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// Entry #15 
// Story: Diary of a Dragon 
// by truekry 
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Well, they ain't laughing now are they?

And I'm neither.

Holly Celestia I'm such an idiot! I ruined everything!

I met up with Sweetie today. I sneaked out of the castle - with a little help of Night Hawk, who felt guilty for telling me this old stories and giving me the idea for my "stunt" in the first place - to go to my date with Sweetie Belle. I was still grounded after all.

I arrived a little early at Sugarcube Corner, the knot of my red tie was perfect, my scales shiny, claws dull and everything was just perfect. I thought nothing could go wrong. Sweetie arrived with the first clock strike at one o'clock. I freaked a little first when I saw that she didn't wore anything, but then I noticed it. The purple flower in her mane, right next to her right ear. It was the same shade of purple as my scales. It hypnotized me so much I first didn't even notice her perfume. I could smell her across the room, against everything else that smelled nice. That was because, I learned as she came towards the table next to the window where I was sitting, she used so much of it! I could pretty much taste it as we greeted each other. Why would somepony use so much perfume? Was she nervous too? And I just realize, I must have smelled of scale polish! That stuff reeks! Oh my Celestia...

Well, it doesn't matter anymore. So we greeted each other and in an instant Mr. Cake came over to take our orders. Milkshake and a croissant with fresh butter for Sweetie and for me water and what ever they had with some gems in it. I got a gem muffin. And then, we talked. And talked. And talked even more. We joked, we laughed and even talked about our childhood a bit. Then Sweetie asked what happened with this one stallion and his machines the colts were so much into back then. So I told her about the arcade that now was where formerly Quills and Sofas had been. It had surprised nopony when that had to close. Nopony even knew how it stayed open like that so many years.

So after our little lunch, we went to the arcade. I had originally thought about going to the cinema, since I liked these new colored movies and I hope she would too, but fate had other ideas. The arcade it was.

The arcade was like a meet up point for everything that wasn't an adult. When it first opened some colts and fillies even skipped school to go there. So the owner, Eight Bit, started to open not until two in the afternoon, when school was over. It didn't hurt his business at all. So when we arrived around three it was already loud and full, but not so full we turned around. Sweetie told me the only experience she had with machines like this she made with this JoyBoy a classmate of hers had back in school. I don't have much experience either, I told her as we approached the first two player game: table hockey. Although I have a JoyBoyTwo, I never used it. It was a present from Rainbow for my fourteenth birthday.

So we played table hockey and first Sweetie used her hooves to play. She was no enemy for me with them. I was so much more used to handle things with my claws than the unicorn. So I let her win a few times. What she of course noticed, but she wasn't angry. Then we played fighting is magic, pony cart two and parasprite hunt. Who ever invented the last game had to be a genius. It was played with this little device a pony had to hold with both front hooves to aim at the parasprites on the screen. Sweetie, still a unicorn, was clumsy with her hooves. So I got behind her and helped her aim. We got so close and it was so nice!

But after that... As we wandered through the room again, both still a little blushing, Sweetie spotted this dance game. It had a platform on the ground who notice if you made the right dance move as shown on the screen. Two little fillies were playing at the time and Sweetie wanted to play. I told her I'm not that much of a dancer but she convinced me: "It is just for fun, come on!" How should I resist that smile? So we waited till our turn and then I sucked. The game was designed to be played with four legs, not two. I couldn't even made half the moves it showed me. Sweetie on the other hoof was a natural and had a blast. She danced so good, you could think the machine tried to imitate her. Of course the other visitors noticed and so did he.

I wrote about him already. Sweeties old classmate with the JoyBoy. Button Mash. He was there. They greeted each other the moment they saw one another. Apparently Eight Bit was his cousin and he works now at the arcade. He wasn't at the welcome home party for Sweetie because he was in Las Pegasus the last few days for a game developer conference. They present the newest game machines there and so on. Button and Sweetie talked and then he asked her if she wanted to dance with him to brake the high score. They got back up to the platform, Button entered the bit and then, they danced. And I just stood there, watching. They were good and it was a lot of fun to watch them, but it made me so... angry. I don't know why, but with every passing second it got worse. Before I could put my head around it, Sweetie smiled. The same smile she gave me earlier. Now directed at the brown colt dancing next to her. I snapped.

I don't know what happened after that moment. Not really. A lot of blurry images. The next thing I know is that I standing over Sweetie, breathing heavy while she had her eyes closed, a tear running down her cheek and singing. She sung and it was so beautiful. I heard nothing like it in my entire life. I looked around confused. Someone had smashed in the screen of the dancing game. Other machines were knocked over, bent to the breaking point. Then I noticed Button Mash. He was lying in front of my still outstretched claw, on the ground, crying. And I realized, I did that! 

The police came a minute later. They didn't zap me this time, because I was just sitting there myself, tears running down my face just like Sweetie and Button. What have I done? At the moment, mum is still speaking with the mayor and the police in her throne room downstairs. I don't know what will happen next, but I'm scared and so... angry. At me. For ruining everything. For being a freaking dragon.