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// Entry #1 
// Story: Diary of a Dragon 
// by truekry 
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Things are very weird around here recently. And that coming from a dragon who's living with ponies. The book "Your diary and you" Twilight made me read said I should introduce myself. Well, I'm Spike, I'm a dragon and sixteen years old at the moment. Twilight, who I mentioned earlier, would be kind of my mom. Not really my mom but in some way she is, I think? Princess Celestia tried to explain it to me but I'm not a magical prodigy like Twilight. She said my egg was a fake and that Twilight in her magical surge made it real or something like that. I'm just glad to be alive, if I'm honest. I love Twilight and she cares for me. I'm good with that. Even if she is a slave driver from time to time.

But let me tell you why I started writing to you in the first place. My mom got engaged a few days back. To one of her friends. Another mare. And now, Applejack, is somehow my step mom. Step dad? I never had a father but a father should be male. So I guess I have two moms now. I said it was weird and I don't fully understand everything just yet. Well, I know of the birds and the bees, but I don't know how two mares would... No, not even thinking about that.

Am I happy for them? Certainly. I have experience being in love, or in having a crush, and I know the happy feeling that you feel when you're around that pony you have eyes for. I just wished I had as much success as them. You see, I kind off confessed my love a few years ago. And I got shut down hard. But that was kind of unavoidable, that I know today. Rarity and I just don't have that much in common. And of course there is the age thingy. The only thing we two really had in common was our love for gems. She likes to wear them and put them in her dresses, for she is a designer, and I love to eat them. If I think about it, that also could have been a major point for quarrels if things had gone differently. I know how angry she got when I used to steal a gem or two while I was helping her from time to time. Not so pretty.

At the moment guards are running all around Ponyville Castle. We had many names back when it was new, but non of them really stuck. Rainbow Dash wanted to call it the "Rainbow Castle of Awesomeness". Pinkie Pie wanted to call it "Friendship Castle" and Discord suggestion was "White Castle". Which was weird because it isn't even really white, more like a really bright pink. My proposal, "Fortress of  Friendship", was also shut down. So like Canterlot castle, it was named after the city it was in. Fine by me, but "Fortress of Friendship" would have been so much cooler.

Back to the guards. Their carrying in Applejacks stuff over from Sweet Apple Acres. She is moving in with us today. We talked about it a few days ago at breakfast. The farm isn't so far away that Applejack can't just walk there every morning. Not like shes hasn't done that the past two years. I'm a dragon, I notice if someone is in my territory and enters or leaves it. Also, they weren't especially silent. Thank Celestia that with the castle I got my own room. And a bed. So, yeah, Applejacks moving in and the guards walk all over the place. With dirty hooves. And even if I don't have to help carry stuff, I know who is cleaning the entire day tomorrow because someone isn't keen on hiring a staff. Like one or two maids would kill us.

So, that's what's happening in my life at the moment. Please tell me I'm not the only one thinking this is totally weird.