8- That moment when you confuse the audience.

When I woke up, I found that I was very sore. My rear legs and hips ached as I moved slightly in the early hours of the day. I tried to keep my eyes closed and go back to sleep. I felt a larger being in the bed with me. I assumed it was Celestia. Whoever it was gave a light hum and then moved around and got out of bed. Soon after, I felt the sun hit my eyes. The warmth of sun hit my face and I felt the bed move slightly as Celestia got back in and cuddle up against me.

"Seethe?" She whispered "Are you awake?"

"Yeah....." I groaned.

"You cold?" She asked "You feel a bit cold."

"I am just a bit cold." I admitted, I was just a bit cold.

"Here." she said. I felt her pull the covers up to my neck. "Would you like to pick up where we left off last night?"

"Weren't we at the end?" I asked.

"Well there's always a sequel." Celestia said with a grin.

"I suppose there always is a sequel. In my opinion sequels are my favorites."  I whispered.

"Before we begin again, I have a question: why did you and Pinkie break up?" She asked grimly.

I sat up and sighed. "I knew I'd have to talk about this at one point. Well....better just get it over with." I said. I gave another sigh "Personally I've always been an alcoholic.  When I developed a mostly mare populated fan club, my drinking got me to sleep with many many, members of my fan club. Eventually Pinkie and I met. I was drunk. I invited her into my hotel room. We.....ummm..."

"Had sex?" Celestia said.

"Umm....yes......and then we stayed toghether through the next morning. And for a few weeks we were dating and then we had a fight and I broke it off.  To be honest I'm not surprised she hates my guts.....oh yeah, I think she might actually hate yours now, too." I stated.

"Maybe I could speak with her. See if I can't smooth things over so that happy pink mare won't hate our guts." Celestia suggested. I was rather surprised by this suggestion.

"That would be nice...personally I'm afraid if she see's me again, she'll attempt to hit me with a frying pan or some other blunt or sharp object or projectile object." I said.

"Then I'll talk to her alone." Celestia said.

Now to be honest it wasn't until weeks later when I found out what that conversation was about.

Celestia left my parents home at noon, and went to Sugar Cube Corner. Not noticing the amount of looks she was getting as she walked.  She entered Sugar Cube Corner. She approached the register and looked directly at the nervous Mr.Cake.

"Wh-what can I do for you Pr-Princess Celestia!" He said putting emphasis on 'Celestia' to alert any pony in the back area that Celestia was there.

"I'm here to speak with Pinkie Pie, privately if you don't mind." Celestia said.

"Oh...umm...of course, right this way." He said leading Celestia into the back rooms and finding Pinkie in a store room in the back.

The walls were lined with shelves of flour, sprinkle, and boxes of sugar, etc.

"Hello Pinkie Pie." She greeted.

"Hello, Princess." She said somewhat taking a tone with the word "Princess".

"I wanted to talk to you about a certain stallion you and I know." She said.

"You mean Seethe?" She asked.

"Yes." Celestia said.

"Okay...go ahead." Pinkie said cautiously.

"From I can gather from your mood towards me, this is just a guess, but I believe you might think I stole Seethe from you. Or went somewhere that was off limits, that place being Seethe. I would like to simply say,  just to stomp out that remote possibility. I would like to say: Seethe and You are far over. You need to move on, let what ever happened between you two go. You and Seethe had a chance, about the same chance as everypony to turn out to be soul mates. Now you both have turned out to not be meant for each other. And now it's my turn with him. So far, we're very happy together. So if we turn out to be meant for each other, that's it. If we ever did realize we were meant for each other, then I'd make him immortal and share the sun and sky with him." Celestia said and sighed at the end, imagining it

A tear rose from Pinkie's eye. "I'm sorry." She began to cry "I just....I just thought.....I loved him." she sobbed.

"Pinkie....I'm sorry, I care about Seethe and I want you and him to settle this before anypony said anything nasty.....be calm......take a deep breath...."  Celestia put a hoof on Pinkie and held her close, letting her cry onto her. "If you want to talk with him. We are going to be performing at the Chuckle Fest Comedy Club tonight. Seethe and I will be there. Come by after the show." Celestia said. "I must leave. We need to practice our act."

"Are you nervous?" I asked.

"A bit." Celestia said taking a sip from a glass of what I assumed was a little bit of my complementary scotch.

"Don't drink too much of that. It's not good to be a bit buzzed before the show." I said. "Alright I'll get out there and begin. Wait for your cue." I ordered. I peaked my head past the curtain before stepping onto the side from the side zone.There was a good turn out as per usual. I took a deep breath. Smiled and then walked out onto the stage.

Cheers came from ever where below as I walked. I stopped at the center of the stage. Looked over the crowd and waved and said.

"Hello, of hey, hiya. HI TO ALL OF YOU!" I greeted yelling over the cheers.

"Hi Seethe!" They all responded in unison.

"SILENCE!"  I commanded in a fake commanding voice. They all went silent with cheers.

" 'lright., now as a good amount of you probably know from the news papers, a few shots of a certain princess and I have hit headlines. Personally I hope a good amount of you saw the one the Canterlot Times used. That was posed to mess with the photographer who was taking the picture. Now guys, what ever you've heard from the papers is probably true. The Princess and I, are together." I said.

Some random stallion in the crowd whistled and yelled up "Nice!"

I chuckled "Thank you sir! Oh and there's something else. This is the first act I've ever done.....with a partner! Let's all give a big welcome for my partner: Princess Celestia! I pointed a hoof to the side of the stage the Princess was waiting on. And she poked her head past the side so her face was in view of audience. She examined the audience with a blank face and then made a silly face.

The audience cheered and laughed for the Princess.

And then, the me on stage turned back into Princess Celestia. And I turned from Celestia back into myself, now standing on the side of the stage.

The audience fell silent and big tidal wave of "Wha?" And "What"s fell over us.

Then there was applause and laughter.

"Hello everpony" Celestia greeted from center of the stage.