Monday, April 11, 2016

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Today's Horoscope (Virgo): Encourage someone close to you to take a long, hard look at himself or herself today. Join friends in an activity you don't normally take part in.

Early Morning

Pinkie and I wake up a little after seven. We just have time to shower, change (thank God Pinkie thought to bring a change of clothes for each of us), throw our date clothes in our bags, check out of the hotel, and swing by a drive-thru donut place to get breakfast before heading directly for CHS. I park Coach's car in the faculty lot.

"Cadance has our laptops and stuff," Pinkie says, looking down at her phone. "We need to swing by the nurse's office."

"Good idea, I need to give her Coach's keys too."

We make a dash for Cadance's office. On the way, we run into Vice-Principal Luna. "You kids are cutting it close," she says. "The rest of your friends were here half an hour ago."

"We were kind of...out last night," Pinkie says.

"Oh, I know," Luna says, smirking. "Hurry up or you'll be tardy."

We make it to the nurse's office just as the first bell rings. I toss Cadance the keys to Coach's car, and we collect our bags. "Did you two have a good time?" she asks.

"Yeah, we did," Pinkie says. "Tell you about it later gotta run now!"

"I'll text Shiny and let him know I have his keys," Cadance says. "Have a good day!"

I race to class. I'm in my seat two seconds before the tardy bell.

After School

After school, Rarity asks me to go shopping with her. And by "asks", I mean...well, it's Rarity.

Rarity spends an hour and a half moving from store to store, trying on different dresses, skirts, tops, shoes, and accessories, modeling them all for me. She seems frustrated with my responses, but...honestly? Rarity looks great in everything, so there's not much else I can say.

When she finally gets tired and needs a break, we stop off at a trendy little coffee shop and order fancy coffee and fancy cakes. "Sweetie Belle is upset over this whole thing with Button Mash," she says.

"Yeah, she told me."

Rarity sighs. "I just don't know what to do," she says. "I don't want to see her so upset over this, but...I also don't want her associating with that boy, so I'm relieved and hoping she simply breaks the whole thing off..."

I glare at her. "Rarity..."

"I know, I know!" she says, throwing her hands up. "I...I need to be supportive..." She sighs. "I'm just worried about my sister, and I don't think this Button boy is worth her torturing herself over."

I sigh. "Honestly? I agree. But...it's not your place to decide who Sweetie Belle should and shouldn't spend her time with or worry about."

"Well of course it is," Rarity says. "I'm her big sister. I have to look out for her."

"If she wasn't living at the dorm now, would you even know about this whole Button thing?" I give her a pointed stare. "Would you even care? You said it yourself, the whole reason you're living in the dorm is you wanted space from your family."

Rarity clamps her mouth shut, a pained grimace on her face. She turns her coffee spoon absently in one hand. "That's not fair," she says quietly after a long moment.

After we finish our coffee and cake, we return to the dorm. Rarity is silent and pensive the whole time.

Evening

Luna brought a new game to the dorm today. It's a four-player action-adventure dungeon crawler, closer to the kind of game Sonata prefers than what Luna and Rainbow usually play. I don't have much homework tonight and I'm a little bored, so I join Luna, Rainbow, and Sonata for a few hours of crawling through mazes, slicing up monsters, and finding treasure. By the time we're ready to call it quits for the night, I'm tired. I don't play a lot of video games, but that was actually pretty fun...