Pumpkin Cake levitated her brush and began taking care of her mane. Her mirror was covered with photos of her favourite memories. As a baby with Pinkie Pie, with her friends at the Filly Scouts, as a flower filly in a wedding alongside a certain dragon...

"Hey Sis, can I borrow you-"

"ARGH! Get off my room, you idiot!"

"Auh! This is also my room!"

"I´m sick of sharing it with you, you buffoon!"

"Don´t call me things I don´t know the meaning!"

Downstairs, Mrs. Cake merely rolled her eyes.

"I was just going to borrow your Wonderbolts cap for today game. No need to get like that," Pumpkin choosed to ignore her brother and kept brushing.

"Hey Gummy wanna go to the game with me?" Pumpkin put down the brush and tried to choose an earring.

"Sis?" She couldn´t decide.

"Pumpkin!"

"What?!"

"Gummy isn´t moving."

Downstairs Mrs. Cake stop and looked upstairs worried. It was quiet.

*****

Funerals were supposed to happen in cloudy days but the weather scheduled that day was sunny. Pound managed to convince his friend Rumble to let him borrow a cloud just for this occasion. Both siblings stood under the single dark cloud, looming over the alligator tomb.

Mr. Cake watched his sons on the backyard with a concerned look, wondering what to say to them. As an answer to his prayers, the sound of the door bell told him his other daughter had returned.

"Hello Mr. and Mrs. Cake! Oh sorry Carrot and Cup!" Adult Pinkie Pie was pretty much the same. Her short haircut and glasses made her look a little like her biological mother but she remained her usual and cheerful self.

"Sorry you have to come for this, Pinkie." Mrs. Cake said.

"It´s okay. I should visit more often. How are the little ones?"

Just then Pound and Pumpkin came from the back door. Upon seeing her, Pound rushed to hug Pinkie.

"Auch. Watch it, Pound. You are no longer a little colt."

"Sorry."

"But just because you are all grown up doesn´t mean you can´t have some of my special blueberry cupcakes!"

Mr. Cake unfortunately had to remind him he had to return the cloud.

"Don´t worry. We´ll make sure to let you some. That is if me and Pumpkin can control ourselves, right?"

"Not hungry," the young unicorn said and went upstairs, slamming the door.

****

"She hasn´t come out?" Applejack asked, rocking back and forth on Granny Smith´s old chair.

"No. I figured I should give her some time but I´m leaving on Monday. I´m running out of time." Pinkie said.

"What about her brother?"

"Boys are easy, AJ. All Pound needed was a hug and one of my special cupcakes. He is already back to doing deliveries. But Pumpkin...you know, I was never really close to my sisters. That´s what made it easy for me to leave. With the babies, it was easy at first. Just playing and taking care of them. But as Pumpkin grew up, I became the big sister, the cool aunt, the confident. I now have to give answers on dating and body issues and why she needed her own room and stuff like that. Honestly, girls are a trouble. I don´t know how you deal with three of them, AJ."

"Four and counting!" the farmer said, patting her belly. "This apple tree still has a few more for the bucket!"

Pinkie smiled nervously. There were reason why she never wanted to have kids, talks like this being one of them.

"You´re right Pinkie. Girls can be tough but you can´t give up on them. You have a responsibility with those kids Pinkie, they need you. Just as much as you need them. Golden Crisp, stop pulling your sister mane! Don´t make me got up!"

Pinkie smiled, this time with ease. She had decided not to have kids but, seeing her friend happiness, a small part of her regretted it.

****

Pinkie was in the old storage room which also served as her temporary bedroom. She missed her old room but the Cakes had turned it into a second storage room once they decided to open for deliveries, despite Pumpkin protests that she needed her own room.

She was looking at her friends various written responses. Rainbow´s letter was a mess. She mentioned that she will never have to worry about burying Tank because turtles lived like for a hundred years only for then to apologize and scratch all over her speech and then do it all over again.

Rarity´s was better, more concise and to the point. She had already buried Opalescence a few years ago. Pinkie remembered that day. She visited Rarity, with no idea what to say and do, just wanting to cheer her up. In the end they just had tea. Something as simple as that.

Twilight letter was a formal apology for not being able to visit. It gave a dozen excuses but it end she was simply busy with Royal Duties and couldn´t abandoned them any time something happened to her friends. She learned the lesson the last time when she moved the entire Royal Guard just for Fluttershy wedding.

Speaking of Fluttershy, her letter was the odd one of the bunch. It was just a postcard of the Fillydelphia Zoo with a simply "Sorry". Nothing more. Pinkie could understand her. Ever since she married and moved Fluttershy had grown distant to them. It was only natural, she had work and a new family. Things have changed.

For all of them.

"Pinkie?"

"Hey Pumpkin Pie! What brings you to Casa del Pinkie?"

"I..." Pumpkin stopped mid sentence, slowly backing down.

"Hey, I still have some of that cupcake. Want a bite?"

Pumpkin kept quiet but sit down next to Pinkie. They shared the cupcake in silence, Pinkie enjoying this little moment of peace.

"You never answered."

And the moment was gone.

"I sent you several letters. You never answered them."

"I´m sorry, Pumpkin. I was busy."

"Doing what? You have no kids, you run your own business. You could have come visit us any time you wanted but you never did. You just...left. You simply took your things and left and never looked back. You never turned your head in the train. I remember."

Pinkie remembered too. She didn´t turn back because she was crying. Just as Pumpkin was now. "I´m sorry Pumpkin. I wish things could be just like they were before, trust me. But I can´t. As much as we hate it, as much as it hurts, things have changed. Sometimes for the worst. And there are some things that not even your Auntie Pinkie can fix."

Pumpkin finally surrender and laid her head on Pinkie´s chest. Pinkie slowly caressed her mane, humming a lullaby.

It wasn´t exactly like before but they were together again.

And being there, being there right now and then, was something Pinkie could do.