When I awoke, my moon was still in the sky. I trot out of the room and down the hallway to notice something I rarely ever see. Celestia was in her queen sized bed with (I presume) Discord, sleeping soundly with the loudest snoring I've ever heard... or, at least since the last time I heard her snoring. I wonder how Discord would be able to sleep with that noise always being present while I approach the door. It opens easily, strange seeing how we both normally keep all the doors locked "for our own safety." Squeaking a little, it came as no concern seeing how Discord could sleep through Celestia's thunderous snoring, I'm sure he wouldn't mind a bit of squeaking.

That's when I noticed that he wasn't there, at least I didn't think so. My sister seemed to have bundled herself in as many blankets that she was able to find, I saw one princess-sized bump in the middle of her bed placed neatly in the middle of her room. Unlike my bedroom where anything could honestly go anywhere with whatever I owned spread across the floor, Celestia seemed to have cared much more about her living space. Nothing had a speck of dust and it was all placed in a specific location. There wasn't a single thing on her floor, it too seemed to be spotless.

To her far left, there was a large table with a cloth on top that's big enough to be the only thing touching the ground. On top, it adorned several beakers and tubes and cups and... I don't even know what half of them are. Inside were many differently colored liquids that I didn't know anything about, and had no intention of figuring out. They each had labels that read some chemical formulas that I wouldn't be able to understand if my life depended on it. One read AsF5, another was CCl3NO2, and the last one I read stated CH2N2... a sign on the front of the table stated that they were all deadly, I'm pretending I didn't see that.

Between her and the table are a couple of overflowing boxes stacked on top of one another. There were only 5, but it's weird that there were any boxes at all. I tried to take a look at what might've been coming out of the tops but I couldn't tell what they were. Everything I saw was brightly colored and was strangely shaped, reminded me of something out of a Dr. Hoofs book. Assuming they had something to do with Celestia's poisonous science experiment, I ignored them and continued looking through her room.

On the right of the bed, she had a record player of her own next to a clock, both atop a shelf of her short collection of music. My sister never engulfed herself in the musical arts as I did, never even touched an instrument. The small selection she owned wasn't too good either, not bad but far from great in my opinion. So it only went to show that in that same shelf, she also only had a small amount of books as well. Unlike her music though, her literature was all educational. The types that most young foals dreaded whenever they went to school. I'm just glad that I was homeschooled, or else I'd probably run away at only the sight of it. You'd laugh, but I've seen that happen!

Above her bed, Celestia had a detailed portrait of our parents. It seemed as though they were both staring at me, judging me... I threw my eyes away to look at the clock atop her bedside shelf. It was a standard black and white clock with three arrows pointing out the minute, hour, and seconds. Or at least the minute and hour, after about a day of trying to figure that damned thing out, neither Celestia nor I could get the seconds just right. We hated having to give up, but we figured that having it be off by a few seconds wouldn't spell the end of the world. At the top was a tiny, silver hammer that was meant to hit two tiny, silver, hollow balls to make a ringing noise. Since, most of the time, Celestia has to get me to do our job rather than the other way around, she has it set to go off when it's time. You know, with that one clock all that's telling us when to lower the moon and raise the sun, it might just spell the apocalypse only being a few seconds off. I checked two of the arrows to see the time only to see it was four in the morning. I guess I could let her sleep a while longer.

I turn and trot out, using my magic to close the door as quietly as possible. As I started my decent down our stairs, I hear the noise of something hitting the ground somewhat hard coming from where I was going. Hurriedly, I got down to the kitchen in ten seconds flat to not be greeted by a burglar or killer, only Discord. I'm not too disappointed, he did say hi by offering me coffee after all. I happily accepted before asking what he was doing down there.

"Have you ever heard your sister snore before? It's like sleeping through a hurricane," he answered matter-of-factly whilst picking up the couple of spoons I assumed he dropped.

"Just put in earplugs, you've slept over before," I answered back in between laughs.

"I didn't know I was staying over until last minute, I didn't have time to grab my ear plugs and by Celestia, I can't say no to that mare!" He was then washing off the spoons before putting some away, leaving two on the counter.

"Thou shalt not take thy princess' name in vain," I say, mockingly. A second later, he looks at me extremely annoyed. After I get my giggles out, I tell him, "That's what you get for being in love. I'd say I blame ya, but I honestly can't."

"Just wait, one day I'll be saying that to you." A few awkward seconds pass before Discord breaks the silence, "While we're on the topic of sleeping, what are you doing up?"

"I'm the princess of the night, I live for the beauty of each star in my gloriously dark sky."

"As corny and bullshitty as that is, I get what you mean. Your sky is much nicer than Celestia's."

"See what I mean? I put hard work in each of those dots up there."

"Do you really have to put every single star up there every single night?"

"Nah, they're always up there. It's just that during the day, you can't really see them due to the sheer brightness of the sun. My moon, on the otherhoof, simply reflects the sun's light. With that said, they're still my stars. And seeing how the sun is technically a star, I own more suns than Celestia," I say with a grin.

"Wow, I didn't expect to be going to school tonight," he jokingly stated before checking our coffee maker.

"Yeah, well... wait, can't you just poof up some coffee?"

"Yeah but," he stops himself for a quick minute before continuing, "yeah!" Discord then snaps his fingers and two cups start floating in the air, one right in front of me. I hesitated before picking it up in my magic and staring at it like it was about to explode. "What's up," he asked as he ironically started floating upside down.

"It's just that it's magically made and, I don't know..."

"Oh come on, I know just how you like it!" He then teleports himself right-side up and takes a sip of his cup.

"Do you," I questioned. After all, he's never made me coffee before.

"Just two-thirds filled with caffeine, one-third with milk, five spoon-fulls of melted chocolate, at least 25 tiny marshmallows-"

"That sounds more like hot chocolate," I told him bluntly.

"And just a dash of peppermint!"

"I hate mint! You know this sounds more like how you'd like it!"

"It is! And how your sister likes it now too!"

"But-"

"Oh, just try it already," he commanded, cutting me off.

"... Alright." I stare long and hard at the cup. He's not going to poison me... right? Maybe Celestia would, she does have that collection upstairs. I look at his beaming face before I take one large gulp of coffee... and it's really good! "Hey, this isn't half bad! And it doesn't taste like hot chocolate at all, what else did you put in it," I asked, half expecting him to say something disgusting.

"Mmmm, I might've replaced the milk with alcohol," he stated with the largest shit-eating grin I've ever seen, followed by a sip.

"You know, in alicorn years, I'm only 16."

"I know."

"And Celestia doesn't like the idea of me drinking."

"I know."

"And that this is actually the first time I've actually drank."

"Yes, yes, I know all this. It's just that if I didn't introduce you, then someone like Sombra or (what do you call her, Chrysi is it?) probably will. And I'd honestly prefer you starting someplace where an experienced adult can make sure you don't get drunk or anything like that... Not to mention, I want you to see me more as a good friend and not just your sister's coltfriend. Especially with me moving in and-"

"Wait, what!?"

"I'm moving in," he stops to take a sip of what I've realized was also alcoholic coffee before beginning again, "Did Celestia not tell you this?"

"No, she didn't... huh." I wondered why she didn't tell me this before. It's not like this is something that they both just decided, those boxes in her room must be all his stuff. Now that I think of it, "Why don't you just poof up your earplugs?"

"Because then we wouldn't have this conversation!"

"And I take it all those boxes in her room are your's?"

"Yep!"

"Then why don't you poof that stuff to wherever you want them?"

"Do you know how hard it is to poof shit around? The coffee is one thing, I can just imagine this and... well, poof! But all my stuff? I'd have to imagine every single thing I own and exactly where I want it. There's things in there I forgot I even owned." We both take sips of our coffee before he continued, "And by the way, it's not just poofing, it's called molecular-reconstruction. You see, draconequuses have the innate magical ability to deconstruct the air and really anything else into their basic molecular structure. From there, we can change them to create the exact elements we need to create whatever our hearts desire. You can actually see it happening, it's just that it happens so fast that the naked pony eye is unable to see it. Other than that, we're pretty much like unicorns except minus the magical field around whatever we touch and a horn, all that magic is put in our left middle finger. We can do whatever spells and tricks unicorns can do and need training to do any of them just like unicorns do. It's just that we're much more powerful, and therefore, it's much easier for us to do them."

I think for a bit about what I've learned before coming up with a way of being lazy, "Then can you move the moon for me?"

"Oh no! I have a lot of power, but not that much! Think of it like this, draconequuses are about as powerful as ten normal unicorns. Back before your parents, it took somewhere around thirteen unicorns to raise the sun? Right?" He stops to get my approval, which I give in the form of a nodding head. "So, alicorns are at least three unicorns more powerful than a draconequus and I am basically fucking thirteen ponies at once every other night."

There was a long pause before I decided my next move, "Okay, didn't need to hear that."

"Drink some more of that coffee, it'll help you forget about it."

I do so before speaking again, "Also, I didn't expect to be going to school tonight either." After mocking him, we both finish whatever of our coffees we had left and Discord molecular-reconstructs (you know, I think I'll just stick with 'poofs') earplugs into his claw.

"Well, I'm headed back to bed and I suggest that you do the same. You did only get about five hours of sleep," Discord stated as he started trotting away.

"Nah, I think I'll just read a book until I have to lower my moon. But I can go for another one of those coffees!" Just then, we both hear the coffee machine go off, signalling it being done.

"There you go!"

"You know, we don't have any alcohol."

"I know," he says quizzaciously, with the widest grin I've ever seen on his face before he heads back upstairs.

I stay in the kitchen a while longer as I make a new cup of coffee when I finally took a good look at the front of the cup he had poofed for me. It showed Discord with that exact same smile on his face that I'd seen just moments before with a thumbs up that was holding up a coffee cup with my confused face on the front of it, holding up a coffee cup in a magical aura with the same picture of Discord on the front and on the cup he's holding is the same picture of my face holding up a cup with... I stopped being able to tell what was on the cups but I think I could probably guess. I shake it off as Discord being Discord and continue pouring my coffee. Then I had the idea of actually trying that recipe Discord recommended, just with actual milk; after making and trying it, I can say it also wasn't half bad. I go upstairs and into my bedroom, as much as I wanted to read something, all I could think about is why Celestia didn't tell me about him moving in. I mean, I'm not mad or anything, I get why he's moving in, but why did I have to hear it from Discord instead of my own big sister?

A while later, I found myself yawning and decided to have a small nap only to hear knocking on my door as soon as my eyes were shut. "Come on Lulu," I hear my sister's groggy voice say those two syllables of a word and I automatically wanted to kill her, "it's time." I slowly get up, stretch my back, and head outside with both Celestia and Discord following right behind. We do our job and hear that draconequus' applause.

"We don't need approval," I said sarcastically.

"Yes, but I thought it might help," he replied with just as much sass.

"Get used to it, you get sick of seeing those two moving around after the eight billionth, two hundred and thirty-nine millionth, five hundred and fifty-six thousandth, seven hundred and twenty-first time."

"It hasn't- wait, what do you mean 'get used to it?' Did he tell you he was moving in," Celestia asked, somewhat peeved. I nod a little too quickly before she rolls her eyes, clearly annoyed. "Yeah, well...," she takes a large sigh, "see ya..." She then marches inside, grabbing Discord's lion paw in the process. He shrugs at me, apparently not knowing what's going on as they head inside. I shrug it off as I think about what to do... ooh! I bet Starswirl's probably working on something really cool! I started my day by trotting to his cottage.

Author's Note

Expect 2 more chapters by month's end! And after that, I'm renaming the story "Mind Games."

Oh boy, where do I begin with this chapter. I like it, it might just be one of the better chapters. It's kind of pointless because this is really all about Discord & Celestia, but hey, I can't make this completely about Luna & Chrysalis! The funny thing is that it started with being about what the next chapter's gonna be about (I even had the name of it down), but this is what came out of my typing fingers instead!

I have not tried that kind of coffee, but I assure you that I'll make an update to this author's notes as soon as I do. In the meantime, why don't you try it & tell me how it is? I'm honestly really interested.

I'm currently taking a writing class & I feel like that's coming out in my writing. But more importantly, I'm playing a lot (& I do mean a shit ton) of TellTale games recently & I know that's showing. Can't you just imagine trying to walk around Celestia's room, clicking that eye icon to inspect a clock. I kind of wanted to write down "Discord will remember that" every other line they spoke to each other. I joke, but I fucking love playing them TellTale games.

I think this is the first time I swore in the story. I mean, I swear fucking constantly in these shitty author's notes, but I don't think I've actually swore in the story before this. It really doesn't matter (Worlds Apart is rated T for a reason), but it's kind of interesting.

I wrote that part with alcohol praying that it doesn't contradict a little detail in a past chapter that I just don't remember. I don't think it does, but there's a good possibility that it does & in that event, make sure to find a desk to crouch under.

In this entire chapter, I think I'm mostly proud that I got the word "quizzaciously" in there. That's a little word only us Vsauce fans will know... & even then, most of us probably still don't.

If anyone's wondering, yes, those are actually poisonous chemical formulas. That's one of the few Google search histories I manually deleted.

The song 99 Bottles Of Beer may seem like a weird title to give this chapter, but I challenge you to think of one better!

I put so many details into things nobody cares about the details of that I feel like Kkat! Have I made enough Fallout: Equestria jokes yet, because I have a ton more.

That should be all, so thank you for reading! Make sure to like the fic & follow it for updates whenever it does! Like how I beg for likes? That's the kind of shit you get used to after being on YouTube for so long...