With a groan, Starlight slowly returned to the waking world. But she had never felt like this before. It was like if Monday had an evil twin.

"Sunburst?" She called out groggily, her vision still blurry.

"Morning, Starlight. Or should I say... Afternoon?" She heard her coltfriend say. She rubbed her eyes, and with her vision clear enough, she glanced over at his nightstand and indeed saw that it was half-past noon. Her vision continued it's path to the left, and she saw Sunburst on wobbily legs, grabbing his cloak off of the ground where he had dropped it last night, likely waking up barely a minute before she had. He stepped over to his desk and draped it on his chair, then grabbed his glasses and put them on.

He looked like he had slept for a month. Then she saw herself in the full length mirror and realized that she looked no better. Her mane was matted, her coat was sticky, and her back legs felt like rubber noodles.

"This is the best kind of sore I've ever felt..." Starlight moaned, as she began to recall last night.

"You said it. But I think we both need a shower before either of us sets hoof out of this room. I'll get one started." He said, stepping into his private bathroom and started the tub faucet. Starlight slowly sat up and got her bearings, rubbing her eyes. After giving herself about half a minute, she uneasily got to her hooves and followed Sunburst into the bathroom, the steam already starting to wake her up. After they stepped in, the fatigue immediately began to wash down with the water. After ten minutes, they were refreshed, and sopping wet. When they both stepped out of the shower, Starlight tried to magically take a hold of one of the towels hanging next to the door, but couldn't due to yet another realization; they were extremely famished.

"But we can't go down to the dining hall like this..." Starlight mused, the tip of her sopping wet tail dragging on the floor, while Sunburst peaked out the door.

"I don't think that'll be a problem." He said, opening the door the rest of the way and pulling in a food cart that had been sitting outside his door. On it, was a platter of fruits, vegetables, muffins, and orange juice. A folded piece of parchment was set next to the fruit. Sunburst closed the door, unfolded the letter, and read it aloud.

"I felt my pearls release their energy last night. Thought you two might need this, it's only fair since you made us breakfast. Hope you had fun.
-Cadance"

Starlight giggled, as she took a muffin in her left hoof and immediately began devouring it, and Sunburst likewise did the same with an apple.

"Did we ever." Starlight said, her mouth full.

It only took a few bites to get enough energy built up for minimal levels of telekinesis, and the rest of the meal was much easier. Over the next twenty minutes, they cuddled together and ate the entire platter, and downed the entire pitcher of juice.

"I don't think I've ever eaten that much..." Sunburst moaned after his final bite.

"You got that right. We need to figure out how to pay Cadance back, big time. I don't think I'll ever be able to put last night into words, and I think working our way up to something even remotely close to that without her magic is quite the challenge. You up for it?"

"Absolutely, and I'll ask Shining Armor about some of her favorite things, because yes, we definitely need to show her how much we appreciated her help last night." Sunburst agreed.

Starlight ran a comb through her mane to get it halfway decent, and checked her saddlebags to make sure everything was set to go.

"I really hate to eat and run, but..."

"Don't be ridiculous. I didn't think we'd sleep past noon. Oh, wait. There is one more thing..." Sunburst said, lighting his horn up. Out from under the bed, in the grasp of his magic, was another gift box. This one much, much smaller than the giant one in the stadium.

"I told myself one gift per day, and that includes Monday." Sunburst said, levitating the box over to her, where she took it in her magic.

Starlight undid the bow, lifted the lid, and upon seeing what was inside, she gasped. How in Equestria did he find something like this? Moving the tissue paper aside, she lifted out the boxed up board game.

Dragon Pit: First Edition

"How...?"

"I swung by the antique store last weekend before I left town. I knew you had to have it. It'll be great to have to play next weekend, yeah?" He asked with a wink.

Starlight set the game back in the gift box and leaned in and kissed him deep.

"Thank you so much. And don't be so sure... I may not wait until next weekend." She said, pecking him on the lips once more.

She lit up her horn, and fired a spell at the floor in the center of the room, and her transportation rune to Ponyville lit up. They stood up, embraced, held each other for a few moments, and parted with another kiss.

"Love you. See you soon... Wizard." Starlight said, walking backwards into the rune, never taking her eyes off of him.

Sunburst's room disappeared with a flash of light, and was immediately replaced by the surroundings of her bedroom in Twilight's castle. She took a quick look around to make sure everything was in order, as the glow of the rune faded under her hooves. The gigantic gift box containing the kites had been set against the far wall, and she noticed a note on the back of her closed bedroom door. She set her saddlebags next to her desk, and read it.

Starlight,

Spike and I are running errands in town today, be back in time for dinner. Hope you had a fun weekend.

That being said, I have a check-out clipboard in the library for a reason. Where is my book?

Sincerely,
Twilight

Starlight snorted briefly, and broke into a hysterical fit of laughter.

Best weekend ever.

Author's Note

Well, would you look at that. This one didn't take nine months to finish.

Hope you all enjoyed. Thanks for reading!