Aborted Romance

Cadance sat up, bolt upright. Her breath heaved. The nightmares had started again.

She looked at Shining Armor, slumbering peacefully by her side.

Oh, why, why would this nightmare never go away?!

She’d dreamt of the same thing every night for the past month. Every since… it was almost too hard to think about it when she was awake. Perhaps her repressing the memory during the day what what led to her subconscious bringing it out at night?

She sighed and reached for a tissue from her bedside table. She wiped the sweat from her brow and then dropped it onto the floor. It could be tidied up in the morning.

Cadance thought about waking her husband. He knew about the nightmares of course, but she didn’t want to worry him by letting him know how frequent they’d become.

She nestled her head back into the pillow to try to get back to sleep, but the shapes in the darkness kept reminding her of that. Kept reminding her of… it. That time. That one time she’d seen something that could never be unseen.

She sat up again. She was a fool to think going back to sleep would ever be a good idea. She should just stay up and read. She still had 50 Shades of Hay on her bedside table. But… it was too dark. She couldn’t switch the lights on for fear of waking Shining Armor.

Perhaps the light of her horn would be enough. No… that was too distracting, having a light source right between her eyes. She was never able to focus on the text that way.

She settled back into her pillow again, groaning.

This had been going on for far too long. She’d been sleepless for weeks. The bags under her eyes were becoming difficult to cover up with make-up. Officials she met with were beginning to comment on how tired she looked. She’d become snappy around her husband and the other ponies she loved the most. Her whole life was beginning to fall apart because of this… this… this dream!

She was a powerful alicorn. She couldn’t let something like this run her life. She sighed despondently. She closed her eyes and tried to get to sleep again. She started counting sheep.

One sheep, two sheep, three sheep, four sheep, five sheep, six sheep, seven sheep, eight sheep, nine sheep, ten sheep, eleven…

The nightmare came to her again… Rarity seductively licking a lollipop. Ewww!