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Chapter 5 – Mail day

You slowly wake up from your restless night. Twilight did not stop tossing and turning all night and each time she moved even a little bit your mind shoot back up with a helplessly concerned thought. You rub your eyes with your hooves as you make your normal morning sounds.

Ow, fucking eyelash... you blink your eye a little bit more rapidly as you try to blink an eyelash out, the whole time you are thinking, why are pony eyes so big anyways?

As the assassin lash is out of your eye you stare to the empty bed next to you. You quickly jerk yourself out of the bed into a sitting position as you snap out of your dizzy state, you look around the room but don't see Twilight.

You look to the window as you get out of bed, what the hell? Day time? As you plant your hooves on the ground you hear laughing downstairs. You walk to the door and poke your head out and listen to the voices.

"...Ha ha, no way?"

you roll your eyes at the tomboyish voice as you walk to the bathroom.

Before you close the door you her Twilight's laugh, well at least Rainbow didn't break in this time.

As you close the door you hear another voice, "Well when he comes down we shall think of foal names."

You groan as you close the door, Rarity...it’s too early.

As you walk down the stairs you listen to the conversation further.

"...Thats what I said!" You can tell from Rainbow's voice that she is either telling a wonderbolts story or making fun of Rarity. "...But it didn't matter because Spitfire was already in the lead."

They stop talking as you enter the kitchen.

Twilight looks to be in a better mood from her smile and cleaner looking mane, she smiles as she talks, "Good morning."

Rainbow blows at her comment, "Morning? It's like noon!"

Spike sits board at the table as he waves to you.

You nod to Spike as you smile to her comment.

She hoofs to Twilight as she talks, "Seriously Twilight if you let him sleep he would probably sleep all day."

You squint at her comment, "Rainbow don't you sleep like all the time?"

She raises her eyebrow at you, "Uh, Cloud naps are not sleeping."

You roll her eyes at her comment.

Rarity takes a bite of the cupcake she holds in her hoof, "These are really good."

Rainbow laughs at the comment, "They should be fresh, Pinkie had me run them by right out of the oven."

You stare at the new bag of sweets on the table, yep this is going to be a bakery....they better not be sleep powdered.

You shift to Twilight as you take your seat, "How come you didn't wake me up?"

She takes a sip of her drink before she talks, "Well I know you didn't get any sleep last night."

You smirk at her, "Neither did you."

She gives a light laugh as she look to her friends across the table, "No, I slept great last night."

You ignore her lie as you bring a cupcake to your mouth and sniff it, you know that most likely you can't smell anything but still worth a shoot. You bite into the pink frosted vanilla cupcake...diabetes never tasted so good.

Rarity now looks at you, "So, have you thought of a name yet?"

You shake your head at her comment.

Rainbow raises an eyebrow at you, "Why?"

Twilight focus on you from her cup as you talk, "It's too early."

Rarity and Rainbow both give a laugh.

Rainbow talks in her normal high tomboyish voice as she talks, "To early?"

Rarity cuts in as she hoofs to you, "Did you not tell him?"

You look to Twilight and think, oh god please no...just no. You look at her anxiously waiting for her to talk.

She clears her throat as she talks, "Well, names are very important to ponies. A name gives a certain power to the pony, and it helps them follow their destiny."

Rainbow stands from the table as she points to her backside, "Ya, you think I got a rainbow just from being fast? Names set a ponies destiny."

You nod as you look away from her backside with a slight blush, why do I think she just couldn't wait to do that?

Rarity slides a book across the table as she talks, "Here you go darling this should help you."

You look at the book, Foal & Future. You slide it a little away from you as you look back to them, "We don't even know if it's a boy or girl."

Twilight speaks in a low voice as she talks, "So you don't want to think of a name?"

You look her over as you think, her face has a hint of sadness as you look at her. That or it's a overly tired face. You can't imagine her being so serious about a name this early but you decided against you thoughts, "Ok, lets talk about names."

She smiles as she floats a paper in front of you.

You look down at it for a moment, crap.

You hide your work as you sit further up in your chair. Everypony has crowed around you as you continue to try and stall. You scribble out a few more letters as you hold the quill in your hoof, come on how can they still want a name? You thought making them sit around all day as you read the book would had at least made Rainbow ger board and go away but it didn't.

You finally move back to show your work.

Rainbow is the first to grab at the paper, "Chuck?"

Rarity now looks at the paper, "Um, no darling I think that's a F." She gives a little laugh as she talks, "N-not that there is anything wrong with your spelling."

You smile as your plan seems to have worked.

Twilight looks unamused as she looks over the paper in silence.

Spike laughs as he reads some more names, "Does this say Magic for derpy's? Thats a book."

Rainbow places the paper back on the table as she nudges Spike in laughter, “Look, this one says Stony.” Rainbow continues her laugh as she nudges you, “Maybe you should wait on the name.”

Rarity grins at Rainbow and then looks to the window, "Oh no! I was supposed to get Sweetie from school!" She gallops out the door as she calls out, "Sorry girls I have to go!"

Twilight continues to look over the paper as Rainbow stretches her wings, "Well if you two need me I will be at Applejack’s helping her with watering or something like that." She looks to Twilight as she talks, “Glad to see you feeling better Twi.”

Twilight doesn’t shift from the paper as she says goodbye.

Spike still giggles to himself as he repeats some of the names from the list that took almost all day.

You look to the window, the sun hangs low in the sky and you feel a little happy knowing you have held off your thoughts for a whole day.

Twilight looks up from the paper in an annoyed voice, "You know if you don't care you could just say no and I wouldn't have bothered you." She squints at you as she waits for your comment.

You give a laugh as you stare at her. Which was not the smartest thing you could have done.

"Oh its a joke to you hu?" She stares at you with a little bit more intensely.
You give a low exhale as you look away from her.

But she doesn't let up, "So what does thinking of names scare you?"

Spike slowly starts to slink away from the table as Twilight's voice picks up. "Well?"

You talk in a calm voice as you look back to her, "Twilight you're just hormon...-"

She flips her tail towards the table a she talks, "No i'm not!" She holds her head up in a stubborn pride as she stops talking.

You know why she has been acting weird but your mind starts to forget the reason as you start fall into her argument, "Well then fine, yes! Yes thinking of a name kind of scares me."

She looks back to you with a confused and still angry look, "Why?"

You rub your hooves across your face from stress as you speak, "I know it's stupid but I feel if I keep putting the name off that somehow I won't be ruining your life more than I already have."

She scoffs at your comment, "You're right that is stupid."

You look at her as you feel your face starting to get annoyed at her comments, "Oh ya? Then lets tell your parents or-or Celestia? Hu?"

Her ear twitches a little at the thought, "I-it's too early."

You laugh a little, "Oh too early to tell anyone but not too early to think about name right?"

She looks to the ground as she stutters, "I-I just don't want to tell them right now..."

You feel a burst of anger surge your voice as you talk now in a louder tone, "Hu Twilight? It's not like you can lie about it when you have a foal running around!"

Twilight stares at you now with shifting eyes.

You snap out of your building rage as you pause at your statement.. as you try an attempt to fix it you hold your head down, "We...when we have a foal running around."

Twilight brings her hoof up to her stomach as a crump rolls through her, she gives a light sobbing sound as she stands in the room.

You bang your hooves together at the sound, you hate seeing her sad and since you both found out about her pregnancy thats all she has been. Hormones or not you still don't want to be the cause of her crying.

She swallows back her emotions as she talks, "I'm sorry."

You shake your head as you talk, "no, you're right its to early."

She laughs a little as she continues to have a shaky voice, "I-I can't control myself."

She sits down across from you at the table as she talks in a broken voice, "I need to write a le-.."
You cut her off as you put your hoof on her, "No, lets worry about that later ok?"

Her lip quivers a bit as she holds back her words.

You slide the paper in front of you as you look over the names read one out loud, "Ya, I can't spell at all."

She gives a sniffly giggle to your comment as she looks over the paper, "Well there not all bad."

She places her hoof over one of the names.

You look over the name with a smile, "I guess not..."

You reach across the table and give her a quick kiss, "i'm sorry."

As you start to bring your head back she brings you forwards for another kiss, "me to..."

End of chapter 5