When I awoke the next day, Rarity was still fast asleep, so I'd thought it'd be better to sneak in a cheek kiss before sneakfully get out of bed. It was shopping day today as well, the supplies that Rarity and I have in our home were starting to become short and with Rarity still pregnant, it was my job to bring the supplies back up to full.

Grabbing the bits I had saved, I put on my normal clothes and gently left the house, closing the door behind me. For a while, nothing was going on until I saw two sphere things that looked like comets whooshing towards the ground.

"What the heck!?" I exclaimed before they landed right behind me.

After the dust cleared, I could see that it was actually Rainbow Dash and Discord which confirmed why the zooming spheres looked different.

"Oh, good day to you, Prince Bond." Discord greeted.

"Hey Bond." Rainbow added.

"Oh hi Rainbow." I replied before looking up. "And hi Discord, don't see you around us often."

"Well, apart from the night at the Gala, you're right." Discord said.

"Well either way, you two should've looked where you were going."

Rainbow giggled. "Sorry. Me and Discord are just messing around. Like we do."

"Since when?"

"Oh, Bond. We simply had a momentous time together these past few days." Discord said before he turned into a snake. "You could say it was..."hiss-terical"!"

Rainbow laughed. "Sneaky snake!"

"Just snaking around!"

"Good one, Discord!"

"It is?" I asked.

"Kind of an inside joke from this weekend. You wouldn't really get it unless you were there." Rainbow replied.

"Oh. Okay!"

"Cool, well, uh, catch you later, Bond!"

"Catch you later, Prince Bond." Discord added before he and Rainbow zoomed off.

Hmm, if Twilight and Spike saw this, they would've already been suspicious of Discord's behaviour. However I was more willing to let it happen, but still remain curious as to why this has started to happen. I then reminded myself that I had my shopping to do, so I carried on into the town.

After grabbing the necessary food and drink supplies as well as a rose I secretly bought for Rarity from the flower ponies, I checked my list to see I had gotten everything I needed, now it was time for me to go back home and put away the shopping and give my love this rose. I walked back home and stored away the supplies, now we were stocked up for a month or two.

"Rarity, are you here?" I called out, but there was no reply. I walked upstairs to find she wasn't there, I immediately thought of the boutique as the first place to go. Trotting there, I was about to walk in until I saw Discord again, but with Fluttershy who seemed better since Nightmare Night.

"Bond! This makes twice I'm seeing you in one day! Aren't I lucky?" he asked.

"Afternoon Bond." Fluttershy greeted before she gave me a hug. "I wanna say a big thank you for what you did a few days ago."

"What I did last night...oh you about Big Mac." I replied.

"Yes, thanks you, Big Mac and I are very much in love, but only when it's just him and me. Orange you glad you did it?"

Discord giggled along with Fluttershy, I kind of understood the joke a little.

"Anyways, shall we go inside?"

"Of course, after you." Discord replied as I opened the door to see Rarity who just packed up a couple of books in a saddle bag,

"Oh there you are, darling." Rarity said before she kissed me. "Did you get the shopping done?"

"Yes, it's done already." I replied. "I came back a bit early so I noticed you were missing."

"Well you know me, I like to keep on working even with my current appearance." she then noticed Discord and Fluttershy, "Oh hello you two, do you have some business with me?"

"Well, Fluttershy here has turned into a shade of...orange." Discord said as we suddenly noticed that Fluttershy was turned into an orange.

Rarity suddenly laughed and I had to admit, it was kinda funny, so Iaughed quietly.

"You see, we were all at Sweet Apple Acres, and I ended up turning the trees into the most-" Discord explained before he stopped. "Oh, who am I kidding? I simply can't do it justice. You really had to be there."

"We would've invited you to come along too, but I wanted to spend time with Big Mac." Fluttershy added.

"And I'm sure it was much more important than the fun that we had, haha."

Rarity gasped slightly. "Oooh, if you need more tips on being his lover, I can give you a few pointers." she then looked at me. "Darling, would you mind giving this bag of books to Twilight, they're books I wanna donate for her castle library."

"Sure thing, Rarity. I'll get on it now." I replied, taking the bag.

"Thank you, I'll see you at home later." she then kissed me and I left the boutique.

I flew up and over to Twilight's castle, landing on the balcony and walking inside to the library room, it was much cleaner than I last saw it. "Wow, it's even bigger this time around." I commented. "Uh I mean, anypony here?"

"Hi Bond, it's only me." Spike replied, reading a comic book. "Twilight's resting after her book reorganising. Do you need something with her?"

"I'm just here to drop these books off that Rarity wanted to donate to the castle and I can see an empty section on the shelves."

"Oh right, give them here and I'll get these sorted, no problem." Spike took the bag from me and placed them on a table. "By the way, I've been meaning to ask you. How is Rarity really doing?"

"Rarity's okay as always, however she's into her 5th month of being pregnant."

"I see, is it bad?"

"She's starting to move around a little slower, but it's normal for her. I also remember that if I can't help her for some reason, you'll be there to help."

"Well of course, dude. Rarity's a very close friend of mine, I'll always be here to look out for her in case you can't."

"That goes for all of our friends too, none of us should forget that."

"Oh I'll never forget that part, we're all close and connected."

"Good to hear."

Just then, I saw Twilight come in and she looked a little glum. "I can't believe I missed out on all that bonding!" she moaned.

"I knew it, you are jealous!" Spike replied. "Because you spent your time in the castle, organising these books."

"Spike, I'm the Princess of Friendship, I don't get jealous. I'm sorry I missed out because sharing that experience will help me with my Princess of Friendship duties!"

"Come again?"

"If our friends could enjoy three full days with Discord that much, it must have had something to do with the specific things they did together! If we can find out what those things were, it could be a real breakthrough in the science of friendship!"

"Oh, I guess so."

"Uhh hello, I'm still here?" I intervened.

"Oh hi Bond...sorry, I didn't see you there." Twilight apologized.

"Anyways, I have to get going."

"Hold on a minute Bond, I would all of us to meet at the park and this time, Discord will be joining us."

"At the park, when?"

"As soon as I let the others know, don't worry about it until then."

"Okay."

I then left the castle and all the way back home. Rarity was back too so we had a few minutes of romancing before we heard a knock on the door. I opened it to see Pinkie and Applejack who came for us, so we walked to the park where the others were waiting with Twilight on the bench table.

"Thank you for coming. I wouldn't have asked you here if it wasn't important!" Twilight said.

"I love important!" Pinkie exclaimed.

"I want to know how these funny moments you shared came to pass. I can use this data to help advance friendships all over Equestria!"

"Well I like the sound of that!" Applejack replied with the others nodding in agreement.

Now I was beginning to wonder as well, what actually happened during those three days and why can't I seem to remember.

"Perfect. Let's start with the snake." Twilight stated.

One by one, each of them told what happened during the three days and all it did was make Twilight more interested and curious.

"I guess you had to be there." Fluttershy said.

"I do need to be there." Twilight replied.

"You're not suggesting time travel?" I asked whilst wearing a familiar outfit. "After what happened last time?"

"Absolutely not. Time travel is not something to be messed with. We simply need to recreate everything that led to these jokes."

"Oh, what a brilliant idea!" Discord praised. "Shall we begin with the lunch date that kicked off the glorious weekend you missed out on?"

After a long while of going through several moments Twilight wanted to recreate, I was beginning to no longer care what happened during those three days, moving forward was what I wanted right now.

"Well I don't know about the rest of you but I feel we've been pretty exhaustive in our attempts to recreate every single detail of our previous encounter." Discord said. "No matter how hard we try, we can't possibly recreate our weekend of fun exactly as it happened because you'll always be watching, and you weren't there. It only serves to prove that moments of levity and bonding between friends simply cannot be recreated so that others might share in the experience."

"But for some reason, I don't seem to remember either." I said. "What did I do during the three days?"

"Oh don't worry about it, darling." Rarity assured. "All did you was just pass out after trying one of Discord's drinks, it put you in a deep sleep for a few days, but it wasn't anything serious."

"Oh...that's it?"

"Of course, I wouldn't lie to you, would I?" Discord asked.

Rarity looked at Twilight. "I'm sure there will be plenty of other chances for you to share in the kind of frivolity we had with Discord while you were away."

"Yeah, and I'll bet they'll be just as hissssss-terical!" Rainbow added before they started laughing.

"Absolutely." Fluttershy replied during her giggles before each of them went their separate ways.

"I'm not buying it. Not for a second." Twilight said.

"You should probably just drop this whole thing and admit that you were a little jealous." I replied. "I was told what happened and I don't care that much."

"I can't just drop it! Why they think they had this amazing and hilarious time together, but I can't figure it out! It doesn't make sense!"

I was face palming. "Twilight, you can't just pick and choose friendships just because you're the Princess of Friendship."

Twilight however didn't seem to hear me. "Our friends think something great happened to them while I was away, but maybe it was something awful! If we don't break the spell they're under, who knows what terrible things could happen?!"

"Wait a minute, you think this is all part of a spell?"

"Yes! Come on, Bond! There's no time to lose."

"Hold on Twilight, you're begin way over the top right now. Remember the time you gave up trying to figure out the Pinkie Sense?"

"Bond, this is about Discord and I'm not gonna stop till I get to the bottom of this. Have everypony meet us tomorrow at the castle." she then galloped off till she was out of sight.

I sighed. "This won't end well..."

The next day followed and we were all in the castle, Twilight was there and the other five mares all drank some kind of potion.

"Don't be embarrassed, so what if Discord cast a spell on you so you thought you had a great time, and now you have all these inside jokes that you're constantly laughing at?" Twilight said. "Don't worry! You didn't have your defenses up, I get it!"

"You're kidding." Rainbow replied.

"Twilight, darling, we simply had a nice time with Discord, and I recall spending most of yesterday re-enacting it for you." Rarity added. "Even my darling doesn't care about it anymore."

"Uh-huh. Or, you re-enacted what you thought was fun, but really wasn't because you were under a spell that made you think what happened was fun!" Twilight responded.

"What kind of fertilizer have you had your nose in, Twilight?" Applejack asked.

"Be honest; the only reason you won't drink the potion is because deep down in your hearts you know there's a chance that Discord has you under his power!"

Now the mares were beginning to look displeased with Twilight, I knew this wasn't gonna end well. "Twilight, how could you say such a thing?! I know Discord still makes mistakes sometimes, but you're accusing him of being downright evil!" Fluttershy said.

"Yeah! And to top it off you're accusing us of not being able to tell he was up to something! What do you take us for?" Rainbow added.

Discord then arrived. "Hi, Twilight! The gang mentioned we'd all be hanging out together today!" He said before he stood beside us. "Yeah! The peanut-butter-hoof-gang!"

The five mares all laughed.

"But I wasn't there! I wasn't included! Maybe it's my own fault for staying in and having a booksort-cation when I could have been making jokes and references and having a great time with my friends! But I didn't do that, did I? You all did! You were all there but- " Twilight sighed. "I wasn't there. I missed out. And seeing you having all these jokes I wasn't a part of and couldn't understand made me..."

"Jealous?" Spike asked.

"No. The Princess of Friendship can't get jealous!"

"Sure you can, Twilight, and none of us begrudge you for it." Applejack said.

"We're sorry if we made you feel left out." Fluttershy added.

"And you're allowed to feel a little jealous about it. You just have to be able to admit that that's what you're feeling so you can let it go!" Rarity said.

"Of course none of this would have happened if I hadn't encouraged everypony not to invite you this weekend." Discord said out of the blue before he saw Twilight gasp. "Well I didn't think that they should interrupt you, but now I see that we should have. Oh, I feel just terrible."

"Wait a minute. You didn't suggest not invitin' Twilight because you wanted to make her feel left out, did you?" Applejack asked.

"Of course not. That whole jealousy thing was just a happy accident." Discord replied before he explained fully. "Certainly we can all agree that Princess Twilight learned a valuable lesson here, that even she can have feelings of jealousy, that she should recognize said feelings rather than trying to pretend that she doesn't have them... oh, hm. Did I get the tiniest bit of glee out of watching her trying to recreate our weekend of fun in the name of science? Oh, most definitely! But what's important here is that it was never my intention to make Twilight feel jealous, that's something that the old me would have tried to do. Orange you glad I've changed?"

"I think that joke has run it's course." I replied.

"Yes well, I guess you have a point there...and I'm sorry that I got you drunk and into a deep sleep, that wasn't my true intention either."

"It's okay, Discord, I was too curious for my own good that day and I don't really care about it anymore."

"Then that means we're all still on good terms." Discord then wrapped us in a group hug. "Feeling better, Twilight?"

"Uhhh, I am, Discord." Twilight replied. "You all should head on home, I have a lot to talk to Discord about."

"Okay, let us know if you need anything." Fluttershy said. "See you at home later, Discord."

We then left the castle with all smiles, exchanging our farewells, Rarity and I walked back to the house for our evening dinner. I have to say that even to this day, Twilight was still finding Discord untrustworthy and yes, he has made a lot of errors, but at least he's trying so hard to be a good friend. However, it seems that now Twilight finally gets what Discord was explaining, I don't think she'll be suspicious of him anymore. Next Chapter: The Hooffields and McColts Estimated time remaining: 57 Minutes