Uuuuuuggggghhhhh!!!!!!!! After a very, very long search of my new home, I have found absolutely no booze anywhere! Even Celestia hasn't sent me any, now that's evil. Anyways, for some reason, I kind of stopped writing in my diary after that dream Chrysalis had. I don't know why, maybe I grew out of it, maybe I just didn't want to write in it anymore, maybe the things I went through from then on was just so terrible that I couldn't force myself to document any of it. Knowing me, I probably just got lazy. In any case, I guess the show... er, story, must go on!

It's been just short of a week since I first entered Chrysi's dream, but I haven't gone back in. I was just too scared to see what else I might see, or might not see. There's still a chance I'll go back in, it really just depends on how curious I get. So, odds are, I'll probably go into another one of her dreams within a month.

That's not really what I'm worried about though, I also haven't seen or heard from Chrysi since the Gala. Usually, we at least talk to each other once every other day. But it's been nearly a week since I last heard from her! I've tried sending her a few letters, but she won't answer me! Celestia thinks I'm making a mountain out of a mole hill, she's probably right this time. But I'm still worried. So, later today, I'm going to sent her a letter saying I'm coming over to her castle and I'll fulfill that prophecy tomorrow!

I'd say today, but I'm a bit busy today. Keynan is coming over to start our first piano lesson. I know it's going to be tons of fun, especially with a stallion like Keynan being my teacher. He's been nothing but nice to me ever since I've met him, and I have no doubt in my mind that Keynan is going to be a pretty great friend from here on out!

I've got my piano all tuned up (with a little help from Discord) and a copy of Playing The Piano For Beginners (again, with a little help from Discord). I've even taken it upon myself to look over the book a couple times, sure it all looked like a bunch of random symbols and squiggly lines to me, but I still looked through it. With Celestia's help (who knew she could play the violin), I found out what a few of those weird marks were. I also made sure to get Celestia out of the castle so that I won't get interrupted by her or Discord, as helpful as they both were.

Just as I was putting the book in that spot where the music would normally go on a piano, note to self: ask Keynan what that thing is called, one of my guards trots in.

"Introducing Keynan, the pianist," the guard said, as loud as he could possibly announce that fact so that I would be able hear him.

As a way to kind of shoo him off, I yell back, "Thank you, Knight Armor!" Just as expected, he kneels and trots off just as Keynan enters, carrying a bunch of papers that were no doubt a few lessons he definitely wanted to go over today.

"Does that happen all the time," Keynan asked.

I chuckled a little and then answered him, "Not all the time, just a lot. You get used to it."

"Huh, well, are you ready to start your training to become the greatest pianist of all time!"

"Yeah!!!!!" I made sure to answer as loud as possible simply because I can.

"Then let's get started!"

And we did just that, he taught me about the art of the piano for about five hours. Granted, we took about one hour to take a much needed break. Since it was day time, I took this opportunity to make me some coffee. I offered to make him some, but he said he'd just like a nice beer [which I am still on the look out for!]. I also got to show him my extensive record collection; which covered bands and musicians like The Breezies, The Rolling Boulders, The Herd, and even Billy Goat (trust me, Keynan went crazy over that one). That time off seemed to fly right past us, as it only felt like ten minutes before we went right back to playing the piano.

As our lessons were concluding, he said he had a nice gift to give to me. "Remember that song you really wanted me to teach you," he said, "Well, I took the time to rewrite it so you could play it on this," he places his hoof onto and rubs the piano. Just as he did, Keynan took his other hoof and pulled out a piece of paper from the stack he brought with him.

As much as I wanted to freak out and thank him a million times, I tried my best to stay classy and not do such a foalish thing like that. The key word there was "tried" as it only took about two seconds before I snatched the piece out of his hoof and hugged both it and Keynan as tight as possible yelling, "Thank you, thank you, tank you, thank you, thank you!!!"

I could hear him, if only barely, say, "Your welcome, now can you please let me go so I can breathe?"

"Oh, sorry," I said as I let him out of my arms, still maintaining a grip on the song.

"It's okay, I just thought you might like this. I have the feeling that you did," I only nodded as he continued, "We will be taking a look at this piece at some point, after I teach you all you need to know and learn some much easier songs. I am giving you this now so that you can look over it alongside your normal homework, in case you wanted to. I don't expect you to be able to play any of this song within the next week, but since you were so gung-ho about playing it for..." He paused before dropping his voice down to a whisper, "you-know-who-"

"You know, nopony's here. You can just say Chrysalis," I interrupted.

"Oh! Then, for Princess Crysalis," he continued once again, "I thought you might want to start looking at it now."

"I do, and thank you so much once again, not just for the song, but also for taking the job of teaching me how to play the piano in the first place."

"It's no problem," he started as he makes his way to the door, "after all, you are the-"

Keynan got interrupted once again by the doors opening to let Celestia and the guard in. I heard Knight Armor start, "Introducing-" only to get interrupted as well.

"Please don't," my sister said, with a frown on her face. Knight Armor simply bowed and made his way out as Celestia closed the doors. "Hey Luna," she started, now with a grin, "How was-" Celestia froze as she sees Keynan standing there. "Oh, you must be Keynan! Both Luna and Discord have told me so much about you!"

She lets out a hoof and Keynan takes it into hoofshake as he says, "Yeah, that's me!"

"Well, let's get this out of the way, how much am I going to have to pay you for these lessons," Celestia asked as they both let go of the other's hoof.

"Nothing."

"Haha, don't be so modest. We're the princesses of Equestria, no digit's too large. Just, name a number."

"No, really, it's alright. Teaching Princess Luna how to play such a great instrument as the piano is payment enough."

"Well, in that case, consider an I.O.U. as your payment. If you ever need anything, don't hesitate to ask," my sister said, still beaming.

"Okay, if you insist." Keynan shook her hoof one last time before he made his way to the door, yelling, "It's been great meeting you Princess Celestia, and I'll see you next week, okay Luna?"

"Yeah, see ya," I said as Keynan left the castle.

As the doors closed, Celestia turns her attention towards me, "So, how did your lessons go?"

I looked at her and said, "Great! But," I quickly yawned, "I could go on forever about it, but I'd rather go to sleep. I haven't slept all day."

As I slowly made my way up the stairs, Celestia yells at me, "Goodnight!" I yell one right back at her.

With Keynan out of here, I was surprisingly running out of energy quickly. Screw that letter I was going to send to Chrysi, I guess that could wait until tomorrow.

Author's Note

After the last chapter being so mellow dramatic, I'm glad that this one came out much more fun! I think this is probably going to be the chapter everyone's going to have the most problems with, but that's kind of the nature of these kind of chapters. Especially after chap. 12 being so depressing, this might actually kind of be whiplash.

When I came up with the first draft, it wasn't very good. I'd even say it was downright awful! Which is weird, I don't normally write chapters I really hate anymore, even when it's just the first draft. But, then it went through a couple edits, and now I kind of like it. I don't know, there's something about it I really like. And no, this isn't me just praising my own work, this is legitimately one of my favorite chapters so far!

If I did have a problem with it, I'd say it's too fun, but the last one was too sad so I think it works nicely. And I also love how this starts, I think it hits a nice middle between really funny & yet kind of depressing. It's great!

And I'm sure a lot of you are wondering this, & the answer is yes, there will be more chapters that came from the diary. I'm just waiting for a chapter that'll work well with the format.

Something I really love about writing this is that I know how this story's going to end, but I don't know every single detail. So, with each chapter, I'm kind of discovering what I can do with the characters to get them from point A to point B. This chapter in particular gave me a shit ton of ideas that I can't wait to use!

That should be all, so I thank you so much for taking your time to read this & I hope you enjoy!