“So… you live in an orphanage… and just saying… you said you’d like a roof over your head for Christmas…” Posey commented, as she was simply playing a game of Super Smash Bros for the Wii U in Classic Mode.
“Well… I don’t really consider that orphanage much a home… and in some parts of it, there is actually no roof,” Sunset informed, watching Posey play, “So… does playing games run in the family?”
“Oh? Oh, well… it’s more of a hobby for me…” Posey admitted, “So… where is my itoko, anyway?”
Sunset gave a confused blink to Posey, not sure what she had just ask.
“What do you mean?” Sunset asked for clarification.
“Oh… itoko is Japanese for cousin.”
“Oh. Fluttery said she was going to meet up with some friends,” Sunset informed, with Posey at first, not noticing the nickname that Sunset had called her cousin.
“Okay, I… wait… ‘Fluttery’?”
“Did I just say that out loud?” Sunset blushed nervously.
“Hai.”
Sunset just tried her best to hide her blush, with Posey simply not sure what to think or say.
“So, itoko said that we managed to get her first wish completed,” Fluttershy told her friends, everyone but Dash giving her a confused look, “I’ve told you all before, itoko is cousin…”
“Oh right. Sorry about that,” the others, bar Dash, nervously chuckled.
Fluttershy gave a small eye roll, as she looked at her phone, seeing that the date was 12/1/14, “Time sure does fly… can you believe it’s December 1st already?”
“Yea, it feels like it was only yesterday that it was the first day after Thanksgiving Break,” Pinkie giggled, “Anywho… what’s next on the list?”
“You know… there’s nothing saying we have to go in the order on the list…” Dash stated, “We could go in any order we want.”
“Well… I dunno, wouldn’t the order imply which she wanted more?” Pinkie countered.
“Well… the teacher did say we didn’t have to put it in any order,” AJ pointed out.
“True,” Rarity nodded.
“Hmm… so… I think me, my Obaa-chan, and my itoko-chan had yet to do our tree… so Sunset can help us out,” Fluttershy smiled.
“Sounds great!” Pinkie smiled.
“And I also made something to help us out,” Rarity informed, taking out her phone, and showing a sort of checklist that had everything on Sunset’s paper.
“So what’s this for?” Dash asked.
“In case we’re able to do anything with Sunset involving her list, we can check it off, and all five of us can access it.”
“That’s a good idea,” Applejack smiled.
“Well, me and my itaka here are going to go to the farm and prep some holiday plans,” Pinkie giggled, putting an arm around Applejack.
“It’s itoko… plus, isn’t there some sort of a removal?” Fluttershy responded.
“Well… yes. But, we’re relatives nonetheless,” Pinkie giggled.
Sunset had dozed off waiting for Fluttershy to come back, while Posey was busy playing a game on her 3DS, simply enjoying the game, before she stopped and saved.
“So… Obaa-chan? What do we do with her? There aren’t enough rooms for two guests…” Posey stated, “I was thinking of letting her have the guest room… but… I’m not sure…”
“Well… I guess we could talk with Fluttershy…” she commented.
“Hey… did you hear Sunset call itoko-chan ‘Fluttery’ earlier?” Posey asked.
“...No Posey-chan.”
Posey simply shrugged, before going over to sit down, seeing the place that the tree would be set up, before she saw the still asleep Sunset. She smiled at her, before she placed a blanket on the asleep girl.
“She’s so sweet… Sunset Shimmer-san,” Posey giggled, before noticing the alliteration.
Hearing this, Sunset squirmed on the couch a bit before she muttered, “Fluttery…” in her sleep.
‘There she goes again with that. What is it with her and calling itoko-chan that?’
Fluttershy and Posey soon came back from the basement with a box of a tree and they moved it into the living room, leaning it by the left part of the L shaped couch that Sunset was sleeping on.
“Sunset-chan…” Fluttershy whispered, nudging Sunset awake.
“H-Huh?” Sunset yawned as she awoke.
“Me, my itoko-chan and my Obaa-san are going to set up our Christmas tree… do you wanna help?”
“Me? W-Well… uh… o-okay…” Sunset nodded, still surprised by this.
After Fluttershy and Posey got the base and the pole for the branches up, they all began to fluff the branches, Sunset having a bit of a nostalgia rush as she did this.
“...mom…” Sunset muttered, with Posey hearing her.
“Oh? You and your mom used to do this?” Posey asked.
“...yea. My mom was a really busy po- person, and the holidays was really the only time I could do something with her…” Sunset informed, “Even if it was something small, like decorate a tree…”
“I see… so… what was your mom like?” Posey asked.
“...she was a great woman… and I really miss her…” Sunset sighed.
“I’m sorry to hear that.”
Sunset rubbed away a tear before she looked back at Fluttershy.
“So… what now?”
“We decorate the tree,” Fluttershy giggled, smiling.
Sunset just smiled on back, knowing this was part of her list, and happy Fluttershy could help with it.
The tree had been set up very beautifully, as Sunset noticed an ornament with a yellow pegasus by some butterflies.
“So… what’s that one?” Sunset asked.
“Oh? Dash’s mother is an ornament maker, so Dash asked me what I’d like, and she got her mom to make it. She made it for me not long after me and her became friends,” Fluttershy informed.
“It’s so beautiful…” Sunset giggled, ‘Like… you.’
“Thank you,” Fluttershy smiled, as Sunset smiled at her. After a moment, Fluttershy walked off, and Sunset noticed something out of the corner of her eye by the window, looking like someone in a blue jacket.
A bit later, the tree was fully decorated, and the girls couldn’t help but smile at their work. Sunset just smiled, remembering when she and Celestia used to decorate a tree every year, and a tear came to her eye again.
“Sunset? You alright?” Fluttershy asked.
“Sorry… I just… miss when I used to do this back… y’know where,” Sunset informed, wiping her tears away.
“Oh yea… well… it’s a bit of an early Christmas gift just for you…” Fluttershy informed, handing Sunset a small sort of poster like item, with 1-24 on it, and the 24 being almost door like.
“What’s this?” Sunset asked.
“It has everyday before Christmas Day, and every night before you go to bed, you eat the candy behind the door of the date,” Fluttershy informed, opening the door with the “1” on it, and behind it, was a small piece of chocolate, and when Sunset took it out, she saw a small wreath design was on the candy.
“Are they all wrapped like this?” Sunset asked.
“What do you mean?” Fluttershy asked a bit confused.
“I mean, do the candies come in these little shapes and wrapped like this?”
“Yea. Well, you’ll have to wait for each day…” Fluttershy told Sunset, before she walked off, slipping out her phone and checking off numbers 2 and 11 on the list, having seen Rarity had checked off 1. However, Fluttershy’s eyes landed on the twelfth thing on the list and blushed at the thought.
A bit later, after Sunset had showered and was given some pajamas that had been made for her by Rarity, she saw Fluttershy was waiting for her.
“Sunset… we don’t have much room for two guests… so… I was thinking… would you like to… share my room for while you stay here?” Fluttershy offered.
“Oh… um… o-okay,” Sunset nodded, a blush forming on her face, as she was lead to Fluttershy’s room, which had green wallpaper with pink butterfly decorations and a bunch of animal plushies scattered throughout it, some game character plushies, a small Christmas tree on it, a table with a desktop and a printer, a bed with pink sheets and a yellow crescent moons blanket on top, and by a bookshelf was what seemed to be another plushie.
“Cute little white rabbit plushie,” Sunset admitted until she saw the plushie’s ear twitch, “Uh… Fluttershy… that plushie moved…”
“Hmm? Oh, that’s no plushie. That’s my pet rabbit, Angel. I do occasionally lose him among him my stuffed animals and plushies,” Fluttershy admitted sheepishly, plucking the rabbit out of the plushies, “Angel, you should know better than that. Don’t scare me like that…”
“I remember when I tried to help you get him down that one time,” Sunset recalled.
“Oh yea… that’s right. But… I try to keep him in my room when Posey’s here, she’s actually allergic to rabbits.”
“Oh? So… mind me asking what your cousin does for a hobby?” Sunset inquired, looking around a little bit.
“She’s a photographer,” Fluttershy answered, “She’s usually the one responsible for taking all the family photos.”
Sunset smiled, noticing a picture of Fluttershy and Posey when they were a bit younger, “You two look so much like twins… huh? What are these?”
She reached down and took out a book from the bookshelf, seeing it was in Japanese “Bishojo Senshi Sera Moon”.
“What’s this?” Sunset asked.
“Oh?” Fluttershy blinked, before seeing it, “Those are my Sailor Moon Manga. It’s a book series that I loved when I was little… and I still enjoy it today.”
Sunset gave it a look, before putting it back and yawning a little bit. And Sunset was about to reach for the sleeping bag when Fluttershy stopped her.
“Huh?”
“You don’t have to sleep there, Sunset. You’re my guest,” Fluttershy told Sunset, with Sunset still being kinda confused, “I’ll sleep in the sleeping bag; you can sleep in my bed.”
“Eh?! Uh… why… are you…?” Sunset gawked.
“Like I said, you’re my guest, and you deserve a good night of rest,” Fluttershy smiled, with Sunset blushed a tiny bit.
“...Thank you,” Sunset smiled as Fluttershy got into the sleeping bag, and Sunset slipped into the bed, smiling at her friend as the pinkette fell asleep.
Sunset giggled a little bit, before she blew a small kiss to Fluttershy, and fell asleep herself.