Derpy Hooves is the town's well-known mailmare. She is a pegasus, with gray-colored coat, and a golden-yellow mane and tail. She is also cross-eyed, but she is trying her best not to make her condition a hindrance. And she has proven that so many times, with little to no reward, but she's a happy and good-spirited mare, and a reward is something she doesn't expect for doing her job.
“Muffins!”
...except for muffins. It was quite unknown of where her addictiveness to muffins ever came from though. Many have asked, but they landed to no clear answer, and hence why everypony in Ponyville left it as one of the greatest mysteries in life.
Derpy excitingly accepted the deliciously-looking muffin from Pinkie Pie after delivering her large box of party supplies.
“It's on the house, Derpy,” Pinkie Pie smiled as she handed the mailmare a box of heavenly goodness...for Derpy at least anyway. Even Pinkie Pie isn't sure why she likes muffins so much.
After finishing off a muffin, Derpy happily nodded her thanks and bit the handle of the box of goodness. “Feynk vvyuu Ffinki Fvay.” She then flared her wings and flew to her next destination.
“My my,” came Mrs. Cake's voice who just went out from the bakery store. “Looks like somepony's going to be busy today.”
Pinkie easily lifted the box, threw it up in the air, and landed on her back with perfect balance. She grinned. “It's just some party supplies for my party later tonight.” She then happily went inside the bakery store. “And oh! I still need to make some invitations! Gotta run!” And she ran upstairs to her room with the box stuck on her back like it was glued.
A knock on the door rose a brown earth pony stallion to wakefulness. He blinked a few times before another set of soft knocks echoed around his room from the other side of the door. He took a deep breath and rose up. He approached the door with a hoof still rubbing his tired eye. He then opened the door with the same hoof, and on the other side was none other than the pink menace of annoyance herself...with a basket hat full of letters.
“Hi!” Pinkie Pie bounced excitingly, making the letters on her basket-hat to fly up and land back, except for one letter that slowly hovered down in between the two ponies. Pinkie Pie took it with a hoof and extended it towards the frowning earth pony stallion. “I'm throwing a party later tonight for the new ponies who arrive in town, and that includes you!”
The brown stallion took the letter. It was pink, obviously.
“Also...” Pinkie Pie bounced in place again, catching the stallion's sleepy attention. “Don't forget that later this afternoon I'll be showing you around town.” She received a groan as a response. Pinkie smiled widely. “I'll take that as an ‘I can't wait for this afternoon, Pinkie Pie! I'm sure it's going to be really fun and I'm really excited to meet the ponies around town and make friends with them’!” she said with a voice impersonating that of a male voice.
The stallion just stared at her awkwardly. “Uh...”
“Great! See you this afternoon!” And the pink pony hopped towards the stairs leading down to the ground floor of the apartment.
The stallion kept his gaze on the stairs, even after the pink mare's already gone. He shook his head, closed the door, and stared at the letter on his hoof with a sad smile. He took a breath and sighed through his nostrils. “M-maybe it's time I should change the way I live my life...” He stared out the window after hearing cheerful giggles from outside. He walked towards the window and down on the earthy path, he saw three foals of different pony races excitingly talking to each other. “...I've been living a lonely life for far too long...”
He slowly lifted his gaze up to the blue cloudless sky. He took a breath and sighed with a smile. But after a few seconds, his smile slowly turned into a painful frown.
“...that won't change anything...except to hurt those near me...” he spoke to the wind, softer and quieter than a whisper.
Pinkie Pie, after hoofing two invitation letters to the unicorn couple she met back in the train station, said her goodbye. After the door closed, she turned around with a smile. Her gaze fell on the brown stallion staring at the sky from his room's window.
The apartment was only a few houses away from where she was, though. She shook her head with a frown. “Tsk. That pony really does have a sad life if he stares at the sky like that.” She then straightened herself up and puts on her determined smile. “But I'm gonna change that! After I deliver all of these letters.”
She started humming a song as she bounced towards her next destination.
Derpy flew towards Sweet Apple Acres. She landed in front of the farm's mailbox. She puts her box of heaven on the ground before looking for the mail inside her mailbag. She found it and pulled it out. She opened the farm's mailbox, inserted the first letter, and the second one, and the third one, and she then closed the mailbox. She pulled the flag up, smiled, bent down, bit the handle of her box of heaven, flared her wings open, and turned her gaze at the sea of apple trees in the apple orchard after hearing Rainbow Dash's loud voice.
“Aw... Com'on AJ!” Rainbow pleaded as she hovered around the orange farmpony mare, who gave a tree a kick that made the apples fall to the ground. “This will only take a minute, I promise!”
Applejack, after picking an apple with her mouth, stared lamely at her pegasus friend for a while before rolling her eyes. She puts the apple on a nearby wooden barrel. “Sorry RD,” Applejack began as she took another apple, “but Ah'm just busy today, harvestin' apples an' all.”
Applejack's not great at lying, but she's been doing good at making up stories which aren't all truth and lies. It's true that she needed to harvest apples, but it wasn't really all truth that she needed to busy herself with it.
Rainbow Dash groaned as she landed beside the farmpony. “Ugh... Com'on, please?”
Applejack lifted her head to put the apple inside the barrel, and after hearing her friend's pleading, she wanted to turn her gaze away instantly, but she caught a glimpse of her pouting face, and it was too darn difficult to get her gaze stare elsewhere. Not with those big and sad and sparkling eyes and those sad pouty bottom lip of hers.
Applejack grumbled before sighing in defeat and hanging her head low. “Fine fine...”
The instant the words left the farmer's mouth, Rainbow Dash leaped in the air excitingly. “YES!”
Applejack could only roll her eyes, and threateningly poked a hoof on the pegasus shoulder as soon as she landed on the ground. “But only for a minute, got that?”
Rainbow simply shrugged it off. “Yeah yeah, I promise. Now com'on!”