The Return of the Everfree Kingdom

Chapter 6: The Party
“It all happened so fast, we didn’t even know what had happened until
It was too late.”

A day after the very exciting game of tug of war between Applejack and Rainbow Dash, everypony found themselves back at Ponyville all of them exhausted after the long trip to get back here, except for a very bouncy pink pony.

“We should totally do that again some time guys!” Pinkie cheerfully cried out as she bounced backwards at the front of the group with a huge grin.

“Haha, well it was rather fun” Rarity said while she was still trying to keep up her sophisticated image even though she was physically exhausted “maybe we should schedule another one we have time.”

“Can I make a request?” Spike inquired as he strode alongside Twilight.

“Yes, what is it Spike?” Rarity turned her head to look at him and fluttered her eyelashes which sent the little dragon’s heart racing.

“I..um..” Spike fidgeted with his claws before Twilight smiled and sighed at the same time.

“Rarity, I’m sure that next time he wants to go to a place where they serve gemstones on the menu.”

“Ah dunno sugarcube” Applejack chimed in “aren’t gemstones only for dragons? So ah reckon that we won’t be finding any at an inn that is for ponies.”

“Aw crud” Spike’s shoulders slowly slouched over as he sighed.

“Cheer up Spike” this time Rainbow Dash joined in “I’m sure ‘lady’ Rarity could lend you some of her gems~”

Spike’s scaly cheeks turned a bright pink while Rarity took Rainbow’s words as more of an insult to her and not Spike “what do you mean ‘lady Rarity’?” Rarity asked with her brows furrowed.

“Oh lighten up Rarity Sharity!” Pinkie Pie bounced in front still with her endless suplus of energy keeping her going “she was only joking.”

“Rarity….Sharity?” Rainbow said to herself slowly as she glanced at the white unicorn before she and the rest of the girls except for Rarity, all broke into laughter with Spike still just walking along with his claws still fidgeting with each other.

Clyde, who had stayed silent for most of the trip with his hood back letting his slightly medium length mane blow in the wind behind him cracked a smile.

“There you are!”

The group of ponies stopped laughing as they turned towards the source of the voice and saw two ponies trotting towards them, one of them with a red coat and the other with a green coat, Twilight recognising the two of them and waved “hey Diglet! Steady Skies!”

Pinkie Pie leant down towards Clyde and whispered “are they new in town?”

Clyde who somehow donned his hood back on chuckled “yes, so you know what that means right?” Pinkie Pie smiled from ear to ear as she already started planning things inside her head.

Applejack stared as the two forms of the ponies came closer and the little gears in her head started spinning “oh ah remember those two now, shucks it’s only been a few days and ah almost forgot about ‘em.”

Diglet was the first to arrive with Steady arriving a close second, both of them a little out of breathe. “I win!” Diglet announced triumphantly.

“That’s only because you saw them first! I would have beaten you if we both started at the same time” Steady crossed her forehooves as she floated in the air above Diglet.

“Oh I know! The party can be held inside Sugarecube Corner!” Pinkie announced out loud, earning her looks from everypony except Clyde who was silently laughing.

“What in tarnation are ya blabbing about Pinkie?” Applejack asked with a confused expression until she stared at the red and green duo and realization dawned on her “ooooh ah get it now” the cowpony turned back to Diglet and smiled “you two are in for one surprise.”

“What do you mean?” Steady sounded confused which matched hers and Diglet’s expression “what party?”

Pinkie promptly jumped up right close to Steady’s face and excitedly yelled “YOUR WELCOME TO PONYVILLY PARTY! What else could it be silly?”

“Haha, you haven’t had a party until you had one ‘Pinkie Pie’ style” snickered Rainbow Dash as she patted Pinkie on her back.

Diglet and Steady stared at each other, both of them still confused and the red stallion opened his mouth to ask a question but Pinkie suddenly appeared between the two of them and wrapped her fore hooves around both of them “come on! You have a party to attend!”

“But…I..we” Diglet tried to say as Steady and him were firmly wrapped in the pink pony’s fore hooves and were being dragged off to Sugarcube Corner.

“No buts, you two are getting a ‘welcome to Ponyville party’ and you two are going to love it!” The others laughed as they watched the exuberant pony take her two new friends off to prepare for the party that will be on later tonight.

“So how do you know those two ponies anyway?” Rainbow asked with a grin, as she was watching the ponies trying to break out of Pinkie’s grasp.

“Oh we met those two darlings during that last rain storm, how they ever evaded Pinkie’s radar I will never know” Rarity replied, with a tiny grin as she too watched the scene.

“Oh well ah guess we’ll see them later tonight at Sugarcube Corner anyway, we can’t miss out on a Pinkie Pie party” Applejack commented as she placed the tired Applebloom onto her back and made her way back to Sweet Apple Acres “ah’ll see y’all there!”

The others nodded as Rarity and Sweetie left towards the Boutique while Scootaloo followed behind Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy quietly left for her home, leaving Twilight, Spike and Clyde alone.

“Hey Spike” Clyde said as he turned to the baby Dragon “do you want to go hang out and try to find some gemstones for you to eat?”

“Boy do I!” Spike jumped up and patted the cloaked colt on his back “you know, you ain’t so bad little guy.”

Clyde chuckled as the two of them left Twilight and went towards town “oh please, who are you calling ‘little guy’? I’m older than you by more than you can imagine tiny dragon.”

“Now who are you calling ‘tiny dragon’?” The two glared at each other before both of them started laughing as they walked off.

Twilight smiled as she made her way to the Library with a little reminder to herself that she needs to make sure to grab Spike before it was time for Pinkie’s Party.

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Twilight and Spike stepped into Sugarcube Corner and were greeted with confetti that was thrown by Pinkie Pie who waited right next to the door with a big smile “Hi guys, glad you could make it.”

“We wouldn’t miss this for the world Pinkie” Spike replied with a happy sigh while he rubbed his tummy “ah, Clyde had a secret stash of Gemstones in town and he was nice enough to share it and I am so full.”

“Aww, but we have everything!” Pinkie frowned and pointed towards the buffet which was filled with all kinds of candy, drinks and even cakes which made Spike lick his lips and stared at the food with a hunger in his eyes.

Twilight smiled but put a hoof in front of Spike as he charged for the table “uh uh Spike, eat anymore and you’ll get a stomach ache, and do I need to remind you about being greedy?”

Spike stared at the ground and kicked it with his foot “that’s right…” Spike looked up to Twilight quickly before he giggled and ran off to the table anyway and started eating away.

“um, he won’t become all big and scary and mean again will he?” Pinkie leaned towards Twilight with a worried look.

“Nah” Twilight replied as she too made for the table “he’s just a growing boy and he’s just really hungry.”

Pinkie let out a sigh of relief as two more ponies trotted through the door, both of them with a white coat “Hello Pinkie, I am terribly sorry we are late.”

Pinkie giggled and booped Rarity’s muzzle “first time for everything.”

“Well yes, but I just wish that some little sister didn’t break my mane straightener” Rarity glared at Sweetie Belle who hung her head down low and sighed.

“I didn’t mean to, I just thought it might get me my cutie mark” Sweetie stared up at her older sister and gave her a sappy, giant eyed look that made Rarity scoff.

“Oh alright” Rarity flicked her mane “I’ll just have to buy a new one then, just don’t break it this time” the two sisters happily entered followed by Pinkie Pie.

“Oh Rarity wait!”

“What is it Pinkie?” Rarity turned to face her pink friend only to have her face pelted by confetti.

“Hahaha, welcome to the party.”

Elsewhere one nervous and one somehow calm ponies were surrounded by mares left and right all of them asking a lot of questions.

“Oh, I love your mane!”

“Please tell us where you are from.”

“Do you need someone to do your garden?”

“Why is his tail missing?”

“Oh is he single?”

“Thank you, far away from here, no thanks, because he wants it like that and no!” Steady somehow managed to answer each and every single question with ease, not even shedding a single sweat.

Diglet stood behind Steady, sure he had a smaller frame than most stallions which made him the same height as any normal mare which made hiding behind Steady so much easier. But he was uneasy being around so many mares, all of their prying eyes and good looks made him extremely nervous.

After about five more minutes of questioning the mares seemed pleased and left the two ponies alone, Diglet let out a sigh of relief as he regained his composure only to look at Steady’s face to find her glaring at him.

“You really are hopeless aren’t you?”

Diglet lowered his head and nervously smiled “it-it’s not my fault that I get like that, but there were so many of them!”

Steady sighed and facehoofed but quickly smiled and patted Diglet on his head “it’s a shame about how being around a lot of mares freaks you out.”

“And this town’s mare to stallion ratio is...” he shuddered and gulped “I don’t even want to say it!”

“Come on Diglet calm down, I think some friends want to speak to you” Steady smiled as Diglet lifted his head to see Twilight and Rarity which made him smile.

“It is good to see you again darling, but why are you cowering?” The fasionista asked as she pointed to the red unicorn.

“Um” he quickly dusted himself off, even though there was no dust and coughed “you uh, promise not to laugh?”

“He’s afraid of being around too many mares!” Steady announced softly to the two unicorns in front of her.

“Steady!” Diglet stared daggers at the green Pegasus to which she replied with her own stare.

“Then how come you didn’t have a reaction when we first met you?”Twilight asked, trying to change the mood.

Diglet’s face lifted up and he smiled “well that’s because I can handle a small amount, anymore than six or so and I kind of start to shiver and get chills down my spine.”

“He actually was even worse when we first met, poor bugger couldn’t even stand the sight of me” Steady smirked and nudged Diglet with a hoof.

“Well I’m getting better, but still not by much...”

Twilight magically levitated a glasses and notepad and stared at Diglet “so tell me, when did all of it start?”

Rarity poked Twilight’s side very hard which caused her to almost lose balance “Twilight darling, don’t you think that is a bit personal to just ask of somepony?”

“No it is quite alright” Diglet smiled wryly and waved a hoof “Steady already knows the full story but suffice to say I grew up in New Maresey.”

“New Maresey!? That awful place?” Rarity shook her head in disbelief “oh I am so sorry for you darling.”

Twilight put away the glasses and notepad and sighed “so what is New Maresey anyway? Is it like a town or city even?”

“You haven’t heard of it?” Rarity seemed even more shocked that her purple friend had no idea what New Maresey was.

“New Maresey, is a place that is far out of the Princess’ reach” Diglet wore a sad smile on his face “it is town, that is close to the border of Equestria and the mare to stallion ratio is much higher than here” he shivered at his own words and Steady rested a hoof on his back.

“You don’t need to say anymore Diglet, I think they understand” the green mare turned to the unicorns and put on a sweet smile “let’s leave it at that okay? My brave little stallion here is not having a good time and this party is meant to be for us after all.”

“Haha, sorry about that” Twilight awkwardly rubbed the back of her neck with a forehoof “well it is nice that you get to be acquainted with the ponies of Ponyville, they are not bad ponies.”

“We’ll take your word for it Twilight, it is good to see you and rarity again.”

“Oh of course darling, the feeling is mutual” Rarity flicked her mane and smiled “and don’t forget about my offer for Diglet here.”

“I-I might consider it..” Diglet trailed off as he spied more mares coming their way and tried to sneak away only to have Steady pull him back.

“They’re not going to come this way, it’s just that we’re near the buffet.”

“Speaking of buffet” the four ponies turned to see Spike holding a plate that had a tower of different food and snacks “looky what I found!” He giggled and tried to find a spot to set his food down.

“Now Spike Wikey, what have I told you about having too much food?” Rarity had a concerned look as she eyed the tower on Spike’s plate.

“Oh don’t worry Rarity, Sweetie Belle and Applebloom said that they wanted some food and I offered to get some for them too” the tiny dragon grinned as he eyed his loot “I hope they get here soon, I can’t hold back for long.”

Rarity and Twilight shared a laugh as Diglet’s and Steady’s jaws hit the ground at the sheer size of pile of food “it’s almost hitting the ceiling!” Diglet shook his head and stared at Spike “you must be one strong tiny dragon.”

“Ah this is nothing, Twilight told me that something like this is natural for a baby dragon, I just need to hold back a little or I might lose it…again.”

“Spike!” Two voices loudly resonated from nearby and Sweetie Belle and Applebloom charged forward and took spots on both sides of Spike as they registered the stack of food “WOW! ~”

“Wow Spike, did ya get all this food for us ta share?”

“I…I’m not sure we can eat it all” Sweetie dropped her head and Spike just laughed softly.

“Come on Sweetie Belle, we’re all sharing and besides I can just eat the rest.”

Sweetie lifted her head and smiled sweetly at Spike “thanks Spike.”

Applebloom roughly nudged Spike in his side and drew his attention “come on Spike, ah bet ah can eat more than you!”

“Oh you’re on!”

“Hey, don’t forget about me guys!”

Twilight smiled as she watch the three kids chow down as she leant towards Rarity “those two are still competing?”

Rarity nervously chuckled as she fixed her mane “I-I’m not sure, but they both seem keen on beating the other whenever it comes to the little guy, oh I just hope he doesn’t break their adorable little hearts.”

“I’m not sure I can guarantee he won’t, he hasn’t even noticed it yet and what about Scootloo?”

“Oh you know that one, always has her eyes on Rainbow Dash.”

“Rainbow Dash?” The two unicorns stopped their gossiping and saw Steady with an almost uneasy expression “you know her? Oh no is she here?”

“Didn’t you see her when before Pinkie dragged you two away?”

“Well we didn’t have time because we were being attacked by your pink friend who then brought us here.”

“Haha, well what’s wrong with Dash?” Twilight inquired as Steady still seemed as though she wanted to leave as soon as possible.

“I’d rather not say, just keep her away from me” Steady looked left and right as she huddled closer to Diglet.

“Keep who away from you?” a familiar tomboy-ish voice asked from behind Steady causing her to jump into the air.

“Curses Rainbow Dash” Steady sighed and lowered herself in front of the rainbow maned Pegasus “I thought I didn’t have to deal with you anymore.”

“Haha, it’s nice to see you too Ready Steady” The tomboy nudged Steady which made her groan.

“Can you stop with that stupid nickname already?” That was years ago.”

“Fine” Rainbow Dash had let her eyes off of Steady and joined her friends and smiled “I almost didn’t recognize you Steady, how have you been?”

Steady had apparently slipped away as Dash was walking to her friends which prompted the cyan Pegasus to sigh.

“She was always really good at doing that.”

“So how do you know her Rainbow?” Twilight asked while Rarity kept an eye out for Steady while Diglet just stood there with them awkwardly and slightly fidgeted with his hooves.

“Well duh, she’s a Pegasus so of course she went to Flight school in Cloudsdale” Rainbow stared at the ceiling as she was hit by a wave of nostalgia “she was sometimes teased for her name, but it was all in good fun though.”

“Well judging by how she acted when she saw you it is obvious that is wasn’t fun for her Rainbow Dash” Rarity commented with a slight smug tone.

“Yeah, but I was just a kid back then you can-“

“Hi guys!” Rainbow was cut off as a pink blur came shooting past them and stopping right next to Diglet, which made him freeze on the spot.

“Oh hi Pinkie Pie, awesome party as usual” Rainbow sighed, having somehow dodged trying to explain herself.”

“Thanks Rainbow Dash” Pinkie giggled and brought her face right next to Diglet’s “enjoying your super-duper fun ‘Welcome to Ponyville’ party?”

Diglet just stayed frozen on the spot until Pinkie tapped him with a hoof and he just fell onto the ground as if he had turned to stone “do you think he’ll be okay?” Rainbow asked as she tried to hold back a giggle.

“Oh, I almost totally forgot about his marephobia, um, well I need to check up on Spike and make sure he and the girls are getting along well” Twilight made her way through the crowd followed by Rarity who only grinned and giggled.

“I hope the dears did not eat all the food, I could go for some nourishment myself.”

“Well have fun Rainbow Dash, I have to go and make sure everyone is having fun but can you make sure our friend Diglet is having fun for me?” and with that Pinkie bounced away leaving the cyan Pegasus with the red unicorn who was only now regaining his senses.

“What the? Oh it’s you” Diglet returned to his hooves and dusted himself off before glaring at Rainbow Dash “what are you still doing here?”

“What am I doing here?” Rainbow was offended by his attitude “I was left here to look after you!”

“Oh, thanks then I guess” Diglet continued glaring at her but dropped his stare as he looked to his left and right “urgh, I need to get out of here and quickly.”

“Why? Can’t stand being around a few girls tough guy?” Rainbow nudged him while giggling.

Diglet jumped back at her touch and lowered himself into a threatening stance and spoke with a tone of the same manner “never, never touch me again!”

“Whoa dude, calm down” Rainbow nervously tried to smile as some of the other ponies were starting to stare “everypony is staring at us.”

Diglet continued to glare but he finally dropped his stance and put on a fake smile as he signalled to the staring ponies everything was fine and as soon as they resumed what they were doing he leaned towards Rainbow and whispered into her ear “outside, now!”

And with that Diglet awkwardly tried to work his way through the crowd of mares to the exit leaving a very confused Rainbow Dash by herself who just shrugged and walked outside as well.

Rainbow was greeted by a very cross looking red coated unicorn “seriously umm…Diglet right? Anyway you need to calm down, all I did was poke you.”

“You heard Twilight Sparkle, I have a phobias of mares.”

“So? What is a phobia anyway? Is it like some kind of allergy or something?”

Diglet’s jaw hit the ground as he tried to supress a laugh “well I guess, that I can’t really be that mad if you have no idea what a phobia is, but seriously? You don’t know what a phobia is?”

“Oh so you calm down when I don’t know what phobia is.”

“Well it just means you didn’t know what you were doing is all, and that can be forgiven” Diglet stopped giggling and breathed deeply “but still just never touch me.”

“So what is a phobia anyway? Can you at least tell me that?”

“It’s a fear of something, but much more worse than that, like if you are deadly scared of spiders I think that is arachnophobia or something.”

“So if you have a phobia of mares” Diglet watched as the gears turned inside Rainbow’s face as realization dawned on her “oooooh, hehe I’m sorry dude.”

“It doesn’t matter, I’m fine now just don’t touch me, EVER~!”

“Sure Diglet” Rainbow giggled and thrust her hoof towards him prompting him to flinch “hahaha relax Diglet, I’m not going to do anything.”

Diglet glared at her before a small smile broke across his face “I could just you know, grab you with my magic and hang you upside down till all the blood rushes to your head, if you ever do that again.”

Rainbow and Diglet chuckled as the two of sat down and leaned against Sugar Cube Corner, feeling the vibrations of the music on their backs and with Diglet a fair distance away from the rainbow maned mare “oh Rainbow Dash.”

“What is it?” she turned her head and stared as he scratched the back of his neck

“Sorry I kind of got angry at you before” he nervously smiled and couldn’t meet her eyes with his.

“Eh, it’s water under the river now” Rainbow waved the matter away with a hoof and a smile trying to look cool which only made Diglet giggle.

“Don’t you mean ‘under the bridge’?”

“That’s what I said, what are you deaf?”

“Well no, but you’re lacking with your knowledge of metaphors Rainbow Dash.”

“Heh, you’re not too bad Diglet.”

“And you are quite a worthy adversary as well Rainbow Dash.”

“Look at you mister Fancy using all your fancy words, you’d get along well with Rarity.”

“That white coated unicorn friend of yours? Nah mares like her tend to pick on every little detail and that is just so-“

“Annoying? Tell me about it, I have to model for some of her outfits and they are so tight and uncomfortable!”

“Oh no…” Diglet’s expression turned into one of horror.

“What’s wrong? Don’t tell me she as-“

“Yes, and you know that it’s going to be difficult to…”

“To turn her down in the nicest way possible? With Rarity it is not going to be easy believe me Diglet I’ve tried.”

“M-maybe if I hide or something I could get out of it.”

“But then she’d get Pinkie Pie to chase after you, so even if you manage to escape Rarity there is nothing in Equestria that can escape Pinkie, so you’ve got no choice dude, sorry.”

“There you are!” Rainbow and Diglet turned to see Rarity at the door to Sugar Cube Corner with a wide grin “I heard about what happened and thought you two might need my help.”

Diglet quickly shock his head left to right leaving him slightly dizzy afterwards “ah, no thank you Rarity we’re fine………” he became silent making Rainbow Dash chuckle nervously as she avoided Rarity’s prying and observing eyes.

“Well okay dears, oh I have to get back to Applejack, she’s busy talking with your mare friend Steady and I’m trying to convince her to model for a couple ensemble I’ve created just for you two” Rarity quickly left leaving Rainbow with Diglet again who shook his head again and put his hooves on his eyes.

“You okay Diglet?”

“The dizziness made it seem like there were five Raritys” he shuddered and hugged himself “it was awful.”

“But did you hear a single word she said after that? I didn’t know you and Steady were going out you sly dog you” Rainbow elbowed Diglet making him freeze again and forcing Rainbow to remember that she shouldn’t do that.

But he just chuckled nervously and waved a hoof “ah, it’s nothing like that, we’re just friends so nothing going on between us” he sighed and smiled as he looked up to the confused Pegasus next to him “oh don’t worry, me not going off at you just means that my sub conscious has registered you as a friendly, if that makes sense.”

“Nope, not making any sense to me” Rainbow returned the smile and nudged him again which still resulted in no response from the stallion with the phobia.

“My phobia is special where it doesn’t react around mares I am comfortable being with” he gave her a bright smile and a hearty laugh “which means that I won’t freak out if you touch me, just don’t go overboard and decide we should try some tackle hoofball and we’ll be fine.”

“But if that means you won’t freak out everytime I touch you then that’s fine, that means we can do some real action!”

“Um, now you’re the one who needs to explain yourself” Diglet inquired as he stroked his chin in thought “um, Steady told me you were a sporty one, what? do you want to compete against me?”

“Yeah, come on let’s have a race around Ponyville!” Rainbow Dash eagerly set herself in a starting position while she was staring at Diglet who just continued to sit against Sugar Cube Corner with a giant smirk.

“Oh but I don’t know the full layout of so how about from umm….from here to Town Centre and back.”

“Oh you are on, ready, set go!” Rainbow shot off leaving behind her trademark rainbow streak wherever she went.

After a mere couple of seconds Rainbow arrived at Town Centre only to find Diglet leaning against it with a snarky expression “what took you so long? I was starting to get bored over here.”

“B-but how did you?” Rainbow quickly glanced behind her and back to Diglet only to see him no longer there “oh come on!”

She jumped up into the air and flew off back to Sugar Cube Corner only to once again find Diglet back where he was before, leaning up against Sugar Cube Corner with the same grin he had before.

“How…how did you get here before I did?” Rainbow quickly was glancing back and forth between the path from Sugar Cube Corner and Town Centre still in shock at what just happened.

Diglet giggled and pointed to his horn “I am an expert at teleportation magic there are only a small number of unicorns better than me at it, maybe you shouldn’t try to beat me in a race Rainbow Dash.”

“Hey! That’s cheating, you can’t use magic in a race!”

“Funny, I heard that a certain rainbow maned mare had in fact cheated several times when she was competing against a certain cowpony.”

“I didn’t cheat, I was using all of my abilities and all of my options!”

“And so was I, your point?”

“You crafty colt” Rainbow smiled and nudged him again “okay how about a hoof wrestle then!”

“Rainbow, I know I no longer just freak out when you touch me since you’re alright, doesn’t mean I am still not afraid of prolonged contact to a mare so no hoof wrestling for now.”

“Okay Diglet, but come on we should totally see who is better at sports, I’ll promise not to use my wings if you don’t use your magic.”

“Deal, but not tonight I have to go get Steady and take her home, I swear if she drank any of that punch she’ll be babbling random nonsense for the rest of the night.”

“Oh yeah, what is up with her? It is like she wants to avoid me or something.”

“Gee I wonder why, figure it out yourself. I need to inside now, oh and Rainbow Dash.”

“What?”

“Thanks, it was fun becoming friends with you Rainbow Dash.”

The Cyan Pegasus chuckled and turned her face away from him as she slightly blushed “yeah right back at ya, I can’t wait to prove that the better one out of us is me! No doubts about it.”

“Geez, just became friends and you already want to try to prove that you are somehow better than me athletics wise.”

“I know I am better Diglet and next time I’m going to prove it” the two new friends shared a hearty laugh as they both separated as the party inside drew to a close.

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Later that night, a certain red unicorn carried a drunken Pegasus on his back “I loves you, we had the bestest best of times!”

“Yeah, yeah we sure did Steady.”

“No I means it, I love you!”

“Steady you’re drunk, just wait a sec we’re almost home.”

Steady just mumbled incoherently and Diglet just ignored her as the two of them arrived back at the house they had bought, still being the same as they had left it.

“Hey Steady, we’re here.”

“I’m not talking to you!”

“Why? What did I do?” Diglet opened the door and Steady flew off his back and hovered in front of him, stopping him from entering the house.

“You rejected me! I said I loved you and you ignored it you big fat meany head!” Diglet sighed and teleported behind her.

“Steady, you’re drunk you need to go to bed.”

“Can I sleep with you? It’s too cold for me.”

Diglet blushed slightly but sighed as he saw her drunken smile “fine, come on I’m sure you’ll fall asleep as soon as you hop into bed.”

“Yay! I won’t make a single sound, you won’t even notice me there!”

Diglet let out another sigh as he slowly climbed into bed, the fatigue of his spells and the party hitting him full blast and the fact of Steady’s drunken confession didn’t help his heart either.

“It’s not fair..” he mumbled to himself “it…it doesn’t count as a real one if she’s drunk.”

Not a minute had passed when Diglet heard his Pegasus housemate giggle and land on the bed right beside him and snuggled up close to his back.

“Night Diglet~”

“Yeah, nighty night Steady….” His heart sank for a moment as he whispered to her but low enough that she wouldn’t here “I love you.”