I pressed my face to the glass of the car in awe. I’ve never seen snow before. This is insane. It looked so fluffy and I just wanted to go jump in it.

“Mom look! Snow! Honest to God snow!” I pointed eagerly. Mom glanced over to me and snickered.

“Yes Bons. I see the snow. Beautiful, isn’t it?” She gave me a pointed look. “And you weren’t excited about moving here.” I realized my mistake and tried to rein my emotions in.

“I mean it’s okay. Could be better,” I folded my arms. “Why was there snow anyway?”

“There’s always snow on the mountains,” Mom explained as she drove down the winding road. I could see a town at the bottom that I assumed was Canterlot.

“Is that it down there?” I asked curiously.

“Yeah. It’s a nice town. The warehouse we have has a completely renovated apartment on the top floor. Very spacious based on the pictures,” Mom nodded as we got closer and closer to the town on the bottom of the mountain. I wish we could have a house in the mountains. See snow all the time that way.

“Okay. We have to bring everything up there ourselves don’t we?” I asked with a sigh. I was not looking forward to that. If I ripped my dress, I was going to be pissed. Mom shook her head to my relief.

“The moving company has all our belongings set up in the rooms I asked. All we have to do is pick our rooms,” Mom explained. It isn’t that I was against doing physical labor, it was just stressful. Plus tiring and hard on my wardrobe. I prided myself on my clothes. I spent a lot of my allowance on my outfits.

“Well that’s an upside to all of this. I get the small room I assume.” It had always been like that because I’m younger. Makes sense that the parents or well parent in this case gets the bigger room. It used to make me mad when I was like eight but now I don’t care. A room is a room. Not like I decorate my rooms or anything like that anyway. All I do is sleep and read in there. Plus to get away from Mom when she’s being annoying.

“Our rooms are the same size. The only difference is mine has a bathroom attached to it. It has two bathrooms in the apartment surprisingly. Might as well just call it our house at this point. That’s practically what it is.” Fair enough.

“Okay.”

We stood in the living room of our new house as we were calling it. I hate to admit it, but this is nice. Super spacious and all.

“So this is it huh?” I finally spoke as I sat on the couch and crossed my legs.

“Mhm. Pretty nice right?” Mom grinned as she sat next to me. We had spent hours unpacking and putting our small and big belongings in our rooms and such. Mine was the quickest because I don’t own much to display. All I had was my laptop with a sticker of three wrapped pieces of candy on the top, my movies and TV. That was pretty much it. I need to find my DVD player still. I always got a lot weird looks when I say I prefer physical dvds over streaming services. Sure they are convenient but there’s nothing like having to actually put the DVD in and all that fun stuff.

“It is nice. I like the view and the deck,” I grudgingly admitted. We didn’t have a deck at our old place. My deck has a view over downtown that I’m sure will look amazing at night. I’ve never really had any reason to stare at the night sky mainly because I never had the opportunity or the means to do so comfortably. “How far away is my school?”

“It’s about a fifteen minute walk. Less if I drive you or if you take the bus. The bus doesn’t run most days apparently because it breaks down a lot,” Mom answered as she sipped her wine. Mom never drinks unless it’s a good occasion and even then, it’s a small amount in moderation. I suppose us having a new place is a pretty good occasion to her. It’s still iffy to me. The snow was an upside. Especially when I found out Canterlot gets a lot of it. We don’t get snow back home unfortunately. I’m so going to snowball mom when I get the chance. Maybe block her car in with a giant snowbank so I can avoid going to school with strangers.

“Oh okay. Why can’t I be homeschooled? No bus and no need for you take me. Plus I don’t have to walk then,” I grinned hopefully. Maybe then I can at least be lonely in my own home instead of lonely at school surrounded by loud messy obnoxious fellow high schoolers.

“Because you won’t make friends that way Bonnie,” Mom sighed. “Besides, the school has more than any online school does. Online school doesn’t have an orchestra or a theater club for you to join. Canterlot does darling.”

That was a good reason I suppose. The orchestra and theater part. I didn’t even know a highschool could have an orchestra. This school obviously must have an abundance of talented students. I can respect that. I don’t think many orchestras use pianos in them though. I mainly listen to the opera. It’s calming when I’m in large crowds of people. It just speaks to me in a way. Not many people understand it but oh well.

“I’ll give it a shot mom,” I finally said.

“Excellent!” Mom beamed at me. “You’re a very capable young woman. I know you can do it. Now you have school tomorrow so you should get some sleep.” I hated that I had to spend a long time in the car and immediately go to school. Barely a chance to get acquainted with the town but that isn’t mom’s fault. She hadn’t expected to receive an offer for the warehouse when she did and decided to jump on it. I smiled and gave her a nod as I stood up and walked away.

“Alright. Goodnight mom.”

“Goodnight. I love you,” Mom closed her eyes as she leaned back on the couch. I paused with a foot on the stairs as I looked back.

“I love you too.”

Author's Note

I am currently preparing to write my most controversial story yet: A Spike x Starlight.