Notes Of Time:
Chapter 22- Early Bird Cuddler:
Octave was sleeping peacefully at the delightfully early time of six o’clock in the morning. Silence had filled the entire house until…
“Awe you asweep?” Comet Trail poked Octave’s nose curiously. She got no response, as the semi-classy filly was out of it.
Comet Trail along with her mother, Starlight, were early risers on a regular basis. They did everything other pony families did when they woke up…only two hours earlier that’s all.
“Comet Trail, leave her alone!” Starlight whispered to her daughter.
“Okay.” Comet replied back in a whisper, before hopping off of the bed, and joining her mother into the kitchen.
Thirty more minutes had passed, and Octave’s nose was beginning to pick up inviting aromas from their kitchen as she continued sleeping. Slowly but surely it would eventually cause her to wake up due to her mind’s natural curiosity. Eventually Comet Trail decided to check back with Octave like she was her sister or something.
“Um…awe you asweep?”
Octave groaned, starting to feel bothered by the small filly now. “Leave me alone…” she said, covering her face with more of the cover.
“I’ll do what mommy does to me...” Comet trailed off, getting a bit closer to her now.
“What is that…” Octave wondered, feeling a bit annoyed now by the filly.
“Mommy kisses me a lot until I wake up.”
“Okay, okay…” Octave then slowly and steadily rose up, still covering her face with the pillow over it.
“Mowning sweepyhead!”
“Ugh! Can’t you just-” Starlight then poked her head through the cracked doorway checking on Octave.
“I see that she’s woke you up?” she giggled.
“Yeah…why?” Octave wondered in a sleepy tone of her voice.
“She’s just good spirited is all. We don’t have many guests over here, only Flitter and her sister most of the time. If you want to sleep some more, I’ll get her out of your mane.” Starlight replied.
“Thank you Star.”
“Anytime…come on now Comet, she needs her rest.”
Comet then stands up on the bed facing her mother. “Can I cuddle with my fwiend? Pwease?”
“Octave?”
“I don’t even care anymore…” Octave replied in a low tone, covering herself up again.
“Ya-”
“Shhh! Hush sweetie, she’s wanting to sleep. You really like to snuggle don’t you? You do that a lot with me and Flitter.” Starlight giggled at her adorable daughter standing up with those little legs on top of the bed sheets looking back at her in a partially lit room. The only source of light was from the cracked bedroom door.
“But she’s pwetty too, just like you mommy.” Comet smiled real big.
“Well…okay then…but don’t you dare try and wake her up, understood Comet Trail?”
“I pwomise.” She nods.
With that said, Starlight then began to close the bedroom door on them both, and made her way back into the kitchen.
Comet looked back at Octave, whose face was covered up by the pillow, only revealing her mouth and nose to breath from below it. The rest of her body was completely covered up by the warm covers over the bed, which Comet proceeds to then get under next to her. She looked at Octave with curiosity again blinking a time or two. She then got even closer to her and then curled back up next to her, leaving only her head exposed out from under the covers beside Octave.
“Um…hewwo?”
“What did she just say?” Octave mumbled to her.
“Oh wight…sowwy.” Comet whispered close to her ear, before managing to relax next to her after some quiet time. She heard Octave inhale then exhale softly, which seemed to make Comet yawn.
“What’s your mommy wike? Is she pwetty wike you?” Comet Trail asked, after being told to be quiet.
“This is the last thing I will answer you about…my mother is very nice yes…and secondly…ah just forget it.” Octave replied a bit bothered by her now, but Comet trail didn’t understand that she wasn’t a morning pony to begin with.
“I’m sowwy…I’ll be quiet wike mommy said.”
Comet Trail was unique all her own, and her mother simply told her that so she would feel special, and hopefully that might fill in the gap of her heart of never knowing her father. Her personality was something of being quite a lovable filly her age, and didn’t really care much on what others thought. If she ever wanted to do something, she went ahead and did it. She would occasionally have her hardheaded moments like her mother from time to time, due to the fact that Starlight was in the military at one time. But overall, Comet Trail wanted to know what it would have been like if she had a sister, but chances were she would never get to live that chance out anywhere in her lifetime.
“I want a sistew.” Comet said to herself quietly, but Octave managing to overhear her since she herself wasn’t back asleep yet.
“So…no wonder…” Octave thought. “She doesn’t like to be alone I guess…she…she wants to just have somepony to be with her for company. I guess she just loves having company around her or something.” She thought to herself once more.