Earth Pony

by Basmati

My Lil' Grandma

"Grace? Grace! GRACE!" I woke up with a start. I sat up in bed, slightly confused. Turning to my alarm clock and checked the time. 8.00 in the morning. I groaned and lay back down again. First full day of the holiday, and I was woken up at a ridiculous time.

Suddenly, my door burst open and I opened my eyes again to my mum standing on the doorway. "Grace," she said, her hands on her hips. "Get up."

"But it's summer..."

I dived under the quilt again, and was in peace for a few seconds, until my mother pulled the covers off me. I sighed and sat up properly, rubbing my eyes. "Remind me why you're making me get up at such a ridiculous time," I said.

"Your grandmother will be here in half an hour," she said, turning around and walking out.

Of course I jumped up. My grandma is brilliant and lovely and just great. And every time she comes here, it turns into a brilliant time. She's not the usual knit-a-jumper, bingo playing, constantly medicating granny. No, she is so much fun - when it's just me and her in the house, she lets me have parties, and stay up late, and eat whatever I want. The only thing is I'm too good to use them. I never have wild parties - I'm far too unpopular for wild parties and I would much rather just watch loads of Disney films by myself. I hardly ever stay up late - I like getting up early, especially in summer. Summer mornings are great, and I feel as if I've wasted the day if I don't get up at a reasonable time. I don't mean at like 6 of course - I tend to wake up around 9 or 10. Any later than that, and my day is wasted. I tend to eat quite healthily - I like fruit and stuff, and occasionally I'll make myself pancakes in the morning, but only occasionally. I'm not saying I don't eat cake and stuff - just not a lot. My parents tend to not buy that kind of stuff, so there's never anything like it in the house. But usually, if I'm hungry, I would just go eat an apple, or a salad.

Yeah, I know I'm boring and an awful teenager, but I would love to actually do something this year. If Twilight wasn't in the way. I can't have friends over for a party if Twilight is still here. They could easily come across her, and that would require a lot of explanation.

I ran out of my room to the bathroom and started getting ready. I had just about finished when I heard a taxi pull up outside our house. I looked of my window and saw my grandma, shooing the driver away from the boot. "I can carry them myself! I'm not an invalid!" I heard.

I instantly ran downstairs, bounding down them two at a time, and sprinting out of the door.

"Grandma!" I shouted as I ran out to greet her.

"Gracey!" she said, greeting me with a hug. As I hugged, I had a perfect view of the Barn, and to my horror, I saw Twilight, trying to look out of the window to see what was happening. I felt a jolt in my stomach, and immediately started waving for her to get down.

My grandma broke apart, and looked at me strangely. "What are you doing?" she asked.

"Oh, er...there was a fly. You know me, I hate bugs," I said, waving the air a bit more.

"Hello, Mum," my mum said, smiling at Grandma. Grandma immediately forgot about the strangeness of her granddaughter, and went over to greet her daughter.

"Hello, Sweetie. How are you? And Will?" She said looking at each of my parents.

"Morning, Lillian," Dad said. "Nice journey?"

"Lovely." This was a typical Grandma move - acting like an adult in front of my parents, then as soon as they're gone, she starts acting like a teenager. Well, like a grandma behaving like a teenager.

But don't get me wrong - I love her to bits. She's the only grandparent I have now, and I honestly don't know what I'd do without her. She's awesome.

Dad picked up one her bags, and started to take it inside, while my mum paid the taxi driver. "I wish you had told us you were almost at the station - I would have come to pick you up. There was no need to get a taxi."

"Now really, Will. It is 8.30 in the morning. If it was up to me, I wouldn't even be up now, and us pensioners are supposed to be 'early birds'."

It didn't take long for Grandma Lil to start settling in. She was used to coming here - it was her second home.

I walked into the Barn and saw Twilight, lying on the floor, her head on her hooves. As she saw me, she sat up. "What's going on?"

"My grandma's here. She'll be here for some time, while my parents go to a conference in Manchester."

"Oh, ok. Does she know about me?"

"No, not really," I said. "So, if she ever comes in here, either hide or just don't draw attention to yourself."

Twilight nodded. "Also," she continued. "There's something's that been bugging me."

"What?"

She walked over to the far side of the room, the gaming part of the room. "What is that?," she said, stopping in front of the TV. At first, I thought she was talking about the TV, when I realised her hoof was actually pointing at something else.

My Wii.

"Oh, that's my Wii." I knelt down and switched everything on. Picking up the remote, I said, "It's a games console. You play video games on it."

Twilight sat in front of the screen, completely mesmerised by it. That was when it actually hit me what I was doing. I just showed a pony video games.

"Can I try?" she said, still watching the screen.

And she wanted to play.

Part of me was cheering inside, another thinking, "There must be some kind of fan-fiction on this," and the other part of me was thinking, "Too bad this isn't Luna."

"Yeah, although, it's not really made for a pony to use. You'll probably have some trouble."

Right then, I heard someone shout my name, and I walked over to the window and saw my mum walking towards the Barn. I immediately grabbed Twilight, putting her in the corner and throwing a blanket over her, and running back to the TV. I started to turn it off, and was just about to when my mother walked in.

"Grace? Your grandmother has just arrived. You can wait to play video games tomorrow. But for now, spend some time with her."

"Oh, ok." I got up and followed my mother out of the door. As I shut the door, I saw Twilight emerge from underneath the blanket, her purple and pink striped mane messy from hiding. She looked up at me, her eyes questioning what I was doing.

"I'll be back later," I tried mouthing. I have no idea if she understood what I said because I had to run after my mum straightaway.

The rest of that day was spent talking about the plans for tomorrow - parents leave, Grace and grandma stay. Although, I knew that wouldn't be the case. I gave her 5 minutes - 10 at max - before she leaves for the entire day, or two. Of course, my parents don't know - they think she goes out to visit friends for a couple of hours only, coming back straightaway.

But I was excited. This holiday was the first one where I was basically going to home alone. And it was going to be brilliant, and amazing, and I couldn't wait.

Of course, it was going to be so much more than I expected to be.

More exciting.

More adventrous.

And of course, more heartbreaking.

Author's Note:

Compared to last one, this is so short.

It's turns out my notes for this chapter only said, "Grandma comes?" With a question mark.

So turns out I'm awful at planning chapters.

The others actually have plot to them, so don't worry about that.

Comments

[Lolsternater]

This was great! Can't wait to see Twilight challenge Luna with her new skills when she gets home. Also, Twilight's going to go home very soon, isn't she? I know these things.

[Inrix]

2492498

Hmm Indeed. But what if Grace was able to come with her? Hmmmm...

I smell a sequel...

[Lolsternater]

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Somehow, I doubt she would. She now has a boyfriend (can see it coming a mile away) and her whole family to account for. She's gonna stay.

[Inrix]

2492947

But what if she had the ability go go back home?

And maybe even bring her "Boyfriend" with her...

[Lolsternater]

2493426
Hmm...

Government. They are gonna fuck shit up and force her to run. It always happens.

[Basmati]

2492947
I'm intrigued. Boyfriend? Who did you have in mind exactly?

[Lolsternater]

2495680
Oh please, it's obvious.

[Basmati]

2497918
Again - obvious? I'm not kidding - I want to know what you think.

[Lolsternater]

2500871
To be honest it's kind of hard to explain. After reading so many stories and writing a bunch myself, I somehow have a great understanding of any stories plot and characters to the point I can just see things coming. Lots of times I would be reading, then stop and think 'I wonder what would happen if blahblah went to blahblah and met blahblah'. Then it would happen in the next twenty or so lines.

So, instinct I guess. Plus when hasn't a girl fallen for a guy like that? I'm a guy so that sounds really weird...

[Wiggidy]

If this is going where I think it's going, I am so gonna be jelly.