The following morning Twilight was awoken by the rising sun shining in her face which would not have been so bad if it had not been accompanied by the sound of Spike talking animatedly to some pony downstairs.
Twilight groaned as she rolled out of bed, not yet ready to face the ponies of this small town. She wanted time to gather her thoughts and prepare for the craziness of the day ahead. It did not look like she was going to allowed to have that.
At least the newcomer was accompanied by the smell of oat muffins. Fresh oat muffins. Twilight was pretty sure she could deal with what sounded like an overexcited filly if they were accompanied by oat muffins. Her stomach certainly agreed with her.
She straightened herself out, using her magic to levitate her brush to she could get the knots out of her mane and tail and settle her coat. Taking the extra couple of moments to get herself looking presentable helped calm her down. She did not want to let Princess Celestia down by looking like she had been dragged through a hedge backwards. She was there as her representative after all. Even if she was supposed to be making friends, she could not forget that she was supposed to be overseeing the preparations for the festival for the Princess.
Once she felt like she was ready, she headed out, pausing at the top of the stairs to see who the pony that Spike was talking to was. The pony below, practically bouncing around the room was a pale pink earth filly with a puffy, curly mane of a darker shade of pink, possibly magenta. She seemed happy and bouncy and Spike seemed to be getting on with her okay. Twilight felt a little guilty that her attention kept slipping to the basket the earth pony had brought with her. It just smelled so good.
“There she is.” Spike waved up at her, “Morning Twilight.”
“Hi!” The earth pony grinned up at her, “I’m Pinkie Pie and I brought you a surprise.”
“Nice to meet you.” Twilight tried to remember everything her brother had taught her about introducing yourself to new ponies. It had been a long time she had gone outside of her bubble of companions and class mates so she was a little out of practise. Pinkie didn’t seem to mind though. “I’m Twilight Sparkle.” The unicorn introduced herself as she descended, just glad that it was only one pony she had to deal with right now, not several, “But Spike probably already told you that.”
“He did but I like to get to know every pony so I like to introduce myself.” Pinkie replied, bouncing over to her basket, “I live in Sugarcube Corner and I saw you come into town last night but it would have been rude to have invaded that late at night, so I thought I’d come over first thing in the morning with breakfast since you hadn’t had the chance to go shopping yet…”
Twilight blinked at her, a little lost for words. Not that she could have gotten a word in edgeways anyway.
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