Masquerade

  "Ready to go, Silvy?" My Ponyville BFF Diamond Tiara shot me a cheesy grin. We used to hate each other for the stupidest of reasons, but she had apologized and we had been best friends for about two weeks. And now her chauffeur was taking us to La Luxe Spa for our three thirty appointment.

I pushed my saddlebag farther up my shoulder and smiled back at her. "Absolutely."

  We climbed into the diamond-encrusted pearl cart and DT's chauffeur drove us to the spa. It was a block away from DT's mansion, I believe.

  "Hi!" An all-purple pegasus mare gave us a thin-lipped smile. "Welcome to La Luxe spa! It'll be about a ninety-minute wait before you get your treatments."

"Actually, I have a reservation." Diamond Tiara told the mare. "It's under 'Rich'."

"OK...then a two-second wait! Follow me to your spa caretaker, Miss Lotus." The mare led us to a blue mare with a gorgeous rose colored mane.

"Good afternoon, Diamond Tiara!" Lotus said.

DT must come here a lot, I thought. Judging by the fact that Lotus knows her name.

"And friend..." Lotus trailed off, giving me a sideways look.

"Lotus, this is my BFF, Silver Spoon." Diamond Tiara said.

Lotus gave me an up-and-down look, then half-smiled and nodded. "Nice to meet you."

"You too." I said.

"DT, you're here for a mane wash, a facial, and a hooficure, am I correct?" Lotus asked my BFF.

"Yep." She answered.

  "OK, then. Follow me to the shampoo bowls, where you'll meet my assistant and sister, Aloe." Lotus led us to the bowls and we met Aloe, a pale pink mare with a sky blue mane. She had the same water lily blossom cutie mark as Lotus.

  My first time at the La Luxe Spa was SO luxurious. Me and DT sat in the third and fourth shampoo bowls and we got our manes shampooed and conditioned. And get this! We even got our choice of shampoo with matching conditioner!!! I chose Paris Amour shampoo and DT chose Island Nectar. I was looking at her choice but I didn't want it because it reminded me of how my parents were vacationing in Butterfly Island and had dumped me for the entire school year.

  The beauticians scrubbed the shampoo HARD into my blue-gray waist length mane. When they were done, they washed it all out and squeezed in the conditioner. The conditioner was a little harder to get out, but all the while I relaxed, enjoying the delicious smelling, perfume-y conditioner they were washing out of my hair.

  When me and Diamond Tiara were done the dried our manes, curled them, and sat us down in the spinning chairs for our hooficure and facial.

  Aloe and Lotus curled our manes, and two new beauticians, Miss Roxie and Miss Quake, filed our hooves and finished them off with a clear polish.

  When they were all done, Diamond Tiara gave Lotus her AmEx and Lotus gave her a 30% off coupon on all facials and hot baths.

We left the spa feeling more glamourous then usual.

"OK, DT, Fern said I have to be home by six thirty... so I gotta go." I said. DT's cart pulled up.

"That's OK. See you tomorrow, Silvy." Diamond Tiara hopped in the cart, winked at me, and she and the chauffeur drove off.

  I jogged home and was there by six fifteen. It was a one and a half mile jog, and a month ago, that would of taken me two hours but that was reduced by a whopping one hundred five minutes.

  For overweight humans, losing weight is hard, but in Equestria, food can be scarce sometimes and you could lose one hundred pounds in one and a half months at a maximum. You see, I used to be the fattest pony in Ponyville, but my friend Goody Gumdrops's mom owned a weight loss camp in Canterlot.  Starting two weeks ago,every week, she would send me a 10-pack of her home-made magical weight loss bars. They were amazing. Losing weight when I was an morally obese two hundred twenty-five pound filly had been much easier.

Anyway, I got home in fifteen minutes, said hello to Fern(my butler) and Blossomforth the cook.

When I got to my room, I finished my homework, then opened my Cosmo magazine to a VERY intriguing article...

Yep, you guessed it-COLTS!!!!!

The article said:

"YOU AND YOUR SOMEPONY: How To Make Him Fall For You!!!

1.Get Close To Him

Get Him To Notice You- If he's looking at you a lot, that means he's interested. If not, just keep trying.

Laugh- Don't be crazy about it, like laughing at something he says every five minutes.

Interact- Find out what he's doing, and be there doing the same thing. Bond in a sport or activity both of you like.

Make Friends- Talk and hang out with other guys.

1. Let Him Know You Are There

Talk- Don't be afraid to talk to him. Say hi and goodbye. Plus, ask him how his weekend went, and what he did. Ask him for help on homework, even if you already know how to do it. And tell him about parties, events, and get-togethers you'll be throwing.

3.Be Comfortable Around Him

Be Yourself-Don't blurt out random things like, "What are you doing after school today??" He might think you're a stalker. Just be yourself.

Class-If he sits next to you in class, SCORE! If you're doing a class partner project, ask him to be your partner whenever you can.

Be There For Him-If you can see he has a problem, always be there for him and help him sort it out.

1. Style

New Clothes-You don't need a whole new wardrobe to get noticed. A few cool new seasonal items will do just great.

Mane-Talk to your stylist about changing up your hair here and there. Would it look better short? Or if you layered it a bit? Consider these things in order to get noticed.

Find more information in our book-Kick It In Tween Style."

Oh my.

That article just gave me THE best advice for getting in good with my long time crush, Strike!!!!!!!

Diamond Tiara used to like him too, before she fell for a colt in her ballet class that didn't go to our school.

  But the huge problem is that I just learned that every other filly in our class is crushing on him too! I mean, who wouldn't! That adorable haircut, his dreamy smile, his blue, BLUE eyes...

  Anyway! I was saying that all the other girls in my class liked Strike also. I'm gonna have to beat them off with a stick(not really; it's a saying in case you didn't know). He is MINE!! I just KNOW me and my crush are meant to be!