//------------------------------// // Prompt 16: Let Mom Sleep - MichelleTwistaloo // Story: The Diamond Cutter Anthology // by DiamondPrime //------------------------------// An endless stream of current pop, and glam, and yes, even Rock strung forth from the little Radio that Diamond “Dazzling” Tiara had carried with her to the the camp. The little device might seem small, but it was potent, it was top of the line...Barnyard Bargains had recently expanded their business from “general bargains” to “general bargains...but also electronics” despite the fact that you wouldn’t find many electronics in a Barn. And Diamond had literally jumped at the chance to have a radio of her own. She owned a huge one in her room, but this one was portable...just the more perfect to annoy her classmates with. True, annoying her classmates wasn’t her main purpose, or even a conscious purpose, if asked Diamond would just say she wanted to hear the latest from Sapphire Shores, or the Countess, or whomever. And it was true, she just felt like dancing to the songs! Even if it was night already, Luna had already raised the moon, and she was supposed to be asleep. She was singing the words to the songs, as they came, of course daddy dearest had bought her all the cd’s, so she had had time and means to memorise them. She was just going to repeat the chorus, in her wonderful voice, one that made, obviously, everyone want an encore, when suddenly… “Oh for pete and apple’s sake!” - Apple Bloom exclaimed, she had had her pillow over her head, and her hooves holding it for the past half an hour, and it did an ok job blocking the radio, but now she was singing? It wasn’t that Diamond was a bad singer! It wasn’t, but it was three in the morning, she wanted to go to sleep! “Yeah! I want to sleep!” - Sweetie’s over emphatic and excitable voice came over, she was on the top bunk, on top of Apple Bloom, but Diamond Tiara could see that her head now peeked out of the top of the bed’s frame. “Would you stop playing with that radio of yours? I’m trying to get to sleep!” Diamond Tiara had to look at the two of them, the nerve, asking her, her, Diamond Tiara, to stop singing and hearing radio, when it had been her who had invited them to this makeshift vacation. Sure the flightless chi...right - she reminded herself - be nice, Scootaloo, she enunciated the name, so it stuck in her mind, had refused, claiming that Diamond would be a spoiled brat throughout, and the only reason the other two had come had been because their sisters, Applejack and Rarity, had insisted they take the nice offer from their classmate. But still! Silver Spoon, whom she had also invited didn’t seem to be bothered! In fact she was sleeping on the top bunk over her! Sure, she had complained the first few times they had tried the radio in sleepovers, but not now, she had realised how much fun it was, she didn’t even awake now! They would just have to get used to it. “No!” - She simply said, and, after taking a few seconds to frown, because she realised her favorite song had ended, and they were now on some other b-class singer she had never heard, and changing the station, because seriously, sometimes at 3am music sucks, she resumed singing. “Can ya believe this? I mean at least she has good taste, but still…” “I don’t know, I like showtunes” Though their conversation was no more than a whisper, that was like a needle scratch for Diamond Tiara. Diamond Tiara had a good ear, she had always had one, and she was aware of their conversation, same as she was aware of the grinding of the teeth Apple Bloom had been having a little while before, she just hadn’t had before, but this. “This is most disturbing.” - She paused the radio, and the other two let out a sigh of relief, only to almost yell as Diamond climbed the ladder and grabbed Sweetie. “Let go!” “No!” “Let her go!” “Hey, let go of my leg. you’re going to make me fall off Sweetie’s bunk!” “Then let go of Sweetie’s leg!” “I will as soon as she tells me why she likes showtunes, I mean, she’s not as old as your grandmother!” - Seeing Apple Bloom tugging harder, Diamond quickly added. - “No offense!” Apple Bloom let go of Diamond’s leg and , she too climbed the bed, the bed creaked as three fillies stood sitting on top of it. All three of them stared at one another, before four pair of eyes landed at Sweetie’s face. “Why do ya like showtunes? With all the craziness around the time ya told me ya liked them, I didn’t question it, but it is odd!” Sweetie shrugged. “I just like them, Rarity used to put them while working on her dresses, I get it kind of stuck” “That’s explained then, still, you should listen to some of the cd’s my daddy buys me! Just don’t break them!” Diamond figured that being friends with those two, was worth it, even if it meant she had to share some of her discs, she figured she’d share some of the ones she didn’t listen to as often, anyway. “You’re a spoiled brat, Tiara.. But thank you” Throughout their conversation they had been moving their butts, and the bed had creaked, now it was dangerously close to breaking, as it was an old house owned by Diamond’s family, one of many. as she lifted herself to get off however, moving past Apple Bloom… Crash! “Ouch” “Owwwwwwww” “Awwww Dang it” The top bunk had fallen on the bottom bunk and broken that one as well, it looked as if none of them were going to get any sleep, unless the three of them slept in the same bed. Silver’s face looked at them from above. “Now just look at at this funk! What’s going on?” Sweetie could only say “It’s the power of music...sometimes it hurts...owww”