Chapter 2: Falling Stars

Pinkie bounced around the bakery happily as she prepared the treats for tonight's meteor shower. Twilight had told each of them about it whenever she saw them last, and asked if they would all like to join her up on a hill like they had done a few years ago. Of course Pinkie said yes, and she offered to make the desserts for everypony, but they talked about all of this almost two weeks ago now. It had been a month since the big party, and over the last few days Pinkie has noticed that something was off. If she ate too many sweets she would throw up, and the Cakes have been sending her away to her room because of "mood swings". Pinkie didn't believe it, she hasn't changed her mood since that one time when she thought everypony was avoiding her, and when she duplicated herself a bunch of times by accident. She stopped for a moment to think about it, but she knew it was still silly, she would be able to tell if she was acting like that again!

"Pinkie, dear, can you come here for a minute?" Mrs Cake asked from upstairs, the sound of Mr Cake running around coming down soon after. Knowing better than to ignore Mrs Cake Pinkie ran upstairs, stopping just outside the twins' room.

"What is it Mrs Cake?" Pinkie asked happily.

"I know that today you're heading to the shower with your friends, but can you watch the twins for a little while?" Mrs Cake asked as she struggled with Pumpkin, "Me and Mr Cake have to go make a delivery to somepony across town"

"Sure thing Mrs Cake, I'd love t-" Pinkie was saying, but she was cut off when she suddenly felt completely sick to her stomach, forcing her to sprint to the bathroom. After she was finished vomiting she went back to twins' room, but didn't find Mr or Mrs Cake inside. When she heard a noise from downstairs she knew that the twins' were now causing havoc down there, so she decided to go there before doing anything else. Mr and Mrs Cake were already getting ready to leave, which meant the twins weren't being watched for the time being until Pinkie managed to find them.

"We'll be back soon dear" Mrs Cake said with a smile as her and Mr Cake headed out the front door with a large shipment of blueberry muffins. Right after they left Pinkie heard a loud bang from inside the kitchen, so she ran in, only to see the twins eating the cupcakes she had already prepared for the meteor shower. In a rare moment of anger Pinkie shouted at the foals.

"How could you eat those?!" Pinkie shouted as she ran at the twins', her eyes focused on the tray they had eaten off of, "You foals ate them all!" The twins' started laughing loudly after Pound let out a loud burp, brought on by the cupcakes he had eaten. Pinkie turned her head towards them slowly with a mean look on her face, a small smile appearing as she thought of a way to punish them...

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"Wow Pinkie, you really out did yourself with these treats!" Rainbow said happily as she grabbed another muffin from the basket Pinkie had brought, "What kind did you say these were again?"

"Pumpkin!" Pinkie said happily, smiling as Rainbow devoured another muffin. Soon after the other girls came over and started to eat the muffins as well, making her smile bigger with every bite.

"Oh no, we ate all of them, sorry dear" Rarity said as she reached into the basket for another, but finding none.

"Oh it's okay, I have a pound cake for later" Pinkie said with a smile as she looked into her other basket, the brownish cake sitting there, still hot and toasty from the oven at the bakery. Pinkie had to do a lot of last minute prep to make sure everything was ready for the meteor shower, which meant she was going to need some help getting it all finished, but Mr and Mrs Cake were still out delivering the muffins when she needed them, so she had to get Pound and Pumpkin to help instead. Pumpkin and Pinkie made the muffins, and Pound worked on the pound cake all by himself, happily surprising Pinkie when she saw it sitting on the counter. How the twins were able to do this, Pinkie didn't know, but she didn't really care at this point.

"Come on Pinkie, it's about to start!" Twilight shouted happily from higher up on the hill, her eye's wide with anticipation.

"Just a second!" Pinkie shouted back, hoping to make sure everything was secure before going up the hill. Everything was going good until she looked for the pound cake, but couldn't see it anywhere. As she looked around she saw Angel with it, making his way up the hill as he chewed up a giant bite he had taken out of it. When he felt Pinkie's eyes watching him he turned around and stuck his tongue out at her before taking another bite, but he never got the chance. Pinkie charged into Angel, sending both him and cake flying high into the sky. Before they hit the ground Pinkie prepared herself to catch the cake, and buck Angel away, but Fluttershy caught him in midair, giving Pinkie a worried look.

"Is everything ok Pinkie?" Fluttershy asked as she landed next to the pink pony.

"Your stupid rabbit was eating the pound cake" Pinkie said bitterly before turning around, not wanting to give Fluttershy the time of day after her pet had almost ruined everything. If he had eaten the pound cake then there wouldn't be another dessert, and the fruit punch Rarity had brought with her wouldn't have anything to go with it. After putting the pound cake away Pinkie trotted up the hill and sat on the opposite end of her friends from Fluttershy, being sure to avoid eye contact with her until around an hour later when Pinkie suddenly stood up.

"Is everything ok Pinkie?" Applejack asked as she watched the party pony sprint off towards the outside bathrooms that were nearby. When she came back everypony was gone, and her pound cake had been eaten, but Twilight was kind enough to leave a note:

Pinkie, the pound cake was amazing, sorry we didn't wait for you, but you had been gone for such a long time that we thought it would upset you if we didn't. We'll make it up to you at the next get together though!

"Well at least they liked the cake..." Pinkie said sadly as she started packing everything up, seeing a small piece of pound cake left for her inside the basket, along with a small glass of the fruit punch. She managed to crack a smile before she ate and drank what they had left for her, but she quickly returned to her sad mood as she started walking back to Sugar Cube Corner by herself, thinking the entire time about how she wanted to apologize to Fluttershy and everypony for how she had acted during the shower.