Day 1~
Circumstances being what they were, it was ironic that Mi Amore Cadenza knew little more of Shining Armor than his name.
He must be rich, she thought, scanning the foyer, which revealed quite clearly how well-off the Sparkle family was.
The deep side of the expansive entry opened into a sprawling formal living room of pale yellows and muted golds. Above was a great crystal chandelier. Behind her, a stairway climbed dramatically to the second story.
She was faced by double doors, a console table whose cabriolet legs touched the parquet framed as lightly as a ballerinas toes and a brass accent lamp reflected by a gilt framed mirror.
Beside her stood a immense brass pitcher bursting with a abundance of overpoweringly fragrant dried eucalyptus. The overpowering scent was beginning to make the pink pony sick.
She turned her eyes to the massive oak entry doors. The knobs weren’t shaped like any she’d ever seen. Instead, they were curved and swirled like the handles of the cutlery.
Acidly Cadence wondered how much handles like those must cost, to say nothing of the pretentious bench on which she’d been left. It was lush brown velvet, armless, tufted, bench, the kind of absurd extravagance afforded by only the very rich.
Yes, the entire foyer was a work of art and if beauty. Everything in it fit……..Except Cadence herself.
The girl was attractive enough, her pink fur and yellow, purple and pink mane having a fresh, vital look. Her feature bore the strikingly appealing symmetry often found in those royal ponies, sharply, purple eyes beneath arched brows of pleasing contour.
It was her clothing that gave her away.
She wore a uncouth heather colored dress that spoke of the brighter days long gone. It was homemade and of poor fabric. Her coat was limp, frayed at hem and cuff.
From behind the study door Shining armors voice exploded “Who!” and her eyes came open to the sound of his voice.
He doesn’t remember me, she thought again, making sure to not make any eye contact.
“Cadence…?” He asked, to the mare’s surprise her predictions were false, The colt somehow did remember her, much to her dismay her purple eyes drifted away from the colts bright blue eyes. Maybe, like her, all he remembered about her truthfully besides the events resulting in the reason they knew one another in the first place.
“Hello, Shinning Armor….” She mumbled, maintaining that false air of aloofness, Shining armor looked at her from head to hoof.
“What are you doing here?” Cadence more then anything wanted the colt to leave before she remembered the disgraceful thing that happened between the two.
“Oh…..Um, you see I….” Cadence didn’t want to reveal the fact she wasn’t suppose to be at the Gala in the first place, she wasn’t formally invited like the Sparkle family she was there only because she found a ticket on the ground.
“I…was invited….” Fortunately the colt wasn’t aware of her status as a low class mare that had to make money just so she could eat everyday and if she didn’t, she wouldn’t get to eat till she did. Her cutie mark didn’t have to do anything with a job in the community; her cutie mark was to spread love.
Of course, that’s okay to, but spreading love wasn’t a job and if it was she would be the boss and she would maybe be as rich as The Sparkles.
“What are you wearing….?” He asked, she almost knew he was going to ask that, what could she say then, she couldn’t say that she could only make one cause she didn’t have enough money to buy one.
All she had was some fabric and sewing needles from her grandmother who used to make cloth but Cadence was no dressmaker.
“I…Um…made it…..” Cadence, on the Brightside of this lying streak it was half of the ugly truth, Shining armor smiled to Cadence’s surprise.
“Well its looks great…..” He complimented, he looked so truthful but she knew he was lying, if you knew Cadence long enough you would know whenever she lies she has this weird look. Since she was usually an honest pony and she wasn’t one to lie so lying was a whole new concept.
So she didn’t have the greatest poker face,per say, in fact you shouldn’t even call it a poker face it didn’t deserve that kind of recognition. She truly felt bad about lying to Shining armor, he has no idea she was such a low class pony.
If he did they would never have had that one night stand together, “Thank you….” She said looking at him coldly trying her best to be posh.
“Do you remember what happened…..On July the forth…” Shining armor reminded, Cadence wanted to die, she was trying to forget what happened but he kept bringing it up. She remembered it, perfectly now.
She signed, remembering what happened at the firework party she went to, it was a local thing, but she bumped into the white colt and they began to talk, she had pretending she had a big family.
Even though her whole family is dead and spoke of how they were quite wealthy except for the fact she wasn’t. It was horrible what she got herself into, she was ashamed she hoped she would never see him again so she wouldn't have to remember it.
“Yeah……I remember…..” She stated her head down afraid to face the pony she was lying to.
“Shining armor!” They heard Shining armor looked behind him to find out who was speaking in such a cold and controlling tone, it sent shivers down the pink pony’s spine.
The colt walked up to the ponys “Father….” Shining armor said as he fully turned to face his father completely, the colt took a scan at the pink pony, he could notice her fate as a low class after the imspection he looked over at Shining armor.
“Do you know this mare….?” The cold tone almost made the pink hoofed pony start shaking, especially with the question he was asking, Shining armor didn’t speak. The father gave up on his son and soon after looked over at Cadence, she was terrified “do you know him?” He questioned.
“Umm…..No…” Cadence lied “just asking where the restroom was in such a huge castle!” She was praying to Celesta that Shining armor would go along with her lie. “Is this true, Shining armor…?” Shining armor gave a glance at Cadence and then looked back at his father.
"Yes....Very true…” Shining armor lied along with Cadence, his father nodded as Shining armor turned back to Cadence “on the first storey, two doors to the left.” Shining armor said bluntly as if he didn’t know the mare he had done such inappropriate things with.
Cadence bit her lip and then let out a sigh “What have I gotten myself into….?” Cadence asked herself in tears, maybe she should really get to that washroom so she could cry and no one would see her.
Chapter 2: Congratulations!
The pink pony sighed as she woke up the next morning on the bright side, it was on her own bed and not on Shining Armors, Cadence groaned as she realized all she was doing was reminding herself of the dreadful things that had happened.
She then felt her stomach it felt as if something was going to explode, Cadence gasped “oh no…..I didn’t have to much wine did I….?” Cadence asked herself even though it was obvious she didn't know the answer, she then buried her head in her soft pillow.
She prayed she wouldn’t get sick, she hated getting sick, who in Equestria didn't? Cadence put a hoof to her head and rubbed her forehead hoping she wasn’t getting a migraine again, like she did later at the Gala.
Cadence then tensed up as she felt the disgusting fluids heading towards her mouth, Cadence quickly covered her mouth with her hoof so she wouldn’t puke all over her bed.
She ran to the small bathroom in her cottage, and let everything out, leaving a very unpleasant taste in her mouth. The unicorn soon got a bottle of water and drank out of it, hoping for the taste to go away.
Cadence opened the fridge in her small house to see it almost empty besides two bottles of water and a apple, “I should probably go restock….” Cadence went and found her wallet, “6 bits…..I could probably get another apple….And if I’m lucky some hay…..”
The pink unicorn opened the door to her cottage with her magic to see Pinkie Pie, with a big smile on her face, it almost look like Pinkie pie smile was causing much pain to the pink earth pony, “Hi Cadence! I’ve been waiting for you to come out here since 6:30 in the morning! I am so happy to see you!”
The unicorn went and looked at her clock it was currently 9:15am, Cadence knew Pinkie Pie, which wasn't really saying anything since Pinkie pony knew everyone in town.
Cadence was actually not too happy to see the younger pony, she was not in the mood to see the forth wall breaking this enthusiastic pony could do, she wished that she was as happy and silly as the pink pony, she could only dream of living the way Pinkie Pie does.
“Um…not right now Pinkie I have to start shopping an-” The unicorn begun before being interrupted.
“I can come with you!” Pinkie Pie exclaimed before Cadence could finish.
“Oh…no that’s okay Pink-” once again before she could finish, Pinkie Pie was already hopping her way down the streets, Cadence thought she was going to get a migraine again.
Soon enough the two ponies were galloping down the street, Pinkie Pie was talking to whole way but Cadence was doing anything but listening.
All she could think about was this big lie she had gotten herself into, she hated lying so much, she looked around and saw a stand selling apples for one bit and ran up to it since there was one left, and it was on sale, apples were usually 3 bits.
“-And liveandlearn totally needs to learn how to write descriptions……..” Pinkie Pie turned to see no Cadence beside her, “Cadence where did you go?”
“Here’s your apple…” A stallion said to Cadence as she used her magic to put it in her bag.
“Thank you…..” She added to the stallion kindly, “now what should I get….?” Cadence asked herself, she looked around to see lettuce being sold for 2 bits, Cadence walked to it, and got out her money as she took the lettuce.
Pinkie Pie hopped over to Cadence “oh Cadence thank liveandlearn you’re here, for a second, I thought liveandlearn killed you, but why would she do that since she thinks your best Princess which is saying someting because everyone thinks Luna’s best princess!”
Cadence turned to Pinkie Pie “me, a Princess? What are you talking about, you have to be a alicorn to be a Princess, or at least born into the royal family, Pinkie Pie…..As you can see I’m a unicorn…..Also I am not in the royal family, you could probably tell…..”
Pinkie Pie smiled “I know that silly! But liveandlearn's viewers don’t! That’s why shes making this pawn in order to let everyone know this is an alternative Universe fimfiction and you’re not a alicorn Princess in it!”
Cadence was getting more confused by the second “whose liveandlearn….Fimfiction…..?” She looked over at the forth wall breaking pony, and rolled her eyes “forget it…..” She thought.
Cadence entered her small cottage, she was finally able to get Pinkie Pie to leave her alone
Her back was aching like crazy and last she remembered the small amount of food in her bag wasn’t heavy at all.
“What is wrong with me?” She kept asking herself, was she getting some kind of disease? She couldn’t be……Could she….?
“Maybe I should go to a clinic……” She wondered as she laid in her bed, she could barely fall asleep she was so stressed, so hurt, yet so tired.
“I’ll go to a clinic tomorrow” she said aloud as she hoped to fall asleep in her bed instead of staying up till 1:00 in the morning.
THE NEXT DAY
Cadence quietly sat in a room within the clinic, waiting for a doctor to come to her needs, soon somepony around her age Cadence didn’t know came in, he was a red earth pony with a orange mane and quite a lazy expression.
“Hello……Cadence is it?” The male doctor asked, as the pink unicorn nodded, “my name is big Macintosh, but you can call me Doctor Mac, tell me…..What is wrong…..”
Cadence gulped loudly, this was her first time at a clinic, “well…..” Cadence cleared her throat “I’ve been having back pain, and it just would come out of no where, even when I wasn’t holding something heavy….”
Cadence watched as Big Mac wrote on the clipboard he had, “yeeeeeup….” He noted, which was, to Cadence, a signal to continue.
“And even when I haven’t drank, I always puke in the morning!”
Big Mac had put the clipboard away the minute the pink mare had said that, “and let me guess……You have weird cravings all the time, you're gaining weight even though you don’t eat much and you're keep getting migraines……”
Cadence mouth dropped “h-how did you know…..?” Cadence asked, “because, its almost obvious…..Congratulations!” Doctor Mac said happily.
Cadence could only wonder what the stallion was talking about, “huh? Congratulations? For what….?”
“You’re pregnant!”
