I’m not alone in bed, right now…

My eyes are closed, but I can feel the warmth of the other filly, sleeping behind me…

She seemed kind of worried?

Wait, if she’s the bad parts of us, does that mean she’s evil?

And now, she’s sleeping behind me…

Why do I trust her, so quickly and easily?

Is she my… My sister now?

We’re both from the same filly!

And then, she squeaks out the unthinkable… “I love you, Ophelia!”

She tried to kill me, you know…

… Stupid idiot…

“I love you too, Cozy!”

Then, she does something far more terrifying… She gets close to me and snuggles me!

I feel her hoof going over my body as I ask, “What are you doing, Cozy?”

I feel the legs clamp on me, as she embraces me in a loving hug…

… I am now trapped with the other filly…

Golly shit! I think to myself, in my brain…

And it’s only then that I suddenly notice the 12-foot tall, smiling purple alicorn staring at us both, from the center of the room!

“Uh, Cozy! We’re being watched!”

She mumbles back, “Tell them to go away! I want more snuggles!”

Golly dammit! This is horrible! I should say something to break this! “Princess Twilight! Fancy seeing you here!” Okay, that could’ve been said better…

“You two are ADORABLE!!!!” The alicorn gushes!

I hear Cozy behind me, “Ten more minutes! Ugh… “

Makes me wonder what she was like earlier?

“Um, that’s fine! I wanted to speak more with Zecora, anyway! Just come out, whenever you’re ready! Snuggle away, fillies!” The alicorn says, before vanishing in a purple flash!

I blankly stare at the wall, away from the bed, “I want a joint!”

“I need to pee!” The filly says, from behind me, before giving me an affectionate squeeze!

So, Twilight knows now!

Wait, what exactly does she know?

<*****>

I ponder to myself, as I sit on the stool, and bring the burning joint to my mouth, for a pull…

I taste weed as I hear Cozy squeaking back to Twilight…

I wonder what Twilight is saying back, as I hear her muffled speech, from behind the door…

Eventually, I exhale a big puff of smoke…

Right as the door opens, I suddenly see the same purple alicorn from earlier, with a big grin on her face, “Alright Ophelia! Cozy Glow here is on house arrest and not permitted to see other ponies, until we know more about her! You’re in charge, and uh,” she lifts her snout to sniff the air, before looking down on me, as I take another hit, “Are you smoking devil weed, again?”

I exhale smoke again, and stare at her, “No! It’s just an amazing simulation!” and then, bring the joint to my mouth, for another drag…

She cringes, and rolls her eyes, “Ugh! One is a villain, and the other is a junkie!” before staring back at me, “Still, you and Zecora probably have the best shot of reforming Cozy Glow!”

I nod, “Well, I do love and care about her, you know!” Did I actually mean that? I wonder, before taking another drag of the half-joint…

Twilight’s eyebrow raises, as she considers me carefully, “Do you, now? Well, she did say that you were the good parts, of her… “ before starting, “Which could only mean that Cozy out there, must be evil!”

I exhale smoke to the side, before gazing at her, “You don’t know that for sure, you know?”

Twilight lowers her view, “What do you mean?”

“I’m saying, we only think that she’s evil, and that I’m good, just based on what? Her speculation? The world could be a lot more complex, you realize!”

She frowns, while I inhale smoke, “Uh, Ophelia, you bring up a very good point, actually!”

I exhale smoke between the two of us, as I lower my shoulders, and say, “See? I know stuff, too!”

Suddenly, we both hear a squeaky voice from behind the door shout, “I AM TOO, EVIL!”

I can’t help but smile at this, while taking another hit from my warm joint…

Twilight turns and says, “No, Cozy! Don’t you see? This means that you won’t need to be turned to stone, again! It means that we might be able to reform you, after all!”

I exhale smoke and stare at the door behind the princess, “She’s got a good point, you know! You really should take the deal!”

The voice is silent… Before finally saying, “I-I’m not evil?”

Twilight says, “Not if you don’t want to be, Cozy! You can choose to be good! You can make the right choice!”

The voice is silent again… “Can I come in?”

I lower my view, exhale smoke, and say, “Yeah, come on in little filly! The more, the merrier!” before turning to right and moving my forehoof that direct, to ash my joint in the glass ashtray…

The door opens, and both me and Twilight behold a tiny curly maned pink filly, who sniffs the air, and asks me, “Ophelia! Have you been smoking in here?”

I widen my eyes, “No, not at all! I’d never smoke!” I say, before bringing the joint to my snout again…

She shakes her head, and says, “Oh, of course!” before trotting in and staring at Twilight, “If I’m not evil, why did I try to kill her?” before pointing at me with her right wing…

Twilight calmly states, “Because you were confused, Cozy! But the thing is, you can’t kill parts of yourself! Not without killing yourself in the process!”

Cozy gazes up at her carefully, “So, no matter how bad she got hurt, she could never die?”

Twilight sighs, and nods, before saying, “That is correct!”

Cozy gazes at me with enormous brown eyes! “Oh, golly! I am SO SORRY about that, Ophelia! The pain must have been horrible?”

I stare at her blankly, and flatly say, “You know, the thing is, I don’t even remember!”

Cozy shakes her head, and says, “N-no, Ophelia! It’s not okay… I want to make it up to you… “

“I uh, I never said it was okay, but truthfully, I’m not even mad!” before taking another drag of that sweet sweet joint in my forehoof!

I’m not addicted! I can quit anytime I want… Shut up…

Twilight widens her eyes and stares at the curly filly, just beyond the door, “Cozy, do you mean to say that youactuallyfeel legitimate remorse, for your actions?”

She blinks, “I uh, I think maybe I do? I think maybe having a sister has changed me? I’m not sure, but I do know that uh… “ and smiles, “I do know that I love Ophelia, very much!”

What’s going on here? I silently wonder to myself… I exhale another cloud of smoke, and reach forward to ash into the glass tray, waiting there, with a half-joint waiting in one of the holders, for later, and saying, “You’re an idiot!” before taking another drag…

Twilight smiles at me, “Don’t you like the way your sister Cozy Glow, loves you, Ophelia?”

I exhale smoke between the two of us, and the alicorn sniffs the smoke, before frowning weirdly, at me, “Yes, of course! I love Cozy Glow! She’s my sister! Why wouldn’t I?”

Suddenly, I hear a different voice from behind her chant, “If what you say is true, then you and Cozy could become a pair, for both of you! You shall be considered twins, for that is the best way to secure the win!”

Twilight’s eyes widen, “I think what Zecora is trying to say, is that Cozy’s odds of reforming are a LOT better, with you here, dope-smoking, or no!”

I furrow my brow at this ignorant alicorn, before a sudden realization washes over my stoned brain, and I lower my shoulders, when I realize that she’s right…

Cozy stares at me, “Hey, we should go for a fly together, Ophelia! Doesn’t that sound like fun?”

Twilight turns her gaze to the curly filly, “Not so fast! Remember, you’re on house arrest, Cozy Glow!”

She sighs, and stares up at Twilight with enormous shaky brown eyes…

<*****>

I stare at Cozy Glow, standing next to me in the open field, “I still can’t believe she actually agreed to this!”

Cozy turns to me, “Well, she put up that HUGE invisible barrier, to keep us from leaving the area!”

“Well, right!” I nod, “So I gotta ask, what are you planning, now? Gonna tunnel underneath the dome, so you can escape and cause mayhem, or something?”

She frowns at me, “For the good parts of me, you’re sure starting to sound evil!”

I furrow my brow, “And that was my point, Cozy Glow! Ideas like good and evil are entirely relative, and can’t be boiled down to just parts of yourself, or whatever! You were never evil, Cozy!”

She frowns, “So trying to take over Equestria, and kill and enslave other ponies is now acceptable behavior?”

I sigh, and close my eyes, because for a genius filly, she’s pretty dense right now! I open them to her, “No, what I’m saying is that you were just the product of your environment and weren’t really in your right head when you did those things! You gotta admit, Tirek isn’t exactly the most wholesome influence you could’ve had in your life, here!” *

Her eyes narrow and frowns, “Great! So now I’m not responsible for my own actions!”

I sigh, “Look, Cozy! You were alone, right?”

She gazes seemingly beyond me, “W-well, yeah… I was by myself… “

And then I nod, “Tirek was the only pony er, person you really had to talk to, right?”

Her mouth straightens, “Well, there were the caretakers at the orphanage?”

I look at her, “Oh, please! You and I both know that you could never open up to those ponies! They were only there to do a job, and literally nothing else!”

Suddenly, we both hear a large purple alicorn from about 100 yards away in the same field yell at us, “Hey, what’s taking so long?”

I turn back to her, “Shut up, Twilight! We’re talking now!” before turning to the other pink filly, “And so, Tirek was the only one who listened, right?”

“Y-yeah… But I shouldn’t have listened to him, should I have?”

I smile, “Hey, Cozy! I wasn’t even there, but you’re with me now, and we can be sisters, and positive influences on each other, or whatever!” and widen my eyes! “Doesn’t that sound like fun?”

She stares at me carefully… “You’re still gonna smoke, aren’t you?”

I nod, “Golly right, I am!”

She sighs, before ultimately smiling at me, “Yeah… I love you Ophelia! Ready to go for a fly?”

I stare up at the tremendous blue sky overhead, “Golly right, I am! Let’s do it!”

(To be continued… )

Author's Note

*When I mention Tirek here, I’m actually referencing someone from my own past. I will not disclose who, in order to protect the innocent…