Bittersweet Memories

"Ugh, late again." Bon-Bon said to herself. She galloped up to the door, stopped instantly, and before entering she wiped her hooves on their "Welcome" doormat. As she walked into her home she was greeted with a soft welcoming "hello" from her wonderful girlfriend, Lyra, who was probably one the kindest, yet strangest, ponies she'd ever known.

"Hey, sorry I'm late." Bon-Bon said while she panted.

"It's all right Bon-Bon, really. You're busy and I understand." Lyra said. She was up on her back legs and was leaning against the wall to keep her balance.

The tired pony let out a long, stressful sigh. "You're too kind."

Lyra smiled. "Follow me" She dropped back down to all fours and walked down the hall, making a right, into the kitchen. Bon-Bon let free a smile and followed her girlfriend. "Ok, stop." the mint colored unicorn said. Bon-Bon did as instructed. "Now close your eyes."

"Lyra what are you..."

"Just do it."

Bon-Bon closed her eyes, but couldn't help but let out a little giggle as she done so. "Good, open your mouth." The blind pony didn't hesitate. She opened her mouth and waited for something to be put in it. The wait wasn't long and in her mouth Lyra had placed something round and very bitter. Bon-Bon instantly spat it out onto the wooden floor.

"What was that?" Bon-Bon exclaimed.

"Chocolate." the minted color unicorn said. "I watch you make them all the time, so I was like 'what the hay'. I'll give it a shot. So I think now we can agree I'm not gifted in making chocolate." Lyra giggled and so did Bon-Bon. The smiling earth pony grabbed some squares of paper towels with her mouth and cleaned up the mess.

While Bon-Bon was cleaning up the mess, Lyra was getting dinner started. In front of her was a ball of lettuce. Bon-Bon looked over at her girlfriend and saw she was trying to use the knife with her hooves. Lyra wasn't exactly being successful with knife. Bon-Bon shook her head. "I don't understand why you don't just use your magic to cut the lettuce." Bon-Bon said.

"Maybe one day you'll understand." Lyra said. Bon-Bon threw the napkins in the waste bin.

Half an hour later Lyra placed plates of salad at the table, which stood next to a window and had a plant in a small vase in the center. Bon-Bon hardly touched her salad, she just stared out the window into the starry night sky. Lyra was already half done when she took notice of Bon-Bon's lack of eating.

"Bon-Bon, are you ok?"

"Hmm," Bon-Bon said as she looked over at her concerned lover. "oh, yes I'm fine."

"What are you looking at?"

"The stars."

"Why?" Lyra asked.

"Wishing." Bon-Bon responded.

"Ok, now I'm confused."

"When I was younger, my grandmother told me that if you wish upon the first star you see that it'll come true." Bon-Bon went back to looking out the window. After Lyra was finished eating, she took her clean plate and Bon-Bon's untouched plate back to the kitchen. Lyra turned on the sink and began washing the dishes. Bon-Bon walked away from the table and went over to help Lyra.

"So." Lyra said.

"What?" Bon-Bon asked.

"What did you wish for?"

"I didn't wish for anything."

"What are you talking about?" Lyra asked confusedly. "We were looking out that window at the stars for half an hour. You had too be wishing on them or something."

"I wasn't wishing, I was remembering another wish I made." Bon-Bon said.

"Did it come true?" the mint unicorn asked.

Bon-Bon turned to Lyra and looked deep into her golden eyes. In those eyes she saw her future. A lifetime with this beautiful mare. In those eyes she remembered the first time she looked into them.

"Did your wish come true?" Lyra asked again.

Bon-Bon nodded and said, "Yes."

Lyra was fast asleep in their bed for two. Bon-Bon, unfortunately, was not. She tried and tried to go to sleep but it seemed the more she tried the harder it became to do so. She slid out of the bed and left the room. The house was lit up by the light of the full moon, making it easy for her to see her surroundings.

She stepped out of the house. The night was warm and in the sky shined thousands of stars, but only one really stood out to Bon-Bon. A blue-silvery looking star that was not too far from the moon. Crickets chirped loudly and frogs croaked noisily into the night sky, but Bon-Bon hardly took notice to them. She sighed softly and went back inside, closing the door behind her.

Down the hall, just on the opposite side of her bedroom, was a white door. She went down the hall to the door and opened it. Behind the door was nothing more than a broom closet, filled with cleaning supplies and had a single shelf with a photo album on it.

She reached her hooves up to the shelf and knocked the photo album to the floor. She slid over to the middle of the all way and then opened it. On the page she opened to were four photos of her and Lyra together, one of which they were kissing, and there were two of just Lyra. Bon-Bon let up a smile onto her face.

She turned the pages backwards about three pages. On this page there were pictures of her family. One photo was a family photo of her mother, her father, her older sister, and of course her. They all looked happy together. In another photo her mother and father were close together smiling.

She put a hoof on the photo and a tear slipped out and ran down her face, dropping onto the photo album. "I miss you." Bon-Bon said.

She turned the pages back some more, all the way back to the first page. On this page were pictures of her. She looked so small in these photos. There was a picture of her when she was first born, she was in her mother's arms, sound asleep. In the photo next to it was of her, around three years old, baking sweets with her grandmother.

Those were the days. Bon-Bon thought to herself.

"Bon-Bon?" said a tired lovely voice behind her. Bon-Bon jumped and turned to see Lyra standing by the bedroom doorway.

"Oh, hey." Bon-Bon said.

"What are you doing up?" Lyra asked.

"Oh, nothing." Bon-Bon closed the photo album and picked it up with her mouth and placed it back on the shelf in the broom closet. "I'll be in in just a second."

"Alright." Lyra turned around and went back into the bedroom. Bon-Bon looked back at the album on the shelf one last time before returning to her bed.