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// Life is but a river. 
// Story: My Shy Little Friend 
// by ChromeRegios 
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Life is literally unfair, I go through ‘my’ life with such dull, uneventful and unsavory path. Every week I wake up, go to school, listen to lectures, get lunch, listen to more lectures, go to my part time job, get dinner and go home. In some cases, I go out to play computer games, or watch new episodes of “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, every Sunday. Either that or some random things starts to happen... Like, for instance. Being chased by a stray dog across the street, which got me scared of those creatures. Or being chased by thugs, who have nothing better to do but to steal and mug. In time, I began to hate my life style so much. 

Living in this town is not quite as adventurous and eventful as I hoped years before I moved from the city. They say that the field behind our house was fruitful with rice and corn, now it’s just a dried, crumbled piece of land. I didn't get to see those fields in person though, only from the stories that my grandparents told me. Since my parents died in an accident, I’ve lived here alone in my Grandparents house. I only wish, that they could have stayed with me, for just a bit longer that day. They expected me to graduate last year and get a real job and travel abroad. 

Sadly, I can’t say that I have gotten that far in any case, nor have I Achieved anything at all... 

Through the weeks that pass, its all, School, Part time, Home, Rewind all over again. But in some cases, I have time for my self to enjoy. But because of such routines I go through every day that those small times of enjoyment would just fade ten seconds flat, if I’m lucky, it will last longer than expected. Watching Lauren’s masterpiece “My Little Pony” gave me a reason to go home, and gets my hopes up much more. Every time I’m browsing a page that’s, all about ponies it makes me remember those fun yet colorful characters in the show and the peaceful bliss of their land, Equestria. Sometimes, I’m so absorbed by that place, that... I simply must reach out to the screen and touch it, thinking they might just grab me and let me join their fantastic adventure through out the day. 

Those hopes and dreams are gone, when the LCD of my computer screen blocks my hand. 

I blinked once or twice to come back to my world and noticed the time, so I just simply turn it off for the night. Sometimes I do that. If I just get bored of something, I just stand up, And walk away. The night was freezing, since it was mid December. I felt like going out, but a feeling was telling me not to. I just ignored the feeling and went on at my plan anyway, I took my jacket out of my closet, the jacket had a demon pattern on it along with my dark blue pants and went out. 

I walked the long, dusty road away from my house. I barely passed or met any body along the way, there aren’t many people living in this town anyway. Not since their land got all dried up and they moved to another location, now all that's left are abandoned houses that looked like they were going to collapse any moment. The grass was totally gone and the once proud rice fields of the cold wet muddy pits that used to be grown there, now its just a cracked, piece of earth that looks more like something like a meteor had fell over it. That thought made me laugh a bit. 

I looked back at the landscape; the sky is clear but also cold. In the horizon, it reminded me of some of my crudely drawn pictures of the night sky that my mom used to do when I was little. She stood by me until I made my greatest sketch of all... “The night the star came down” was the name given to it by my mother, it was strange... When I remember it clearly, its more like in the shape of a butterfly, less like a star. Its funny though, It reminded me of Fluttershy. It made me giggle like a little girl of that thought, almost wishing for a stuffed version of her along with me all the time...I thought to my self, that was like a thought of a little girl! I shrugged the idea away and just continued with my stroll along the dusty old road. 
But still.. I really wanted one, just like what I had when I was young. Holding a cat Stuffed animal and never giving it to anyone, taking care of it like it was a real animal, and protecting it like its father or mother from predators. 

That should be enough for my little need...