Things got livelier in the castle. With Twilight and Applejack marrying in fall, I learned today that I will have a sister-in-law. Apple Bloom. Applejack brought her over today so we could hung out a bit. It's not like we don't know each other, but with me being a few years older we never really did anything together. Hence that one time the Crusaders tried to get a dragon taming cutie mark.
I hadn't seen her for a while. She was busy learning to be a carpenter and I managing the library. Like always.
I will spent the rest of my days doing that, won't I?
So we sat there on the couch, watching the table getting dusty. Apple Bloom hadn't really changed that much over the last few years. Of course she got bigger, and in the right places too. She also switched her bow for a maneband, much like her sister. But besides that, still the Apple Bloom I know. After the awkward silence time was over, we talked a bit about live. And by that I mean about hers. Apparently, filly fooling runs in the family. She is together with Scootaloo and they rented out a small apartment in the town together. Big Macintosh and Fluttershy had a foal a year ago, that I knew of course, but I didn't that Apple Bloom took that as a cue to move out. I mean, she is younger than me. It was normal for ponies to start learning a job at fourteen, but... I don't know. I felt left behind somehow. As if I missed my cue. They started dating, learning jobs and I was sitting here, dusting off books and that was it. In the end I didn't even know what I could even tell Apple Bloom about my life besides that my mum was getting married to her sister. I don't think she knew that.
She must have noticed that somehow, because Apple Bloom said she and Scootaloo would go to a little party at the lake this weekend. Some other colts and fillies would come too and she asked if I wanted to join them. How do they say? There is always space for a fifth wheel.
Twilight. That's another topic on my mind recently. We talked, a lot. She never told she would visit Half Mind too, but she did. And the old mare did to her the same thing she did to me. She got her thinking. I don't know what questions she asked her, but the evening she came home she hugged me like there was no tomorrow. I didn't mind. It felt pretty great actually. She called me her son for the first time ever, I think. I always was her faithful assistant as she had been Celestias faithful student. I was the number one assistant, the dragon she could depend on. But now, we are mother and son. I always thought about her as my mum but finally saying it is different somehow.
Since then we hugged a lot, we talk more and so on. And I can finally say it: "You know, mothers, right?"
I think my life has taken a turn for the better.