Thursday, October 15, 2015

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Today's Horoscope (Virgo): Be careful about who you provoke today.

Early Morning

Twilight spent the night in my room. We didn't do anything except sleep—after eating up almost all my snacks and staying up way too late, of course.

Cadance is just coming out of the bathroom, wearing her fluffy red bathrobe, when Twilight leaves my room to go downstairs. She raises an eyebrow at us.

"We didn't do anything naughty!" I say hastily.

Cadance smirks. "You think I don't know that? I'm right across the hall, I'd have heard it." She rolls her eyes. "I'm almost disappointed in you two. You know if you want to have sex, you can, right? Just...be careful."

Twilight turns furiously red. "We're not doing anything like that! Honestly, why is your mind always in the gutter?" She covers her mouth with her hand as Cadance flinches and looks away. "Oh my gosh...Cadance, I'm sorry...!"

"No, it's...it's alright," Cadance says. "I shouldn't be teasing you two...or encouraging you. I just think you're a cute couple, and...well..." She sighs.

Twilight hugs her. "Did he...did he apologize?"

Cadance shrugs. "Kind of. I don't think he really knows what he's apologizing for, though. He also looked pretty ticked off...he was on edge, so it was less an apology and more, well..."

"That's...probably my fault," Twilight says, ducking her head. "He saw me in Flash's room and got upset, and I decided to be a brat about it."

Cadance shakes her head. "What you do and who you do it with is your business, so long as you're not doing anything illegal or irresponsible." She smirks. "And we all know you wouldn't do stuff like that."

Twilight ducks her head. "I...I'd better go get ready for school."

"Me too," I say hurriedly, ducking back into my room to get my bath things together.

After School

At Music Club, Trixie is chatting animatedly with Lyra and some of the others. She's showing off a couple of magic tricks, and everybody seems to enjoy them. I have to admit, she's actually pretty good...especially when she isn't bragging. She slips into her stage persona from time to time, but catches herself before she kills the atmosphere.

As I'm watching her, a thought occurs. As club is letting out, I walk up to her. "Hey, Trixie."

"Oh...hello, Flash. I saw you watching me earlier. Do...do you think they were enjoying my tricks?"

"I think they were, yeah. I know I was."

Trixie smiles. "Thank you."

"Actually, I wanted to ask a favor."

"Yes?"

"You know Pinkie Pie, right?"

Trixie tilts her head. "That impossibly cheerful and hyperactive pink girl who pretty much is the school's party planning committee?"

"Yeah. Her birthday's in a couple of weeks." I take a deep breath. "She's been in kind of a funk lately, and...I think some of your magic might be just the kick her birthday party needs to cheer her up."

Trixie blinks. "You...want me...to perform at Pinkie Pie's birthday party?"

"It'd be a good idea. And a great way for you to make more friends outside of the music club."

Trixie chews her lip thoughtfully. "Trixie will consider it. You said the party is in two weeks?"

I nod.

"Trixie w—I will let you know next week if I can make it."

"Cool. See you Tuesday."

Evening

I return to the dorm to find Shining Armor waiting in my room.

"We need to talk," he says.

I put my things down and cross my arms.

He looks at me. He stands up and takes a step closer. "I'm going to have you evicted from this dorm," he says.

"Really?" I ask. "May I ask why?"

"Inappropriate conduct," he says. "It was a mistake to put you here in the first place."

"Not my fault," I say. "You know exactly why I was assigned here."

"Even so," he says. "I don't want you here. You don't need to be here."

"I don't give a flying f—" I take a deep breath. "You don't have any say in the matter. And I haven't done anything 'inappropriate'."

"My sister was in your room all night!" he shouts in my face. "ALL NIGHT! That's inappropriate!"

"The dorm manager knew she was here. She also knew we weren't doing anything but watching TV and sleeping."

"That doesn't...Cadance is..." Shining Armor shakes his head. "Look, she shouldn't be in your room at night! Or ever!"

"She's my girlfriend," I point out. "There's no rules against that."

"YES THERE ARE!"

"No there aren't," I insist. "I checked. There are no rules against boys and girls being in the same dorm room, in any dorm on campus, so long as the dorm manager allows it." I point a finger at the door. "Your wife is the dorm manager. She allows it."

Shining Armor looks like he's going to take a swing at me. "I say it stops. Here and now."

He tries to glare me down. I'm not backing down. I'm sick of this asshole. I'm sick of the way he tries to push me around, I'm sick of the way he's a jerk to his wife. "You know, if you stopped being an asshole for five minutes—"

The next thing I know, I'm on the floor and the entire left side of my face hurts. Shining Armor is standing over me, his chest heaving.

There's a loud gasp from the door. "WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU JUST DO?!"

It's Cadance, and she looks horrified.

I hear feet running up the stairs. Twilight, Fluttershy, and Rarity appear behind Cadance. They all look confused, stunned, and horrified.

I stand up, rubbing my cheek. "Is that all you wanted to say, Coach?"

Shining Armor's face suddenly turns more pale than normal. He looks from me, to the crowd at the door. His jaw drops and his eyes widen.

That's right, you stupid son of a bitch. Let it sink in.

Shining Armor shakes a finger at Cadance. "I...I want him out of this dorm," he says, before pushing past the girls and walking quickly to the stairs.

Twilight and Cadance rush in. "Oh my GOD!" Twilight says, eyes wide. "Did he...did he..."

"He has a hell of a punch," I say, probing my teeth to see if any are loose.

Cadance frowns. "Rarity? Get an ice pack, if you please."

"Right away, Nurse," Rarity says, hurrying to the stairs.

"I—I'll get the first aid k-kit," Fluttershy stammers, rushing after Rarity.

"Flash, what happened?!" Twilight asks.

"Shining Armor tried to evict me from the dorm," I say. "I told him I'm not leaving." I wince as Cadance runs her fingers over my tender cheek. "I should've told him to go fuck himself."

"Shining Armor can't evict you from the dorm," Cadance says. "I can't even evict you from the dorm. Only Principal Celestia and Vice-Principal Luna can authorize a student's eviction from housing." She frowns. "Why did he want you out?"

"Because he doesn't like Twilight being in my room."

"That's stupid!" Twilight says.

"He's been stupid about a lot of things lately," Cadance sighs. "He'll probably complain to Celestia about you. Don't worry about it if he does. I've got your back."

"So do I," Twilight says. She frowns. "I'm going to go give him a piece of my mind." She leaves before either of us can stop her.

"Flash...I'm so, so very sorry about this," Cadance says. "This...this just isn't like him at all. I don't know why he's gone so...so crazy lately..."

Fluttershy and Rarity return, and help Cadance tend to my face. "This may hurt for a day or two," Cadance says. "You're definitely going to have a nasty bruise."

Once they leave, I do my homework. I'm angry and my face hurts like hell, so it's hard to concentrate.

Dinner is tense and awkward. Applejack and Rainbow Dash got a confused second-hand account of what happened; when Pinkie Pie comes home from work in the middle of dinner, I have to tell everyone the whole story of the encounter again.

Twilight isn't eating as much as usual, but she's attacking her food way more viciously than usual. "I don't know what's gotten into him, but this is going too far," she says. Her voice is hoarse; from what I gather, she spent a solid half hour screaming at her brother.

Cadance sighs. "I...I'll move back into the apartment tonight."

"No," Twilight says. "Stay right where you are until he comes to his senses. He deserves to be alone right now."

Nobody says anything else for the rest of dinner. I head to bed early after taking some medicine for the pain.