Best Day Ever

You stare at the nearby amusement park and sigh. These things haven't hit the same since you got older, but you still wish you were spending the day there instead of walking to the bank to stand in line and then be told about now your finances will never recover from all the avocado toast you eat. "Hey! Hey you!!" Your internal narrative is interrupted by a high pitched voice coming from below, a little... Hellhound? You're not sure why you know what that is, nor why you can recognize her fur as the color of order and her Flame the color of Mischief. "Hey, sisters skip the lines today!" She continues as soon as she notices you've noticed her. "So I need a sister! You only got sad grown up stuff going on today! Come be my sister for the day instead!!!" Her little eyes literally sparkle up at you as you consider this... You gotta get to the bank before the end of the week, but...

"I got enough money for two tickets!" She closes the deal, as you offer her your hand. "Alright squirt, I'll be your sister today." She opens her mouth and emits a sound you suspect only dogs can hear as she grabs your hand, and then suddenly your entire life feels like it's on fire. You fall a million stories into the depths of the cosmos, you dance incoherently in Flame, your quintillion limbs each wanting to perform a different movement without care for what the others are doing. A million billion grassy fields spread out before you and you sprint through each one yipping. Then all at once you're back where you just were, some high pitched excited noise ringing in your ears.

"Wh-what just...?" You start and then gasp, your voice is... Squeaky? Small? Everything around you is like a billion times bigger than it just was! You're about to panic when you feel a tug. "C'mooooooon Lil sis!!!" Mischief barks, her excited noise finally ending as she drags you to the ticket counter. You were hurting your neck looking down at her you're pretty sure, but now you have to tilt your head up a little bit to meet her gaze. You finally recognize that you're covered in fur. Your pouty little face is the first thing you see in the fun house mirrors as your new Big Sister drags you there first. Your fur is without color, without definition. You have no idea who you are anymore, so no Flame burns around your shoulders either. The pout stays all throughout the bumper cars. But by the time your Big Sis is helping you climb up onto one of the horsies at the merry go round, it's starting to soften. By the time you take a break to eat cotton candy you're even smiling, and when Big Sis grabs the "you must be this tall" sign and drags it down to your level you cheer!

Your expression is back to pouty as you clutch your upset tummy, the roller coaster really wasn't designed for little bodies like yours it turns out... But Big Sis brings you a ginger ale and you start to feel better just seeing her holding it out to you. The rest of the day is a blue of laughter and joy, childlike mirth that you guess is only appropriate when you've been made this tiny again. You start to wish it would never end, you feel deeply like the world should obey your demand but your Flame still hasn't manifested. Maybe this really is just temporary? Maybe you really DO have to go to the bank tomorrow... These thoughts swirl in your head as you follow Big Sis Mischief straight up the wall of the tallest building in the park to watch the last seconds of the sun setting and the fireworks show below getting set up.

"U-uhm... Big.... Big Sis? Can this... Uhm, uhm... Can this be for longer than a day?" You finally ask as the first rocket is sent into the air to become a colorful explosion, a single dazzling second of beauty. "Nope! The park goes back to having regular lines tomorrow, booooo!!" She answers before cooing at a firework. "N-no, I mean... I mean bein' sisters, I don't wanna..."

"Nope! Said I only need a sister for a day, can't do two! Sorry!" She answers before you can even finish, and you feel like you're falling for a second time today. Back to the grind tomorrow. Back to adulthood. You start to tear up before you notice it. You got given this beautiful fantasy for one day? Just one day only?! You're about to scream when you feel Mischief colored Flame cover your form, and with another explosion in the sky you start to... See her. See her like a Hellhound would. You were so stupid. You just saw a little on fire dog, you saw a body that interacts with other physical bodies and thought it was everything there was.

What lies before your eyes now is a sun that never sets, a day that refuses to end, running and playing across the sky forever and ever. You feel solitude color your fur as your life is lit aflame again, this time by something... Else. Not Mischief. You don't fall, you fly. The entirety of creation suddenly unfolds in front of you, and you realize that it really doesn't make sense not to live for fun. The centerpiece of the fireworks show is drowned out by the bright burning Flame the color of Connection that suddenly erupts from your very Self, as that dreadful tomorrow becomes an impossible future. You look up at your Big Sister and smile, Hellhound eyes able to see directly into the sun. You see it smile back at you as the two of you intertwine your paw fingers. "Wanna have the best day ever?" Your beloved Big Sister asks, shadows impossible to exist in front of her. "Yeah! Let's have the best day ever!!" You answer, and as space and time rips open and the two of you walk through you know that you're gonna have that single day until the end of time.