Tags: [Slice of Life]

Characters: [OC] [Flurry Heart]

Written By: Foal Star

Note: Gemstone is taken from "Finding Sunburst" and its related sequels, also indirectly related to "Something to Royally Rave About".

Gemstone always looked forward to playdates with her best friend Flurry Heart, whether it was at the crystal castle that Flurry called home, or at the considerably more modest house within the Crystal Empire that Gemstone lived in with her parents. Only a few months separated the two foals in age, so they practically grew up together. Their mothers were quite overjoyed at this, delighted that both foals were getting along despite the different walks of life from which they hailed.

Naturally, growing up together and even attending the same daycare together meant that Gemstone and Flurry shared a lot of important milestone in their lives: Their first words, their first steps, all the usual things that parents would take note of and celebrate. Not to mention the birthdays. Of course, that meant that potty training and the subsequent graduation from diapers was also something that the two foals in the Crystal Empire underwent at roughly the same time.

So it was that, on their first get together after they'd started potty training, the two foals naturally couldn't resist talking about it at length. Both were delighted to have somepony their age to show off their needly acquired skills to. And as fate would have it this get together was taking place at Gemstone's house, Flurry's parents having dropped her off to spend the night with her best friend while they tended to some last minute important royal business.

"Hey, Fwuwwy!" Gemstone excitedly boasted as soon as she lay eyes on her foal friend! "Guess wha? Mommy and Daddy say I getting too owd and too big fow diapees, so I get to be potty twained!"

Flurry Heart nodded and eagerly boasted in reply. "Uh-huh, Mommy and Daddy make me do tat too! I been potty twaining fow weeks now. At fiwst I didn't wanna 'cause it didn't seem wike any fun, but Mommy, Daddy, and Auntie Twiwy aww hewp me see tat it is fun."

Gemstone nodded back. "Yeah. Is so much mowe fun tan being in diapers! Ya gets to weaw tese coow puww-ups tat come in aww kinds of pwetty cowoews. And sometimes, the gwown-ups even wet ya wun awound naked!"

The toddler alicorn princess smiled and giggled. "Yeah-huh, tat's awmost as coow as the big potty tat Mommy and Daddy and othew gwown-ups use. It does someting cawwed a fwush tat makes evewyting disappew. Is woud and scawy at fwist, but once ya get used to it is not so bad."

The little green coated crystal pony nodded once more. "Ya wight, it is. I dun know why they aww say we now awwoed to use it even though they aww use it just fine."

Flurry just shrugged her hooves. "Dun know, gwown-ups awe weird." And she and her toddler friend laughed themselves silly thinking about all the things grown-ups said or did that made no sense in their little minds. Then they went about getting set up for their hastily arranged sleepover, and quickly forgot all about the subject.

Not long after Gemstone had helped Flurry Heart get settled in in the bedroom, Sunstone poked her head into the room and gingerly called out. "Gemstone, when was the last time you used the potty today?"

Gemstone shrugged her little hooves, quite unconcerned. "Dun know, Mommy. I been busy."

The crystal earth pony mare just sighed as she trotted into the bedroom and approached her daughter. "I thought as much. Which means now would be an excellent time for a potty break."

"Aw, but Mommy, Fwuwwy and I wewe just about to stawt pwaying games." Gemstone whined and pouted.

Sunstone wasn't deterred or persuaded otherwise. She just picked her toddler daughter up and carried her out of the bedroom, then led her down the hall to the bathroom. It was certainly nothing lavish or fancy compared to the bathrooms in the crystal palace. It consisted entirely of a single bathtub with a shower head and curtain attached, a sink with cabinets underneath it, and of course a plain white toilet resting in one corner. There was also a small, plastic bowl that had the words "My Little Potty" written on it.

It was that very plastic bowl that Gemstone was plopped down onto as she was stripped of her crystal blue pull-up, said undergarment being set aside as its wearer sat there with all eyes now fixed upon her.

"Go ahead, my little Gemstone," Sunstone cooed. "Do whatever you have to do."

The little green coated crystal pony frowned, folded her front hooves across her chest, and turned her head. "Nu-uh, I dun need to do anyting. I dun have to go."

The foal's mother didn't seem to care about such a protest. "Well, I want you to at least try. Surely, after all that talking you and Flurry did earlier, you should have no trouble doing what I expect. You know how it works: If you want to wear your big filly pants, you have to do what big fillies do."

"Is okay, Gemstone," Flurry Heart encouraged. "If ya can't go potty 'cause I watching, I'ww wook away. Onwy mommies, daddies, and gwown-ups awe supposed to watch." And she turned her head to the side so as to give her friend the privacy she might need.

A grumpy Gemstone reluctantly relented, seeing as there didn't seem to be any other way out of her current situation. Plus, now that she thought about it more, she kind of did have to go pee pee. So she relaxed and started tinkling, the sound echoing everywhere as the plastic potty filled up.

Sunstone clapped her hooves in approval and smiled brightly. "Way to go, Gemstone! That's how you do it! Now was that worth making such a fuss about?" Once she was certain her daughter was finished, she helped the foal to stand, wiped her rump with some toilet paper, and then emptied the potty's contents into the toilet.

"Ya wanna do the honows, Fwuwwy?" Gemstone asked her friend.

Flurry nodded. Needing no further incentive, she flapped her tiny wings and flew towards the toilet handle, pressing it down with a great deal of effort. There came a roar, and the little princess flew back down in time to see everything swirl down the drain and disappear. No matter how many times she saw it, she never ceased to be fascinated by it.

Little did Flurry, Gemstone, or even Sunstone suspect that there would eventually come a time when the two toddlers' paths would diverge. Gemstone would go on to fully graduate from diapers and think nothing of the days before she had been potty trained. Flurry Heart, on the other hoof, would come to resent the fact that she had been made to give up diapers in favor of the potty. And all it would take to bring about such thinking and such changes would be an unfortunate accident years down the road.

For now, though, the two toddlers were content to get back to playing and thinking little of the point in time they found themselves in.