes again. The whole body of Twilight was as red as BigMac's. "Y-Yes..." she whispered. Pinkie Pie started to unroll the bottle of hot sauce "Fine! Yes, I do like somepony!" "Who is it? Who is it?! Tell me, tell me!" the earth pony started to bounce demanding her answer. "I can't remember... is my turn now" She dodged the bullet. She tried to think of another question, but after the relief of not evading the other one she couldn't think of another "Do... you... like... somepony?" "Wow, Twilight. You are not very good at this game, are you? The answer is yes" She liked somepony? Of all of Twilight friends Pinkie Pie was the one she would never imagine going after somepony else, also, who would this pony be? Maybe in the next round she might have the answer. "Now, Twi. Do you miss anything?" A weird question, at least not one that made Twilight blush. "Well, yes I do. My smarty pants doll. After... the spell, I never found it again. I had it since I was a filly and it was actually the only doll I had. Just like Shining Armor was the only friend I had" Twilight eyes filled with nostalgia as she spoke, Pinkie didn't miss a single word she said. "And you Pinkie Pie. Do you miss being in the rock farm?" Finally a question that make the curious one think for a moment. "Well, kind of, sometimes I miss my family. My mother making dinner, my father telling us stories, and my sisters always fighting on who had the prettiest mane. There was not much of smiling there, but it had a charm to me. The sunrises when the light of the sun touched the rocks was definitely something I wont forget; all of the rocks shining at the same time, it was like stars twinkling in the ground" Twilight was surprised of how profound her friend sounded. It was completely weird, never before have she gone so serious about something, nor have she lost the high pitch of her voice. It was like a somepony else entirely "But I would never give you away. I'm happy here... I mean with you all". Pinkie finally blushed, mission accomplished. They hugged as the bell on the tower rang. "Oh darn. I forgot I had to go see Cheerilee. She wanted me to prepare a class about magic. See you next week, at the same time" Twilight left while Pinkie Pie was waving her good bye "So she misses her doll, huh?" Said Pinkie Pie to herself as she headed into town.