A Search For Something More

Chapter 36: Stories in the Park

It's already been two weeks since Sonata left to find Adagio and Aria. For the most part, I, Caramel, Soarin, Sunset, and the others have been living life like normal like Sunset, and I agreed Sonata would have wanted. We go to school, we hang out at lunch and after school with our friends, and Rainbow Dash and Soarin have been winning more playoff games.

Despite that, however, it hasn't been the same without Sonata. Granny Smith seems to be the most down out of all of us even though she doesn't show it when she's serving us in the cafeteria during lunch period. It's clear that even though Sonata has only been with the Apples for about five months, Granny sees her as if she is another one of her grandchildren, and she's worried about whether or not Sonata's going to be okay. Sonata gets to call the Apples now and then to say hi and let them know that she's alright, which is comforting, but it still doesn't feel the same as long as she isn't back at Sweet Apple Acres safe and sound.

Still, though, life has been continuing even though our group is one person short. Applejack and Caramel had another date without me and Sunset spying on them, and according to him, it went nicely. He said that he got to know Applejack a little better and vice versa, and they had a few good laughs while they had dinner and went to see a movie. When Soarin and I asked him if he's going on a second date with her, Caramel just gave us a smug look and proudly said, "maybe, maybe not," before he quickly changed the subject. Soarin and I took it as an implication that there will be, but Applejack probably wants it to be kept between the two of them.

Meanwhile, Sunset and I have been getting closer and closer. Much like when Octavia and I were dating, we've been staying at each other's side with every opportunity we have. We continue to hold hands or exchanging text messages during English class, make out after school, and otherwise hanging out at either my place or at her apartment whenever we aren't hanging out with friends, or she doesn't have band practice with the other Rainbooms.

Sadly, today is one of those days.

After school ended for the day, Sunset told me that she has something big planned for band practice today, so we'll have to hold off doing things together for a couple of hours. As usual, whenever she breaks the news of band practice, I frown and don't hesitate to say that I'll miss her and she smiles and say she'll miss me more in a flirty way that makes me blush and she giggles which makes me blush even more much to her pleasure before we hug and kiss goodbye. Usually, I would see how Caramel and Soarin are doing, but Caramel has a thing going on (*cough cough* planning his second date, and apparently, Soarin is preparing for the tryouts for some games thing, I'm not sure what exactly. So that mostly just left me to resign to go home and play video games on my laptop.

Eh, I haven't played Star Wars: The Old Republic in a while anyway.

I went home, and after saying hi to my mom, I went upstairs to my room and started playing the video game on my laptop while listening to music. That's the handy thing about playing an online game like the Old Republic, in my opinion, they're a good way to have fun with the game while doing other things at the same time. Because these kinds of games are more fighting and looking for items and less focus on story and things like that, I can multitask. I could be watching tv or movies on my phone with it lying in front of the keyboard, listening to music, or think about other things while I'm killing enemies in the game.

One of the most common things that get in my mind while I'm on my computer apart from thinking about Sunset is the Jedi necklace we found next to my driveway. It's just so weird and yet so cool that all of a sudden, I just happened to have a gift with the Jedi symbol. There's no way I'm going to wear it anytime soon because I treasure Sunset's locket way more, but it's still an awesome yet curious gift. I can't think of anyone apart from the Rainbooms, Sonata, Soarin, and Caramel who would have given that, and they gave me their birthday gifts at the party. I even asked my parents about it, and they were just as bewildered that they didn't even notice it hiding under one of our bushes. It's cool, but it still leaves me curious as to where it came from.