Twilight shouted back at the voice.
“It’s me, Twilight Sparkle! Could you please open the gate?”
Not even a minute later, the gate’s right door opened inwards with a loud clank, allowing Twilight to enter in the garden of Lex’s house.
“Come on in, Twilight!” the voice said “Lex was waiting just for you!”
Naturally, Twilight complied, and was accompionied by Lex’s mother as she walked in.
“Like it wasn’t predictable!” Twilight said chuckling “I wouldn’t doubt her collecting my photographs and locks of my mane!”
Fairy Floss chuckled back. “She doesn’t, not yet, but anything is possible!”
The couple of ponies reached the door of the house.
“Indeed,” Twilight went on, still giggling a bit at her own joke, while Fairy Floss turned down the knob and opened the door. “But so far, I think she has just tried to imitate me in other fields. You know, potty training, arts… things like that..”
Lex’s mother stepped on the floor made of tuscan ceramic tiles.
“Yes, she is trying to imitate you, honestly, I am thankful for that,” she said “I struggled so much to make her go to the bathroom at regular intervals! But now it’s a bit easier, she does it so much more pridefully now that she has her… ‘ personal example’ to follow."
Twilight blushed a little, while still walking on the stairs, whose walls around were covered in paintings of landscapes and famous ponies doing the deed they were most remembered for.
“Also, she is trying to improve her reading ability, though I doubt she will anywhere near to decent reading before Grade School!”
As she said that, Fairy Floss reached a door near the end of the stairs: there, the mare turned down the knob of a wooden door, opening it, and revealing the room behind.
In the room, in the far right corner, there was a low wooden table, set with a light blue paper tablecloth and with four orange bowls brim full of potatoes chips, popcorns, soft candies of every flavour, and little pieces of flatbread. Several bottles of fizzy drinks and water were still closed and waiting to be opened. Piles and piles of plastic dishes and glasses were stacked on a corner of the table. Twilight's little firends were all there, filling their dishes with the delicacies contained in the bowls.
There was also a green cheapy sofa in the middle of the room, where a blue mare with gray mane, thick glasses, a back tutor, and a wrinkly face guarded the kids.
Twilight showed no qualms in making her presence clear loudly.
"Hello everypony!"
As soon as Twilight's voice resonated in the room, four of the five little ponies stopped refilling their food and greeted Twilight with a simply “Hello.”
Unsurprisingly, Lex’s reaction was more intense, because she left the full dish she kept in her mouth fall on the floor, and shouted "Tiligh!" as ran towards her "sister."
Meanwhile, the old mare after giving a glare to Lex, said in a voice that, while shrill, could belong only to a revered mare "Gud evéning, Miss Twilaghtte."
The purple mare greeted back the old mare with a slight bow, before returning her attention to Lex, whom was hugging Twilight’s left leg, and making a slight noise that sounded a lot like a cat’s purring. Chuckling at the unrestrained show of affection from Lex, Twilight petted her mane, and said while wearing a warm smile.
“Well, hello there again, I see you’re happy to see me!”
The filly interrupted the contact a bit with her eyes wide and with an incredibily happy smile on her little face, she said excitedly “Come in!”
Twilight gladly complied, as the other foals had resumed filling their dishes with food. Twilight decided to do like them, and went to the low table to take a plastic dish and fill it with the oily flat bread contained in the bowl. As she did that, Twilight noticed in the corner of her eye that Orvosti was gesturing something towards her, but he failed to tell anything meaningful to Twilight, whom kept merrily taking food from the bowls.
After filling the plate with flat bread, Twilight looked around the room for a spot to settle down, until she found a suitable spot near where Pearly Handle and Lex were chatting.
“Hello!” Twilight said, sitting next to the two little little fillies, which were eating some soft mint-flavoured soft candies, and talking in-between each candy munching "What are you two talking about?"
Lex turned around, a little smile on her face. "Books!"
Pearly Handle slowly turned around, her face slightly red. "Y-yes, books... even if my daddy weads to me... I twied but can't."
The mare smiled at the motherpearl-coloured filly's embarassment, and patted her head, before saying.
"YOu still have time for learn how to read, Pearly. Anyway," Twilight took an interested stance, just in case of surprise in Lex's reading choices "what are you reading?"
"Karw Chisew comes fwom Waw," stated the filly innocently.
Twilight's eyes got a little bigger, and she turned slightly away.
"Did you just said... 'Karl Chisel Comes Back from War'?" She asked to the little filly.
The filly nodded, and Twilight, after yet another surge of surprise, sighed, and, faking a little smile, said.
"Well, that's a pretty complex book. You know... for big ponies like me."
"Dat is why I wead it!" She exclaiemd, excited, and clearly unable to read the discomfort of her favourite classmate.
Twilight bitterly chuckled, before saying.
"Well, that's very good, but.. I think there are better books for you," Twilight quickly thought about a reading that was both interesting, decently simple, and not too "mature", before finally finding a good book for Lex "maybe Porcus' 'Brief Mythological History of Litaly?' "
"Bwef Mith-logical of Witaly?" Lex repeated slowly, her eyes squinted.
"Yes, that," Twilight said quickly and clearly in embarassment.
"Okie!" Lex said.
Then, Twilight started to eat a piece of flatbread, and, while doing so, she thought.
"Hopefully I've convinced her into chnaging the book. I think that she has a lot to learn, before reading about the adventures of a sex-crazed captain around Roostia. Also, begin originally in old Prench, it might be well beyond her abilities to understand what she is reading."
That said, Twilight kept eating, as Lex returned to her conversation with Pearly. Naturally, Twilight could overhear the conversation.
"She said 'wead the what-now' ?" Asked Pearly Handle.
"'Bwef Mith-logicaw of Witaly,' dunno what is about."
"Maybe... munstahts? Heawd dat 'mith-logic' means 'about munstas.'"
Realizing that the conversation was heading into speculation, and since Twilight's did want to spoil the surprise, the purple mare got up, and started to eat flatbread while wandering around the room.
Then, when Twilight walked near the couch, she felt something slightly pulling her tail. Turning around annoyed, she saw the wrinkly old mare, smelling of roses and medicines, actually pulling her tail, and wearing an inquisitive look.
"So, iou are Twilaghtte Sparklè, righte?"
Twilight stared dumbfonded, at the thick accent of the old mare, and, naturally, the mare did not take it well.
"Icche c'è? Can iou not ùnderstande me?"
Twilight, after some more silent thinking, finally understood both the previous and the current question asked by the blue mare.
"Yes, I am Twilight SParkle and, yes, I'm sorry, but I can't understand you very well. What is your name, and why are you talking like that?"
"Oimmena!" She exclaiemd, annoyed "So' Massarosina, the nanni of Lecse, do you not recognizze me?"
"Well, no," Twilight said sheepisly, before getting her head back up again, an say a bit more assertively "but I had no way to say you were Massarosina, and not the grandma."
Massarosina nodded and pointed her hoof.
"Iou 'ave reahson, mi' error."
"Anyway," she said "What do you wish from me?"
Massarosina returned to her normal, calm-inducing, wrinkly face.
"Vell, iou see, Lecs has bēn taken by the mad beo aboout iou. She réads tings like té versione integralle off 'Illiride' and 'Visconte Dimezzato.' Vas questioning iffe iou pus-shed her."
Twilight's mind took a while in translating the words of the pidgin Equestrian that Massarosina was speaking now.
"ugh, how does anypony understands her?" Twilight thought, as she still processed "Then, again, maybe the mother is from the same town of Massarosina, and she translates for her most of the time. Also, I still can make out something, with some effort..."
Finally, after that struggle, the sentence made sense to Twilight, and she answered.
"Well, not outright pushed her, but, yeah, encouraged."
The old mare smiled.
"Vell, ten, lette me tank iou: tàt figliola is gettinghe smarterre dai after dai. She àlmost k-nows moré tàn me!"
Twilight, after few seconds of language processing, giggled.
"Thank you."
From the opposite side of the room, an excited shriek came.
"Anypony fow da 'Bottwe Game'!?"
Twilight and Massarosina turned around, and saw Orvosti putting a water bottle on the floor, while the foals gathered in a circle.
"Oimmena, do not tell mé tei are going to broom between témselves!"
Shrugging her shoulders, Twilight smiled a bit while walking towards the circle. “Meh, they’re all just little foals. They couldn’t think of much more than kissing or something."
Massarosina,cafter a moment of confused silence, left her mouth open in sudden illumination, before closing it and nodding. Meanwhile, Twilight sat down in the circle, and waited the exposition of the rules from Orvosti...
Apparently, according to Orvosti Ostoba, "The Bottle Game" was played like this: the spinner chose wheter ask a truth or propose a dare. Then the spinner spun the bottle, and then the pony pointed by the bottle's neck did or say what the spinner asked.
And, surprisingly for foals of their age, they actually kept an order, by giving ghe ability to spin to the one that had previoslu done what had been requested.
The highlights of this little game were that Bright Light was dared to wear two diapers at the same time and use them, Pearly Handle was forced by Olive to kiss Orvosti on the cheeck (and following cleaning ritual of Orvosti at the kiss), Olive was asked to drink as much fizzy drinks as he could, and Twilight was dared by Orvosti to wear a diaper, use it and enjoy "da gwon-up way."
Surprisingly, there were adult diaper in Lex's house (according to Massarosina, it was because Lex was worried about the status of the bladder of her big friend). However, that was not the biggest surprise for Twilight: it was the idea of Orvosti knowing what a non-incontinent mare could do with a wet diaper.
And that's why she was still awake long after everybody else at the party was asleep on the big inflatable mattress in the guest room.
"How does he know that? He is a little colt, he cannot have possibily have learned that all alone." Twilight murmured to herself, watching Orvosti Ostoba, wearing a yellow pyjama brought from home and a peeking light blue diaper, while he was lightly snoring.
"Somepony must have told him about that. But why do that? There is no pratical reason for tell a colt about female urine onanism, because he might start annoy his female peers."
A mad idea hit Twilight's mind.
"Wait, Orvosti is son of the Royal Judge. Maybe Princess Celestia asked his fahter to tell him about that, in the faint hope of..."
Twilight facehoofed at herself.
"No, Celestia isn't that insane, desperate, or stupid. She could not have done that. Then, again..."
Twilight yawned and felt her eyelids getting heavy.
"Maybe the night will bring me a solution," Twilight told to herself, while she closed her eyes "let's sleep now."