Life As We Know It

The music and laughter from outside the castle were getting louder as the moments went on. The festival was in full swing, now on its third day.

Solstice laid her head on her window seal and watched as ponies walked and laughed, enjoying the festival. She sighed as her ears laid back against her head. She could never go down there and be apart of it, everyone would expect her to be looking at the available submissives there. Their green hoof bracelets out for everyone to see.

Being a part of the festival, everyone who was taken or single had their colors, and everyone who was a dominate or submissive had their colors, so did littles and mommies and daddies. Green was a single submissive, black was a single dominant, purple was a single mommy, yellow was a single daddy, pink was a single little girl and blue was a single little boy. Most submissives who were taken had collars, so they didn't need a colored band, and they were usually attached to their partner by a leash. Single switches had a black and green colored band. Single masters and mistresses had a red band, and single slaves had a white band.

Solstice sighed. How she wished she could put on one of those pink hoof bracelets. It would never be accepted though, she was Twilight Sparkle's daughter, she couldn't be submissive. She hid that part of herself ever since she knew for sure. She couldn't let her mother down, her country down.

Her ears perked up at the sound of her door opening and her mother stepping into the room, along with her mom, Starlight Glimmer attached by a shimmering lavender leash. "Good morning, Solstice," Twilight said with a smile.

"Morning, Mother." Solstice smiled as she turned away from her window.

"Why are you not down at the festival? Today is the last day." Twilight asked as she sat down.

Solstice sighed and sat down as well. "I don't know, I don't feel like I belong there."

Twilight looked down at Starlight with a bit of sadness in her eyes. "Why?" Starlight asked.

Solstice felt that pull to tell her parents, but once again ignored it. She shook her head and smiled up at her parents. "Its nothing, Ill head down now." She said as she stood up.

"Wait for a second-" Twilight started to say she elevated a black band over, but Solstice ran past her parents and out down the hallway. "Well, maybe she doesn't need it." Starlight said as Twilight nuzzled her chin. "Maybe not."

Solstice finally stopped once she made it into the middle of the crowd. She looked around her and looked down to the ground, feeling her heart pumping faster. She closed her eyes for a second, opening them to finding a stray pink band on the ground. She smiled a bit and lifted it in her magic, just looking at it. It had glitter made into it so it shone in the sunlight, it had a picture of a teddy bear on it and it made her giggle a little bit. She found herself putting it on her hoof before she even realized it. She looked around after putting her hoof back on the ground. She found a hole in the crowd and walked away from everyone else, walking out into the castle garden where it was quiet. She sat down under a shade tree and looked out into the city of Canterlot. All she wanted was to be who she was, she wanted to tell her parents, she wanted to be happy with her life.

Solstice hid her hoof when she heard hoofsteps behind her. She turned around really quickly and saw the shadow of someone coming.

"Hey." The pony said as she came around the bushes. She was a orange pegasus with wavy maine and tail that was a beauitful, deep, blue color. Her eyes were a pale pink and they just shone in the sunlight. She walked over to the blue alicorn and sat down and smiled.

"Uh hi." Solstice whispered, bringing the tip of her wing closer to her face.

"You don't have to be shy, I'm not mean or anything." She said with a laugh, which made Solstice relax a little.

She looked down at the pony hoof and saw a green and black band. Solstice looked back up to her, still trying to hide the pink band she found. It didn't work though, the pegasus still saw it.

"So, your a little huh? I thought royals were dominates." She chuckled as she turned around to sit facing Solstice.

"Solstice giggled nervously and moved some of her red hair from her face. "Yeah, no one knows about this."

"That's okay, I wont tell anyone if youre not ready." The pony shrugged. She looked down at Solstice's flank and seeing nothing but blue fur. Solstice quickly covered it with her tail, looking down to the ground.

"You don't have to hide that either, I'm not going to judge you." She smiled.

Solstice looked up and relaxed a little. Her tail moved to rest on the ground and her wings lowered to a more relaxed position. "So, what's your name?"

"Scarlet. I already know your name Princess Solstice." Scarlet said with a small bow of her head.

Solstice shivered a little. "No, please don't do that or call me princess. Solstice is fine."

Scarlet chuckled a little as she closed her pink eyes. "Okay then, Solstice."

The two talked for a good few more hours. By the time they noticed, the sun was starting to set, the sky was the colors of orange, red, and yellow. Solstice looked up to the sky and smiled as the sun slowly set and the moon slowly rose in its place. "Mother really outdid herself with the sunset tonight." Solstice said.

"Yeah, I love her sunsets. I hear Celestia's were just as beautiful." Scarlet said.

Solstice looked over to Scarlet and blushed a little. She didn't understand why she just met this pegasus, why was she blushing, and for no reason. Solstice stood up and stretched her wings out. "I guess I better be headed to the castle, it'll be dinner soon."

Scarlet stood up and walked over to Solstice, she bent down and grabbed the pink band. Solstice jumped and lifted her hoof off the ground, "Hey!"

Scarlet pulled the band off of her hoof and winked as she put it under her wing. "Don't want your parents to see that, do we, little girl?"

Solstice's lavender eyes widened as she set her hoof back down. She felt her cheeks blush as she hid behind a wing for a minute. "No, I guess not." She giggled as she came out from behind her wing.

"Don't worry, I won't tell anyone." Scarlet winked as she walked out of the gardens and back into the crowd.

Solstice sighed a sigh of relief as she looked down to her now bare hoof. She smiled a little as she spread her wings and flew back into the castle.