When one had a life and daily routine as hectic and as packed as Sunset and her friends, it would be easy to assume that their days were always like that. Lots of action, lots of stuff to do, with no opportunity to just kick back and smell the roses. Fortunately for the girls, this was not the case, and today, they did indeed have a moment to simply chill for once. There was no work to be done, no problem they needed to use their magic for, and no issue to cause them any concern. Sitting quietly upon the floor of Twilight's bedroom, the girls were all in the middle of simply whatever took their fancy today. Fluttershy was playing around with Spike for a bit, Rarity was reading one of her magazines, Applejack was watching Sunset play one of her video games, Pinkie was just fiddling around with some balloons, and Rainbow was hard at work on a nice long nap. As for Twilight herself? She was quietly reading a book of her own, one filled with scientific theories the likes of which would simply cause headaches for her friends. But, after a while, she looked up from this, smiling to herself before finally speaking up.

"When was the last time we had a moment like this?" she asked.

A chuckle escaped Applejack at that.

"Ah hear ya, Twi. Seems like a lifetime ago."

Looking up from her game, Sunset nodded.

"Well, when you're part of a group of magical high-school girls, being busy tends to be the norm."

Turning her gaze from her magazine, Rarity smiled.

"Indeed, darling. Though I do appreciate a little quiet time every now and again..."

She gestured to her book.

"...especially when one has all the latest celebrity gossip to catch up on."

Giggling slightly, Fluttershy allowed Spike to have his chew-toy in earnest, looking to her fashionista friend.

"Honestly, I'm just glad we get a chance to just have a peaceful moment together. We probably all have quiet moments on our own, but it's always been better when we're all here."

Setting her balloon aside for the time being, Pinkie bore a wide smile, scooting over slightly and giving her girlfriend a surprise hug.

"You said it, Fluttershy! Getting together with friends is just the super-awesome-best thing ever!"

Though taken aback by this, Fluttershy soon eased into it, returning the hug and matching her girlfriend's smile.

"And being here with you is good too, Pinkie!"

Naturally, this cute little display earned a simultaneous "awww" from the other girls, as well as a quick chuckle from Spike.

"Yeah, as much as I love hanging around you girls, it does get pretty tiring, you know, having so much magic to deal with all the time."

A look of thoughtfulness came to him, and he tapped his chin with his paw as he pondered his words.

"Although, I guess I do owe magic for making me able to talk with you all."

He shrugged his shoulders.

"Meh, guess I can take the weird stuff after all."

Giggling, Twilight reached forward, picking her puppy off the ground and giving him a quick hug.

"Trust me, Spike, being able to talk to you has been one of the best things to ever happen to me."

Holding him out in front of her, her smile widened.

"I always loved having you around, and you'll always be my best friend, but now? Now, we can actually have conversations with one another!"

Spiked raised an eyebrow.

"Love you too, Twilight, but to be honest, most conversations would go better if you didn't keep going all sciency on me. Seriously, I can't really understand a lot of that stuff."

Putting him down, Twilight let out a faux-huff.

"You're no fun."

The girls, of course, gave a laugh to that, as indeed did Spike. But, when it died down, they all turned when they heard the distinct sound of somebody yawning. Sure enough, it was Rainbow, and the yawn she gave was right alongside her mouth opening far wider that most of them thought a human being was capable of doing. When she finished, she returned to her earlier dozing, prompting Fluttershy to take on a slightly concerned look.

"Oh my! She really did go all out with her exercises today, didn't she?"

Applejack nodded.

"Eyup. Tennis, soccer, boxing, ah swear, that girl tried every sport under the sun today!"

Sunset nodded, looking to her sleeping friend.

"Well, you know Rainbow. She doesn't do things by halves. And let's be fair, she did pretty great when she was doing it."

Pinkie giggled to that.

"I’ll say! You should've seen the other teams when she came along! Whoosh! Right past them so fast they didn't even know what hit em! And that was without her magic too!"

Smiling to that, Sunset then looked to her rainbow-haired friend, and, after a brief moment of hesitation, she scooted over slightly, reaching forward and taking hold of her shoulder, nudging her a bit.

"Rainbow? Rainbow?"

It took a few moments, but eventually, the young athlete started to stir, slowly opening one eye, and then the other. As before, she let out a large yawn, and after taking in both her surroundings and the friends who were looking at her, she focused her attention on Sunset in particular.

"Oh...I fell asleep again, didn't I?"

Smiling again, Sunset nodded.

"Yep. Hope it was a good one."

A chuckle escaped Rainbow at that.

"Yeah, it was pretty neat. You know me. I'm the champ..."

But, she was kept from finishing that by yet another yawn, which lasted about ten seconds before she was finally able to say anything else.

"...yeah, the champ of naps."

Again, the girls all laughed to that, even Rainbow, and when the laughter was finished, it was Twilight who spoke next.

"This...this is fun."

Looking to her, Rainbow smirked.

“Yeah, sure, but you won’t catch me doing this too much!”

Looking to her with some incredulity, Twilight replied to that.

“Oh? Got more sports in mind?”

Letting out a dry chortle, Rainbow nodded.

“Yep! I plan on going out to the track tomorrow and seeing how well I can do. With luck, I'll beat my personal best from last time.”

Pinkie turned to her, looking like she was clearly interested.

“Ooooh! Can I come see?”

Fluttershy spoke soon afterwards.

“I wouldn't mind watching either.”

“I concur. It might be quite the sight,” Rarity added.

Taking on a look of pride, Rainbow gave a big smile to her friends.

“Sure! Always love to have an audience to my being awesome!”

Though smiling all the same, Sunset rolled her eyes to that.

“How about you, Twilight? Got any plans for tomorrow?”

Twilight considered that.

“Well...I was going to ask if anybody wanted to join me for a game of chess.”

Looking to her in earnest, Sunset spoke up enthusiastically.

“I’ll join you for that. It'll be fun.”

Twilight returned the smile, but soon turned to Applejack as the latter let out a hearty laugh.

“Well, ah reckon ah’ll just’ keep this relaxin’ time goin' when ah get back home. Maybe spend tomorrow kickin' about the house.”

Sunset nodded to that.

“I don’t blame you for that, AJ. I mean...”

Slowly, she glanced around the room, to each and every one of her friends, before once more cracking a smile.

“...this has been pretty good.”