Obsession

Obsession

It was a warm and friendly day, pretty much as always in Ponyville, when Bon Bon, the local bon bon confectioner, was on her daily shopping tour on the main plaza. As every time she was gathering all the ingredients, which were of need for her to make her beloved sweets, but, as always, she got distracted by Rose Luck’s flower stand. As much as bon bons are her passion, as her name says, there is still no better snack than a sandwich with some nice, tasty Sallies in it. So, without an inner discussion, she went over to her friend’s business place, where she was already cheerfully awaiting her. “Good day, Rose Luck!”

‘You too, Bon Bon. The same as usual?’

“Do you really have to ask?”

‘Hehe, no, of course not, but why shouldn’t I? Here you go!’ With that, the red haired pony handed her friend the wished flowers over, which she gladly stored in her sidebag right away.

“Thanks as always, Rose! Are there maybe some news from your side?”

‘Well, not really, what about you?’

“No, nothing either, just as usual.”

‘I see and what about Lyra? Is she doing fine?’

“Lyra? I don’t quite know, why do you ask?”

‘Just out of curiosity, I haven’t seen her for a while now, so I feared that something might be wrong.’

“Hm… you’re right, it’s been quite a while since the last time, I’ve seen her… strange…”

‘Really? That’s odd, I thought, that you might be the first one, who knows about everything that has to do with Lyra.’

“Why’s that?”

‘Well, since you’re so close to each other, I thought, that you might have an idea.’

“Not really, I mean, we’re friends, but that’s pretty much it. We don’t really spend every single second with each other.”

‘Really? But I thought you two were…’

‘Goooood morning Bon Bon and a goooood morning Rose Luck!’ With this interruption, Pinkie Pie, bouncy as always, made her entrance into the conversation. From the other two ponies came an unisono ‘Good day, Pinkie Pie!’, followed by ‘Do you need something today?’

‘Wha- EXACTLY! How did you know that!? Can you read my minds!? If so, than what am I thinking now!? Or now- no, wait, not yet- oh now would be perfect!- No, wait-‘

‘No.. not exactly… it’s just that you only come, when you need some ingredients for your *special* cupcakes…’

‘Uuuh, you’re still gooood, otherwise you couldn’t remember what anypony buys. But you’re right, I need some of *these* since Rainbow Dash helped me out before with some Cupcake making. She was really helpful! I mean, I kinda did all the work, but she was still a good motivator, yup!’

“Well, sounds like Rainbow Dash, but which Cupcakes do you mean? I mean, you have many great ones, but I can’t quite recall one, which includes flowers.”

‘That’s because they ARE *special*, silly! I only make them for special occasions, like when I can’ sleep!’

“When you can’t sleep?” While Bon Bon said this, Rose Luck handed the hyperactive Pony a few red flowers over. ‘Thanks and yup, these little planties always help me get doozie- I mean, there’s always so much to do, so much fun to have, so much partying, so much… well, but you can’t always party, so, when I don’t feel sleepy, but it’s time, I put some of the poppies in the mix, bake and eat it up and… grrr…’ The pink pony’s head dropped back, accompanied with a disturbingly loud crack and an act, as if she was asleep, together with drool coming out and snoring. Since the “special” personality and habits of Pinkie are nothing new in Ponyville and, with that, for Bon Bon as well, she just overplayed her doubts towards the hyperactive pony’s beahviour with a half-hearted smile. “I see.. well, then you really have luck with these.. but there was something important, that I and Rose were talking about before… oh yes, Lyra.” While saying the name, Pinkie managed to get back in the same position as seconds ago and began bouncing again. ‘Uuuh, Lyra loves poppies too, she wanders around with such pretty often! Seems like she also has problems with meeting Princess Luna!’

“Lyra is gathering poppies?”

‘Lyra is gathering poppies from someone else than from ME!?’ Bon Bon flinched a bit, because of the sudden outburst of Rose Luck, in which her inner entrepreneur seemed to have hit the surface, because of the lost business, but Pinkie obviously didn’t seem to bother about it at all. ‘Aha, I’ve seen her quite often lately with these and other funny looking plants. She seems to have really big problems with getting sleepy, when she is willing to walk around for them with these boring bandages all the time..’

“Bandages..? What are you talking about Pinkie?”

‘Well, you see…’

‘PIIINKIEEEEEE!!!’ All of a sudden, a bloodcurdling scream was to be heard, which seemed to come from the direction of Sugar Cube Corner. ‘Uuuh, seems like Dashie woke up! OVER HERE RAINBOW DAAAASH!!’ It took just a mere second, or even less, for the rainbow coloured pony to reach the group of three, coughing and with a mix of relief and anger written all over her face. ‘There you are! What the heck did just happen!? In one moment I’m eating the cupcake you gave me and in the next I’m lying in your bed, with bite marks and drool all over! How can you let me alone with Gummy just like that!? Seriously, what did happen!?!?’

‘Hihi, silly Dashie, you know Gummy has no teeth! Now come, or the Cupcakes are getting yuckie from just lying around!’ While saying that, the pink pony bounced away in the direction, from which Rainbow came before. Named one floated a few seconds in midair, processing, what her friend just said, before, all of a sudden, she dashed after her. ‘What is that supposed to mean! What did happen then!? PINKIE!!’ And with that, these two were gone, leaving the two other ponies, which role in the conversation, due to the overwhelming presence of Pinkie Pie, in addition with Rainbow Dash, was reduced to mere listening, behind, looking after them. ‘Well… so much to that… those two really are weird sometimes…’

“Aha… oh, wait, I forgot to ask Pinkie Pie about Lyra!” Bon Bon wanted to rush after the two elements, but in the same moment, the thought came up in her mind, that it would surely take some time, to get Pinkie in a cooperative state and that it, according to this logic, would be better to just go to Lyra then and check on her in person. “Well, I guess they would be better on their own for now… I’ll go and visit Lyra on my own then. Is there something, that I can tell her from you, Rose?”

‘You can tell her, that, if she needs flowers so badly, she could also come to me.. it IS my business after all!’

“O-Okay, I will tell her.. goodbye Rose.” With that, the confectioner pony quickly left her, still a bit angry, flower selling friend to her work and began to go to Lyra’s house. While walking, though, some thoughts came to her mind: Why didn’t Lyra buy the flowers from her friend? Why did neither Rose Luck, nor she see the mint-coloured pony lately? And, most importantly, what about Pinkie’s talk about Lyra having a bandaged leg? She was thinking about these questions until she reached Lyra’s house, a single-storey, rustical building in a row of very similar looking ones near the main plaza. Without great hesistation, the beige pony walked towards the door and knocked.