Between friends

In Aurora's room, Aurora and Sam were looking through a page in the spellbook. The pictures helped explain how to do a spell that seemed to specialize in hypnosis, and the top of the page told that it was part of the chapter belonging to Skywynne, the Queen of Hours. The two of them were probably planning to have Aurora cast the spell on Sam to see if it would help him recover his lost memories.

"Are you sure this is gonna work?" he asked the princess with concern.

Aurora continued looking at the instructions on Skywynne's chapter and then after putting much focus into it, managed to turn the bell of her wand into a clock face. "I'm pretty sure. I tested the technique out on my grandparents already." she answered. "Though there were details I learned about them that no one should ever know." she then shuddered. The two then got into position to try it out on Sam, Aurora let out a sigh to calm herself and prepared to cast the spell.

"Are you ready?"

Suddenly, the sound of the doorbell was heard, which caught their attention. Aurora suddenly gasped with excitement and squealed with enthusiasm. "She's here!" she cried happily as she ran downstairs to the door and opened it. The visitor was none other than her best friend, Princess Lavinia Ponyhead.

"Hey Rory." she greeted her bestie.

"I'm so glad you could come!" Aurora squealed with excitement.

While Aurora was happy to have her friend visit, Sam couldn't help but wonder how Ponyhead was able to come to Earth. "How did you even get here?" he asked.

"Well, I invited her here." Aurora shrugged. Sam didn't take this answer well and grabbed Aurora by the wrist and dragged her to a corner to talk privately.

"Aurora, don't you remember that you're not supposed to tell anyone about where you're hiding?" he calmly scolded the princess. "We don't want whoever's after you to get wind of where you're at and come her to try and finish the job."

"Relax, Sam." Aurora tried to calm him down. "It's just Ponyhead. And she's my best friend who would never tell anyone. Trust me, everything's fine. Besides, I invited her here because I wanted all three of us to hang out together. You know, as friends."

Due to how she acted the last time they met, Sam didn't have much hopes of that going well, and was about to argue when the two of them heard laughing coming from the living room. They came back to find Angie and Rafael sitting with Ponyhead on the couch.

"Oh, I can't believe how well-behaved you are." Rafael commented.

"Not to mention adorable." Angie added, with Ponyhead giving a formal nod in response.

Aurora couldn't help but giggle at this. She's known Ponyhead most of her life and knew full well that she was only pretending to behave, because that's what she does when around adults besides her parents and even her own mother. But whenever they were alone, she reveals to be just as wild and untamed as her mother was back in her youth. Sam however, only frowned at this display of false formality.

After Aurora's grandparents left, the princess came and gave her best friend a warm hug. Ponyhead was caught off guard at first, but soon joined Aurora in laughing at how great it is to see each other.

"So, A-Fly, you ready to get your groove on?" Ponyhead then asked excitedly, Aurora replying with an excited nod. Sam on the other hand, wasn't really that thrilled with going out today.

The first place Aurora decided to go to was the doughnut shop, to show Ponyhead some of the things she saw on her first day on Earth. As Aurora showed Ponyhead the donuts, Sam decided to keep an eye on their visitor, still feeling uncomfortable with having someone outside the Earth dimension knowing where the princess of Mewni was hiding besides her parents.

"Why do humans even put the holes in these things?" Ponyhead asked, though Aurora just answered, "I don't know." Aurora soon felt nature calling. "I'm gonna need to use the bathroom. You two play nice." she told her two friends as she left.

As soon as she left, Ponyhead decided to confront Sam on something and quickly got in his face. "Listen here, we are not gonna be besties. You know why? Because I don't buy your little story of losing your memories." she said menacingly. "Rory's my best friend, so let me make one thing perfectly clear that you won't ever be able to forget even if you tried. You do anything to hurt her, then I'll let you know how sharp a unicorn's horn really is." she said menacingly pointing her horn at Sam's face.

Sam however, didn't seem all that frightened. "You know what I think? I think you're jealous." he instead said mockingly.

"What? Me, jealous?"

"Yeah, jealous that Aurora's spending more time with me than with you."

This made Ponyhead feel like she was being challenged, but wasn't able to counter back by the time Aurora returned. She quickly got under Sam's arm and the two pretended to laugh with each other like they were buds already, much to Aurora's joy at seeing them getting along.

"It's so nice to see you two not fighting." she praised. "What are you laughing about anyway?"

"Oh, Sam was just telling me about this game that's suppose to be tons of fun." Ponyhead explained before turning back to Sam. "What'd you call it again?"

"Bowling." Sam replied.

The three were soon at the bowling alley, with people being seen having a good time playing the game. As Sam was getting his bowling shoes on, he was watching Aurora explain to Ponyhead how the game works.

"So, the goal of the game is to knock down as many of those pins as you can with your ball." Aurora explained showing one of the bowling balls. "And if you can knock down all ten on your first try, that's a strike." She then decided to demonstrate how it's done and calmly got into position, slowly pulling the ball back and preparing to let go. In an instant, Aurora got the ball rolling, it going in a straight line towards the front pin. In a quick crash, the ball had managed to knock down all the pins except for the ones at the far end corners.

"Oh, a seven/ten split." Sam cringed. "Knocking down both of them at the same time is gonna be tough to do."

"What? Are you kidding?" Ponyhead replied in disbelief. "Tough is just how me and A-Fly like it." she boasted, Aurora giggling softly before picking up another ball.

Taking a deep breath, Aurora let go of the ball and sent it rolling straight towards the seventh pin. The angle of the ball caused its collision to bounce the pin to the other one and knock them both down, earning Aurora a spare. Aurora leaped with joy while Sam and Ponyhead looked with surprised expressions on their faces.

"Okay, I'll admit, Aurora's got talent." Sam praised before turning to Ponyhead. "Why don't you go next."

Ponyhead didn't even seem nervous, but gave a small smirk and used her magic to levitate the ball so she could use it. Pulling the ball back, she quickly released it and got it rolling at the pins, which scored a strike, much to bot Aurora's surprise and Sam's shock.

Ponyhead turned back to Sam with a wide smirk on her face. "I think it's your turn." she told him. Though she was most likely wanting to see him fail to score a strike and embarrass himself and let her have a laugh.

Not wanting to chicken out and satisfy her amusement, Sam decided to play along and picked up a ball and got into position. Taking a deep breath, he safely pulled the ball back and quickly sent it rolling down the lane. To both Aurora and Ponyhead's surprise, Sam scored a strike as well.

Sam turned back to the girls and gave a subtle smirk at Ponyhead, much to her hidden anger. The game went on normally from this point on, though Sam and Ponyhead acted a bit more competitive with each other while Aurora just focused on enjoying the game. The two competitors were able to score both strikes and spares, Aurora doing no different.

By the afternoon, the game was finished, with Sam and Ponyhead both looking exhausted while Aurora still feeling fine.

"Out of curiosity, what's the score?" Sam asked out of breath.

"Well, let's see." Aurora said going to the score board to check. "Times five, carry the one... What do you know? All three of us got the same results. It's a draw." she revealed, must to both Sam and Ponyhead's shock.

The three headed out the front door of the bowling ally, with Sam and Ponyhead secretly glaring daggers at each other while Aurora's back was turned, but quickly switched to wide grins when she turned to face them.

"Was it my imagination or were you two being a little fierce with each other?" she asked in a suspicious manner.

"What? No. We must've just got into the game a little." Sam said nervous.

"Yeah, you know most games are more fun with a little competition." Ponyhead added in.

Aurora just giggled in response. "Oh, stop. I already knew it was that. I've known you most of my life, Ponyhead, so I know you like to do that every so often." she said, the two of them both sighing in relief.

"You know, I didn't really expect you guys to do so well on our first day out together." Aurora told her two friends, earning looks of confusion from them. "I know things have been a bit tense between the two of you, with Ponyhead not trusting Sam due to not knowing his backstory and Sam not liking Ponyhead giving him the cold shoulder. But you guys were able to ignore your issues and help me forget my problems with being away from home. Thanks, guys. You let me have the best day I've ever had since I left Mewni."

This left both Sam and Ponyhead at a loss for words. Sure they were secretly fighting with each other, but Aurora was trying to help them get along. This made them start feeling guilty for arguing all the time when Aurora was just trying to help ease the tensions. They both chose not to say anything and make her feel like her efforts were wasted.

"Let's go to the park and have some ice cream to celebrate." Aurora suggested and turned to head that way.

As soon as she left, Ponyhead and Sam looked to each other with guilt, the both of them feeling awful for fighting all the time behind Aurora's back without thinking about why she brought them together in the first place.

"Look, I understand you have no reason to trust me due to the both of us not knowing my past." Sam said to her. "But I want you to understand that I have no intention of hurting Aurora, not after she's going through so much to help me remember who I am."

"Yeah. I guess that's true." Ponyhead sighed. "And look, I may have gone overboard with the hostilities, but it's just because I'm a tad protective of A-Fly. You see, I've had to keep those noble snobs back on Mewni from picking on her since she was eight years old. And those jerks know how to use subtle means to make her feel bad. So, I guess I can put up with you a little, if only to make her feel happy." she said softly.

"Yeah, so can I." Sam said before having his hand out. "So what do you say? Truce?"

"Ponyhead hesitated briefly, but smiled and gently put her horn on his hand and the two shook on it. "Yeah, for Rory's sake."

With that, the two nodded and followed Aurora to the park in a more civil manner. The three were soon seen sitting on a park bench with ice cream cones in Aurora and Sam's hands and levitated by Ponyhead's magic while watching the sunset.