Monday, November 9, 2015

2015
AUGUST
SEPTEMBER
OCTOBER
NOVEMBER





DECEMBER
GO TO 2016

Today's Horoscope (Virgo): You never know what someone is capable of just by looking at them.

Daytime

I spent the entire weekend in bed with the flu.

My fever broke early yesterday afternoon, but I still had sweats and chills and still felt like crap. I dragged myself downstairs for the first time in days around dinnertime, but stayed clear of everyone else. I didn't spend very long downstairs.

Today, I'm feeling a lot better, but Cadance says I can't go back to school until tomorrow. I'm going to spend today catching up on schoolwork I've missed and practicing my guitar. Vinyl had an eye doctor appointment today, but she had to make other arrangements. I did text her for moral support, though.

Evening

I join everyone for dinner.

"I'm glad you're feeling better," Twilight says.

"Me too," I say. "Now I'm starting to know how Rainbow Dash must've felt when she was cooped up in the dorm."

"Yeah, it gets old pretty fast...but at least I wasn't stuck in bed with the flu," Rainbow says, wrinkling her nose.

I'm still supposed to rest so I don't relapse, and Cadance still doesn't want the girls hanging around with me too much yet, so after dinner, I head back up to my room to watch a little television before bed.

Luna opens my door and peeks in. "Could I speak with you for a moment?" she asks.

"Of course."

She walks in. "I'm sure the others didn't mention it while you were ill, but...Sunset Shimmer's accomplices have been up to some underhanded tricks to undermine the other candidates for Fall Formal Princess."

"I'm not surprised."

"I didn't think you would be," Luna says. "At the moment, the voting is very close...only two-thirds of the student body have voted. My concern is that Sunset Shimmer may attempt some last-minute trick to alter the vote count." She sighs. "We should be counting votes by hand, not electronically."

"She could stuff the ballot box," I point out. "They used to do that, right?"

"True." Luna sighs. "Technology just...makes it easier for girls like that..."

"Can I ask a personal question?"

"That depends."

"You said...you'd been in prison."

"And you want to know why?"

I nod.

Luna chuckles ruefully. "I...was very jealous of my sister growing up," she says. "As we grew older, our relationship grew more strained. I was spending more time with...the wrong crowd." She looks down. "One day, Celestia decided she needed to intervene in my life...I saw it as meddling, as her trying to control me. I...stabbed her."

I gasp.

"Repeatedly." Tears fall from Luna's eyes. "I very nearly killed her. My sister..." She shakes her head. "I saw the shock and pity in her eyes, and I broke. I couldn't believe what I had done...

"I did three years of a five year sentence after Celestia herself begged the prosecutor to decrease the charge from attempted murder to assault. After I got out...Celestia had just become principal of Canterlot High, and she offered me a job at her side. I...wondered how she could possibly forgive me after what I'd done, but..." She looks away, wiping her eyes. "Every day since then, I've worked to earn my sister's forgiveness, even though she forgave me long ago. I...haven't really forgiven myself yet." She looks at me. "I look at Sunset Shimmer and I see the angry little bitch that tried to knife her own sister to death. I wonder...does Celestia see me in Sunset Shimmer as well? Is that why she's...trying so hard to ignore what's right in front of her?"

"You should be getting to bed now, Flash. You don't want to get sick again...the Fall Formal is on Friday." Luna leaves.

It takes a long time for me to get to sleep, because I keep envisioning that horrible scene...