"Thanks for picking me up again Ms. Luna," Sonata said as she got into Luna's car. Usually Maud took care of driving her and Pinkie back and forth to work. But Maud got called to cover another girl's shift at Denny's today; so Sonata had to call Luna to pick her up.

"It's not a problem dear. You know I'm always here for you." Luna's feelings for Sonata had grown over the months since she first found her wondering the streets after the Battle. In fact, she now considered Sonata as a daughter. She realized that it might be just transference for the child she had given up for adoption; but she felt it none the less. Considering Sonata was old enough to her great seventy times over grandmother; it was a bit ridiculous.

"I know. I just never want you to think I take you for granted." Sonata put her seat belt on and smiled at Luna. "And would you mind picking Pinkie up as well?"

Luna frowned a little. "When does she get off?"

"Four thirty," Sonata said sheepishly.

"Sonata. That's an hour away yet." Now Luna was getting annoyed.

"I'm sorry, but Sunset Shimmer is working tonight as well so she can't do it and Flash and Twilight are with his parents on a camping trip. And no body else drives. Please Looney Luna?"

"Looney Luna" was Sonata's pet name for Luna. She had just come up with it one day they were talking in the halls at school. Luna liked and never asked Sonata to stop. She didn't use it often, just every so often. It was like their secret code word. Luna sighed. "Ok. I guess it gives us time to hang out as well."

Sonata smiled. "Thank you! Just take me home so I can change out of this uniform and we can get something to eat. My treat. I'm a working girl now!"

Sonata and Pinkie had to both get jobs. Maud said she couldn't afford to keep both of them; especially if their father found out about them and cut off his financial support. So Pinkie got a job at the Cake's bakery and Sonata got a job at Taco Bell. It was an ok job. It did kill her love of tacos a bit. At least for Taco Bell tacos (which she now only considered to be marginally food). The people she worked with weren't too bad. The customers could be really bad. Some acted as though the whole purpose of the staffs existence was for them to unload all their life's frustrations on. Like you were the reason they were 40 years old, in a miserable job, flat broke, and never achieved any of their dreams. But others were really nice as well. Boys (and some men) would hit on her sometimes. She'd do her best to just play it off without being rude.

What she did like, what made it not just tolerable, but enjoyable; was the normalcy of it. She thought back over her long life. She thought about all she had seen and done. It was anything but normal. But that was fine. That was what it had to be for who she had been at the time. Now she was normal. Just another person, another human. She was born, she was living, and she would eventually die. Working a job, earning a paycheck, made her feel like she belonged in this normal world. No longer was she a creature standing outside of humanity, watching it, preying on it; but actually part of it. Just one of the gang.

Luna pulled up to Sonata's house. "Alright, I'll wait for you here," Luna said.

"Oh, please come in," Sonata weakly begged. "It's no big deal. Maud wouldn't mind. Even if she would, she's not here. Pretty please with sugar on top?"

Luna gave a half smile. "Ok. I'll come in. Just don't take too long."

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"Well, that didn't take long," Luna said as Sonata came down the stairs. It had taken Sonata about fifteen minutes to get to her room and change.

"Usually I get a shower to get the imitation Mexican food smell off me; but I knew you were waiting."

"Thanks. So where do you want to go?"

"Well, we can just stay here if you want. I can make us sandwiches. We have iced tea in the fridge, if you want something to drink. Oh and chocolate milk of course. Can't forget that."

"I'll take a turkey sandwich if you have any."

"Sure. Turkey on rye with swiss, lettuce, spinach, onions, and pepper relish. How's that?"

"Sounds delicious. Thank you."

Sonata went to the kitchen and started making their meal. She made them each a turkey sandwich, got some BBQ flavored chips, and a glass of tea for Luna and chocolate milk for her. She brought Luna's in first and gave it to her, then she went back, got her own, and went to the living room and sat down.

"So, how are you and Pinkie doing? Everything still ok?"

"Oh yeah! Absolutely! " Sonata said with pure joy.

"That's good." Luna got quiet for a second and then asked, "So, how did you two 'hook-up' anyhow? I was always curious about that. I mean, I don't want to sound homophobic or anything; but it did all happen so fast. I am curious. And sorry if this offends you. It's not my intention."

Sonata took a drink of milk and shrugged. "No, not at all. Um, I don't know. It's as simple as that. I mean, up until Pinkie, I never really thought that way about anyone. - male, female, human, or pony. I remember when Sunset said Adagio tried to put the moves on her; I was shocked. So it's not like I ever considered I was lesbian. I just considered myself asexual.

"But, you know how when you meet someone, and you just 'click'? That's how it was for us. I never had to ask how or what she was thinking, I just knew. And she knew me. And even then, there was not sexual attraction between us. Well none that we noticed at least. It just got to the point where we were so in sync, that we just enjoyed being around each other so much, that the hugs became warmer and longer, and when I would have a nightmare and she'd come into my bed room and lay beside me; just feeling her there, her warmth, hearing her breath, it came to mean to be something I wanted all the time.

"Now the first time we had sex . . . "

"Darlin', darlin', darlin'," Luna said, holding her right hand up in a "stop" position and rubbing her face with left, "I don't need to know any of that. I got what I wanted to know. Somethings we keep to ourselves."

Sonata blushed. "Oh, sorry. You'd think after a thousand years I'd have human social norms down by now. Sorry."

"It's . . . ok. I'm just glad you're happy."

"Ms. Luna, may I ask you something?" Sonata looked down as she asked the question. Her voice was soft and hesitant.

"Sure honey, you know you can ask me anything." Luna was now concerned. Sonata seemed almost scared. She wondered what was wrong.

"I know you can't do it now, not 'till after I graduate, but, and I've looked into this, would you mind adopting me?" Luna's eyes bulged out and her mouth dropped open. Seeing this; Sonata continued in a fast pace. "I know it's weird and I understand if you didn't and I'm probably weird for asking; but you took me in and set me up and we've spent so much time together and had so many talks and I was never that close to my own mother and I was . . . "

"Yes."

"What." Now it was Sonata's turn to be shocked. Luna's yes was quiet but plain. She had said yes. No thinking it over, no maybe which really meant no, but a straight, simple, yes.

"Yes. I said yes. I've . . . I've grown rather found of you Sonata. There are many reasons for that. Not the least of which I never got to raise my own child; but yes. I would love to call you daughter."

"For realzies?"

Luna smiled and simply said, "For realizes Sonata."

Sonata got up, ran over to Luna, and gave her a huge hug. "Thank you, thank you, thank you Luna!"

"Ah, ah, ah, "Luna said as she pulled away. "Mom now."

Tears ran down Sonatas cheek. "Thank you Mom."

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"Sonapie!" Pinkie yelled as she walked out the front door of the bakery and saw Sonata sitting in the front seat of Luna's car.

"Pinata!" Sonata yelled backed.

Pinkie crawled in the back seat. Sitting on the back seat was a bag of beach supplies. "Oh, what's this?" Pinkie asked.

"Well I thought Mom could drop us off at the beach to build sandcastles if you wanted."

Pinkie looked from Sonata to Luna and then back. A big smile came across her face. "You asked her? Oh Sonapie; I'm so proud of you!" Pinkie leaned forward and gave Sonata a big kiss.

"Hey now Ms. Pie. That's my daughter you're kissing there," Luna said in faux outrage.

"Sorry," Pinkie giggled. "I assure you my intentions are pure and noble. At least until we get home tonight."

"Ok, ok. Enough of that. So, off to the beach?" Luna said.

"Absotootly!" Pinkie said. "I'll text Maud where she can pick us up at."

"Alright then. Off we go." Luna then drove off.

Author's Notes:

These next parts are going to deal with the Pies; Pinkie, Maud, and their family. Their family will come to visit, Pinkie will have to move back into her old room, they'll have to try and explain who Sonata is and their family will want to meet Big Mac. The culmination will be a Pie/ Apple get together which will end in a glorious, funny, and hopefully heart warming disaster.

Timeline wise, this takes place at the same time as the events in "Summer Romance". So it's kind of a back step. I could have spliced the two stories together, but I felt it was better to give each girl center stage.

After that, I'm not sure if I'm going to another regular chapter or the super sad one. Right now, I'm leaning super sad. Once those two sections are done; that'll wrap up Act 2 and it'll be on to the third and final act. So please stay tuned.