Pint's Birthday Party - Finale

Poor Fall didn’t know how to handle all that went into the ‘Birthday Cake Ceremony’.
First, Pint’s dad, Blissy, went around handing out ice cream cone shaped, paper hats with yarn strings for every pony to put on top of their heads. Next, the cake was brought out for every pony to see. It had a picture of one of Pint’s favorite Backyard Brawlers on it with the words, “Happy 7th Birthday, Pint” written on it. The cake smelled very sweet and extremely delicious. However, they weren’t allowed to eat it just yet. Instead, they placed seven, tiny candles in it prior to Pint’s dad using his Unicorn magic to light the candles with an ethereal, rainbow fire that made all the children ooh-and-aww at it.

With the candles lit, every pony got really quiet as Pint made his way in front of the cake. It was at this time that Blissy asked if every pony was ready to sing. This got all the children to cheer and begin singing a tune that was hard to make out by Fall due to how no single child sang it at the same volume nor pace as the other kids in attendance.

Once all the singing was complete, Pint took in a deep breath and blew out the tiny, rainbow candles. This caused all the children to cheer as Pint’s mom, Patches, worked to pull out all the candles and place them in a glass of water while Pint’s dad started using his Unicorn magic to cut the cake.

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Fall appeared frozen in place as her share of the cake and ice cream was magically placed in front of her.
“Fall?” asked Candy Cloud upon realizing her friend wasn’t rushing to eat the sweet, birthday treats. “Are you okay?”
The tiny, brown Pegasus looked down upon the plate that was before her.
Candy Cloud took a huge bite out of her piece of cake before asking, “Don’t you like cake?”

“I do…,” she replied. “I’m just…”

“Just what?” chewed the pink Pegasus.

“Nothing,” said Fall before taking a small bite out of her cake. She wanted to ask more about everything she just witnessed. However, she was afraid of doing so. The way all the other kids seemed to know exactly what was going on and she didn’t would definitely get ponies asking her questions she didn’t either know the answer to nor want to answer at all. Especially since every pony thought she was younger than Candy Cloud when, in fact, she was probably one of the oldest fillies in attendance.

Pint returned to where Candy Cloud, Fall, and Bucky were sitting. His father levitating his serving of cake and ice cream over so he could enjoy it with his closest friends.

“So?” asked Pint eagerly. “How do you like the cake?”

“Delicious!” cried Bucky with a mouthful of ice cream.

“Mmm-hmm!” agreed Candy Cloud while briefly raising her front hooves and fluttering her wings. “So yummy!”

Pint turned his attention to Fall.
“How about you?” he asked with an eager smile.
“It’s…,” she said. “Too good to be true.”

“Oh, yay!” cheered Pint’s dad. “You sure know how to flatter a chef, little filly.”

“…” wondered Fall as her eyes met with Blissy’s. There was such sincerity in his comment that she truly didn’t know how to properly respond. So she decided the best thing to do was take another savory bite out of the cake she had been served and smile towards the Pinto Unicorn.

“Well,” stated Pint’s dad. “I’ve got to go serve all the adults now. You all have fun.”

“Next is presents!” cheered Candy Cloud with a wide smile. “I bet you got lots of Backyard Brawler stuff!”
“Still won’t help you beat me,” Bucky stated with a sly grin.

“You just wait!” boomed Pint. “You think you’re such a ‘high horse’ right now, but I’m going to be the one who takes you down!”

“Yeah, yeah,” replied Bucky smugly. “I’ve heard that before and I’m still the school champ.”

Candy Cloud giggled.
“Aren’t boys so silly with their whole ‘who’s the best’, macho thing?” she asked towards Fall.
“Yeah,” the undersized Pegasus replied. She wished she could say more, but she had more questions now than anything else. She also didn’t want Candy Cloud thinking less of her because she didn’t know all of the things her friend, who seemed to look up to her, already knew.