Ten More Minutes Would Be Fine
As the warm and nice sunlight pierced through a tiny gap between two curtains of the finest bedroom in the Castle of Friendship, Twilight's eyes slowly cracked open. She took a minute or two to adjust her eyes to the light, and started looking around the ceiling from left to right, and back again. Yes, she was still in her bedroom. This was what she called bedroom, her magnificent-but-lonely bedroom. This was what she always saw first when she woke up from some tense sleeping or nightmares.
She had known that being a princess was a huge amount of work, and came with a lot of responsibility, but she never had thought it would cause her health problems. Even her frequent visits to the spa did not help that much relieve her various ailments. Her task had been just protecting a small town with less than thousand or so population ponies. She could feel so much stretch that her little hooves barely embraced. She did not even dare to imagine what challenges ponies who ruled empires, such as her dearest mentor, Princess Celestia, faced every day.
It gained became more and more tense from day to day. The more days passed, the more she felt herself inch to her breaking point. Strains were built. Her brain was on the edge, from a graceful dancer to one that sprouted four left hooves, struggling to put one hoof in the right place at the right time, which made it harder to concentrate on books she was reading. Her temples throbbed uncontrollably. Both her eyes were sore, like she did not sleep for a really long time. Her shoulders felt like there were tons of books laid on them. And don't talk about her exhausted back, it was in bad shape from having to sit for long periods without any break to stretch out the kinks.
Everything was in bad shape, until that pony came. The pony who she had known for a long time. The pony who she always had called her best friend. The pony who she never realised would hold so much importance to her life until now.
At first, Twilight was angry when her friend flew through her wall of books and smashed them like they were just fluffy clouds. However, as time passed, she came to love the act, and turned it into a little game where she would defend Fort Book from the rainbow haired menace. Whenever they were together, Twilight's heart, instead of her brain, was the one that danced all over her chest, a dance of giddiness, a dance of joy. Her raspy voice had dragged all her concerns away. Her innocent laughs had gotten rid of her horrid nightmares. And her beautiful smile, had become a salve that could heal all her pains. Twilight’s depression was gone, vanishing instantly with the arrival of this beautiful creature. Whenever she was there, Twilight's various ailments would disappear.
Twilight felt soft fur moving above her right foreleg. A sharp pain rushed through her cramped foreleg rapidly, but she didn't care. The one and only thing that she cared about right now was a bright blue pegasus with a rainbow mane who stirred slightly beside her. Nothing else mattered.
"Good morning, Rainbow," said Twilight as she smiled on her silly sleepyhead.
"Mornin'..." mumbled Rainbow Dash. She tried to bury her face under a pillow as deep as she could to avoid the sunlight.
Twilight chuckled a little at the pegasus' gesture, and caressed Dash's mane with her free hoof. She was looking at her marefriend while thinking how real this whole touch and feeling was. She could smell soft lilac soap from the other mare's fur. It was more relaxed than any spa smelling oils she had ever smelled. She could feel Dash's fluffy fur when she stroked down her back. It was more gentle than any silk she had ever touched or even the best cloth Rarity had had. She could taste—
Twilight's mind suddenly stopped working for a second, as soon as her eyes locked on the clock's hands. She winced so hard. It said twenty minutes past ten a.m. It was already ten twenty in the morning!
Who was she kidding? She had a lot of work to do! She had to brew coffee, make toast, and fry eggs, or maybe make pancakes instead! Ugh! She did not have time for breakfast anymore. There were a bunch of books to read, a large pile of various research to study, tons of friendship lessons to report, and millions of problems to take care of! Why was she so late? And why was she too reckless to tell Spike to go on a sleepover with Rarity and the Cutie Mark Crusaders and totally forget to set her alarm clock!
Twilight shook the pony beside her, and shouted. "Rainbow! It's already ten in the morning!"
"Mmm..." Dash groaned loudly and hid her face deeper into the pillow, before replying like it was not a big deal. "So what?"
"I have many things to finish today!" Twilight rolled her eyes, "and yesterday you told me, you have to practice some tricks, remember?"
Dash's eyes idly opened. She looked at Twilight curiously for a minute, then asked. "So...what?"
"What do you mean 'so what'?" Twilight retorted, "I have a lot of books about astronomy that Princess Celestia just sent to me to read. Moreover, there is an ancient spell which I just found from the book at the Castle of the Two Sisters' library. And...and today is my time with the Cutie Mark Crusaders, isn't it? Speaking of fillies, I promised to help Pinkie Pie with her new cupcake recipes! For Celestia's sake! How could I forget that? Where is my daily checklist? I need—"
Before Twilight could say anything further, Dash leaned forward and stole an unexpected kiss from her marefriend. She not only drained Twilight's word, but also took her anxiety away, and replaced them with love from a deep and passionate kiss.
"Ten more minutes, please," muttered Dash as she nuzzled up against Twilight's chest, and spread her wing on the Princess' body.
Twilight did not think this was such a good idea, and yet, who could resist sleeping under a warm wing and cuddling with your marefriend in the sunny day? Dash might be right. Twenty past ten was a really bad time to get up, but since she was already late what difference would ten more minutes make?
She sighed happily, gave her pegasus a nice kiss on her forehead, and laid back on her pillow. Then she closed her own eyes.
"Having ten more minutes to cuddle with you would be just fine.”
