The Coziest of Diamonds

by Betty_Starlight

Chapter 2: From the Darkest Diamond to the Brightest Glow

I sat there at the baby blue beauty desk while looking at myself in the mirror…

I frown as I see my visage….

Same neatly arranged bluish-white curls, and same brown eyes…

But everything else is different now…

I watched earlier as I changed into who I am now…

I watched as each scar was inflicted on me, and I saw what happened before I escaped…

I saw that same face, and realized that I’m still here…

I take a big sigh from my snout, before taking out my baggy, red pack of papers, and blue hoof lighter from my floof, and laying them out on the desk…

I hoof grind a few nugs on the table, and pull out a paper to lay it neatly before me, with the sticky side on top…

I use my right hoof to neatly arrange the crushed devil weed into a row onto the paper before quickly rolling it up, and sealing it, by licking the top, and then, using the cleft of my right hoof to twist, and tighten the stogie.

I put it in my snout before grabbing the hoof lighter from the table, and igniting it with my cleft to cause a flame to shoot up onto the end of the joint, currently inside my mouth, that soon begins to inhale, and I taste the earthy flavors of the weed on my tongue, followed by that first joyous rush of relaxation that always comes with an indica strain…

I take the joint out, and exhale an aromatic cloud of smoke from my nose as my eyes soon narrow in satisfaction from my habit…

Suddenly, I hear a knock on my door! I hear a feminine voice say, “Cozy! I wanted to check on you! Are you okay?”

My eyes widen again as I turn towards the door at the right with the burning joint still in my mouth, and say out the side of it, “Yeah, Diamond! I’m fine!”

“Uh, are you sure, Cozy? It smells like burning in there! Are you smoking devil weed?”

“NO!” I quickly say vehemently!

“Cozy, it’s alright if you smoke in your room! I’m going to allow it, but please open the window!”

I turn my head to the other side of the room, and see the window there, with the curtains blowing in the breeze… “Uh, you got it Diamond!”

“Can I come in?”

I turn back to the door, “Could you not?” before pursing my lips on the stoge for another draw, since it’s apparently cool…

“Cozy! I just wanna talk to you! I wanna make sure you’re okay for the night! Please?”

She seems both considerate, and insistent! “Alright, fine!” I say, before angrily narrowing my eyes, and pursing my lips for another drag…

I’m exhaling, and narrowing my eyes again, right as the door opens, and Diamond gets hit by a cloud of smoke… I sure messed that one up!

“Cozy! Whoa!” She exclaims before waving the air with her forehoof.

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I open the door to Cozy’s room, expecting to see her there with a joint, but I certainly didn’t expect the smoky welcome! I’m blasted with a thick cloud of smoke as soon as the door opens to the inner left! “Cozy! Whoa!”

Her eyes widen as she says out the right of her mouth, “Oh, golly! I am SO sorry, Diamond!”

I sigh, and narrow my eyes when I think about what this pony is doing in MY house! “Cozy! Consideration!”

Her right forehoof quickly moves to take the joint out of her mouth as she says, “Yes! I know! I blew smoke on you! I’m the worst pony ever!”

I widen my eyes at this, and say in a lower volume, “Kinda harsh, don’t you think?”

Her eyes widen, and she nods, “Okay uh, probably? Hey, look! You seem kinda stressed? You wanna, maybe, smoke with me?”

I gaze at this light pink mare with the burning joint in her mouth, who just asked me if I wanted to smoke with her… “Uh, I really shouldn’t!”

She smiles coyly, “Well, you know Diamond, you’re ALWAYS so stuffy, and OFFICIAL or whatever, right? Why not take the plunge, and do something a little different or risqué for once, huh?”

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You know, I don’t usually push drugs on other ponies… That’s not something I normally do, really… But golly gee, something just told me that I needed to smoke with this mare right now!

She sighs, “Well uh, okay Cozy… “and smiles…” Just to try something new… “before trotting in, and shutting the door, and raising her eyes to inspect the window on the far wall…

I smile at her, “Yeah, I thought that if I was gonna do it in here, I DEFINITELY should open the window, so you know? It doesn’t get ultra-smoky, or whatever!”before pursing my lips on the burning roll in my mouth to witness the flame glowing, and slowly moving towards me…

She smiles, “Well, thank you, Cozy!”before her eyes widen, “You gonna Ponegart that thing, or what?”

I take the joint out of my mouth with my hoof, and stare at her as I exhale, and say, “You know what Ponegarting is?” before holding it out to her…

She grabs it with her hoof, and brings it to her snout, before saying out the side of it, “Well, I did go to college, you know?”and then, pursing her lips to take a draw…

I smile, “Oh, right! I guess you learned quite a bit there, huh?”

She takes the joint out of her snout, and exhales smoke before smiling, “Yeah! Like when somepony needs me!” before putting the joint back…

“Needs you?”

She takes the joint out, and exhales a big cloud of smoke, “Yeah! I listened to you talk to me last night, and I listened to your words, and I gotta admit Cozy, you touched me… I want you to know that you WILL have your second chance here with me, and I’ll PERSONALLY see to it!”

“I’m REALLY persuasive, you know?”

She smiles, before taking the joint out to hold it to me, and says while exhaling smoke, “You don’t think that I, an experienced business-pony, don’t know how to tell when somepony is lying to me?”

I tentatively grab the joint, and wonder about a lot of things, “Why are you being so nice, Diamond?” before pursing my lips around the joint to inhale, and taste the sweet weed on my tongue…

She sighs, “Because Cozy, I used to be bad… I used to be a lot like you, and I thought that power, and control were the only things that mattered… “and smiles,”And so, for all of those years I tormented, and bullied other ponies, I think taking you in like this, all these years later, would be an excellent penance for me!”

I exhale, and stare at her, “Golly!”

She giggles, “I know, right? Spooky, how we’ve come this way! Me, the filly who had everything, and abused it, meeting you, the filly who had nothing, and lashed out in the worst possible way!” before widening her eyes, “This is some really good shit!”

“Yeah, I brought a hoofball sized wad of it in my floof, when I crossed over… I’ll probably never see that guy again!”I say, before bringing the joint back to my lips for another draw…

“Anyway, as long as you behave, you’re definitely welcome here at my manor! I’ll uh, bring up your new whereabouts to the city council tomorrow, so they can know you’re being reformed now, and that you’re in good hooves!”

I exhale a cloud of smoke before offering her the joint with my right hoof, “You sure they’ll just let you, a private citizen, reform one of the worst villains Equestria has ever known?”

She takes the half-joint with her hoof before saying, “Well, maybe not any citizen, but like you said, I’m me!” before bringing it to her snout, and making the cherry glow…

I frown while watching the pinker mare take a draw, “Well, if you say so?”I adjust my eyes to her, “I trust you, Diamond!” and smile, “I mean, you weren’t fibbing about all that penance, and reformation stuff, right?”

She exhales quickly, and shakes her head, “Nuh-uh! No, ma’am! Golly, no!”

I giggle at her, “Did you just say, golly?”

She widens her eyes at me, “NO!” before pursing her lips around the roach nub.

I chuckle some more, “Stop stealing my gollies!”

“I didn’t see your name on it?” She says before bringing the roach to her lips for the last draw…

I stared at the deep pink mare, right then, and there, and boldly declare, “Well, it’s a golly, right? So it clearly belongs to me!” before frowning when I finally actually think about it… “Oh, golly! We’re morons!”

Her eyes widen as she takes the joint nub out, and then quickly brings it to the floor to snuff it out while saying, “It’s fine! Jeeves can get that in the morning! Uh,” and then raising her head to me,” did I just smoke devil weed with you?”

My eyes widen when I think about that too, “Uh, yes! Yes you did! You shared a devil weed cigarette with me, Cozy Glow, the villain who tried to take over Equestria twice!”

She stares at me with a panicked expression, “I think I’m gonna be sick?” before glancing around the room with those blue eyes of hers…

Now, for the record, I don’t know what took a hold of me just then… But I stared at that other mare, and said, “Settle down Diamond…” and smile at her, “It’s okay! I’m here now!”

Her eyes are peeled at me, “You’re a villain!”

I continue smiling at her while saying, “Diamond, I used to be bad, yes! This is true! But you know, you were pretty awful yourself back there?”

“What are you trying to say?”

I sigh, and stamp my hoof, “I was saying that I’m trying to be good now!” and nod, “Yeah, I was gonna smoke the joint to help me relax! This is true! But you know, you didn’t have to say yes… “

She glares at me, “You’re persuasive!”

I frown, “It’s like it’s only now just dawned on you, who I am?”

She frowns too, “What?”

I smile, “Okay, Miss Business-Pony! I’ve got a deal for you! Call it a wager, if you like?”

She’s silent for a moment… “I’m listening?”

(To be continued… )