Drapes

"Tiiaaaaa..."

"Luna, I said no."

"But Tiaaa!" whined Princess Luna, knocking on her sister's door desperately. She was bored. Very bored. Princesses don't get bored, do they? Well, Luna just broke the rules, then. The door opened on Luna, to reveal Celestia, staring at her little sister.

"Luna." she spoke sternly, but not unkindly.

"Y-yes?"

"You do realize that princesses do not have time off from their royal duties, and it is very rare to see them not sitting on their thrones? This is due to the large amount of duties we have as princesses, and we can not stray from those duties, or there will be consequences."

"Consequences?"

"The sun and moon may not be raised or lowered on time, havoc could end up wreaking on Equestria...Such things are prevented when the princesses sit in their rightful places on their thrones. Do you understand?"

"Of course, Tia..." she said, lowering her head.

"Do not be like that, Luna." her voice softened as she put a hoof on her sister's head.

"But do we never get time off? Can't we just stray from our duties once? Are we destined to forever sit on those thrones?" she looked up to Celestia, tears forming in her eyes. "I mean, I don't want to stay here forever. Aren't we allowed just a bit of fun?"

"It is not that we are prohibited from fun--"

"Then why can we never have it?"

"Sister, as I said, princesses have duties, responsibilities, and that is just what they want. That is just what everypony is looking for. They are waiting to catch the princesses off guard, just when they are not looking."

"But Tia, the Elements of Harmony."

"We cannot wield them anymore."

"But there are ponies who can, and they will protect Equestria for at least one afternoon!"

"Luna, are you asking me to leave the responsibilities of a princess on the shoulders of six--"

"Very capable ponies who have saved Equestria one time and can surely do it again? Yes, I am, Tia." Celestia looked at her sister, then smiled, and sighed. "What was it you wanted to do again?"

"Redecorate the castle!"

"Very well, Luna." Her sister pranced around her happily, then jumping onto her sister's back.

"No, they should be blue!"

"Luna, I told you, yellow would look better with this--"

"But Tiiiiaaaa! Both colors look pretty!"

"Yellow it is, then."

"No! Blue!" they argued. Luna tugged the yellow drape off of the pole that it was supposed to rest on, then replaced it with a blue one. Celestia took the blue one off, and replaced it. This went on for a few minutes. "Pleeasseee Tia?" she looked at her sister with big sad eyes, and a quivering lip. One look at her younger sister, and Celestia tugged the yellow drape off of where it rested, and set it on a nearby crimson chair. Her sister's expression immediately turned from sad into overjoyed as she spread the blue curtain on the pole, closing out the sunlight. "Hold on. If you can have your drape color, then you have to let my sun shine through when it is day time."

"But this is where I sleep, then sun bothers me--"

"Have I ever complained about your moon bothering me at night?"

"No..."

"Have I closed the old drapes when it was night time?"

"No."

"Then I do not see why you cannot let the drapes stay open when it's a beautiful day outside."

"Because the bright light bothers me!"

"Luna, is it fair that you get your way, but I cannot have mine?" Luna stayed silent, and crossed her forelegs in defeat. Celestia simply smiled, having defeated her sister. Luna was normally the winning pony when it came to arguments, like so, though Celestia hardly got into any petty arguments about drapes and such. She was a sophisticated pony, but sometimes she could let her hair down, and one of those days was today. Just a mostly relaxing day of redecorating her residence with her beloved sister, the Princess of the Moon. Ever since Luna got back from her banishment on the moon, she'd sort of forgotten how things worked. Before she returned officially, she was getting the hang of things again. "Princess Luna, Princess of the Moon, can most certainly be like a normal princess again! I'm sure of it! I'll be back on my own throne in no time.", she'd said. She was sure of this as well, but it might take awhile. After all, one thousand years on the moon takes a lot of memories from a mare. Though, unfortunately, after her banishment, she was being bombarded by newsponies everywhere she'd go. She couldn't even leave the castle anymore, because after what it'd seemed like a week of trying, they could not get the newsponies to shoo. Luna had even recommended building a dungeon and throwing them in it, but the princesses had a reputation to maintain. It wouldn't do if they'd threatened to throw newsponies into the dungeon simply because they were there. Though, the two princesses had to admit, the ponies had become quite unbearable. When the two would visit the balcony to perform the raising of the moon and the lowering of the sun, or vice versa, the newsponies would be there, constantly taking pictures, screaming out questions to Luna (and a few to Celestia). They'll go away sooner or later, right?