//------------------------------// // Chapter 7 // Story: The Sun of My Heart 2: Love's Flames // by BlueSun52 //------------------------------// Babies, Babies, Babies! It was two o’clock in the afternoon, and Soul was over at Mr. and Mrs. Cakes’ home and cafe. Upstairs, Pinkie Pie was changing little Pumpkin Cake’s diapers. She removed the diaper and started wiping her. She then threw away the diaper and laid the next diaper behind Pumpkin’s bottom before she a started putting powder on it. She fastened the diaper on her and smiled at her accomplishment as a self-proclaimed aunt. “There we go, now you’re all clean and less stinky,” Pinkie chimed. She held up Pumpkin in her arm and rubbed her nose against the little toddler’s. “Who’s a cute little baby girl, huh? Who’s a cute little baby girl?” Pumpkin let out squealing laughter as Pinkie started tickling her stomach. “That right, you are!” Pinkie said. She turned her to the side and spoke up. “Hey Soul, how are you doing with Pound?” “I’m, eh, doing good I think,” Soul replied. He was taking Pound’s diaper off of him while wearing a wooden clip on his nose. He gagged in his mouth a few times as he threw away the diaper quickly and wiped Pound’s bottom. “I had to make that stupid bet just to get Sunset’s necklace,” he commented. “It’s not that bad,” Pinkie said. “You did end up going with Sunny to the dance, and you two became one of the best couples around!.... Well, except maybe me and Swift…. and I guess when the crazy Best Couples contest came along, you and Sonata won that.” “Which to this day, I am still weirded out about,” Soul commented. “Oh, that rhymed!” Soul finished wiping Pound’s bottom and was about to place the newer diaper on him, but all of a sudden, a stream of unidentified liquid hit him in the eye, making Soul wince. Fearing at first of what it was, Soul looked at Pound only to sigh in relief to see the little toddler holding a small water gun in his hand. Soul walked back over to him and took the water gun out of his hand. “Alright, little guy, let me just put this on you and you can-” Before Soul could finish, another stream of liquid was being sprayed on his shirt. “I thought you took the water gun away from him?” Pinkie said. “I did.” Pound giggled happily. After getting the diaper on Pound and Pinkie taking Soul’s shirt to get it clean, Soul had to wear one of Mr. Cake's white shirts until his shirt was clean again. Soul hung up his jacket over by a chair and sat down on the floor as he watched the twins play with their toys. Pumpkin was mouthing on her blanket and holding her teddy bear while Pound was using building blocks to make a tall tower and knocking it down over and over again. Soul smiled as he was watching the twins. A thought had occurred to him on how his little sibling was going to be like. He had an idea that it was going to be a huge adjustment at the house, and now with their new pet, Shella, the female wolf that Toby brought back with him from their camping trip, it was making him feel a little uncomfortable having a wolf being near his sibling. But surprisingly, Shella was a very sweet wolf and was very affectionate with Dawn. After, of course, his mom gave Shella a threatening look when she growled at her one time. It was made clear on that day who was the dominator of the house. Soul left his thoughts as he saw Pumpkin letting out a yawn and Pound soon following her. The toddlers had sleepy eyes and looked at Soul with their hands up, wanting him to pick them up. Soul smiled and picked the twins up. He walked over to their pin and placed them gently in it. After that he covered them with a blanket and watch as the two quickly fell asleep. Pinkie walked in and saw Soul letting the babies sleep in their crib and walked over to it as she looked at them sweetly. “Awww, they’re so cute when they're asleep,” Pinkie commented. “Yeah, they really are,” Soul said. “I can’t wait to see what my little sister is going to look like.” “Yeah, I bet it will…. that she…. wait, you already know that it’s a she!?” Pinkie quietly yelled as she wanted to avoid waking up the twins. “Well yeah, didn’t I tell you guys that already?” Soul asked. “No! We’ve been wondering about that the whole time!” Pinkie answered. “Why didn’t you tell us!? And how could you forget to tell us!?” She grabbed onto Soul and shook him wildly. When she stopped, Soul’s eyes were twisting around oppositely from each other until he shook his head. “I guess we have been busy with so much stuff lately that I kinda forgot to tell you guys,” Soul said. “But yeah, it’s going to be a girl is what the doctors are saying.” Pinkie smiled widely as she was mentally screaming with joy and jumping up and down. “I’m so happy for you!” Pinkie said. “Oh, I almost forgot. We were going to have your mom’s baby shower here at the cafe.” “Really? She didn't mention anything about it,” Soul said. “That because we were going to make it a surprise!” Pinkie said. “We’re going to bring her here without her knowing and when she first comes in, I’m going to shout surprise!” “Are you sure that it's a good idea to surprise a pregnant woman?” Soul asked. “I mean, it would cause some stress on my little unborn sis if she was scared…. or angry. Whichever way the moodswing goes.” “Well, when you put it like that, it would be a bad idea,” Pinkie said. “It’s a good thing I told you about it first before I gave the idea to the others. They probably would go along with it without knowing the consequence.” Soul rolled his eyes. “Somehow I don’t think they would have gone along with it anyway,” he commented. “So, when were you going to do this anyway?” “I was planning on doing it this weekend!” Pinkie said. “After all, we only have like two weeks left before school and me, the girls and our moms wanted to do something awesome for your mom.” “That sounds cool. Thanks for doing this for my mom,” Soul said. “It’s no problem. I’ve held baby showers before and I’m going to make this the best shower ever!” Pinkie shouted the last words. Because of her sudden shouting, it woke up the twins and the two started to cry from being woken so early from their nap. Soul slapped himself in the face before he glared at Pinkie. Pinkie gave a sheepish smile and giggled nervously. “Whoops.” The weekend came fast and Sunset Shimmer was driving her way down the road towards the cafe. It was early afternoon and she saw the building as she was coming close to it. She looked at the passenger seat for a moment to see that the present she got for Dawn was still there and smiled. She parked her car up in one of the parking spaces and walked out with the present in her hands. As she walked up to the cafe, she saw a sign that said “Baby Shower Today! Women Only!” She looked down at the sign to see smaller words written below that said “Sorry Guys.” Sunset laughed at the sign before she opened the door and walked in. From out of nowhere, Pinkie popped right in front of Sunset with her usual wide toothy smile. “Hey, Sunset! You made it!” Pinkie chimed as she gave Sunset a bear hug. Sunset was holding her gift over her head as Pinkie crushed her insides with her hug. Pinkie lifted her in the air for a moment while Sunset was kicking her legs and trying to keep her present from falling before Pinkie finally let go of her. Sunset took a moment to catch her breath before she looked back at Pinkie with a weak smile. “H-Hey Pinkie, sorry if I was late,” Sunset said. “You’re not late, you’re just in time!” Pinkie said. “What do you think of all the decorations I did?” Sunset looked around to see that the inside of the cafe was covered in different shades of pink decorations with streamers, flowers, and tablecloths. Even the food was colored in different shades of pink. There were many girls and women sitting around as they chatted and talked with one another about their daily lives, the shower or even their love lives while some of them and her friends were gathered around the lucky lady, Dawn. Over by her, there was a table that had various shapes and sizes of presents. “They look awesome, Pinkie,” Sunset complimented. “You really outdid yourself.” “Yeah, I know,” Pinkie said as she giggled. “Oh, what did you get for Dawn?” Sunset looked at her gift before looking back at Pinkie. “I can’t say just yet. I want to keep a surprise when she opens it,” she replied. “But I wanna know now,” Pinkie pleaded. “Can’t you just give me a hint?” “Nope.” Pinkie made a playful pout. “You’re no fun!” she joked. Sunset and Pinkie laughed. Sunset placed her gift on the table and walked over to Dawn to greet her. “Hi, Dawn.” “Oh Sunset, I was wondering when you were going to get here,” Dawn said. “I was beginning to think that you were over at my house with my son.” Sunset laughed. “No, I was planning on doing that after the party,” she joked. Dawn laughed along. “Well, it wouldn’t surprise me if you did,” she commented. “And I see you brought me a gift. Wonder what’s inside?” “It’s something special that I thought that your little girl might like,” Sunset replied. “Oh, now I really wanna know what’s inside,” Dawn said excitedly. “Alright, everyone! Since everyone is here now, we can start with opening the presents!” Pinkie announced over the microphone. “Dawny, you should open mine first!” Dawn laughed. “Okay, I’ll open your gift first,” she said. “Sunset, would you mind if I open your gift last? I like to save the best for last.” Sunset nodded happily. Dawn opened Pinkie’s gift and inside was a small bouncy chair. It had a handle over the chair with small plastic shape balloons and fake candy hanging on a round bar over it. “Oh, she’s going to love it!” Dawn commented. “Thanks, Mrs. D,” Pinkie said. “Let’s see what my little nieces got me,” Dawn said to Applejack and Apple Bloom as she was opening their gifts. Inside their gifts was a few pink bows like Apple Bloom’s bow but were smaller and a new looking stetson almost like Applejack’s. “Ah thought when she gets a bit older, she might take fancy to some of our countryside,” Applejack explained. “And Ah thought she would look cute with the same kind of bow as me,” Apple Bloom added. “She not doubt going to be a country girl with you two around her all the time,” Dawn joked. She then started opening Rainbow Dash’s gift, and when she opened it, she raised a brow upon seeing that it was an autographed picture of Rainbow Dash in her Wondercolt soccer uniform. “She’s going to be lucky that she'll have that once I become famous,” Rainbow Dash said with a smug smile. “I hear autographs signed before they’re famous makes them ten times more valuable.” “Well um…. Thank you, Rainbow Dash, I’m sure that she’ll like it…… I think,” Dawn said the last words to herself. She grabbed the next gift to see it was from Rarity. She opened it and saw various designs of baby clothes in it. “I had so much fun making all of these!” Rarity chimed. “Some of them were already made before I even knew you were having a girl. I did have some boy ones too…. But I did mostly designed them for girls though.” “Then it’s a good thing I’m having a girl,” Dawn giggled. She grabbed another gift and read that it was from Fluttershy. She opened it to see a yellow blanket with three small designs of butterflies. “Oh, this so neat. Did you make this yourself?” “Ah huh. When I was a little girl, my mom taught me how make them,” Fluttershy replied. “Thank you very much for making this,” Dawn said. She was about to look through the gifts again, only to be drawn to a very tall gift. She unwrapped it to see what it was, and when she did, she looked at it with confusion. Underneath the wrap was a stack of books. “I thought the best way to raise your daughter was to have some books for both you and her while she grows up,” Twilight explained. “She’ll learn basic math, reading, science, writing and biology while you will be reading some about how to take care of a baby girl.” “Um, thank you very much, Twilight but I am capable of taking care of a baby,” Dawn said. “A baby boy, but infant girls are extremely different, and you need to know the difference,” Twilight insisted. “Don’t worry, if you read and memorize all of these book, your little girl will be a genius when she grows up.” “T-Thank you Twilight for being so considerate with my child’s education,” Dawn said with an awkward smile. ‘It’ll take me months just to read all of these, and I only have a few months left!’ she thought to herself. “Now whose-” “Oh! Oh! Pick mine next!” Sonata said excitedly. Dawn looked through the gifts and found Sonata’s. After she had unwrapped it, her lips pursed and lifted it up to see a painting large of her pregnant self wearing Italian robes. “Did…. Did you buy this from somewhere?” “What? I didn’t buy it. I made it,” Sonata replied. Everyone’s eyes widened and their mouths dropped when they looked back and forth between Sonata and the painting. “I learned how to paint from a guy named, um, Leonardo da Vinci? I think that was his name,” Sonata explained. “I was one of his assistants at the time, but since women couldn’t be painters, I pretended to be a boy. Although I think he saw through my disguise because he would hit on me every now and again.” “Eeehhh…” Dawn tried to find the right words to describe what she was feeling but was at a complete lost. “This was very nice, Sonata. It…. It really is unbelievable that you could make it.” “Thanks!” Everyone scratched their heads and whispered to one another. Pinkie cleared her throat. “Alright, let’s keep this gift giving going!” she said. Time passed by as Dawn was going through the gifts. She had received a lot of baby supplies and toys for her soon-to-be little girl. After she had opened everything she could, she then looked at Sunset’s gift and held it in her hand. She unfurled the string around the box and opened the top to show what was inside. Dawn smiled brightly and pulled it out to see a small pony doll. “Oh Sunset, this doll is so cute. Where did you get it?” Dawn asked. “It’s actually my old doll from when I was little,” Sunset replied. “I used to play with it a lot and I always thought of it as my closest friend. But when I got older, I left it in my closet back home and forgot about it. It wasn’t until recently when everyone was talking about the shower I remembered that I had it still there and asked my parents to send it to me.” “Sunset, you don’t have to-” “I know, but I thought that your girl would love it more than I ever had,” Sunset said. “I don’t have much use for it, but I’m sure that your little girl would have a fun time with it. So, please keep it.” Dawn placed the gift to the side and hugged Sunset as she returned the hug. Everyone awed and joined in the hug. A moment had passed and Pinkie was holding up her microphone again. “Okay everyone, let’s have some cake and dance like crazy!” Mrs. Cake rolled out a tray with a large cake on it and music started to play. A lot of the attendants were either having some of the delicious cake or were dancing along with Pinkie. While the party was going, Dawn was sitting around with some of the girls as they were gossiping. “So ladies, tell me the juiciest gossip you’ve got,” Dawn said “It’s been so long since I’ve heard any teen gossip.” “Well, I’ve heard that one of our teachers, Mr. Cranky Doodle, has been seeing someone special,” Rarity said. “Really? It’s about time he found someone that would put up with his crankiness,” Dawn commented. “Wait, you know him?” “Yep, ever since I was a teen, he was an old teacher of mine,” Dawn explained. “We used to go to the same school together here in town, but because of some funding issues, they had to shut down the school. It was sad, but there was nothing we could have done to prevent it at the time.” “I’m sorry to hear that,” Fluttershy said. “It’s okay. Some things never last,” Dawn said. “So, what else do you girls got?” “I have one more,” Rarity started. “I’ve heard rumors that our other teacher, Miss Roseluck, has been seeing someone. A senior no less.” “Wait, isn’t it like against school policy that she would be dating someone at our school?” Applejack asked. “True, but she is still in her early twenties. I think there’s only a four year difference,” Rarity said. “But, like I said, it’s a rumor and no one has exactly asked her about it…. Of course if they did, she would more than likely not admit to it.” “A teacher dating a student, I haven’t heard about any gossip like that in a long time,” Dawn said. “That used to happen a lot more frequently back in my day, and trust me, a lot of teachers would get arrested for it.” “Alright, enough about random gossip, let’s talk about our guys,” Rainbow Dash said. “I’ve been running out of ideas on how to make fun of each of your guys and I need some fuel to do so.” Rarity let out a scoff. “Really, Rainbow Dash? You think after having Rivet for such a long time, you would have stopped mocking us about it,” she said. “You wish,” Rainbow Dash commented. “Plus it’s fun.” “Alright, fine, we’ll talk about our boyfriends,” Rarity said. “But don’t interrupt any of us.” “Fine, I’ll save all my shots afterwards,” Rainbow Dash said. “So, who has some stories to tell?” “I have one,” Fluttershy said. “Me and Night went to a movie he wanted to see. Unfortunately it was a horror movie and I was nervous.” “My word, did he make you go to it?” Rarity asked. “Oh no, he didn’t,” Fluttershy replied. “He thought about going to see it himself, but I couldn’t let him be at something he would be terrified by.” “Wait, what movie was it?” Rainbow Dash asked. “Jurassic World.” Rainbow Dash smacked herself in the face. “Shy, that’s hardly considered a horror movie,” she said. “I mean, yeah, people get eaten in it, but it’s not gory or anything. Even kids can go in and watch it without any problems.” “But it had dinosaurs eating people!” Fluttershy countered. “I couldn’t let Night watch that by himself!” Rainbow Dash let out a sigh. “Okay, let me ask you this,” she said. “Did he get scared?” “I…. I couldn’t tell,” Fluttershy said. “I was too deep into his chest while I blocked my ears.” Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes. “So Rarity, how has Clyde been doing?” Sunset asked. “Everything is going perfectly between us,” Rarity said. “He so sweet and is such a gentleman. I could never ask for a finer lover in my life.” “I bet you two go at it like rabbits,” Rainbow Dash commented. Rarity blushed. “W-We do not!” she protested. “I mean…. we have been going at it a lot and- Wait, why am I telling you this? It’s none of your business!” Rainbow Dash snickered. “Relax, I’m just kidding,” she said. “Though you two should really tone it down. Seriously, you guys still need hobbies.” “But we do!” “I said hobbies, not a hobby,” Rainbow Dash pointed out. Rarity made a flustered pout while some of the other girls were laughing and giggling. Rarity cleared her throat before she turned to Sunset. “Sunset dear, how have you and Soul been doing together?” she asked. “We’ve been doing well. We go out from time to time, hang out at one of our places,” Sunset replied, then turned to Dawn with a sly smile. “And sneak into his room at night.” Dawn rolled her eyes. “I swear, you two really do it just to annoy me, don’t you?” she asked with a raised brow. “For crying out loud, we have a front door. Use it! I’m tired of making Comet move the ladder you use.” Sunset laughed. “Well, I need a key to go through the front door,” she said. “And unless you're willing to let me sleep with your son, I’m just going to have to use the window instead.” Dawn let out a sigh. She looked up at Sunset and smiled as she remembered when she was dating Comet, she would do the same. Of course after each time either of them would do that, they both would get in trouble with their parents. She looked at Sunset with a smile before she spoke her answer. “No,” she said. “And I’m going to start nailing that window shut…. or make Comet do it.” “And I’m going to find a way around it,” Sunset said. “.... Or make Soul do it for me.” “And that’s what I like about you,” Dawn commented. After a couple of hours had gone by, most of the attendants were leaving for the day and were saying their goodbyes to Dawn. Coming through the front door was her husband Comet. “Hey honey, I came to pick you up,” Comet said. “Oh good, I was really too stuffed with cake,” Dawn commented as she was trying to get up. Comet went over to her and helped her out of her seat. “Although, I’m not done being out yet. Can we go see a movie somewhere?” “Alright, any movie you want to see?” Comet asked. “I don’t really care at this point,” Dawn replied. “You can take me to that movie that’s a reboot or something.” “Wait, you mean like Mad Max? Really!?” Comet asked excitedly before he tried to collect his composure. “I mean, would you like to see that?” Dawn rolled her eyes. “Yes, we can see that,” she answered. Just as the couple was saying their goodbyes and walking by Sunset, Dawn leaned over to her ear. “If you wanna see my boy, you can do it now,” Dawn whispered. “Because I’m giving you a free pass if anything happens since you gave me such a sweet gift.” Sunset blushed and Dawn gave her wink. Sunset waved at the two before they left and drove off. Sunset went to get her jacket and started making her way towards the exit. “Heya Sunset, where are ya goin?” Applejack asked. Sunset looked back at Applejack. “Oh you know, to make some lovin with your cousin,” she joked. Applejack gagged at Sunset’s response as she laughed. “Ah wish ya wouldn’t keep on saying that,” Applejack said. “Ah really don’t want to hear what ya do with my cousin behind closed doors.” “Oh don’t be like that, Applejack,” Rarity said. “You always make fun of how I love my boyfriend so much.” “More like obsessed,” Applejack corrected. “I’m not obsessed! I just really, really, really, really enjoy his company,” Rarity retorted. “You wouldn’t be like this if you had a boyfriend.” Applejack shrugged. “Guess we’ll never know,” she said before she started to take her leave. “Ah’m heading back to the farm. Got some crops to take care of.” Applejack left the store with all of her friends staring out the window as she left. Rarity glared out to where Applejack was going after the comment she made until an idea had popped into her head. She tapped her chin for a moment and a devious smiled appeared on her face. “Oh Applejack, I think you might know what’s it like to have a boyfriend sooner than you think,” she said to herself. “Wait, you’re gonna ship Applejack?” Pinkie asked. “That is awesome! I hope we ship her with another OC because it would feel weird if she was shipped with just some random guy in our universe since there’s so many writers that want us and have to go through the process of finding out how the two would get together.” “.... Pinkie, what the hell are you talking about?” Rainbow Dash asked.